Meeting some new neighbors at breakfast yesterday turned out to have the added benefit of more useful reading material about the teaching of Evolution on par with religious motivations. In particular, the “AAAS”:http://www.aaas.org, which declined to participate in the farce in Kansas, has provided a nice document entitled “Q&A on Evolution and Intelligent Design”:http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evolution/qanda.shtml. It makes many of the same points that I’ve tried to come to in recent months: the public first and foremost benefits from learning what is “science” and why evolution is science and intelligent design is not; that scientists who engage in public debate with ID’ers lend credence to the notion that a group of vocal people can ask for equal time, get it, and proclaim legitimacy without ever pursuing a single experiment to earn their place in the textbooks.
This document is part of a whole focused section of the AAAS website entitled “Evolution on the Front Line”:http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evolution/.
