This set of resources is this site's archive for the Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District federal court case sometimes called "Scopes II" or the "Dover Panda Trial" by the media. At stake was a pro-intelligent design school board policy and the book Of Pandas and People that first introduced the term "intelligent design" as meaning a specific field of inquiry rather than incidental use as a descriptive term.
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Mr Venter said he had carried out an ethical review before completing the experiment. "We feel that this is good science," he said. He has further heightened the controversy surrounding his potential breakthrough by applying for a patent for the synthetic bacterium.
Pat Mooney, director of a Canadian bioethics organisation, ETC group, said the move was an enormous challenge to society to debate the risks involved. "Governments, and society in general, is way behind the ball. This is a wake-up call - what does it mean to create new life forms in a test-tube?"
He said Mr Venter was creating a "chassis on which you could build almost anything. It could be a contribution to humanity such as new drugs or a huge threat to humanity such as bio-weapons".
Tags: Craig Venter, Bioethics, Pat Mooney
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The Florida Department of Education Web site was flooded with comments after the Feb. 19 vote was announced, and many of the messages denounced the required teaching of evolution, which the proposed standards describe as the "fundamental concept underlying all of biology," which is "supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence," the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Monday.
"I have no problem with them hearing about evolution. I just don't want them to hear a one-sided fact," said LeVon Pettis, a Panhandle, Fla., father who said he may put his daughters in private school if the standards are adopted. "If you're going to teach evolution, then also throw in creationism and intelligent design."
Tags: Creationism, ID, Intelligent Design
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Dawkins and Vinter discuss open source biology, sexual reproduction and genetic information transfer. Dawkins, once again, sets a new standard for life as a pure form of information.
LONDON - British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases
