Brown University
Evolution
Resources
(Kenneth
R. Miller)
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(an on-line copy of the book)
A Victory for Science
in the Dover Evolution Trial
Click on Photo for my Reaction to the
Decision
The Failure of "Design"
(12/25/05 Op-Ed piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the Dover Verdict)"Remove Stickers, Open Minds"
(My January, 2005 Boston Globe Op-Ed piece on the anti-evolution textbook warning stickers in Cobb County, Georgia)
Articles on the Failure of "Intelligent Design:"
"The Flagellum Unspun - The Collapse of Irreducible Complexity."
Scientific studies of ID's "poster child," the bacterial flagellum, have destroyed this "icon" of the anti-evolution movement."Answering the Biochemical Argument from Design"
The ID movement pretends that its biochemical arguments against evolution are new, novel, and scientific. In fact, they are nothing of the sort.
Evolution & Religion:
"Darwin's Pope"
(Harvard Divinity Bulletin - Fall 2005)Evolution and the Catholic Church
(op-ed 2005)
The Cardinal's Mistake
(Providence Journal, July 10, 2005)Open Letter to Pope Benedict on Evolution
Interviews @ ChristianityToday Library:
"Finding Darwin's God" (2004)
"A Higher Opinion of God" (2004)Talks on Evolution:
January 12, 2006: The Colbert Report (no kidding) discusses evolution.
Nov. 8, 2002: NPR's Science Friday. An hourlong discussion of "Intelligent Design" and the new science curriculum in Ohio.
April 23, 2002: Debate on Intelligent Design at American Museum of Natural History (NYC) (A transcript of the debate is available on-line)
March 2, 2002: Evolution & God: Why Intelligent Design Theory Isn't Science (Cleveland, OH)
Finding Darwin's God - (HarperCollins ©1999) The scientific evidence for evolution and its religious implications. Click Here to read an excerpt from its final chapter.Opponents of Evolution in Ohio and other states have pretended that the teaching of "intelligent design" is required by the new Education Bill. They're not telling the truth. Click Here to check the facts about the "Santorum amendment" for yourself.
Life's Grand Design - a 1994 essay on the issue of design in biology. From Technology Review magazine. Click Here to read an update excerpt prepared for the 2001 Evolution series on NOVA.
Defending the Teaching of Evolution - A web article based on my 1999 Keynote lecture at a AAAS-sponsored symposium at Kansas University on the teaching of evolution.
A Debate on Evolution - In 1997, NOVA asked Phillip Johnson and me to write four brief essays for an internet debate on the scientific status of evolution.
Design on the Defensive - A series of essays written in response to the biochemical arguments raised by Michael Behe and others against evolution.A Review of Darwin's Black Box - A detailed review of Michael Behe's 1996 book, "Darwin's Black Box." For more criticism of Behe's views on evolution, check out "Behe's Empty Box."
Haeckel's Embryos - Critics of evolution charge that textbooks like those written by JoeLevine and me contain "fraudulent" drawings of embryos presented as evidence for evolution. Do they? This page explains what Joe and I did when we learned of a mistake in one of the illustrations in the Lionbook and Elephant Book.
The Peppered Moth - Critics of evolution also charge that the story of the peppered moth, presented in many textbooks as evidence for natural selection, is a fraud. But is it really? Check out this page for the real story.
Dissecting the Disclaimer - Over the past decade, several states have considered a version of the evolution disclaimer that Alabama has placed inside its science textbooks for many years. How strong is the "science" of the disclaimer? Take a look!
God, Darwin, and Kansas - Streaming video of my my September 6, 2001 lecture at the University of British Columbia.
Debating Design - Streaming video of lectures by Michael Behe and me at the June 2001 Conference on Evolution at Haveford College.
The PBS evolution series, which first aired in September 2001, has a superb web site of teaching resources for evolution.
When the evolution series aired, it was immediately attacked by the anti-evolution Discovery Institute. Their first charge, incredibly, was that PBS was "misleading" the public by claiming that all organisms share a universal genetic code. I wrote three essays exposing the scientific fallacies in these attacks:
A "Dying Theory" Fails Again (PDF file)
DI Fails Again to "Crack" the Code (html)
Discovery Institute Goes "0 for 3" against PBS (html)
The National Center for Science Education, a leading organization in the fight for scientific integrity, has a "Setting the Record Straight" web page with these and other rebuttals of criticism of the PBS series.