Darwinâs Era, Modern Themes: Science, Faith and Publication
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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A little-known festival turns Charles Darwin's birthday into an international tribute to the glories of scientific thought. By Wired News staff.
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One hundred and fifty years on, the Lincoln-Douglas debates enjoy the dubious status of myth. This searching and illuminating book does the great service of bringing them back down to earth.
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From the New York Times:          Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of  knowledge about the world because it is based on testable  hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term  "doubting Thomas" well illustrates the difference. In science, a  healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion,  having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.              The problem with this neat separation into "non-overlapping  magisteria," as Stephen Jay Gould described science and religion, is  that science has its own faith-based belief system. All science  proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and  intelligible way. You couldn't be a scientist if you thought the  universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly  juxtaposed. When physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic  structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they  expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And so far  this faith has been justified.            Thus begins an exploration into the controversy around the origins of  our universe's most fundamental laws.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Tavis Smiley talks with reporter Dawn Davenport about her latest article, &quot;Born in America, Adopted Abroad,&quot; featured in the October 27 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A business trust is looking at sites for a Christian showplace to challenge the theory of evolution
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The official awards this week for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility are all advocates of teaching evolution. Bodyhack reports from AAAS in San Francisco.
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A book written by geneticist Dean H. Hamer called &quot;The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes&quot; has received mixed reactions following its publication in September.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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Wikipedia has started to hit the big time.  Accordingly, several critical     articles have come out, including "The Faith-Based     Encyclopedia" by a former editor-in-chief of Britannica and a very     widely-syndicated AP article that was given such titles as "When     Information Access Is So Easy, Truth Can Be Elusive".    These articles are written by people who appear not to appreciate the merits of Wikipedia fully.  I do, however; I co-founded Wikipedia.  (I have since left the project.)    Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue.  These problems     could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem.  If the project's     managers are not willing to solve it, I fear a fork (a new edition under new     management, for the non-techies reading this) will probably be necessary.
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By Duane T. Gish< Guest Columnist  In many school districts, controversies have erupted over the teaching of origins. Biology textbooks used in almost all of these schools teach evolution as a fact.
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By Roberts, Lissa  JONATHAN SIMON, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. vi+189. ISBN 0-75465044-8.
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L'apertura del Papa alla ricerca scientifica ci fa piacere
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The diaries of the wife of naturalist Charles Darwin are released on the internet.
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BALTIMORE -- Manuel Llinas knew his career was at stake. The young scientist had just finished work on an eye-catching paper on the genome of a parasite that causes malaria. Now he and his lab director faced a critical decision: where to submit the article for publication.
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The National Academy of Sciences has released a book explaining the differences between science and religion, and asserting that acceptance of evolution does not require abandoning belief in God.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).