The American Adoption Congress is comprised of individuals, families and organizations committed to adoption reform. They provide education about the lifelong process of adoption and advocate legislation that will grant every individual access to information about his or her family and heritage. Amy Winn serves as president.

John G. West is a vice-president and senior fellow at Discovery Institute in Seattle and author of Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science. He contributed an opinion piece about the Louisiana Science Education Act to the National Review. He has a special interest in C.S. Lewis and co-edited The C.S. […]

Robert Pollack is a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of The Faith of Biology & the Biology of Faith and was part of an online panel that discussed the conflict between religion and evolution for the PBS series Evolution.

Thomas Nagel is a professor of law and philosophy at New York University who has written a paper describing the constitutionality of “mentioning” intelligent design in science classes. He has described himself as an atheist.

The Guardian has a “Race & Religion” track that is updated with news covering topics of race, ethnicity and religion.

See “An Evolving Debate about Evolution,” resources from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The Pew package includes background on the evolution controversy and how that has played out in legislation and policies in various states. Pew also has a graphic showing how members of different faiths view evolutionary theory.

Read an Aug. 23, 2008, New York Times story about a Florida high school teacher approaching the subject of evolution in his science class.

Scientific American’s January 2009 issue was dedicated to a discussion of the implications of Darwin and evolution.Read an article it included by the National Center for Science Education’s Glenn Branch and Eugenie Scott about teaching evolution in public schools.

As this New York Times story reports, a study published in the January 2011 edition of Science magazine found that just 28 percent of biology teachers consistently teach the evidence for evolution; 13 percent explicitly advocate creationism.