On October 21st, the American Enterprise Institute sponsored a
forum on the issue of teaching Intelligent Design in the public
schools. C-Span has Real Media videos of all three sessions
available to view online at least through the first or second
week of November. I haven't watched them all yet as they total
about 5 hours of video but I have heard it was a good event for
supporters of Evolution.
On October 21st, the American Enterprise Institute sponsored a forum
on the issue of teaching Intelligent Design in the public schools. It
started with a debate on the "science" of Intelligent Design (ID)
with Prof. Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute and Prof. Ken
Miller of Brown University. Both men appeared as witnesses in the
Dover ID case that is going on through early November.
The second part had a priest, Father George Coyne, gave the Vatican
perspective on the issue of Evolution and ID and science. To sum that
up - the church shifted from past statements that said natural
selection was compatible with religion to now it isn't. (YAWN!!)
The final part was a keynote speech by Dr. Lawrence Kraus from Case
Western Reserve University who has been active in defending the
school science programs from ID.
Miller and Kraus debated the Discovery Institute at a forum in 2002
in front of the Ohio State Board of Education when the issue or
allowing ID into the schools came up here.