There is a rather striking video currently used in police training. A firearms officer is caught on video shooting an armed suspect. The officer then gives his account of what happened, and there is no suggestion that he is tying to fabricate evidence. He says that he shot the suspect once; his partner says that he fired two shots. On the video we see four shots being deliberately fired. Memory, it seems, is an unreliable witness in situations of stress.

Key Words creation science, evolution education s Abstract Creationism, the rejection of evolution in favor of supernatural design, comes in many varieties besides the common young-earth Genesis version. Creationist attacks on science education have been evolving in the last few years through the alliance of different varieties. Instead of calls to teach “creation science,” one now finds lobbying for “intelligent design” (ID). Guided by the Discovery Institute’s “Wedge strategy,” the ID movement aims to overturn evolution and what it sees as (...) a pernicious materialist worldview and to renew a theistic foundation to Western culture, in which human beings are recognized as being created in the image of God. Common ID arguments involving scientific naturalism, “irreducible complexity,” “complex specified information,” and “icons of evolution,” have been thoroughly examined and refuted. Nevertheless, from Kansas to Ohio to the U.S. Congress, ID continues lobbying to teach the controversy, and scientists need to be ready to defend good evolution education. (shrink)

This study tries to compare between two thoughts of two followers of Darwinism in the field of evolutionary genetics. The first one is Richard Dawkins, who attempted, by making use of the theory of evolution and genetics, to make his readers to deny the existence of God and be atheists. The other one is Francis Collins, who tried his best, by making use of those sciences, to defend the faith in God and monotheistic evolutionary doctrine. It is worth to mention (...) that both of these two personalities are Neo-Darwinists, and both of them underwent atheism, but with the difference that the first one has become the most famous atheist in the world and the biggest authority to whom it is referred in this matter, whereas the second one has abandoned atheism to become one of the hard defenders of the faith in God.By comparing the views of these two scientists, we will get to two conclusions: the first is that the theory of evolution is neither atheistic nor theistic in itself. The second conclusion is the possibility of combining Darwin’s evolution with creationism and getting to the monotheistic evolution theory, as done by some scholars like Collins. (shrink)

Of articles which are submitted for publication in Philosophy, a surprisingly large proportion are about the views of Richard Rorty. Some, indeed, we have published. They, along with pretty well all the articles we receive on Professor Rorty, are highly critical. On the perverse assumption that there must be something to be said for anyone who attracts widespread hostility, it is only right to see what can be said in favour of Rorty's latest collection of papers, entitled, Truth and Progress,.