From Nicholas Wade The New York Times

The theory of evolution really does explain everything in biology. The phenomena that Darwin understood in broad brush strokes can now be accounted for in the precise language of DNA. And though biological systems have attained extraordinary levels of complexity over the passage of time, no serious biologist doubts that evolutionary explanations exist or will be found for every jot and tittle in the grand script.

To biologists and others, it is a source of amazement and embarrassment that many Americans repudiate Darwin’s theory and that some even espouse counter­theories like creationism or intelligent design. How can such willful ignorance thrive in today’s seas of knowledge? In the hope of diminishing such obscurantism, the prolific English biology writer Richard Dawkins has devoted his latest book to demonstrating the explanatory power of evolutionary ideas while hammering the creationists at every turn.

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The first issue of Volume 1 of The International Journal of Science in Society has now been published.

Volume 1, Number 1 contains:

• On the Philosophy of Open Science by Michael A. Peters.
• Performances of Value Strategy and Growth Strategy: Why They Receive Attention from Proponents of Standard Asset Pricing Theory by Liza Marwati Mohd Yusoff, M. Fazilah Abdul Samad and Noor Azlinna Azizan.
• Landscape Reclamation: Science, Art or Business? by Karel Grezl and John Rodger.
• Talking with Barmaids: The Importance of Science Communication in Today’s Changing World by Jean S Fleming.
• Teaching Contemporary Science from the Local Community: Are Nigeria Science Teachers Comfortable and Current with this? by Bimbola D. Oludipe.
• Empirically Examining Research Questions in the Social Sciences: Statistical Research Methods in Comparative International Sociology by Jonathan H. Westover.

• Glucosamine and Arthritis: Linking Internet Information about Glucosamine and Arthritis with Individual Uptake of this Information by Jane Elizabeth Hiscock.
• A Possible Science: Topologies of Interest in Corporeal Cultural Flows by Lisa McDonald.
• Public Response to a Student Study of the Feasibility of Nuclear Power: Distrust of Science in a Postmodern World by Wil Holden and Ann-Lise Norman.
• Maha-Cheewalai-Esarn: An Autonomous Thai University of Life by Prathurng Hongsranagon.
• The Aspiration to be Good is Bad: The ‘Impact Factor’ Hurts both Science and Society by Yehudah L. Werner.
• Children’s Drawings about Environmental Phenomena: The Use of Visual Codes by Vasilia Christidou, Vassilia Hatzinikita and Anastasia Dimitriou.
• Joyful Interdisciplinary Experimenting: Donna Haraway’s Feminist Materialised Refigurations by Lic phil I Ruth Anna Burch.
• The Great Scientific Domains and Society: A Metascience Perspective from the Domain of Computing by Paul S. Rosenbloom.
• Similarity Discovery with Social Ontologies by Shmuel Rotenstreich and George Dimitoglou.
• Information Technology and the Construction of Moral Reasoning, Empathy, and Affect: Crossing Time, Space, and Attitudes in Virtual Reality by William James Stover, Mali A. Mann and Marina Mankaryous.