Georgia Journal of Science articles from September 2005

Georgia Journal of Science archives from September 2005

Gas president's comments and report from the academy council.
September 22, 2005... The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science will be held Friday and Saturday, March 24-25, 2006 at Georgia Perimeter College, Lawrenceville, GA. Paper sessions will begin in the afternoon on Friday and continue until the luncheon...

Teaching Evolution and the Challenge of Intelligent Design: a symposium.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT A symposium titled "Teaching Evolution and the Challenge of Intelligent Design" was presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Southeastern Society of Biologists, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, April 16, 2005. The...

Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse: a closer look at intelligent design.
September 22, 2005... Abstract Intelligent design (ID) creationists at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture claim to be advocating good science and education. Although they promote ID as a "full-scale scientific revolution," it is really the...

The alleged fallacies of evolutionary theory.
September 22, 2005... Massimo Pigliucci, Joshua Banta, Christen Bossu, Paula Crouse, Troy Dexter, Kerry Hansknecht and Norris Muth. This article was written jointly by Professor Massimo Pigliucci and the members of his graduate class on evolutionary thinking,...

Countering public misconceptions about the nature of evolutionary science.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Challenges to modern evolutionary science are often rooted in fundamental misconceptions about the nature of science itself. Among the public, there is a widespread perception that the focus of science on natural cause-and-effect...

Why "Intelligent Design" is more interesting than old-fashioned creationism.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT "Intelligent Design" (ID) creationism largely relies on long-discredited forms of argument to try and make a case against naturalistic evolution. However, it also includes some novel elements, such as William Dembski's claim to...