The
Collapse
of Intelligent Design - Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?
by
Kenneth R. Miller (January 3, 2006 at Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio) is available as a videocast, as is
God,
Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial
(April 4, 2008, at the University of Texas, Austin). Miller was a
scientific expert witness for the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover,
the 2005 case establishing the unconstitutionality of teaching
"intelligent design" creationism in the public schools. He is Professor
of Biology at Brown University, the coauthor of the most widely used
high school biology textbook in the United States, and the author of
"Finding Darwin's God" and the forthcoming "Only a Theory: Evolution
and the Battle for America's Soul."
The
Evolution Revolution by Joel Lang in the August 28,
2005
Hartford Courant is a rather comprehensive look
at theistic evolutionist Kenneth R. Miller and several of the above
cases.
Evolutionary
Science and Society: Educating a New Generation, edited by Joel
Cracraft and Rodger W. Bybee, contains proceedings of a symposium
presented by the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study to the National Association of
Biology Teachers.
Is
It Science Yet? by Matthew J. Brauer,
Barbara Forrest, and Steven G. Gey in the
Washington
University Law Quarterly (first quarter of 2005) is an
excellent summary of the issues.
Science,
Evolution, and Creationism is a 70-page booklet published in 2008
that can be downloaded free from the National Academies of Science
Science and Nature
in Christian Perspective is a course presented by Dr. Allan H.
Harvey
At the 2006 meeting of the AAAS, a
24-page
Teacher's Guide on Evolution
was provided; it's available
as a
pdf file.
TIME
magazine (August 15, 2005) asked four prominent
thinkers: can you believe in God and evolution? Their
answers
help frame the debate. Evangelical Christian Francis Collins
takes a
position shared by many of us in the NRCSE. Roman Catholic
Michael Behe
shares our view that evolution and theism are compatible, but unlike us
(and
the vast majority of scientists), Dr. Behe thinks intelligent design is
a
valid
scientific conclusion. The other two
respondents, Steven Pinker (an atheist) and Albert Mohler (a
fundamentalist Christian), both find evolution and theism incompatible.