Results tagged “intelligentdesign”

Ken Miller is a Catholic, but he's also a scientist. The Brown University biology professor has written books on resolving religious faith with scientific fact, as well as smacking down "Intelligent Design" for its scientific illegitimacy. more ›

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don't need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the roads. So, grab your sunscreen and your favorite hangover cure, as we take a tour of end of summer fun from -ist cities all over the damn place. more ›

"Michael Moore's films are great," Randy Olson has told the Kansas City Star, "but I've never seen a debate afterward." Olson's documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, aims to provoke discussion through the filmmaker's encounters with inarticulate, media-shy evolutionary biologists and with advocates of intelligent design, a Totally Legitimate Scientific Theory that species were created miraculously appeared suddenly, designed by the Lord an intelligent entity with the power to do that kind of thing. Like all Totally Legitimate Science, the latter is seeking acceptance in public school classrooms in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kansas before it moves on to peer-reviewed science journals. In Pennsylvania, the trial and subsequent ouster of the Dover school board resulted in the the most entertaining legal decision Bostonist has ever read the whole way through, as well as a dire predictions from Pat Robertson, Meteorologist of the Apocalypse. more ›

In this week’s News & Opinions’ “Weekly Dig” Editor Joe Keohane delves into the heated controversy over Intelligent Design (ID). It’s been difficult to escape the term Intelligent Design, a variation on “Creationism,” in popular media’s discourse. In recent weeks the Kansas Board of Education voted in favor of teaching ID, causing many, including Keohane to cite Kansas’ history with teaching evolution in public schools. The infamous John Scopes debacle of 1925 when the high... more ›