Stand up for evolution

You may be interested in this recent free Evolution & Development editorial, an excerpt from which follows:

There have been many reports in the press of attempts in small American towns and in states like Pennsylvania to force the teaching of an alternative to evolution in public school biology classes. Efforts to promote creationism are hardly new in US public education. However, creationists have expanded the scope of their activities even further. The refusals of IMAX theaters in public science museums to show science documentaries that take an evolutionary position is something new, as is the sale of a book in National Park bookshops that presents a creationist interpretation of the Grand Canyon as formed in Noah’s flood. There are also a couple of important novel occurrences that indicate that creationism is being more aggressively pushed. These may come to impact not only science teaching in public schools, but even in the universities, which have till now remained relatively immune…