Selected Items from 2004

• Facts & Theories by Dr. Allen B. Schlesinger, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Creighton University (posted 12/29/04)
  

• Editorial in The Wichita Eagle urging the Kansas State Board of Education to adopt good science standards - December 19, 2004

• Objective analysis of "Objective Science" by Les Lane of the University of Nebraska

• One Nation, Under the Designer by Seattle biology teacher Mark Terry, posted December 2004
  

• A Who's Who of Players in the Battle of Biology Class by Randy Dotinga, Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 7, 2004
  

• Science and Religion interview with Kenneth R.  Miller,  posted December 2004
  

• Tough Assignment: Teaching Evolution to Fundamentalists by Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 3, 2004
  

• "Science Friday" radio program hosted by Ira Flatow on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation  November 19, 2004.  A variety of views were expressed, some of which are NOT those of the NRCSE.
• NPR site (audio files)
• Science Friday site (audio files, plus additional links to related information)
  
• Hour One: Teaching Evolution
• Gonazaga law professor David Dewolf was one of the advocates of Intelligent Design theory interviewed for the program.  The biology department of Gonzaga, however, unanimously disagreed with Mr. DeWolf.
  

• Faith-Based Parks?  Creationists meet the Grand Canyon by Leon Jaroff, in a November 2004 issue of TIME (On-Line Edition)

• The Crusade Against Evolution by Evan Ratliff, in the October 2004 issue of  Wired.

• Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism, edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis, can be ordered from publisher Rutgers University Press (for the lowest cost) or from Amazon.

• School's Out by Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education, published in the popular science magazine Seed, regarding recent attempts to portray evolutionary theory as scientifically unsupported or controversial.

• Teaching the Science of Evolution by Bruce Alberts, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President, and Jay B. Labov, NAS National Research Council Center for Education, published in the Summer 2004 issue of Cell Biology Education. 

• The Panda's Thumb new web log ('blog") started March 2004 - good source of information on many topics

• Understanding Evolution new site at UC-Berkeley started February 2004 - excellent!

• Jimmy Carter's Statement Regarding a Plan to Drop the Word "Evolution" from Georgia's Teaching Standards January 2004 (Carter mistakenly thought the plan would prohibit "evolution" from appearing in textbooks used in Georgia, whereas in fact the proposal concerned only the state's teaching content standards.  Nonetheless, Carter's recognition of evolution's scientific importance,  and its compatibility with religious faith, are accurate).

• The New Creationism and Its Threat to Science Literacy and Education editorial by Joel Cracraft, President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, published January 2004 in BioScience