Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
BBC Education: Evolution homepage
BBC Education: Evolution homepage: "'4,000 million years crammed into one website'"
Americans United: Bush Endorsement Of 'Intelligent Design' In Public Schools Is Irresponsible, Says Americans United
Americans United: Bush Endorsement Of 'Intelligent Design' In Public Schools Is Irresponsible, Says Americans United: "President George W. Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent design” in the public schools is irresponsible and undermines sound science education, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State."
The New York Times> Search> Abstract
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HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: "Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries"
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Open letter to Kansas School Board
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Open letter to Kansas School Board: "I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. "
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Open letter to Kansas School Board
AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: Open letter to Kansas School Board: "I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. "
Christian agenda worries other faiths | LJWorld.com
AlterNet: Having Fun With Intelligent Design
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
AlterNet: Having Fun With Intelligent Design
AlterNet: Having Fun With Intelligent Design: "I have just three words for biology teachers who are wringing their hands as school boards from Kansas to Pennsylvania force them to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution: Get over it.
Here's what I think. Science teachers can comply with the requirement and still offer their students a first-rate education. If done with imagination, the new curriculum could end up stimulating more learning and excitement than their traditional explication of Darwinian theory."
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
York Dispatch Online - LETTERS
York Dispatch Online - LETTERS: "Article Last Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 11:04:27 AM EST
Creationism a topic of philosophy
The teaching of creationism or intelligent design in public high schools does not violate the First Amendment's requirement of separation of church and state.
Students should have a full education about the theories and philosophies that exist concerning the earth's existence. However, intelligent design is not a scientific theory and therefore does not belong in the science classroom. It is a religious theory and should be treated as such; that is, taught in a philosophy or world religion class."
School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? - New York Times
School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? - New York Times: "While this argument may seem strange, Lemaître was grasping something that is missed in the current public debates about evolution. The Big Bang is not a metaphysical theory, but a scientific one: namely one that derives from equations that have been measured to describe the universe, and that makes predictions that one can test.
It is certainly true that one can reflect on the existence of the Big Bang to validate the notion of creation, and with that the notion of God. But such a metaphysical speculation lies outside of the theory itself."
Evolution Dominates Campaign in Pa. Town
Evolution Dominates Campaign in Pa. Town: "By MARTHA RAFFAELE, Associated Press Writer
May 16, 2005 0516AP-EVOLUTION-DEB
DOVER, Pa. (AP) - On opposite sides of town, two billboards for competing slates of school board candidates illustrate the deep divide here over the teaching of evolution and the origin of life.
One sign shouts, 'It's time for a new school board in Dover!'' The other describes the seven sitting board members as 'the INTELLIGENT choice'' - a reference to the board's decision last fall to require the mention of 'intelligent design'' in class."
LJWorld.com : Christian agenda worries other faiths
By Jim Baker, Journal-World
Thursday, May 12, 2005
It is conservative Christians on the State Board of Education who are sitting today in judgment of evolution instruction in Kansas schools."
In this article some other religions get a voice in the debate.
Monday, May 09, 2005
AAAS - History and Archives
The American Association for the Advancement of Science deplores the recent decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to remove references to evolution and cosmology from its state education standards and assessments, thereby making central principles for the scientific understanding of the universe and its history optional subjects for science education. "
AAAS - AAAS News Release
AAAS - AAAS News Release: "AAAS on Monday declined an invitation from the Kansas Board of Education to appear at a May hearing on teaching evolution in public schools after concluding that the event is likely to sow confusion rather than understanding among the public."
AP Wire | 05/08/2005 | A look at hearings on evolution
AP Wire | 05/08/2005 | A look at hearings on evolution: "A look at hearings on evolution
Associated Press
THE HEARINGS: A three-member subcommittee of the State Board of Education is taking testimony on how evolution should be taught."
News-Leader.com | Columnists | Robert Leger | Kansas hearings aren't about science
News-Leader.com | Columnists | Robert Leger | Kansas hearings aren't about science: "The hearings that began in Topeka last week to decide how evolution should be taught have nothing to do with science."
