Show 141: Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne on “The Case against Intelligent Design”

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Now that George Bush has lent his support to the teaching of Intelligent Design, along side of evolution in our public schools, it is important to know just what Intelligent Design is.  Is it really an alternative view on how life on earth came to be; or is it just the newest incarnation of religious creationism?  Either way, why is it important that we should care about this distinction if indeed so many Americans are for equal time for Intelligent Design in our children’s science classes?  Isn’t this a free country, after all?  We’ll find out on Sunday, September 18th at 6:30pm on Equal Time for Freethought!

Jerry Coyne is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution.  There, he is on the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and the Committee on Genetics. His recent essay in the New Republic addresses the political and scientific issues surrounding the new Creationism of Intelligent Design. That essay is called The Case against Intelligent Design: The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name.

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