Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Science Reporting

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Casey Luskin
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December 21, 2005
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Intelligent Design
Science Education
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Philly Inquirer Associated Press Article Has GOOD Definition of Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin
December 21, 2005
Intelligent Design, Science Education, Science Reporting
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You know you’re fighting a media war when you jump for joy simply because a news article accurately characterizes your theory. Well, I’m jumping for joy right now because an AP article by Martha Raffaele in the Philadelphia Inquirer has an excellent definition of intelligent design: “U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III is expected to rule Tuesday on whether the Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include “intelligent design,” the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause.” (“School district awaits judge’s decision on ‘intelligent design’” by Martha Raffaele, Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 20, 2005) By using the term “intelligent cause,” this article accurately characterizes how ID Read More ›

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Jonathan Witt
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December 20, 2005
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Culture
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Dover’s Darwinist Judge Rules Against Competing Theory of Intelligent Design

Jonathan Witt
December 20, 2005
Culture, Science Reporting
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Judge John E. Jones III ruled today in the Dover vs. Kitzmiller intelligent trial. Deciding to move beyond the narrow issue of whether the Dover school board had a legitimate secular purpose in briefly alerting students to the theory of intelligent design, the judge also took it upon himself to tell scientists, science educators, and philosophers of science what is and isn't science and, specifically, why intelligent design, in his opinion, isn't science. Read More ›
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Robert L. Crowther, II
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December 20, 2005
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Dover Intelligent Design Decision Criticized as a Futile Attempt to Censor Science Education

Robert Crowther
December 20, 2005
Science Reporting
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Dover Intelligent Design Decision Criticized as a Futile Attempt to Censor Science Education "The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work," said Dr. John West, Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, the nation's leading think tank researching the scientific theory known as intelligent design. “He has conflated Discovery Institute’s position with that of the Dover school board, and he totally misrepresents intelligent design and the motivations of the scientists who research it.” Read More ›
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Jonathan Witt
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December 16, 2005
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Iowa State Daily Misconstrues Astrobiologist’s Position on Debating Intelligent Design

Jonathan Witt
December 16, 2005
Science Reporting
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The reporter does deserve credit for interviewing Iowa State's Tom Ingebritsen, associate professor of genetics, who says that, while ID shouldn't be taught as fact, it isn't "unreasonable to discuss the subject in a science class" (reporter's language). Read More ›
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Robert L. Crowther, II
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December 15, 2005
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Did the ACLU Lie to the Federal Courts in the Cobb County Evolution Sticker Case?

Robert Crowther
December 15, 2005
Science Reporting
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*Did the ACLU Lie to the Federal Courts in the Cobb County Evolution Sticker Case?* "The court gives two bases for its findings and they're absolutely wrong," [Judge] Carnes told Atlanta lawyer Jeffrey Bramlett, who argued on behalf of five parents who sued the school board to get the stickers removed. ... At the end of the arguments, Carnes took the highly unusual step of calling Bramlett back up to the podium and suggested he may have mislead the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in his legal brief filed with the court. Read rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›
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Robert L. Crowther, II
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December 13, 2005
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For Darwinists There is No Presenting Both Sides in Intelligent Design Debate

Robert Crowther
December 13, 2005
Science Reporting
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For Darwinists There is No Presenting Both Sides in Intelligent Design Debate It’s okay for Hector Avalos to teach a class that specifically denounces intelligent design, but it isn’t okay for Tom Ingebritsent to teach a class that presents intelligent design and evolution impartially. This is supposed to be free and open debate? Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›
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Bruce Chapman
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December 12, 2005
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Nature Magazines’s Choice Blogger Has Heaps of Fun with the Crucifixion

Bruce Chapman
December 12, 2005
Science Reporting
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Nature Magazines's Choice Blogger Has Heaps of Fun with the Crucifixion The media endlessly inspect the religious affiliations of Darwin critics, of course, supposedly because a scientist's religious views can be used to discount his scientific views. But, in contrast, they do not show us the views of the proselytizing atheists who host so many of the Darwinist organizations and websites, leading so much of the the Darwinist campaign against ID. Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›
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Jonathan Witt
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December 10, 2005
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NYT Story Misinforms on Intelligent Design and Templeton

Jonathan Witt
December 10, 2005
Science Reporting
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he New York Times published a letter from the president of Discovery Institute, Bruce Chapman, correcting Laurie Goodstein’s piece “Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker.” In addition to the misinformation Chapman notes, the story also passed along an error concerning the Templeton Foundation. Read More ›
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Robert L. Crowther, II
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December 9, 2005
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Nature Magazine Promotes Darwinist who Favors Using Brass Knuckles on ID Proponents

Robert Crowther
December 9, 2005
Science Reporting
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Nature Magazine Promotes Darwinist who Favors Using Brass Knuckles on ID Proponents Nature magazine is promoting rabid ID critic PZ Myers as a science blog guru. This is the Myers who wrote about ID proponents on his blog: " I say, screw the polite words and careful rhetoric. It¹s time for scientists to break out the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles, and get out there and hammer on the lunatics and idiots." Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com Read More ›

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