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Recent advances in science and medicine, along with an abundance of observations and experiments over the past 150 years, have reinforced evolution's role as the central organizing principle of modern biology.
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Evolution should be taught — indeed, it should be central to beginning biology classes — for at least three reasons.
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In February, the Florida Department of Education modified its standards to explicitly require, for the first time, the state’s public schools to teach evolution, calling it “the organizing principle of life science.”
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Battling creationists will not fix science education. Teaching science will.
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A new law in Louisiana allows teachers to bring in "supplemental textbooks" about evolution, the origins of life and global warming to science class.
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Teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause because intelligent design is not science and "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents."
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Lauri Lebo, author of Devil in Dover, gives an insider's account of a historic court battle about dogma and Darwin in small-town America.
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The film, more than any other creationist/ID effort I’ve seen, is antiscientific and antirational. In it, Frankowski opposes not just evolutionary theory but the scientific superstructure built in the West since Renè Descartes.
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In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a "rebel" willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID).
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The works of creationists like "Dr." Ron Carlson sometimes cross the line between preposterous and downright offensive.
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A favourite lie is 'there are no transitional fossils'. This is manifestly untrue. We now have abundant evidence for how all the major groups of animals are related, much of it in the form of excellent transitional fossils.
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A new strategy is taking shape across the nation to undermine the teaching of evolution, a way for students to hear religious objections under the heading of scientific discourse.
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This is your brain on peanut butter. Hilarious, in a scary kind of way.
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Moral intuitions are being drawn out of people in the lab, on Web sites and in brain scanners, and are being explained with tools from game theory, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.
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Scientists at Stanford University have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than other cultural attributes.
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Scientists have only a handful of specimens that illustrate the evolutionary narrative that goes from ancient lizard to limbless modern serpent.
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