EVOLUTION-SCIENCE VERSUS CREATION-SCIENCE

Public School Creation Science

Many public school teachers are caught in a “no-mans land” when it comes to the teaching of origins. On the one hand, they want to teach creation. On the other hand they are told, ordered, coerced, or otherwise led to believe that they cannot teach creation and must teach evolution. Not only must they teach it, they must teach it as truth. What are these teachers to do? When should they “step o...

Science Versus Stigma

Science Versus Stigma Stigma is an enormous obstacle to more effective drug abuse treatment. Widespread perceptions that addiction strips individuals of basic human qualities lead to selffulfilling predictions that those who are addicted cannot recover or ever play positive and productive social roles. Two articles in this issue of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice illustrate a fundamental ...

Science versus the Mountain

Science, evolution, and creationism.

O n December 20, 2005, John E. Jones III, federal judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, issued a 130-page-long decision (Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District) declaring that ‘‘The overwhelming evidence at trial established that ID [intelligent design] is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory . . . ID is not supported by any peer-reviewed r...

Knowledge Science - Modeling the Knowledge Creation Process

Knowledge science is a problem-oriented interdisciplinary field that takes as its subject the modeling of the knowledge creation process and its application, and carries out research in such disciplines as knowledge management, management of technology, support for the discovery, synthesis and creation of knowledge, and innovation theory with the aim of constructing a better knowledge-based soc...