Intelligent Design & the Teaching of Evolution

John G. West - Guest Lecturer, Tuesday March 4, 2008

• 10:15 AM Lecture: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• 6:30 PM Lecture: The Science Education Controversy
• Biographical Profile and Links to Articles at the Discovery Institute
• Homepage for his book Darwin Day in America

More information available at the CBC Library:

Articles:

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Intelligent Design." CQ Researcher July 29, 2005. The Kansas Board of Education is likely to vote in September to replace the state's newly updated science-teaching standards with a revised version that plays down evolution and rejects the idea that science is a search for “natural” explanations only. The change would open the doors of biology classrooms to supernatural explanations of human life and origins, including the increasingly popular concept of “intelligent design” — the idea that life is so complex it could only have been created by an intelligent being. School boards and lawmakers in nearly half the states, including Georgia, Pennsylvania and New York, are examining similar proposals. Most scientists say intelligent design is just a new, more acceptable name for biblical creationism. But intelligent-design supporters argue that they only want an equal hearing for alternate theories of life's origins and a chance for students to examine what they say are serious gaps in evolutionary science.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

EBSCOhost: (evolution and (religion or teaching)) or intelligent design - over 275 full text articles

Books and videos (by all authors) at the CBC Library on Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Evolution

Ebooks in NetLibrary - Evolution (Biology) as Subject

Reference:

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 5. 2nd ed. New York : MacMillan, 2005.

• Hewlett, Martinez. "Evolution: The Controversy with Creationism."
• Dembski, William A. "Intelligent Design."

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

• Bowler, Peter J. "Evolution: History." 30 May 2001.

Fighting Crime

Katel, Peter. "Fighting Crime." CQ Researcher 18.6 (2008): 121-144.

Can inner-city crime be significantly reduced? Efforts to reduce violent crime are succeeding in some, but not all, areas of the country. The number of violent crimes fell by about 2 percent during the first half of 2007. But crime still grips parts of cities large and small, where guns remain plentiful and many young men are caught up in a cycle of attack and revenge. In Washington, D.C., for example, there were 181 killings last year, up from 169 in 2006. But in the capital and elsewhere, homicide rates are significantly lower than during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and early '90s. Experts attribute some of the improvement to better policing techniques, such as closely tracking neighborhood crime and quickly responding to upticks. But a countertrend of persistent violent crime is plaguing impoverished inner cities, where city officials and grassroots activists are struggling to keep young men from joining the ranks of victims and perpetrators.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.


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