Further Reading for The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything

Intelligent Design - General Reading

The Center for Science and Culture (CSC). The CSC is a think tank which supports philosphers, theologians, political scientists, mathematicians and scientists interested in intelligent design. http://www.crsc.org/

Wikipedia Article on Intelligent Design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design

The Bible. A full-text and searchable in King James and Revised Standard versions. http://www.bibleontheweb.com/

Evolution – General Reading

Evolution: This site is a collaborative project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Wikipedia Article on Evolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin’s, written in 1859. It can be read in its entirety online at: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/

Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Trial Materials

Evolution Education and the Law: Legal Issues, lawsuits, documents, trial materials and updates published by the National Center for Science Education (NCSE).
http://www2.ncseweb.org/wp/?page_id=5

DVD

– Available in the Western Libraries
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.
Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2008.

Books

– Available in the Western Libraries
Chapman, Matthew. 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania. New York: Collins, 2008.

Humes, Edward. Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul. NewYork:Harper, 2008.

Numbers, Ronald L. The creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Pennock, Robert T. Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives. Boston, MA: MIT Press 2001.

Petto, Andrew J. and Laurie R. Godfrey, eds. Scientists confront intelligent design and Creationism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Articles

Branch, Glenn. “Understanding Creationism after Kitzmiller.” Bioscience 57.3 (2007): 278-284.
Available full-text through the Western Libraries.
The article reviews several books including "40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin & Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania," by Matthew Chapman, "The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design and a School Board in Dover, Pennsylvania," by Gordy Slack, and "Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul," by Edward Humes. The article includes an excellent bibliography for further reading.

Cornish-Bowden, Athel and Maria Luz Cardenas. “The threat of creationism to the rational teaching of biology.” Biological Research 40 (2007): 113 – 122.
 Available full-text: http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/pucon.pdf

Most biologists outside the USA , are under the impression that the threat to the teaching of biology represented by creationism does not concern them directly. This is unfortunately no longer true: the recent growth of creationism, especially in its pseudo-scientific manifestation known as "intelligent design", has been obvious in several countries of Western Europe, and it is beginning to be noticeable in Brazil, and maybe elsewhere in Latin America. The problem is complicated by the fact that there are not just two possibilities, evolution and creationism, because creationism comes in various incompatible

 

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