Stephen C. Meyer, Scott Minnich, Jonathan Moneymaker, Paul A. Nelson, Ralph Seelke
Language
English
Subject
Evolution
Publisher
Hill House Publishers Pty. Ltd. (Melbourne and London)
Publication date
2007
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
160
ISBN
0-947352-47-3
OCLC
170885225
Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism is a controversial biology textbook written by a group of intelligent design supporters and published in 2007.[1] Its promoters describe it as aimed at helping educators and students to discuss "the controversial aspects of evolutionary theory that are discussed openly in scientific books and journals but which are not widely reported in textbooks."[2][3] As one of the Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns to "teach the controversy" its evident purpose is to provide a "lawsuit-proof" way of attacking evolution and promoting pseudoscientific creationism without being explicit.
The book is co-authored by three Discovery Institute members, Stephen C. Meyer, Scott Minnich and Paul A. Nelson, as well as illustrator and creationist author Jonathan Moneymaker and Kansas evolution hearings participant Ralph Seelke.[4][5] Hill House Publishers Pty. Ltd. ( Melbourne and London), headed by creationist and entomological taxonomist Bernard d'Abrera, is the publisher of Explore Evolution.
Nick Matzke of the National Center for Science Education suggests that the name Explore Evolution might have been chosen with the intention of creating confusion.[6] For example, Explore Evolution is also the name of a National Science Foundation grant program for museums in the United States launched in June, 2003.[7]
This book replaces Of Pandas and People, the supplementary textbook previously intended to introduce intelligent design to high school students. Discovery Institute fellows William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells rewrote Of Pandas and People as a new 360-page college textbook called The Design of Life.[8]
^Stephen C. Meyer, Scott Minnich, Jonathan Moneymaker, Paul A. Nelson, and Ralph Seelke, Explore Evolution: The Arguments for and Against Neo-Darwinism, Hill House Publishers Pty. Ltd., Melbourne and London, 2007, ISBN 0-947352-47-3.
^Explore Evolution: Introduction. Retrieved on 2008-09-28.
^Explore Evolution: Who Is This For? Retrieved on 2008-09-28.
^Explore Evolution Textbook and Website Archived 2007-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, Staff,
Discovery Institute, June 1, 2007, from Discovery Institute official website, Retrieved on 2007-08-03.
^About the Authors, Explore Evolution official website
^New ID textbook on the way: ‘Explore Evolution’ Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Nick Matzke, Panda's Thumb, Entry 3008, March 23, 2007.
^A wide range of publications and websites describe the NSF program Explore Evolution:
Science Museums Adapt in Struggle against Creationist Revisionism: Institutions step up fight against attacks on theory of evolution Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine, Elizabeth Landau, Scientific American website, July 12, 2007.
Virus and the Whale: Exploring Evolution in a Museum Collaboration, Judy Diamond, Amy Spiegel, Debra Meier, Sarah Disbrow, UMAC 2003 Conference, September 21–26, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2003.
Museums: Explore Evolution, Now Showing: Film, TV, Museums & More, National Science Foundation, January 18, 2006, retrieved August 19, 2007.
Explore Evolution: how evolution works from the smallest to the largest organisms, University of Nebraska State Museum website.
Explore Evolution: how evolution works from the smallest to the largest organisms, The University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, copyright 2004
Explore Evolution, Exhibits: Hall of Biodiversity, Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural Sciences Center, University of Texas at Austin, Last update: October 1, 2007
Explore Evolution exhibit opens at Morrill Hall Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Megan Black, Daily Nebraskan, September 12, 2005
Explore Evolution' exhibit focuses on cutting-edge science, Algis J. Laukaitis, Lincoln Journal Star, September 8, 2005
^William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells, The Design of Life, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, November 19, 2007.
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