Sunday, May 08, 2005
INLS 224, Our Reflections on the Project
Haley Hall
May 9, 2005
The use of Blogger software was chosen for a number of reasons. First, due to our lack of familiarity with blogs, it was by far one of the easiest to get up and running. A basic template was chosen, and Michael worked to customize it for the purposes of the project. This has been an ongoing project as it has taken a considerable amount of time to understand what all of the possible settings mean. Some technical difficulties arose throughout the course of the project. At one point, the sidebar was displaying at the very bottom of the blog, below the entries, in Internet Explorer. This appeared to be due to a flaw in Internet Explorer, as this problem did not occur in standards based browsers. The other reason Blogger was chosen is because of our goal of resource creation. We thought that because Google owns Blogger, our resource would be indexed better by Google and thus accessible to a wider audience. Blogger also allows the option of building a Google search bar into the blog, thus allowing for local search. We thought this feature would greatly expand the functionality of our blog as a reference resource. The RSS feed for the blog has been turned on. This will allow a regular reader to get updates as new posts are created. We thought this would be an important feature for a researcher.
One of our initial hopes was that we would be able to abstract from our work patterns of research that developed over time. One particular area we look back on is how we used this medium to collaborate. At first, we didn’t use the comment feature very much. Instead, we added comments to new posts. Because of the reverse chronological order of the entries, this method worked well when we only had a few entries. However, as the blog began to grow, we began to use the comment feature much more extensively because it would have been very confusing to follow our strands of thought and research otherwise. Furthermore, the commenting feature made it very easy to build upon what was already created. Many of our later comments were also used as a way of cross-referencing earlier posts to later posts. As the blog grows, this cross-referencing will make it much easier for a researcher to locate quickly all posts related to one strand of research.
Another thing that we noticed is that we each began by stating our backgrounds with the topic. This proved very useful for understanding each others approach to the project. This medium made it particularly easy to share our backgrounds because it was very easy to point to outside articles and websites that demonstrated what we are already familiar with.
One last point we think is particularly interesting is our writing styles. Haley maintained a relatively casual style throughout the project. On the other hand, Michael gradually became more formal as the project progressed. He did this for two reasons. First, during the course of the project, Michael became increasingly concerned with the way that blogs are preventing people from getting and maintaining jobs. This definitely effected how much opinion went into his later posts. The other reason that he became more formal is the recent debate within the library and information science community over the legitimacy of blogs as a tool of the trade. This debate came to the forefront of the community’s attention with the publication of an editorial by the President-elect of the American Library Association Michael Gorman. This opinion piece was highly critical of blogs and the people that make them. By becoming more formal in citations and writing style, it was Michael Habib’s hope that this project could help demonstrate the value of this medium as a tool of the library profession.
By focusing primarily on reference sources, we have developed a good understanding of what disciplines creation is studied in and in what way it enters the discourse of these various disciplines. This should lay a solid foundation for a more in depth analysis of the topic. Eventually, it was determined that in many ways, the topic of creation is only marginally covered by many disciplines in the social sciences. The aforementioned debate between Creationists and Evolutionists has caused the majority of the discourse to focus on a Christian Fundamentalist view of creation. By determining this, we have been able to set a clear direction for future work, and lay a solid foundation for the continued development of this reference tool.
To conclude, we would like to mention one feature that we would eventually like to incorporate into the resource. Many blogs have a feature where posters can add descriptive tags to each post. We are not sure if this feature is available in Blogger, but, if possible, this would add a much more robust human indexing system to the tool. Such a method would also be much less time intensive than the current method of cross-referencing through the comments. Other future directions of collection development are written into the blog.
The Blog is Now Public
What next?
Disappointing Findings in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Texts
I Couldn't Quite Pull Myself Away From the Q's
One mention of creationism: In 1898 the french nauralist Antonio Snider-Pellegrini published Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled in which he explained the formation of the continents using the biblical account of creation (p. 165).
