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Evolution
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Richard Dawkins on Evolution
Kahn Academy: Introduction to Evolution and Natural Solution
Humanist Views: Humanism and Evolution
What Does This Topic Have to Do With Humanism?
The battle between evolution and creationism is one of the most active debates between non-theists and theists. Humanists, because of their strong belief in science and reason, fall firmly in the evolution camp.Help Evolve This Page
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From Wikipedia
"Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins."
Anti-evolution and anti-climate science bills laid bare (NCSE)Richard Dawkins on Evolution
Kahn Academy: Introduction to Evolution and Natural Solution
Humanist Views: Humanism and Evolution
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UC Berkeley - Understanding Evolution
"Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time."
National Science and Education Center
"The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a not-for-profit, membership organization providing information and resources for schools, parents and concerned citizens working to keep evolution and climate science in public school science education."- Evolution Primers
- Deep Time
- Defining Evolution
- Definitions of Fact, Theory, and Law in Scientific Work
- Earliest Evidence of Life
- Entropy in Muffins
- Evolution and the Origin of Races
- Geology of the Cambrian Explosion
- How Old is the Earth?
- Locations of Oldest Rocks
- Species Concepts in Modern Literature
- The Age of the Universe — Measuring Cosmic Time
- The De-riving Force of Cladogenesis
- The Evolution of Biological Complexity
- What is Homology?
- What is Paleontology?
- What is Science?
- Evolution Education
- Multimedia
- Video and transcript from the Miller/Morris Debate (1981)
"On April 10, 1981, at Brown University, Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University and Henry M. Morris of the Institute for Creation Research debated whether 'the theory of evolution is superior to the theory of special creation as an explanation for all the scientific evidence related to origins.'"
FAQs
- Frequently Asked Questions About Evolution (PBS)
- What Does It Mean to Be Human? (Smithsonian Institution)
Additional Resources
- British Humanist Association: A Humanist Discussion of Creationism (PDF)
- PBS.org's evolution site
- American Humanist Association: Evolution v. Creationism: the Politics, the Science, the Debate (videos)
- AHA: Talking about "intelligent design"
- AHA: The Importance of Honoring Darwin
- AHA: Books about Evolution for Children







