FIVE ALL-STARS Evan Kohlmann L'04 Eric Rothschild L'93 Miguel Rodriguez C'94 L'99 Derek Pew L'93 Aretha Delight Davis L'97

Their latest adaptation is to insist that scientists disagree about the validity of evolution and that schools should therefore “teach the controversy.” Critical analysis is the new Hydra’s head, and Rothschild has been on the lecture circuit talking about what he’s learned. “No one in the scientific community is doubting common ancestry. If you tell kids there’s a scientific controversy over evolution, you’re not telling them the truth” and, he adds, “you’re damaging science education.”

The National Center for Science Education tracked more than 80 anti-evolution incidents in 30 states last year. Since the Kitzmiller opinion was handed down, new skirmishes have broken out in California, Utah, South Carolina, and Kentucky and old ones flared up in Georgia, Kansas and Ohio.