Magic Universe: the Oxford Guide to Modern Science Call Number: Q125 .C275 2003
This one talks about the debate and explicately states that "neo-Darwinists" have largely hijacked evolution as an atheist concept by oversimplifying the theory to natural selection, thus framing the debate as either or. This is by far the most concise and to the point article that I have yet found stating this one of the major problems evolution as a theory faces. It is good to see it mentioned so clearly (p. 274-275).
Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abduction to Zone Therapy Call Number: Q157 .E57 2000
Includes entries for Cosmologies, variant; Creation Research Society (mentioned in almost all I have looked at); Creation Science; Creative Evolution; and so on...
"Cosmologies, variant" discusses creation myths. It gives a brief overview of some of the characteristics similar to most creation accounts and mentions some of the key variations and then concludes with a discussion of sciences slow entry into the study of cosmology. It doesn't state an opinion, but just the facts. (p. 60-61)
"Creative evolution" is discussed in the entry on Henri Bergson as that is the title of a book where he challenged the ability of "natural selection" to be the only driving force in evolution. It then says that scientists have debunked his theories and that "natural selection" is in fact king. The authors of this entry should have looked at the Magic Universe, because that certainly tells a different story. (p. 30)
Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery v.7 (1950-Present) Call Number: Q175.46 S35 2000 v.7
The entry us titled "Evolution and Creationism in American Public Schools." I wonder if the volumes covering early time periods mention in more detail some of the historical debates uncovered in the chronologies above. In the future, that might be worth looking into. (p. 80-83)
Social Issues in Science and Technology Call Number: Q 175.5 N49 1999
Only has an entry on "Creationism" and discusses the same old political stuff (p. 48-51).
Creation/Teaching Descriptor in Education Full Text - first 100 citations
Cook, G. Evolution or intelligent design? Science and faith meet school policy. The American School Board Journal v. 192 no. 4 (April 2005) p. 8, 10-11
Phillips, S. Darwin in danger of extinction. The Times Educational Supplement no. 4626 (March 18 2005) p. 20
Klein, J.G., et. al., Rigid and Dogmatic [Discussion of 'One nation, under the designer,' by Mark Terry]. Phi Delta Kappan v. 86 no. 7 (March 2005) p. 559-61"
CQ Researcher article on "Evolution vs. Creationism"
This article has an a good bibliography and strives to cover both sides of the issues. I figured that I might as well find a few articles that are from an outright political perspective.
Saturday, May 07, 2005
A More Promising Approach in a Scientific Work
"Intelligent Design" Suspiciously Absent from Scientific Critique
The Beginnings of Our Research
here's a little info i got yesterday about our topic. It's mostly preliminary ish, like finding words/phrases that work and publications that have some leading info in them.
Some related words -
creationism, mythology, cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogenesis, mythosgenesis
People mentioned -
Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell
Publications -
Encyclopedia of Religion
} These have had the most so far in my search Mythology of All Races Key Ideas in Human Thought Dictionary of Ethics, Theology, and Society Dictionary of Ideas
It's not the most detailed info I could sent you but it's a start.
Haley
Our Full Initial Proposal For the Project
Creation myths in society, Thu 3/3/2005 7:46 PM
Fellow classmates and Dr. Carr,
Haley and I will be studying the topic of creation across the social sciences and humanities. At this point, we plan to begin with a two pronged approach. First we will be exploring the idea of creation from the perspective of religion, mythology, philosophy and literature; and second we will be exploring the place of creation theory in social and political discourse. It is our hope that these strands will cross one another frequently as the religious theory adapts to outside pressures. By following this method we hope to see the development, and possibly evolution, of creation theory throughout human history. For example, the recent push to teach theories of “intelligent design” as alternatives to the theory of evolution demonstrates how the language of creation has changed in accord with the political and social climate. Thus, one clue we will be observant for is changes in the language of creation. Looking at different cultures may also uncover important clues as we compare the symbols and metaphors used by different cultures. Of course, as we pursue this study, what we discover may be different from our initial assumptions. At least at first, we will be working exclusively with the print reference collections in
Sincerely,
Michael and Haley
The e-mail that gave us the idea to collaborate using a blog
Habib,
I have an idea about how we can turn our project in for 224. It would basically be like a log or diary (for lack of a better term) about our experience while looking through resources. It would be done day by day, or an entry for each time we did some work for the project. Documented would be our experiences, what questions came up, our thoughts and so on... Also, there could be information about what either of us wanted to show or explain to the other, what we found together, and why we think something we found is important or relevant to our subject. Experiences could be documented separately and together making it so we don't always have to be in ref at the same time. And as a supplement, we could turn in the database melissa sent out over the listserv. What do you think??
