Session M50: Intelligent Design: Its Impact and Responses to It
7:30 PM–10:00 PM, Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Marriot Waterfront Hotel Room: Grand Salon V
Sponsoring Unit:
FPS
Chair: Robert Eisenstein
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.MAR.M50.3
Abstract: M50.00003 : APS Activities with Other Professional Societies
8:30 PM–9:00 PM
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Author:
Francis Slakey
(American Physical Society)
In 1981, the APS Council issued a statement that opposed ``equal time'' presentation in public school science classes of creationism and evolution. The statement clarified that ``Scientific inquiry and religious beliefs are two distinct elements of the human experience. Attempts to present them in the same context can only lead to misunderstandings of both.'' The APS Council revisited the issue in 1999 when a school board in Kansas attempted to eliminate the Big Bang, among other issues, from the science curriculum. Since that time, the APS has been more directly involved in confronting efforts that would dilute the teaching of science in public school science classes. This talk will review the APS activities and describe a developing multi-science society activity.
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