Read the New York Times June 3, 2011, obituary on Jack Kevorkian. The obituary says says his critics and supporters generally agree that “as a result of his stubborn and often intemperate advocacy for the right of the terminally ill to choose how they die, hospice care has boomed in the United States, and physicians have become more sympathetic […]

Read a June 6, 2011, column by Kevin Drum of Mother Jones. Drum responds to Ross Douthat’s criticism of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

Read a June 5, 2011, article from New York Times columnist Ross Douthat that argues against physician-assisted suicide and claims that Kevorkian was guilty of murder.

Read a June 7, 2011, column by Washington Post blogger Ezra Kelin, “The argument for, and against, euthanasia,” that cites a 1997 article showing that terminally ill people in pain are less inclined to opt for assisted suicide.

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.