Haley
A local example from before the blog was up
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:50:16 -0500
Subject: [IFACTION:9974] An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
To: Intellectual Freedom Action News
Church-state lesson learned
School admits it crossed line. By KRISTIN COLLINS, Staff Writer
A fifth-grader's family is suing the Cumberland County school
system because her teacher used a Christian text that preached
creationism and encouraged children to proselytize for Jesus.
For the complete story ...
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Yet Again Creationism is the only Mention of Creation
Creation in the LC Q's (Science)
Creationism is a see reference to Evolution -->
Evolution entry has a subheading "Evolution versus fundementalism and "creation science":
Again, this entry focuses exclusively on the one version of creation that has set itself in political opposition to evolution. In fact, the political and legal controversy over the teaching of evolution in American public schools is the only thing discussed. No other accounts are mentioned at all accept for in a discussion of a court case where it was mentioned that fundementalist "creation science" was only one particular religions view on the creation of the world. Apart from this aside however, this article certainly fails to recognize creation as existing outide of this particular debate.
Comparing Creationism Entries in Two Encyclopedias of Evolution
Encyclopedia of Evolution Call Number QH360.2 .E54 2002
The entry on Creationism focuses on whether Creationism is neccessarily opposed to the scientific evidence in support of evolution. It discusses creationism only as it occurs in the Bible or Koran. It points out that believers in "Quick Creation" are opposed to science, but that proponents of "Progressive Creation" and "Gradual Creation" have no conflict with evololution. The article includes a bulleted list of scienctific evidence and frames the conversation around those. Clearly from a scientific perspective.
From an anthopological perspective (Haley showed this one to me)
Encyclopedia of Evolution: Humanities Search for Its Origins Call Number GN281. M53 1990
The entry "Creationism: History of Belief" is entirely focused on Christian creationism. It discusses the variant forms brielfy, but focuses on the Fundementalist version of Creationism, fixity of species and "Quick Creation", and its conflict with evolutionists.
Both
Focus on Christian creation almost entirely. It appears that both entries were written as a direct result of political pressures brough on by the Fundementalist attack on evolution. It would have been nice had either one pointed out how many creation accounts from various cultures are related to theories of evolution. Surprisingly, the scientific encyclopedia gave a much more well rounded discussion than the anthopological one.
Chronologies of World History Ignore the True Beginnings
1. By focusing on human history, it ignores the big picture and makes it hard for a history scholar to step back and see the intracicies relationship with his world. There is a small but growing trend to study "Big History" which looks at history from an all inclusive perspective. A book I read recently Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land by Denis Wood, argued for just such a reorientation of the way we study history. Notice he started with 5 billion years ago, while the chronologies of world history in Davis only looked at 250,000 at the most.
2. By starting histories of the world by mentioning the earliest human fossils and artifacts that have been found, an even greater disservice is done in ignoring how these peoples and most of the world's current population view their histories. A recent survey pointed out that in American alone, over half of students entering college still believe that man was formed in more or less his present form about 9,000 years ago. Even if history were a science, which it is not, it chronologies such as these ignore a great deal of human history as it has been understood until the breakthroughs of Darwin and modern science. Wood's book mentions that as a history, he is telling a story and he starts his explicetly from the beggining with the Big Bang. He mentions that his is the account of the world from a scientific perspective and that there are of course alternates.
