Episode 18
Dr Michael Zimmerman sits down with us to discuss some of the work he has been doing around religion and evolution for the past several decades as we look at some of the cases being decided today. how do we reclaim the authority of experts? Can/should we teach some form of intelligent design in public schools? What is at stake in this discussion?
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produced by Zack Jackson music by Zack Jackson and Barton Willis
Show Notes Clergy letter project, founded by Michael Zimmerman
https://www.theclergyletterproject.org/
Court Cases / Board of Education rules
1981 Arkansas: McLean vs. Board of Education
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4726786
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mclean-v-arkansas.html
2004 Wisconsin, Grantsburg
https://ncse.ngo/grantsburgs-third-try
2005 Pennsylvania, Dover vs Kitzmiller [teaching intelligent design as alternative]
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/education/judge-rejects-teaching-intelligent-design.html
1987 Louisiana; Edwards v. Aguillard [do not have to teach creationism in parallel to evolution]
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Edwards-v-Aguilard
2008 Louisiana; “Science education act”
http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=503483&n=SB733%20Act%20473
2019 Ohio Science bill
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/11/ohio-lawmakers-clear-bill-allowing-students-to-turn-in-inaccurate-work-in-name-of-religion-second-anti-science-bill-in-a-week.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ohio-school-religion-answers/
Various states/years
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/02/04/fighting-over-darwin-state-by-state/
Definitions/People
Stephen Jay Gould
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/us/stephen-jay-gould-60-is-dead-enlivened-evolutionary-theory.html
Intelligent Design
https://intelligentdesign.org/whatisid/ [pro]
https://web.archive.org/web/20021113213410/http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2002/1106id2.shtml [against]
Irreducible Complexity
https://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/ic-cr.htm [pro]
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Suboptimal.cfm [against]
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/30/devolution-2 [against]
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html [invoking the flagellum]
God of the gaps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
Ship of Theseus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus