Studies and Issues index
| From the
National section of the New York Times, January 16, 2005: The Rev. Warren Eshbach, an adjunct professor at Lutheran Theological Seminary in nearby Gettysburg and the father of Robert Eshbach, the science teacher, warned at board meetings about how divisive the issue might prove. Like many fellow Dover residents, he said the biblical account of the origins of humanity should be taught in a comparative religion class, not a biology class. "Science is figuring out what God has already done," Mr. Eshbach said. "But I don't think Genesis 1 to 11 was ever meant to be a science textbook for the 21st century." |
Adjunct faculty member,
the Rev. Dr. Warren Eshbach, provides theological perspective to Dover, PA
intelligent design controversy.
Eshbach's statement for a press conference in Nov
2004, Harrisburg
Lecture/presentation to ACLU at State College, PA
Radio Explores Interview, 2005
listen
online
A brief annotated bibliography for
intelligent design awareness.
Other Resources:
Column "Designs
of the Times" by Richard A. Rosengarten
for
Sightings (Martin Marty Center)
Pew Center for Religion and American
Life
on
Intelligent Design
J-Term Course Syllabus offered by Dr.
Leonard Hummel
God, Evolution, Intelligent Design and
Dover, PA: A Practical Theology
An Alternative to Evolution Splits a Pennsylvania Town
|
OVER,
Pa. - Ever since the school board here voted to make this town in
Pennsylvania Dutch country the first in the nation to discuss an
alternative to evolution in high school biology classes, students
have been as sharply divided as the rest of this normally close-knit
community. NATIONAL
DESK |
December 15, 2004, Wednesday
By NEELA BANERJEE (NYT)
490 words
Late Edition - Final ,
Section A , Page 31 , Column 3
ABSTRACT
- American Civil Liberties Union
and Americans United for Separation of Church and State sue Dover, Pa,
school board charging it violated religious rights of several parents and
students by requiring teaching of alterntive theory to evolution in public
schools, federal court; Dover is apparently nation's first school district
to require high school biology teachers to offer alternative theory, known
as intelligent design; critics say intelligent design is watered-down
version of creationism, which Supreme Court has already repudiated in public
schools (M)
