Selected Writings

Contact Information

SLU 10484, University Station

Hammond, LA 70402

bforrestATselu.edu (Please replace AT with @.)

Voice: 985-549-5097
Fax: 985-549-2012

Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of History and Political Science
Southeastern Louisiana University

Curriculum Vitae (February 2005)

See my book at
www.creationismstrojanhorse.com

Barbara Forrest public lecture

KANSAS LECTURE AND BOOK-SIGNING:
Barbara Forrest
"The Naturalism of Science: The Only Way that Works"
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 7:30 PM

News Articles

Interviews

Selected Publications

Philosophical Articles

"Methodological Naturalism and Philosophical Naturalism: Clarifying the Connection," (pdf) Philo 3 (Fall-Winter 2000): 7-29. Used with the kind permission of Philo.

"A Defense of Naturalism as a Defense of Secularism" (pdf)

This article was written for the Sidney Hook Reconsidered conference hosted by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, October 2002.

Law Review Article

"Is It Science Yet? Intelligent Design Creationism and the Constitution," with Steven Gey and Matthew Brauer, Washington University Law Quarterly, Spring 2005. (Long pdf: 149 pp. /1 MB)

Creationism Articles

"From 'Creation Science' to 'Intelligent Design': Tracing ID's Creationist Ancestry" (chart)

"A Conversation with Barbara Forrest," Americans United for Separation of Church & State, February 2005. *See also Church & State, February 2005.

"Wedging Creationism into the Academy," with Glenn Branch, Academe, January-February 2005.

"The Newest Evolution of Creationism," Natural History (April 2002): 80.

"The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream"

From Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, edited by Robert T. Pennock, pp. 6-53 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Copyright (c) 2001 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Unmasking the False Prophet of Creationism," Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Vol. 19, no. 5 (September-October 1999): 28-30.

"Combating Creationism in a Louisiana School System," The Textbook Letter, July/August 1997.

News Articles

Karen Houppert, "Professing Faith," Mother Jones, December 2005

Rob Boston, "'Intelligent Design' Poses Threat to Science Education and Church-State Separation, Say Parents and Experts at Pennsylvania Trial," Church & State, November 2005

Gene Lyons, "Intelligent Design Is not Scientific Theory," Napa Valley Register, November 26, 2005

Gerald Gall, "Science vs. Religious Politics," Canadian Jewish News, November 24, 2005

Matt Taibbi, "Darwinian Warfare," Rolling Stone, October 20, 2005

Christina Kauffman, "Defense Grills 'Design' Historian," York Dispatch, October 7, 2005

Interviews

PowerPoint Radio Interview with Barbara Forrest, "In the Beginning: A Look at Creation and Evolution," November 21, 2004 (includes paleontologist David
R. Schwimmer, Columbus State University; John Calvert, Intelligent Design Network; and Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute)