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Why Evolution Works and Creatonism Fails, Matt Young and Paul Strode, Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Reviews of Why Evolution Works:Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism,Kostas Kampourakis, Newsletter, International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group, August, 2009, pp. 14-17.
Publishers Weekly Web exclusive, Starred Review, August 3, 2009.
Arsen Kashkashian, "Evolution Revolution: A Fairview science teacher's guide for the anti-creationist," Boulder Weekly, October 8, 2009.
Reviews of Why Intelligent Design Fails
No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe,
1st Books Library, 2001, www.1stBooks.com/bookview/5559.
Michael Cavanaugh, President of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, untitled, 2002, for Amazon.
David Eller, untitled, 2002.
Howard Garcia, "Laugh or Cry," Skeptical Inquirer, March-April, 2002, pp. 51-52.
The Technical Writer's Handbook, University Science Books, Mill Valley, California, 1989.
Recent and selected articles by Matt Young
Articles posted on the blog, Panda's Thumb
"Evolution Confers Morality," paper presented at third Denver Skepticamp, May 9, 2009, Auraria Campus.
"Little Black-and-White Lies: The True Story of the Peppered Moth," paper presented to the Mensa Annual Gathering, Denver, Colorado, July 3, 2008.
Evolution Versus Intelligent Design: Why All the Fuss? The Arguments for Both Sides, by Peter Cook (book review), Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 27, 48-49 (Sept-Dec., 2007).
"Workshop on Teaching Evolution at the University Of Colorado," Sarah Wise and Matt Young, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 27, 4-6 (May-Aug, 2007). See also Symposium on Teaching Evolution at the University of Colorado.
"Unbelief among Scientists," Matt Young and John Lynch, New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 2007, pp. 687-690.
"Smart Scientists on Intelligent Thought (If Not Design)," review of Intelligent Thought: Science vs. the Intelligent Design Movement, ed. by John Brockman, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 31, No. 1, Jan/Feb, 2007, pp. 59-60.
"Why (and How)
Intelligent Design Fails," paper presented at the conference, Exploring
the Borderlands:
Science and Religion in the 21st Century, at the Jefferson Center
for Religion and Philosophy, August 4-
6, 2006, in Ashland, Oregon.
"A Fine Kettle of Moths: How Creationists Have Defiled an Icon of Evolution," paper presented at the 21st Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, Boulder, Colorado, April 7 and 8, 2006.
"Moonshine: Why the Peppered Moth Remains an Icon of Evolution," Matt Young and Ian Musgrave, Skeptical Inquirer, March-April, 2005, pp. 23-28. Preliminary versions at Talk Design, February, 2004, and Talk Reason, February, 2004 (posted simultaneously).
"The Young Antony Flew," Free Inquiry Web Exclusive, January, 2005.
"Well-designed Book Skewers ID Targets," review of Unintelligent Design, by Mark Perakh, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 28, No. 4, July/Aug, 2004, pp. 53-55.
"How to Be Religious
without Believing in God - and Why," paper presented at the 49th Star
Island
Conference, Is
Nature Enough? The Thirst for Transcendence, July 27-August 3,
2002, p. 21.
"Are Intelligent
Designauts Functionally Illiterate?" (response to an unfounded attack
by David Berlinski
in Commentary magazine, December, 2002, p. 34, footnote 2),
in Paul R. Gross, Mark Perakh, Jason
Rosenhouse, and Matt Young, "Has Darwin Met His Match in Berlinski?"
Talk
Reason, December, 2002.
Printed in abridged form in "Controversy: Darwinism versus Intelligent
Design," Commentary, March, 2003,
pp. 12-13. See also "Controversy: A Scientific Scandal?" Commentary,
July-August, 2003, p. 14.
"Grand Designs and Facile Analogies," Talk Reason, October, 2002.
"How to Find Meaning in Religion without Believing in God," Free Inquiry, Summer, 2002, pp. 44-46.
"How to Evolve
Specified Complexity by Natural Means," revision 1, Pacific Coast Theological
Society
Journal, 2002. (originally
published in Metanexus, February, 2002). See also my "Note
Added" on the
PCTS Journal, 2002.
"Intelligent
Design Is Neither," paper presented at the conference Science and
Religion: Are They
Compatible? Atlanta, Georgia, November 9-11, 2001.
"The Bible as a Science Text," three book reviews from Rocky Mountain Skeptic.
"Science and
Religion in an Impersonal Universe," Skeptical Inquirer, Sept-Oct,
2001, pp. 57-60.
Reprinted as Chapter 38 of Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion:
Are They Compatible?
Prometheus, Amherst, New York, 2003, pp. 345-352.
"Imaging Optics," Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd ed., Academic, 2002.
"Two-Dimensional Refracted Near-Field Scanning of Fibers and Waveguides,"
Norman Fontaine and Matt Young,
Appl. Opt., 1999.
"Mode-Field Diameter of Single-Mode Optical Fiber by Far-Field Scanning,"
Appl. Opt., 37,
5605-5619, 1998.
"Off-Axis Illumination and Its Relation to Partial Coherence," Matt
Young and Paul Hale, Amer. J. Phys., 63,
1136-1141, 1995.
Proc., Conf. on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, M. Young and
R. J. Cook, eds, IEEE
Trans. Instrum. Meas., Vol. 44, Mar 1995.
"Optical Fiber Geometry: Accurate Measurement of Cladding Diameter,"
Matt Young, Paul Hale, and
Steven Mechels, J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol., 98, 203-216, Mar-Apr
1993.
"The Pinhole Camera," The Physics Teacher, 648-655; Dec 1989.
"Optical Fiber Index Profiles by the Refracted-Ray Method (Refracted
Near-Field Scanning),"
Appl. Opt. 20(19): 3415-3421; Oct 1981.
Biography. Matt Young is Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Physics and the Division of
Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Until
1999, he was a Physicist
with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder,
Colorado, and Chairman of
NIST's Boulder Editorial Review Board. He confesses that he was
born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1941. He earned a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of
Rochester, Institute of Optics. He
has been Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo,
Assistant Professor of
Electrophysics and Electronic Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Associate
Professor of Natural Science at Verrazzano College, and Professor Adjoint
at the University of
Colorado. He also served briefly as Guest Scientist at the General
Electric R & D Center, consultant
to the New York State Energy Commission, Visiting Scientist at the
Weizmann Institute of Science,
and Technical Editor of the trade magazine Optical Spectra.
Dr. Young won the Newton Award for Achievement in
the Applied Sciences at the University of
Rochester and was elected to Sigma Xi, a scientific research honor
society. He has earned a
Department of Commerce Silver Medal for his work in optical fiber measurements,
a Gold Medal
for leading a group that developed a standard of fiber diameter, and
the Measurement Services
Award.
Dr. Young is a Fellow of the Optical Society of
America and a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the Federation of American
Scientists. He has
served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of
America, President of the
Rocky Mountain Section of OSA, and Optics Correspondent for the American
Association of
Physics Teachers. He is the author or co-author of several NIST
Technical Notes and
Interagency Reports, and roughly 75 other publications, and was twice
Guest Editor of the
international Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements.
He is a former President
of Colorado Citizens for Science
and is a member of Colorado
Evolution Response Team.
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