BBC Radio - "Heart and Soul"

BBC World Service | Heart and Soul

A program with Eugenie Scott, the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, and the author of a couple of the course readings. She interviews a number of pro-creationism/ID advocates.

There is a 30 minute streaming sound file of her BBC radio program available on the Web at this link. Soon it will be removed -- BUT, I'll put it on the course website under password protection so you can listen to it later if you like. --RAE

"In scientific circles over the last 150 years, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has become the accepted explanation for how we and all other living things evolved from primitive, single-celled ancestors.

Click on the blue title to go to the whole article and sound file on the Web.

Geologists now have evidence that our planet's history dates back about 4.6 billion years and cosmologists will tell you that our universe came into being through a process known as the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago.

In spite of that, many people are guided by a different set of beliefs, based on scripture. In the United States the incidence of such beliefs is particularly high. In a recent survey, more than 40% of Americans said they thought that humans and other creatures had been created in their present forms and have not evolved. Of those who did accept evolution, a third thought that it was guided by some supreme being."