Not in our classrooms
Subtitle: why intelligent design is wrong for our schools
By: edited by Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780807032787
Subjects: Evolution; Religion and science; Evolution (Biology); Intelligent Design; Intelligent design (Teleology); Study and teaching; Unterricht; Creationism
Description: More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, creationism is alive and well. Through local school boards, politicians, strategic court cases, and well-funded organizations, a strong movement has developed to encourage the teaching of "intelligent design" as a viable theory alongside evolution in science classes. Now, in Not in Our Classrooms, parents and teachers, as well as other concerned citizens, have a much-needed tool to argue against teaching intelligent design as science. In clear and lively essays, a team of experts describe not only the history of the intelligent design movement and the lack of scientific support for its claims, but also the religious, legal, and pedagogical problems that proposals to teach this idea in the public schools bring in their wake. Not in Our Classrooms is essential reading for anyone concerned about the teaching of this religious theory as science in the classrooms of our public schools. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The once and future intelligent design / Eugenie C. Scott; title: Analyzing critical analysis / Nicholas J. Matzke and Paul R. Gross; title: Theology, religion, and intelligent design / Martinez Hewlett, and Ted Peters; title: From the classroom to the courtroom : intelligent design and the constitution / Jay D. Wexler; title: When the classroom door closes, who teaches evolution? / Brian Alters; title: Defending the teaching of evolution / Glenn Branch and the staff of the National Center For Science Education.