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I'm a chemist-biochemist with little formal training in evolution. When I testified against the "equal time" bill (equal time for creationism and evolution) before the legislative education committee (NE) in 1981, I knew little about creationism. Perhaps it had disappeared in the '30s. Perhaps I'd get challenging arguments from creationists. I was mistaken. Proponents of "equal time" were mostly scientifically illiterate and gullible to the most nonsensical creationism. For example, one proponent told me that there were two sides to the issue, the Christian side vs. everything else (evolution plus New Age speculation, Native American creation myths, etc). Scientific training doesn't prepare one for such logic.The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.Isaac Asimov
New! - Creationism from the perspective of bounded rationality
Are creationists rational? - Origins of scientific creationism
Strengths and weaknesses - On academic freedom
Teaching evolution - Legislating uncertainty - Church of England Darwin Site
Christian homeschoolers learn that rationalizing is science - Evolution's critics shift tactics with schools
Nova special - Judgment Day - (Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School Board) - watch it online
Creationists would take us back to Dark Ages - Creationism at wingnutopedia
The McGill Journal of Education - useful articles - The infamous Stuart Pivar
Keeping science in debate over evolution - Letter
Lawrence Krauss - Museum of misinformation - Debating creationists
Penn and Teller YouTube video - Creation Museum opens
Hovind sentenced - Minneapolis billboard - Walter Brown's hydroplate theory
American Scientist article on 1920s religious pamphlets
Evolution and Mr. Bryan - Harry Emerson Fosdick, Popular Religion Leaflet (1922)Quebec gets tough on independent schools - Creationism in the UK - New! Evidence from dog breeding
Evolution and The Bible - Edwin G. Conklin, Popular Religion Leaflet (1922)
Problems teachers face - Addressing the public - The bottom line - Misplaced sympathies - Catholic creationism
Ken Ham in action - Action heats up in Ohio - the warfare metaphor - How to spot pseudoscience
Encyclopedia of Creation Science - Employing humor - The Drawbridge survey (1932)
Entertaining! Creationist crackpots, Advice to a potential creationist debater
Teach evolution (Scott and Branch), some misconceptions, American Chemical Society statement
View from the UK, Scientific literacy - creationism at Yale - Cobb county stickers fail the Lemon test
Demise of Darwinism?, Paul Krugman on ID, Can you believe in God and evolution?
Cornelia Dean essay (NYT), creationism at wikipedia, What about missing links?
Joe Kaplinsky's essay at spiked.com, Creationist glossary, Fallacies of classification
What is "objective science"? - the AIG museum - List of creationists
The creation worldview, Freedom to teach pseudoscience? - The other Monitor weighs in
Serbia goes creationist!, But not for long - Action in Dover PA
Is science what crackpots do? , Understand what apologetics is before you debate a creationist
Creationism in Nebraska, Kansas. Anti-evolution in scientific literature, Creationism in Montana
Creationism returns to Georgia, Cobb County again, State anti-creationist organizations
The relationship between science and the executive branch of the federal government. - The Guardian - 4/10/03
Nicely done! The Botanical Society of America's statement on evolution - with interesting details
Texas textbooks - Dallas Morning News - 7/10/03, Final vote, 11/9 A less temperate view.
Texans for Better Science Education, textbook hearings, Report San Antonio, 9/10
Is Kent Hovind a genius? - What makes people gullible to creationism?
Why scientists reject creationism - Editorial on "Teaching the Controversy"
Herbert W. Armstrong explains why evolution is satanic - a classic, Creationist biographies
Evolution is wrong? Is Jonathan Wells a biologist?, Evolution of Creationism
Oklahoma's proposed textbook disclaimer, proposed by representative Bill Graves - Mississippi disclaimer
Creationist museum acquires tyrannosaurus skeleton!, Do creationists believe in microevolution?
Barriers to accepting evolution - solo scriptura can make science difficult to accept
Dawkins on creationism - a preposterous, mind-shrinking falsehood
Creationist cryptobiology - dinos and humans lived at the same time.
Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education
Creationism - contrast to evolution - know the difference between science and apologetics
Are you indoctrinated?, Important scientific advances made by creationists
How to get bad scientific advice - the Catholic church has learned its lesson, but lawyers and fundamentalists haven't
Philip Johnson on trial - why legal methods are unacceptable in science
Greene's Creationism Truth Filter (link) - A nice collection of book reviews.
Is evolution false?, Are scientists concealing weaknesses of evolution?
15 answers to creationist nonsense (Scientific American) - Scientific American's recommended resources
AAAS evolution resources, How to argue like a creationist - link
The Science Notebook (link) - a good introduction to the nature of science.
Why conflict between science and fundamentalism? - The Scopes Trial is an impediment, but conflicts are yet more basic.
Creationist web site (a good example of apologetics), Links to creationist web sites
Chimps and humans aren't related! - Support for intelligent design clearly doesn't indicate that creationists understand information.
Good up-to-date description of creationists (link)
A visit to the Institute for Creation Research (link), ICR = Imbeciles for Creationism Rhetoric?
The Joseph McCabe - George McCready Price debate, Sept 6, 1925 - British Scopes trial follow up
National Center for Science Education (NCSE) - a clearinghouse for creationism in education issues.
Ways of dealing with scientific and religious beliefs (link)
Talkorigins - a good evolution resource. See their What's New page
Institute for Creation Research (ICR) - classical young Earth creationism
Answers in Genesis ( AIG) - major center for creationist apologetics
AIG now downgrades some creationist arguments - at least a start - note 2nd law rationale!
Creation Research Society belief statement - OK for pseudoscientists since you don't have to believe in the scientific method!
Creationist propaganda Objective ministries - highly developed scientific ignorance and dogmatic thinking - amazing links
Dialogue concerning two modern world systems
