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Intelligent design in biology has been supported by several peer-reviewed journals and books. As of December 2005, intelligent design supporters offer, in support of this claim, the following articles: Axe, D. D., 2000. Extreme functional sensitivity to conservative amino acid changes on enzyme exteriors. Journal of Molecular Biology 301: 585-595. Behe, M. J. and D. W. Snoke. 2004. Simulating evolution by gene duplication of protein features that require multiple amino acid residues. Protein Science 13: 2651-2664. Chiu, D. K. Y. and T. H. Lui. 2002. Integrated use of multiple interdependent patterns for biomolecular sequence analysis. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 4(3): 766-775. Denton, M. J. and J. C. Marshall. 2001. The laws of form revisited. Nature 410: 417. Denton, M. J., J. C. Marshall and M. Legge. 2002. The protein folds as Platonic forms: New support for the pre-Darwinian conception of evolution by natural law. Journal of Theoretical Biology 219: 325-342. Lönnig, W.-E. 2004. Dynamic genomes, morphological stasis and the origin of irreducible complexity . In: V. Parisi, V. de Fonzo and F. Aluffi-Pentini, eds. Dynamical Genetics , 101-119. Research Signpost. Lönnig, W.-E. and H. Saedler. 2002. Chromosome rearrangements and transposable elements. Annual Review of Genetics 36: 389-410. Meyer, Stephen. 2004. The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117: 213-239. Wells, Jonathan. 2005. Do centrioles generate a polar ejection force? Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum 98: 37-62. and books (Discovery Institute 2005): Behe, Michael. 1996. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution . New York: The Free Press. Campbell, John Angus and Stephen C. Meyer. 2003. Darwinism, Design, and Public Education . Michigan State University Press. Denton, Michael. 1985. Evolution: A Theory in Crisis . Adler and Adler. Dembski, W. A. 1998. The Design Inference: Eliminating chance through small probabilities . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dembski, William. 2002. No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased without Intelligence . Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Gonzalez, Guillermo and Jay W. Richards. 2004. The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery . Regnery Publishing. Minnich, Scott and Stephen C. Meyer. 2004. Genetic analysis of coordinate flagellar and type III regulatory circuits. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design and Nature , Rhodes, Greece, ed. M. W. Collins and C. A. Brebbia, WIT Press. Thaxton, Charles B., Walter L. Bradley and Roger L. Olsen. 1984. The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories . Philosophical Library. (4th ed., Lewis and Stanley, 1992). The journal Progress in Information, Complexity and Design (PCID) is also peer-reviewed.

...t ID is a serious challenge to evolution, nobody takes ID seriously as a science, so nobody writes about it in the professional literature. The papers and books cited by the Discovery Institute do not make a good case for peer-reviewed intelligent design for one or more reasons. Many of the p...

...Michael. 2005. Simple evolutionary pathways to complex proteins. Protein Science 14: 2217-2225. McMurtrie, Beth. 2001. Darwinism under attack. Chronicle of Higher Education , Dec. 21. http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i17/17a00801.htm NCSE. 2004. BSW repudiates Meyer. http://www.ncseweb.org/resou...

The Santorum Amendment, which was passed by the Senate and preserved in the conference committee report of the No Child Left Behind bill, gives federal legislative weight to the idea that alternatives to evolution should be taught in science classes.

...of the Federal Government to mandate, direct, or control a State, local educational agency, or school's curriculum, program of instruction, or allocation of State or local resources. . . . (b). . . [N]o funds provided to the Department under this Act may be used by the Department to endorse,...

U.S. Department of Education. 2001. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act. http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/index.html , specifically http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg112.html#sec9527

In fairness, creation and evolution deserve equal time in science classes.

The teaching of creationism does not belong in science classes because creationism has no science to teach. It is based on personal religious belief, not on evidence. For the most part, creationism can fit with anything we find, making it unscientific. Where creation...

...k: Simon & Schuster. DYG, Inc. 2000. Evolution and creationism in public education: An in-depth reading of public opinion. http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/dfiles/file_36.pdf Hoppe, Richard B. 2004. Introduction to Multiple Designers Theory. http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000509.html Leipzig,...

Intelligent design (ID) is quite different from creationism, because "Intelligent design creationism" is a pejorative term, not a term used by members of the ID movement. Creationists and fair-minded critics recognize a difference between ID and creationism. ID is scientific. ID's religious implications are distinct from its science program.