The chronologies in question are located between LC Call Numbers D9-D11
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Hit and Run - Libertarians blog about Sundays BC comic strip
You'll be relieved to learn that Sunday's B.C., which took on Charles Darwin in some of the most arrythmic rhyming verse ever carved in stone, was not dropped by any of the comic strip's 1,200 client newspapers. 'Anyone who runs 'B.C.' at this point knows Johnny Hart's philosophy, so I don't think anyone was surprised,' Creators Syndicate president Rick Newcombe tells Editor And Publisher. Complaints about the strip have been few and far between."
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Boston Globe article via Arts & Letters Daily
Evolutionary war
"In the ongoing struggle between evolution and creationism, says philosopher of science Michael Ruse, Darwinians may be their own worst enemySunday, April 03, 2005
Not Intelligent, and Surely Not Science
Not Intelligent, and Surely Not Science: "In fact, invoking intelligent design as God's place-filler can only result in the naturalization of the deity. God becomes just another part of the natural world, and thereby loses the transcendent mystery and divinity that define the boundary between religion and science."
Current plans
Before I do this however, I want to finish up recording my background with this topic. J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories" and his book The Silmarillion. are a literary theory partially based in the idea of creation, and an implementation of this theory. The Silmarillion is one of the most in depth stories of creation written in recent history. The Silmarillion is available at any decent library, and "On Fairy Stories" can be found in The Tolkien Reader:
Title : The Tolkien reader, by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Author : Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Publisher : New York, Ballantine Books [1966]
Edition : [1st ed.]
Description : 1 v. (various pagings) illus. 18 cm.
Contents : Tolkien's magic ring [by P. Beagle]--The Homecoming of Beorhtaoth,
Beorhthelm's son.--Tree and leaf.--Farmer Giles of Ham.--The adventures of Tom Bombadil.
OCLC No. : 00309963
Location : Davis, Call Number : PR6039.O32 T6
Location : UL, Call Number : PR6039.O32 T6
The day Joan taught class, I looked these topics up in the MLA and some other databases. The best hits came from the MLA. Some of those appear below:
The search: silmarillion and creation in the database(s) MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02, MLA Bibliography 1981-1993, MLA Bibliography 1963-1980 returned 7 records
Those records that appear relevant to the topic of creation are:
Record 1 of 7 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: 'Ainulindale': Tolkien's Commitment to an Aesthetic Ontology
AU: Collins,-Robert-A.
SO: Journal-of-the-Fantastic-in-the-Arts (JFA). 2000; 11(3 (43)): 257-65
AN: 2001270091
Record 2 of 7 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Tolkien's Creation Myth in The Silmarillion: Northern or Not?
AU: Gough,-John
SO: Children'-s-Literature-in-Education (CLE). 1999 Mar; 30(1): 1-8
AN: 1999028365
Record 3 of 7 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: The Mythology of the 'Ainulindale': Tolkien's Creation of Hope
AU: Whittingham,-Elizabeth-A.
SO: Journal-of-the-Fantastic-in-the-Arts (JFA). 1998; 9(3 (35)): 212-28
AN: 1998005915
Record 4 of 7 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Augustine and the Ainulindale
AU: Houghton,-John
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and
-the-Genres-of-Myth-and-Fantasy-Stu (Mythlore). 1995 Summer; 21(1 (79)): 4-8
AN: 1995032236
Record 5 of 7 in MLA Bibliography 1981-1993
TI: Tolkien's World-Creation: Degenerative Recurrence
AU: Evans,-Robley
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and
-the-Genres-of-Myth-and-Fantasy-Stu (Mythlore). 1987 Autumn; 14(1 (51)): 5-8, 47
AN: 1989023130
Record 7 of 7 in MLA Bibliography 1981-1993
TI: The Ainulindale: Music of Creation
AU: Davis,-Howard
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and
-the-Genres-of-Myth-and-Fantasy-Stu (Mythlore). 1982 Summer; 9(2 (32)): 6-8
AN: 1982027747
The search: On-Fairy-Stories in DE in the database(s) MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02, MLA Bibliography 1981-1993, MLA Bibliography 1963-1980 returned 23 records
Those records that appear relevant to the topic of creation are:
Record 3 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Magic vs. Enchantment
AU: Curry,-Patrick
SO: Mallorn:-The-Journal-of-the-Tolkien-Society (Mallorn). 2001 Jan; 38: 5-10
AN: 2001701754
Record 4 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Is Man a Myth? Mere Christian Perspectives on the Human
AU: Williams,-Donald-T.
