A good read--I would say must read--is this interview with Robert Numbers, author of "The Creationists". It is particularly interesting for the history of the movement and for his personal rejection of his religious upbringing--I don't like the expressions "conversion" or "deconversion" for giving up superstition.
A good read--I would say must read--is this interview with Robert Numbers, author of "The Creationists". It is particularly interesting for the history of the movement and for his personal rejection of his religious upbringing--I don't like the expressions "conversion" or "deconversion" for giving up superstition.
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/01/02/numbers/
There are of course things he says that I find contestable, but it is very informative.
This pilot episode of Wired Science is worth a look. There is a good report on stem cells.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/pilot.html