On subjects like evolution, global warming, the biology of human conception, and even macroeconomics, conservatives have been increasingly bold about rejecting the consensus of scientific experts in favor of ideologically self-serving pronouncements.

FORBES: Conservatives' Reality Problem

Omar Sultan Haque, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology at Harvard and Ehab Abouheif, a professor of evolutionary biology at McGill will also be discussing how evolution has been regarded by Muslims since Darwin.

FORBES: Tonight in Boston: Grappling With Evolution and Islam

The findings are published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution by a team led by Dr Mathias Stiller of the Max Planck Institute, Germany.

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Eric Rothschild, a lawyer for eight families suing to have intelligent design removed from the Dover Area School District's biology curriculum, presented Behe with a stack of more than a half-dozen books written about the evolution of the immune system.

MSN: Intelligent design vs. stack of science books