Evolution Still on Trial 10 Years after Dover

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🗓️ 20 December 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Evolutionary biologist Nicholas Matzke talks about the Kitzmiller v. Dover evolution trial on the 10th anniversary of the decision. He advised the plaintiffs while working for the National Center for Science Education. He also discusses the continuing post-Dover attempts to get creationist narratives taught in public school science classrooms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.3	Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on December 20th, 2015. I'm Steve Merski. On this episode...
0:45.9	So, but these other sorts of policies that don't mention intelligent design, but they talk about
0:50.0	critical analysis of evolution, or they portray evolution is controversial.
0:55.0	These started to propagate.
0:56.8	That's Nicholas Matzky.
0:58.3	He's an evolutionary biologist currently on a fellowship at the Australian National
1:02.5	University in Canberra.
1:04.3	Ten years ago, he was with the National Center for Science Education, the NCSE,
1:08.9	which found itself advising the plaintiff's legal team in the famous
1:12.5	Kitsmiller v. Dover Evolution case. December 20th is the 10th anniversary of the decision in that case
1:18.8	by Judge John Jones. I'll talk to Nick about the trial for about 10 minutes, and then we'll talk
1:24.2	about the continuing efforts by the anti-evolution crowd after Dover to get creationism into public schools.
1:30.7	Nick has a paper in the latest issue of the journal Science about that subject done in a very clever way.
1:36.1	We spoke by phone.
1:38.6	Nick, can you give us the quick summary of what that trial was all about and how were you involved?
1:46.1	Sure. So, yeah, Kittsmiller versus Dover was a court case. It was actually filed in 2004, and the litigation went throughout
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