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AAAS has played a prominent role in responding to efforts in Kansas, Pennsylvania and elsewhere to weaken or compromise the teaching of evolution in public school science classrooms. Here are some background materials on the controversy and links to AAAS resources on evolution.
"Evolution on the Front Line," a special event organized by AAAS and some of the nation's biggest science and education groups, brought several hundred teachers, scientists, students and others together in St. Louis on Sunday 19 February 2006. For three-and-a-half hours, they discussed the challenges confronting science teachers and resources that teachers can tap as they seek to preserve scientific integrity in the classroom. See more on the event, including videos and speaker presentations.
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"Evolution opponents lose Kansas school board majority," Monica Davey and Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times, Austin American-Statesman, 3 August 2006
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"No Conflict Between Science and Religion," AAAS, 31 July 2006
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"AAAS Urges Defeat of Oklahoma Measure," AAAS, 22 March 2006
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"Testing Darwin's Teachers," StephanieSimon, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 March 2006
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"Science education: Protecting science, religion," AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, The Oklahoman, 19 March 2006
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"Intelligent standards or religious design? Keep religion out of science classrooms," AAAS Board Chair Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn and AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, Detroit Free Press, 8 March 2006
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"Threats to science education hurt religion, too," AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner and Baxter M. Wynn, D. Min., First Baptist Church, Greenville, The Greenville News, 7 March 2006
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"Should U.S. Schools Teach 'Intelligent Design?' No � Intelligent Design: A Dangerous Distraction," AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, Nevada Business Journal, February 2006
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"Let's teach science in the science classroom," AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, Salt Lake Tribune, 28 January 2006
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"If evidence rules in court; only one way case can go," AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, The Times-Tribune, 13 October 2005
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"It's not the Scopes monkey trial II," AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, York Dispatch, 5 October 2005. Variations of this piece also appeared in the Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., and other newspapers near Dover, PA.
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Video from NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, "Parents: 'Intelligent design' is bad education," 27 September 2005, featuring commentary by AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner
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"Darwin Goes to Church: My Congregation's Evolutionary Debate," Henry G. Brinton, Washington Post, Sunday, 18 September 2005; Page B01
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Evolution and Intelligent Design on the Diane Rehm Show, 4 August 2005, with guests AAAS CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner, Richard Land and Nick Matzke
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"Debating How to Teach Science," Dr. Leshner, 8 May 2005, Kansas City Star
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"Uma perigosa tend�ncia � censura," Dr. Leshner, 8 April 2005, O Globo
[7 June 2007]
In an op-ed in the Lexington Herald-Leader, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner urged respect for the differences between scientific facts and religious beliefs as a new Creation Museum opens.
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[13 August 2006]
In the Akron Beacon-Journal, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner urges voters in Ohio Board of Education races to beware the intelligent design movementís “critical analysis" campaign.
[09 August 2006]
The new book, developed by the Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion, explores the diversity of Christian responses to evolution and the common ground between religion and science.
[22 June 2006]
Groundbreaking Science paper suggests the orb web had a single evolutionary origin and may have been snagging flying insects as early as 136 million years ago.
[15 June 2006]
Spectacular new fossils of a loon-like ancient bird, reported in the new issue of Science, suggest that todayís birds may evolved from aquatic environments.
[28 April 2006]
A biologist and a philosopher speaking at a AAAS lecture offered compelling views on how to defend evolution against advocates of creationism and Intelligent Design.
[30 March 2006]
In a lecture at AAAS, the Rev. George V. Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory, offers a compelling scientific and religious critique of Intelligent Design.
[22 March 2006]
In a letter to Oklahoma elected officials and an op-ed published in the stateís biggest newspaper, AAAS says education bill would open science classes to intelligent design doctrine.
[8 March 2006]
Writing in The Greenville (S.C.) News, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner and the Rev. Baxter M. Wynne say a proposed change in South Carolina teaching on evolution could be harmful.
[3 March 2006]
AAAS Board Chair Gil Omenn has urged South Carolina officials to "resist efforts to weaken science education."
[20 February 2006]
The Rev. George Coyne, the Vatican's astronomer, was among a stellar AAAS panel that met with teachers in St. Louis to discuss evolution, religion and scientific integrity.
[19 February 2006]
The world's largest general science organization denounces anti-evolution measures as hundreds of K-12 teachers convene for 'Evolution on the Front Line' event in St. Louis.
[3 February 2006]
Speaking at AAAS, NASA astrobiologist Andrew Pohorille discusses his efforts to understand the earliest chemical interactions that may have produced life.
[30 January 2006]
Writing in the Salt Lake Tribune, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner says a Utah measure targeting evolution education poses a risk to coming generations of scientists and engineers.
[22 December 2005]
Research that traces the workings of evolution claims top honors as Science Breakthrough of the Year. In all, the journal named 10 top S&T advances—and one breakdown—for 2005.
[20 December 2005]
Alan I. Leshner, CEO of AAAS and executive publisher of the journal Science, responds to the decision by a U.S. District Court in Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover School District, et al.
[8 December 2005]
In a lecture at AAAS, Los Alamos researcher Steen Rasmussen details how manufactured "protocells" blur the line between nonliving and living matter.
[16 November 2005]
An audience at AAAS hears of the scientific advances in designing and building living systems—and of ethical and environmental concerns related to this cutting-edge research.
[9 November 2005]
The vote by the Kansas State Board of Education to change its science standards and redefine science has troubling implications for schools and students, says AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner.
[28 October 2005]
In a lecture at AAAS, Christoph Adami described how generations of rapidly proliferating digital "organisms" evolve traits that appear to be irreducibly complex.
[27 October 2005]
AAAS endorsed draft national science standards for K-12 students, but called for a stronger focus on "what is and isnít science."
[27 October 2005]
With state school officials in Kansas set to approve misleading science standards, AAAS endorses action by two science groups to deny use of their copyrighted material in the standards.
[17 October 2005]
With anti-evolution advocates trying to inject "intelligent design" into science classrooms, a AAAS program aimed at improving science literacy and setting standards is more important now than ever.
[7 October 2005]
Writing in the York (Penn.) Dispatch, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner cautions that a landmark evolution trial now underway should not be seen as a battle of science vs. religion.
[22 September 2005]
AAAS and the National Center for Science Education said it is important for a federal court to reject efforts by the Dover, Pa. school board to insert an anti-evolution doctrine into biology classrooms.
[13 September 2005]
In remarks before the Kansas State Board of Education, AAAS Fellow John Staver warned that the board's attacks on evolution would ultimately hurt the state's students.
[22 July 2005]
Exactly 80 years after the climactic event of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial," long-lost photos shown at a AAAS seminar helped bring the historic milestone to life.
[30 June 2005]
In a EurekAlert! online chat, specialists say proponents of "intelligent design" seek to undermine fundamental methods of scientific inquiry.
[9 May 2005]
As Kansas officials hear testimony on intelligent design, the AAAS CEO says science and religion can co-exist in life, but they should not be presented together in science classrooms.
[27 April 2005]
Speakers at the AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy consider strategies for addressing the campaign mounted by faith-based opponents of evolution science.
[12 April 2005]
In a letter to Kansas school board officials, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner declined an invitation to the state's controversial hearing, saying there's no need to debate the facts of evolution.
[29 March 2005]
In a letter sent Monday, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner urged 410 members of the Association of Science and Technology Centers to stand firm against anti-evolution film critics.
[2 February 2005]
Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner argues that "intelligent design" theory is a matter of faith and so should be kept out of science classrooms.
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