...hey are all creationism. ID is anything but scientific . Since ID has no science program at all, their last point is meaningless. Intelligent design is defined and treated as a form of creationism by its supporters. (The ideas listed here are prevalent in the ID movement, but there may be ind...

...g banners at the Discovery Institute. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 22(5): 12. http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/4116_evolving_banners_at_the_discov_8_29_2002.asp Davis, Percival and Dean H. Kenyon. 1989. Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological...

More than 300 scientists (over 400 as of 7/18/2005) from all disciplines have signed a statement expressing skepticism of the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.

...evolution, 400 scientists is a minuscule amount. The National Center for Science Education has compiled, as a parody of lists such as that from the Discovery Institute, a list of more than 500 scientists all named Steve , or with variants of that name, who support evolution (NCSE 2003). There...

...Discovery Institute's "Bibliography of Supplementary Resources for Ohio Science Instruction." Reports of the National Center for Science Education 22(4): 12-18,23-24. http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/rncse_content/vol22/4583_analysis_of_the_discovery_inst_12_30_1899.asp Evans, Skip. 2001. Do...

There are gaps between land mammals and whales.

...nd the power of independent evidence. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 20(5): 33-41. http://www.talkorigins.org/features/whales/

...potamidae within Cetartiodactyla. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 102(5): 1537-1541. Gingerich, P. D. et al., 1983. Origin of whales in epicontinental remnant seas: New evidence from the Early Eocene of Pakistan. Science 220: 403-406. Gingerich, P. D., B. H. Smith, and E. L...

Intelligent design (ID) is scientific, not religious.

...ck to accepting the role of God as creator. (Phillip Johnson, "Enlisting Science to Find the Fingerprints of a Creator", LA Times , 25 Mar. 2001.) Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, befor...

...g banners at the Discovery Institute. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 22(5): 12. http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/4116_evolving_banners_at_the_discov_8_29_2002.asp Dembski, William. 1999. Signs of intelligence: A primer on the discernment of intelligent design. T...

...f Arkansas signed into law Act 590 of 1981, entitled "Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act." The Act is codified as Ark. Stat. Ann. &80-1663, et seq. , (1981 Supp.). Its essential mandate is stated in its first sentence: "Public schools within this State shall give balanced treatment to creation-science and to evolu...

...law Act 590 of 1981, entitled "Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act." The Act is codified as Ark. Stat. Ann. &80-1663, et seq. , (1981 Supp.). Its essential mandate is stated in its first sentence: "Public schools within this State shall give balanced treatment to creation-science and to evolution-science." On May...

...sentence: "Public schools within this State shall give balanced treatment to creation-science and to evolution-science." On May 27, 1981, this suit was filed (1) challenging the constitutional validity of Act 590 on three distinct grounds. First, it is contended that Act 590 constitutes an establishment of religion prohibited by the First Amend...

...rief filed during the Selman v. Cobb County School District court case by several pro-science organizations opposing the anti-evolution disclaimer required in Cobb County. Skip to introduction . UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION JEFFREY MICHAEL SELMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COBB COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT,...

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...ry 25, 1996, and will be rebroadcast on Saturday, June 8 (8-9 p.m. ET). Professors of science and anthropology from some of the nation's most prestigious colleges and universities voiced strong opinions about some of the theories in the special, which challenged long-accepted beliefs about man's beginnings. The program presented startling evide...

...entists, praised the production as 'a great accomplishment and contributing to public education," says Cote, "many scientists expressed outrage and criticism." Michael H. Gerber (Emmy-winning special "The Mystery of the Sphinx") and Robert Watts ("Star Wars" trilogy, "Indiana Jones" trilogy, "The Mystery of the Sphinx" are the executive produce...

...ian apologetics ..." Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director for the National Center for Science Education. "Now, this bill was of course drafted by a theologian or somebody versed in apologetics. There's an amusing bit of 'evidence' on that subject in the very language of the bill. The bill keeps using - the act keeps using the term 'evidences' i...

...tened "Proofs of Macroevolution" - something used just to be a tad provocative, since science really cannot prove anything in the mathematical or logical sense of "prove." I was strongly urged to remove the overstated "Proofs" (and I agreed it should be changed), so I decided to insert "evidences" as an inside joke for all who realize how commo...

