Darwin and Creationism on the Web

Resources for HUHC 020G (Spring 2009)

Professor Daniel Martin Varisco

Last Update 1/24/09

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NOTE: THIS IS A GUIDE TO LINKS, BUT NOT NECESSARILY AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SITES LISTED. USE YOUR DISCRETION AND YOUR BRAIN WHEN VIEWING.

Background to Darwin

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck http://www.victorianweb.org/science/lamarck1.html

• Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/LAMARCK/tofc.htm

• Lyell, Charles, Principles of Geology http://www.esp.org/books/lyell/principles/facsimile/title3.html

• Paley, Bishop William, Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

• People Who Influenced Darwin http://www.aboutdarwin.com/people/people_01.html

• The Alfred Russel Wallace Webpage http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/index1.htm

• Wallace, Alfred Russel, "ON THE LAW WHICH HAS REGULATED THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW SPECIES" (1855)

Darwin

• About Darwin http://www.aboutdarwin.com/

• Darwinism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/

• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html#books [This is an incredible resource, discussing and showing the original texts.

• Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871

• Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859 http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html [For Thomas Huxley's 1859 review of this work, go to http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/UnColl/Rdetc/T&L.html]

• Was Darwin a Christian? Did he believe in God? Did he recant evolutionism when he died? [Note: this is a Christian creationist website] http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/darwin.html

 

Huxley-Wilberforce Debate

• 1860 Oxford evolution debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate

• "Update: The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate" (Colin Gauld ) http://www1.umn.edu/ships/updates/wilbrfrz.htm

• "Wilberforce and Huxley: A Legendary Encounter" (J. R. LUCAS) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/legend.html

• The Huxley File http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/ [Online study of the work of Huxley's work, including the debate]

Scopes Trial

• American Experience: Monkey Trial (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/

• H.L. Mencken "THE MONKEY TRIAL" http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menk.htm

• "Inherit the Wind": A Hollywood History of the Scopes Trial (David N. Menton) http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/wind.htm

• The Truth About Inherit the Wind (Carol Iannone) http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9702/iannone.html [Fundamentalist view.]

• Scopes Trial Home Page http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

Creationism Sites

• Creation Evidence Museum http://www.creationevidence.org

• The Creation Evolution Encyclopedia http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Index.htm

• Creation Social Science and Humanities Quarterly (since 1977) http://www.creationism.org/csshs/index.htm

• Creationism.org http://www.creationism.org/ [This is a mega-site, with links to materials in many languages.]

• Darwinism Refuted (Harun Yahya) http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/ [This is a site put out by a Turkish Muslim who borrows from Christian fundamentalist anti-evolution material.]

Dr. Hovind's $250,000 Offer http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=articles&specific=15 [If you can prove that evolution is scientific, you can win $250,000. Hre's a way to pay your way through grad school. Or you can just go for $10,000 at http://www.intelligentdesignversusevolution.com/arguments.html]

• Handy Dandy Evolution Refuter http://www.parentcompany.com/handy_dandy/hdertoc.htm

• Institute for Creation Research http://www.icr.org/

• Socrates Meets Darwin: A Study in Question Begging (Gary Colwell) http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/33/33_2a.html

Intelligent Design (ID) Sites

• Intelligent Design Network http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/

• Intelligent Design.org http://www.intelligentdesign.org/

• Intelligent Design vs. Evolution http://www.intelligentdesignversusevolution.com/

• Judgment Day -- Intelligent Design on Trial (Nova Nov. 29, 2007) online video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-XXXXXXXXXXXX200911

Refutation of Creationism and ID Sites

• Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://www.venganza.org/ [Satirical site.]

• Creationism http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/science/creationism/index.shtml

• An Index to Creationist Claims [scientific response] http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/

• Intelligent Design (The Skeptic's Dictionary) http://skepdic.com/intelligentdesign.html

• "Intelligent Design" Not Accepted by Most Scientists (National Center for Science Education, 2002) http://ncseweb.org/creationism/general/intelligent-design-not-accepted-by-most-scientists

• Intelligent Design Creationism: Fraudulent Science, Bad Philosophy http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/creation.htm

• The Talk Origins Archives http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/other-links.html

Evolutionary Theory and Human Origins Today

• Becoming Human http://www.becominghuman.org/

• Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/

• Hall of Human Evolution, American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/?src=kf_h&gclid=COeD9pTVp5gCFQ7aDAodlVFjlQ

• Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D Edward Hagen http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/

• Understanding Evolution http://evolution.berkeley.edu/