Read a Feb. 2, 2005, New York Times story about teachers shying away from teaching evolution in public school classrooms because of controversy over science teachings. The story is posted by the Common Dreams News Center.

Read Catholic Cardinal Christoph Schonborn’s article about the battle between neo-Darwinism’s evolutionary theory and the Catholic Church’s steady faith in ‘intelligent design.’

Read a July 29, 2005, National Catholic Reporter story, “Catholic experts urge caution in evolution debate.”

Aug. 1, 2005, Associated Press story about President Bush’s support for teaching intelligent design along side evolution in public schools. It’s posted by MSNBC.

Nov. 8, 2005, The Washington Post story about the Kansas School Board’s vote that doubts about evolution theory must be taught in the classroom.

Dec. 21, 2005, Aljazeera article about the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision made by the U.S court concerning evolution and intelligent design in public schools.

Richard Weikart is an associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, and a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He has lectured on the subject “Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?”

Matt Young is co-author of Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism. He teaches physics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

Raymond Arthur Eve is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He classifies the debate as more political than religious and has data to show that people’s attitudes toward intelligent design and other manifestations of creationism are strongly predicted by other social attitudes they hold, such as attitudes toward gays, prayer […]