Sources to help refute Creationist propaganda

According to a 1991 Gallup Poll, Of the scientists and engineers in the United States, only 5% are creationists. Creationists petitions fail to even show more than .1% of American Biologists who deny the Theory of Evolution. However, according to a 2009 Gallup Poll, only 37% of Americans accept evolution. Further this poll shows a correlation between acceptance of Evolution and higher education levels. Why, in America, is there such a gap in acceptance of Evolution between the educated experts and the general population? Looking back at this poll reveals that only 25% of Americans deny evolution. The remaining 36% have no opinion. With Creationist activists working diligently to compromise science education, good unbiased non-superstitious science needs as many supporters as it can get. These 36% of Americans are likely to not pay attention to a politician's views on science and are likely to support candidates who want to encourage bad science. If an educated politician is so unconcerned with accurate science that he or she will deny the Theory of Evolution, how can you trust they care about accurate science in any other issue (Global Warming, Vaccines, AIDS, Stem Cell Research, Alternative Medicines, Alternative Energy, Vaccines, etc...)

Creationists work diligently to misinform the public with propaganda. This propaganda involves many tactics from misinformation over scientific theory to logical fallacies and outright lies. These Creationists want to confuse the American public into believing that the Theory of Evolution is a "theory in crisis" and that it is the "religious belief" of secularists (Despite the existence of theistic evolution).

This blog is dedicated to helping inform those who are unsure and are actually interested in accuracy. This blog is also for those creationists who are interested to see what good science says about their claims. I will continually update this blog with sources (websites, books, and movies), that are dedicated to skeptically examining creationist arguments and educating the public over just how sound and supported the Theory of Evolution really is...

I will continue to update this blog as I find sources. If anyone knows of a source i haven't posted, please let me know.


Websites:
National Center for Science Education
Expelled Exposed: Why Expelled Flunks (NCSE)
Creation Vs. Evolution (Scientific American)
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense (Scientific American)
Evolution Resources from the National Academy of Sciences
PBS web site for Evolution
Understanding Evolution (University of California at Berkeley)
Talk Orgins Archive

Books:
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Richard Dawkins)
How to Debate A Creationist (Michael Shermer of Skeptics Society)
Defending Evolution In The Classroom (Brian J. Alters and Sandra M. Alters)
The Triumph of Evolution And The Failure of Creationism (Niles Eldredge)
Intelligent Design And Its Critics (Robert T. Pennock)

Extra sources for people of faith interested in "Theistic Evolution":
Thank God For Evolution
Biologos (Dr. Francis Collins)
Dr. Ken Miller's Evolution Page



In the interest of fairness and skeptical inquiry, i will provide sources for Creation and Intelligent Design. Although I accept the Theory and Facts of Evolution, I highly encourage anyone interested in unbiased skepticism to attempt to research with no initial conclusion. If not, it is good to at least listen to these arguments with an open mind. Here are some Creationist and Intelligent Design Sources:
Institute For Creation Research
Discovery Institute
Answers In Genesis
*These are the best available sources for Creation and Intelligent Design. However, THIS blog is not aimed at presenting both sides equally.

Just a warning though, these websites like to use certain terms that are misleading (These issues are mentioned in the Evolution sites):

Darwinian Theory (or neo-Darwinian Theory): These terms have been used by anti-evolutionists to explain the Theory of Evolution with disregard to the fact that the modern Theory of Evolution is far more advanced than the 150 year old theory of Charles Darwin. Much more is known today.

Materialistic explanations: This is basically translated to any natural, observable, testable hypothesis. In other words, it can be proven right or wrong. Supernatural explanations are untestable and unobservable and therefore cannot be proven right or wrong.

Note:
ID proponents claim that they are not religiously motivated. In 1998, The Discovery Institute put together a document outlining what is known as the Wedge Strategy. Read it and decide for yourself.