In September 2006, Truth in Science sent a free resource pack to the Science Head of every UK secondary school and sixth form college. This became national news and provoked widespread discussion from school staffrooms to the House of Commons. There were calls for the Government to provide teachers with new guidelines on the teaching of Intelligent Design which were finally published in September 2007.
Truth in Science has been happy to appear on news and discussion programmes when available and will continue to do so. A recent request has been received from the makers of a programme apparently commissioned by Channel 4 intending to look at the dark side of Darwinism and to engage in debate with the programmes’s presenter Professor Richard Dawkins. TiS has repeatedly responded that it is willing to do so providing it is a live interview with a neutral presenter. To date, this offer by TiS has not been accepted by the production team. Experience shows that pre-recorded, edited programmes are rarely impartial and uncut versions streamed on the internet are not widely viewed.
Via the website, Truth in Science continues to receive good feedback and has now responded to over 230 requests for its resource pack from educators in the UK and across the world, including from Germany, Switzerland, the Faroe Islands, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Paraguay, and Australia, In 2008, the general public will be able to purchase the DVDs online directly from Truth in Science.
Speculations on the chemical origins of life are almost universally covered in school curricula under ‘Evolution’, despite the questionable relevance of the topic for evolution, and its rather uncertain scientific basis.
Moore, A. (2008) Nature 453:31-32