Science Is Constantly Evolving
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In a surprise move, a Pennsylvania school board recently voted to include "intelligent design" in the district's science curriculum. At its meeting on October 18, 2004, the Dover Area School Board revised the science curriculum to include the following: Students will be made aware of gaps/…
Evolution is a problem for some of the members of the Charles County, Maryland, Board of Education, to judge from a recently released list of goals and suggestions compiled by its members. Among the entries were recommendations not to use 10th-grade biology textbooks "biased toward evolution" and…
Evolution is a problem for some of the members of the Charles County, Maryland, Board of Education, to judge from a recently released list of goals and suggestions compiled by its members. Among the entries were recommendations not to use 10th-grade biology textbooks "biased toward evolution" and…
The controversy over the sale of the creationist anthology Grand Canyon: A Different View in the bookstores in Grand Canyon National Park is back in the headlines. On October 13, 2004, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility -- "a national non-profit alliance of local, state and…
The Understanding Evolution web site -- a collaborative project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and National Center for Science Education intended to provide "one-stop shopping" for evolution education -- is a recipient of a 2004 Science and Technology Web Award, given by…
by Nick Matzke On September 28, 2004, NCSE member Jack Krebs gave a speech at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, entitled "Kansas science standards -- 2004: Will it be 1999 all over again?" About 450 people attended the speech, which was covered extensively by many Kansas newspapers.…
The cover story in the October 2004 issue of Wired magazine is Evan Ratliff's "The Crusade Against Evolution," with the tag line: "In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of 'creation science' is invading America's…
Three recent news articles describe the ongoing controversy about the publication of "intelligent design" advocate Stephen C. Meyer's article "The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories" in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. And…
by Nick Matzke In the space of a few days, evolution in Serbian biology classes was removed and reinstated. The controversy began early this week, when, according to a Reuters report, Ljiljana Colic, the Serbian education minister, ordered that evolution no longer be taught in the biology…