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and-Mythopoeic-Literature (MythloreJ). 2000 Summer-Fall; 23(1 (87)): 4-19
AN: 2000025648
Record 5 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Meeting Morgan le Fay: J. R. R. Tolkien's Theory of Subcreation and the Secondary World of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
AU: Adderley,-C.-M.
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and -Mythopoeic-Literature (MythloreJ). 2000 Spring; 22(4 (86)): 48-58
AN: 2000004924
Record 6 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Fantasy and Reality: J. R. R. Tolkien's World and the Fairy-Story Essay
AU: Flieger,-Verlyn
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and -Mythopoeic-Literature (MythloreJ). 1999 Winter; 22(3 (85)): 4-13
AN: 2000004902
Record 7 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: 'Leaf by Niggle': The Worth of the Work
AU: Manganiello,-Dominic
SO: English-Studies-in-Canada (ESC). 1998 June; 24(2): 121-37
AN: 1999059396
Record 11 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Sub-Creation in William Golding's The Inheritors
AU: Timmons,-Daniel
SO: English-Studies-in-Canada (ESC). 1996 Dec; 22(4): 399-412
AN: 1996068002
Record 12 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1994-2005/02
TI: Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? New Perspectives on Tolkien's Theological Dilemma and His Sub-Creation Theory
AU: Agoy,-Nils-Ivar
SO: Mythlore:-A-Journal-of-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien,-C.-S.-Lewis,-Charles-Williams,-and-the-Genres-of-Myth-and-Fantasy-Stu (Mythlore). 1996 Winter; (1995); 21; 33(2(80)): 31-38
AN: 1996027398
Record 18 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1981-1993
TI: Dynamic Metahistory and the Model of Christopher Dawson
AU: Ryan,-J.-S.
SO: Minas-Tirith-Evening-Star:-Journal-of-the-American-Tolkien-Society. 1989 Fall; 18(3): 10-14
AN: 1990025953
Record 23 of 23 in MLA Bibliography 1981-1993
TI: Folktale, Fairy Tale, and the Creation of a Story
AU: Ryan,-J.-S.
PB: 19-39 IN Isaacs,-Neil-D. (ed.); Zimbardo,-Rose-A. (ed.). Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives. Lexington : UP of Kentucky, 1981. vii, 175 pp.
AN: 1981000655
George Moses Horton, 1798?-ca. 1880. The Hope of Liberty. Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces
George Moses Horton, 1798?-ca. 1880. The Hope of Liberty. Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces: "PRAISE OF CREATION.
Creation fires my tongue!
Nature thy anthems raise;
And spread the universal song
Of thy Creator's praise! (p. 5)"
James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938, Aaron Douglas, Illustrated by, and C. B. Falls (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960, Illustrated by. God's Trombones. Seven N
James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938, Aaron Douglas, Illustrated by, and C. B. Falls (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960, Illustrated by. God's Trombones. Seven Negro Sermons in Verse: "The Creation
And God stepped out on space,
And he looked around and said:
I'm lonely --
I'll make me a world. (p. 17)"
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Creation belief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Creation belief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Many creation beliefs share broadly similar themes. Common motifs include the fractionation of the things of the world from a primordial chaos; the separation of the mother and father gods; land emerging from an infinite and timeless ocean; and so on."
Creationism - CreationWiki
I guess there are two types of creationism. I had come up against the young earth terminology before, but I never new what it meant. This is a fairly straightforward distinction and clears up a lot of what I was confused about. I was never quite sure why someone could be denied the title creationist if they believed the Big Bang was an act of creation. According to this distinction, that could fall under "Old Earth" creationism. My guess is that this is a term mostly used by the "Young Earth" creationists.
