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"THE VIGIL AFTER DOVER"
A public forum -- "Keeping science and religion separate in schools: The
vigil after Dover" -- held at Florida State University on May 17, 2006, is
now available on-line. Participating were NCSE's executive director
Eugenie C. Scott, Georgetown University theologian John F. Haught and
Michigan State University philosopher Robert T. Pennock (both of whom
testified as expert witnesses for the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover),
and philosopher Michael Ruse, biologist Joseph Travis, and law professor
Steven Gey, all from Florida State University. The Pulitzer-prize-winning
science writer Deborah Blum served as the moderator.
Before the event, Pennock told the Tallahassee Democrat (May 15, 2006),
"The Dover trial really was the test case for intelligent design," and Gey
suggested that after Kitzmiller policymakers would be less likely to seek
to introduce creationism in the classroom: "School boards will be hesitant
to go down that road," especially in light of the $1 million bill incurred
by the defendants. But Scott warned that even in the absence of explicit
antievolution policies, "teachers are still very intimidated about teaching
evolution," adding, "When parents or school boards look cross-eyed at
evolution, the tendency for teachers is just to skip those chapters."
For "Keeping science and religion separate in schools: The vigil after
Dover," visit:
http://www.research.fsu.edu/dover/
--
Martin Weiss, Ph.D
Vice President, Science
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111 th Street
Corona, New York 11368
718 699 0005 x 356
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