Evolution and Creationism

GSA members speak out at GSA's 1999 Annual Meeting

GSA's Institute for Earth Science and the Environment (IEE) and Geology and Public Policy (G&PP) Committee sponsored two popular events (the G&PP Forum and a Hot Topics debate) on evolution and creationism in the classroom at GSA's Annual Meeting (October 1999). Below you will find a report on the G&PP Forum as well as essays by invited speakers covering the main points presented at both events.

"Creationism and Evolution — They're Both Just Theories, Aren't They?" (pdf format)
Report by Christie Hill Smith (assistant editor of GSA Bulletin) on the Geology and Public Policy Forum, Creationism and Evolution in the Classroom: Should Geologists Make a Stand?

Scientists Speak Out: The Battle to Win Back New Mexico
Les McFadden, chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Table of Contents
Compiled by Wendy Cunningham

	Introduction
I.	Sites describing and/or supporting evolution
II.	Sites describing and/or promoting creationism
III.	Position statements by scientific and eucational groups
IV.	Interactive forums
V.	Keep Kansas out of your back yard: What you can do
VI.	The Kansas Decision and other recent creationism vs. evolution school debates
VII.	Court cases
VIII.	Articles, essays, books, reports, and press releases
IX.	GSA members speak out at GSA's 1999 Annual Meeting
X.	Participate in the debate by teaching a class — Past GSA Treasurer David Dunn provides a syllabus and annotated bibliography for his University of Texas at Dallas course Geology Refutes Creationism