Creationism - CreationWiki: " There are two broad perspectives of creationism known as young earth, and old-earth.
* The Young earth creationism (YEC) perspective results from a literal interpretation of the history of the early earth in Genesis, and the Islamic Qur'an, which both contain nearly parallel accounts of a six-day creation, Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and Noah's flood.
* The Old earth creationism (OEC) perspective accepts the secular scientific community's assessment of the age of the earth and universe, and assumes the creation periods were undefined lengths of time or there were large gaps of history in Genesis"
Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Perspectives: Origins and Creation
Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Perspectives: Origins and Creation
While it only seems to cover Christianity, it is interesting to look at the number of sites devoted to different issues.
Amazon.com: Books: Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology
Amazon.com: Books: Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology: "Product Description:
The most comprehensive text in its field, this anthology includes over 70 articles in 10 areas of philosophy of religion: Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God, Religious Experience, The Problem of Evil, The Attributes of God, Miracles and Revelation, Death and Immortality, Faith and Reason, Religious Pluralism, and Ethics and Religion. "
The current pseudo-debate among scientists
Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine: "evolution: science and belief
Intelligent Design?
a special report reprinted from
Natural History magazine"
I saw one of these creation proponents, Michael J. Behe, speak at Boston College when he was on a book tour in 1998 or 1999. At that talk, he was relatively unsuccesful in his attempts to convince a room full of Catholic Priests that his argument is scientificly valid. You could tell that some of them wanted to believe, but just couldn't because the science was so weak.
Amazon.com: Books: DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION: "But he thinks that the essential randomness of this process can explain evolutionary development only at the macro level, not at the micro level of his expertise. Within the biochemistry of living cells, he argues, life is 'irreducibly complex.'"
The origins of Intelligent Design in the Teleological Argument
1. The current dialogue within society.
2. My background in philosophy.
3. How these too strands relate and demonstrate the evolution of how creation is discussed.
I am considering all of this background research. Before I pursue new directions, I feel it is important to articulate my current perspective.
Paley's formulation of the teleological argument:
Paley's formulation of the teleological argument: "But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for anything I knew the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone?"
David Hume on the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments
David Hume on the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments: "The Dialogues are considered by many to have provided a definitive critique of the argument from design."
Online NewsHour: Teachers, Parents Grapple with Evolution-Creationism Debate -- March 28, 2005
Online NewsHour: Teachers, Parents Grapple with Evolution-Creationism Debate -- March 28, 2005: "CREATION CONFLICT IN SCHOOLS
March 28, 2005
Correspondent Jeffrey Brown investigates how some biology teachers are handling the hot button debate over the theory of evolution, creationism and intelligent design."
THE SPEAKING TREE: Rites of passage and beyond - The Times of India
THE SPEAKING TREE: Rites of passage and beyond - The Times of India: "The Creation story narrates how Mahavishnu stayed afloat on a banyan leaf after the Great Deluge. He was the only survivor, and hence is known as Seshan. He then created Brahmn to help him recreate the 86,000 species inclu-ding humans. Srishti-karta Narayanan is known as the protector of all species.
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Teens & creation/evolution: Most see God's handiwork - (BP)
Teens & creation/evolution: Most see God's handiwork - (BP): "The poll of 1,028 teenagers ages 13-17 found that 38 percent don't believe in evolution, believing instead that 'God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.' Another 43 percent believe that humans 'developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided' the process. All total, 81 percent believe that God was somehow involved."
I have also noticed that the IMAX film about Volcanoes is, after much debate, going to be shown in Charlotte.
Charlotte Observer
The Observer | International | Creationists take their fight to the really big screen
The Observer | International | Creationists take their fight to the really big screen
The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Censorship in the Science Museums
The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Censorship in the Science Museums
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Creation Accounts and Descriptions at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/world-creating.html
It is part of an exhibit on beginnings through World Treasures of the Library of Congress. It covers every major world religion and some not so major.