Fending off Furtive Strategists

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Evolution and Creationism in Science: 1880–2000

“…The Kansas move brought immediate response in the form of an editorial whose authors found two troubling aspects of the situation (Hanson and Bloom 1999). Creationists were changing tactics-rather than attempting to teach creationism as science, they were undermining acceptance of evolution and cosmology.…”

Preface: A Millennial View of Ecology and Systematics, andARESat Age 30

“…Earlier developments were indifferent, which is true for much early science. For most of the past thousand years in the West (even currently in some intellectual deserts) the supernatural, magic, and superstition were more important than science (6,17). Significantly, theology was long considered to be a fundamental part of science, with all other sciences generally subordinate to it (17).…”