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Here’s an interesting podcast from the San Francisco Chronicle, featuring an interview with journalist Laurie Lebo, author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America. Lebo grew up in a small town near Dover, Pennsylvania, where in 2004 the Board of Education tried ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, dover, kitzmiller, Laurie Lebo
An interesting presentation from the National Center for Science Education on the part they played in the Dover School District creationism case, and their analysis of differing drafts of the creationist textbook Of Pandas and People. The smoking gun moment was when they discovered the nonsense words “cdesign proponentsists” ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, discovery institute, kitzmiller, Dover School District
I was browsing through Charles Krauthammer’s columns today, and discovered this excellent piece on the Kitzmiller case, and the pseudo-scientific claptrap promoted by the Discovery Institute: Phony Theory, False Conflict. Let’s be clear. Intelligent design may be interesting as theology, but as science it is a fraud. It is ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, kitzmiller, Krauthammer
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District is a landmark case in the 150-Year Creationism War. The Dover School District voted in late 2004 to require the teaching of “intelligent design” as an alternative to the scientific theory of evolution (heavily influenced by the Discovery Institute’s propaganda), and they were promptly ...
kitzmiller, Pennsylvania, Creationism, Intelligent Design, LGF, Dover School District, discovery institute