'Judgment Day'

A beautifully researched and fairly presented Nova documentary on PBS portrays the struggle between evolution and intelligent design (you'll see in the documentary that intelligent design = creationism) in a small Pennsylvania town after the school board required that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to evolution in the town's schools.

The trial that ensued and the arguments brought forth by either side are all included in this documentary, a must see for people on both sides of the debate. As I said, it is a fair portrayal of either side, with judgment or condemnation for neither.

Reconciling Creationism & Evolution?

This is what Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God, attempts to do in an editorial in The New York Times.

His proposals for a middle ground, albeit sensible, are too cloy and reconciliatory. I continue to believe that evolution and creationism are mutually exclusive and that middle ground between the two of them is no ground at all. These attempts to give credence and authority to an unscientific theory like creationism cause the greatest harm to our nation's educational system, the trenches and the front line of this war that is still being waged, eighty-four years after the Scopes Trial.