The best religion and science stories of the year
30 Dec
When religion and science comes together, it’s always makes for a good news article. According to Religion Dispatches, here are the Top five stories of 2009:
1. “Junk Science” in Texas Classrooms In April, fundamentalist Christian members of the Texas Board of Education inserted intelligent design code words into its science education requirements.
2. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Religion (In The Scientific Community)? At issue is what some have come to refer to as accommodationism, the idea among some scientists that the best way to encourage the acceptance of evolution specifically and science in general is to accommodate the beliefs of those of non-fundamentalist religious faith.
3. Just Say No… To Louisiana The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), one of the nation’s leading scientific societies, took the unusual step in February to boycott Louisiana due to the state’s new anti-science law.
4. Ms. Evolutionary Dead End 2009 Unveiled at a May press conference to much fanfare, Ida was supposed to be, as the media misleadingly referred to her, the “missing link.” But a paper published in the October edition of Nature described her more of an evolutionary dead end.
5. Lucy’s Older Sister The Ardi find is significant because she likely predates by one million years Lucy, (Australopithecus afarensis) the previous fossil contender for earliest human lineage.
Read other top five news stories on Religion Dispatches.
Which of the ones listed above is the most significant?
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