"Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution" Dobzhansky




Is evolution a fact? Yes! Is evolution a theory? Yes, a scientific theory is the highest form of nomenclature in science. It is an explanatory framework which brings together a large body of facts and allows for predicted outcomes. This awesome series from cassiopeiaproject explains many of the interesting details around the facts of evolution.

Robert was an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Kitzmiller trial at Dover. The teaching of Intelligent Design in public school science classes was confirmed as pseudo-science, creationism re-branded and a violation of first amendment rights by pushing a particular (and narrow) theological viewpoint. Robert is the author of "Tower of Babel: The evidence against the new creationism". He is the President of the Michigan Citizens for Science and Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Philosophy at Michigan State University.

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin s theory of evolution called intelligent design the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply, and both parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state. This is the trial where Behe admitted that if the definition of science was broadened to allow ID, it would also sweep in Astrology. This is the trial which saw Kenneth Miller completely dismantle "Irreducible Complexity". This is the trial where Buckingham and Bonsell went from saying "we don't know where the books came from" to the revelation that Buckingham had taken up an offering in his church, banked the money, wrote a cheque to Bonsell, Bonsell gave it to his father and his father bought the ID books. This is the trial where a number of key witnesses from the upper echelon of the Discovery Institute pulled out at the last minute and therefore would not defend the claims of intelligent Design under oath. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/i d/