After the Dover case, Of Pandas and People was so thoroughly discredited that the Discovery Institute was forced to throw their energies into promoting a new textbook, Explore Evolution, a strategy that's behind their recent activities in Louisiana, Texas, and other states. Biologist John Timmer reviews this "atrociously bad" book in detail for Ars Technica: A biologist reviews an evolution textbook from the ID camp.
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In a review of two recent books on "intelligent design," Professor Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago (a frequent opponent of creationists) tackles one of the most challenging philosophical problems driving the conflict between creationism and evolutionary science, and concludes that there is no way to reconcile science and religion. I'm not sure I agree with that conclusion, but there's much here to think about, and I'd like to see Ken Miller and Karl Giberson respond to Coyne's critique.
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