...r's title, has made it past the editors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Science , the Journal of the American Chemical Society , the Journal of Molecular Evolution , Cancer , the Journal of Biological Chemistry , Physical Review Letters , Biochimica and Biophysica Acta , Nucleic Acids Research , Virology , Genetics , an...

...ticle is being mirrored from http://paleo.cc/paluxy/tooth.htm .] Dr. Hastings teaches science at Waxahachie High School in Waxahachie Texas. He has worked and written extensively on the Paluxy controversy since 1982, and is a former board member of the National Center for Science Education. This article originally appeared in _Creation/Evolutio...

...aluxy controversy since 1982, and is a former board member of the National Center for Science Education. This article originally appeared in _Creation/Evolution_ , Summer, 1995, Issue 36, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-14. It was posted here on 5-10-97 with permission of Ronnie Hastings and NCSE. For more information on the Paluxy controversy, see Kuban...

...ed simultaneously in a world whose history is better explained by Genesis than modern science. Skeptics, however (including creationists who had been "burned" by Baugh's claims before), immediately suspected something was fishy about this new claim. On June 19, 1987, the day the Supreme Court struck down the Louisiana Creation Law, I visited th...

RSS Directory Evolution and Science RSS Feeds RSS and Atom feed links grouped by source type, preserved from the legacy Archive feed directory. Browse sections All external resources Directory Coverage 20 entries Converted from the legacy link-list source into responsive sections. Sectio...

...d from the legacy link-list source into responsive sections. Sections Sites defending science and/or science education against evolution deniers 6 entries Evolution-related blogs 3 entries Science news 6 entries Biology and evolution - technical 2 entries Evolution Deniers 3 entries RSS Directory Sites defending science and/or science education...

...cy link-list source into responsive sections. Sections Sites defending science and/or science education against evolution deniers 6 entries Evolution-related blogs 3 entries Science news 6 entries Biology and evolution - technical 2 entries Evolution Deniers 3 entries RSS Directory Sites defending science and/or science education against evolut...

...alism and the Theory of Evolution in Public School Education: A Study of the Creation Science Movement [Ph.D. dissert.]: University of California, Davis. Lewin, R., 1982, Where is the science in Creation science?: Science, v. 215, p. 142-146. Vawter, B., 1983, Creationism: Creative Misuse of the Bible, in Frye, R. M., ed., Is God a Creationist?...

...ment [Ph.D. dissert.]: University of California, Davis. Lewin, R., 1982, Where is the science in Creation science?: Science, v. 215, p. 142-146. Vawter, B., 1983, Creationism: Creative Misuse of the Bible, in Frye, R. M., ed., Is God a Creationist? The Religious Case Against Creation-Science: New York, Scribner's, p. 71-82. [ Return to A Keywor...

...]: University of California, Davis. Lewin, R., 1982, Where is the science in Creation science?: Science, v. 215, p. 142-146. Vawter, B., 1983, Creationism: Creative Misuse of the Bible, in Frye, R. M., ed., Is God a Creationist? The Religious Case Against Creation-Science: New York, Scribner's, p. 71-82. [ Return to A Keyword-Indexed Origins Bi...

Bliss, R. B., 1988, Good Science: A K-6 plan for Excellence: ICR Impact Series, v. 182. Byrne, G., 1989, U.S. Students Flunk Science, Math: Science, v. 243, no. 729. Culliton, B. J., 1989, The Dismal State of Scientific Literacy: Science, v. 243, no. 600. Edwords, F., 1980, Why Creati...

...plan for Excellence: ICR Impact Series, v. 182. Byrne, G., 1989, U.S. Students Flunk Science, Math: Science, v. 243, no. 729. Culliton, B. J., 1989, The Dismal State of Scientific Literacy: Science, v. 243, no. 600. Edwords, F., 1980, Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught as Science. Part 1: The Legal Issues: Creation/Evolution, v. 1, p. 2-23....

...lence: ICR Impact Series, v. 182. Byrne, G., 1989, U.S. Students Flunk Science, Math: Science, v. 243, no. 729. Culliton, B. J., 1989, The Dismal State of Scientific Literacy: Science, v. 243, no. 600. Edwords, F., 1980, Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught as Science. Part 1: The Legal Issues: Creation/Evolution, v. 1, p. 2-23. ---, 1981, Why...