“Springboro again considers teaching creationism”
May 23, 2013, WLWT.com article about an Ohio school district considering teaching creationism.
May 23, 2013, WLWT.com article about an Ohio school district considering teaching creationism.
Dennis Wagner is chairman of the board of the Access Research Network, a nonprofit that supports the discussion and teaching of intelligent design. In a 2008, blog entry, Wagner discussed what the ID community could do to prepare for the Darwin bicentennial.
For five months in 2009, London’s Natural History Museum hosted Darwin200 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. The celebration included lectures, films, debates, performances and more. You can still learn about Darwin’s life and work through the Darwin200 website.
Pew has a graphic posted on Feb. 4, 2009, showing how members of different faiths view evolutionary theory.
In 2005, a district court judge ruled in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District that teaching intelligent design in public schools was unconstitutional. Many critics of intelligent design heralded the decision as the death knell for creationism, while ID proponents vowed to fight on. Read about it in an Oct. 17, 2008, article posted by the National […]
In 2006, the state of Georgia lost an appeal in federal court to keep stickers on public school science textbooks that described evolution as “a theory, not a fact.” Read about it in a May 26, 2006, story from The New York Times.
On May 3, 2007, during the first debate among the 10 Republican presidential hopefuls, they were asked: “Is there anyone on the stage who does not … believe in evolution?” Three candidates raised their hands: Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. The episode sparked much debate […]
In 2007, the Discovery Institute, the central think tank of the intelligent design movement, published Explore Evolution, its high school textbook that criticizes evolution. Critics called it a repackaging of the institute’s previous textbook The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems, which appeared in 2006. Read about it in a June 1, 2007, […]
In the summer of 2007, thousands of unsolicited copies of Atlas of Creation were sent to scientists, professors, legislators and others in North America and Europe. It was written by Harun Yahya, the pen name of Adnan Oktar, a Turkish Muslim who has produced many books and videos condemning the “deceit” of evolution. Read about it in a July […]