Tag: Creationism

Mr. President, we need another scientific revolution; we must have a second giant leap for Mankind.

Finally, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — a Tea Party darling and possible 2016 presidential candidate — admits that dinosaurs and humans didn’t co-exist.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently urged his Republican Party to “stop being the stupid party.”

A Republican congressman has dismissed evolution, the Big Bang theory and embryology as “lies straight from the pit of hell.”

Do you know what the worst thing about the recent Gallup poll on evolution is? The proportion of college graduates who are creationists is exactly the same as for the general public.

Last week, Gallup announced the results of their latest survey on Americans and evolution. The survey results beg the question: Why are some scientific ideas hard to believe in?

Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schools

Under the pretext of parental ‘choice’, the right is using vouchers to establish religion in public education – with Romney’s blessing.

A bill that allows Tennessee public school teachers to teach alternatives to mainstream scientific theories such as evolution will become law this month.

For many creationists, evangelical Christianity represents a tiny island of righteousness adrift in a sea of secular evil. An atheist author tries to better understand their objections to science.

Under the plan, Alabama high school students could go off campus to study creationism and earn an elective credit.

In a disturbing trend, anti-evolution campaigners are combining with climate change deniers to undermine public education.

Free schools that teach ‘intelligent design’ as science will lose funding.

A growing number of biology and medical students are rejecting the very basis of their chosen subject in favour of creationism.

With less fanfare and more tact than the new atheists, “secular humanists” have attempted to provide an all-encompassing public philosophy based on science, as an alternative to moralities and political programs justified by supernatural religion.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Evolution has become a touchstone issue for Republican presidential hopefuls.

Sit down. Brace yourself:
The Texas Board of Education has just made a UNANIMOUS (8-0) decision to deny creationist-backed biology class supplemental material in favor of materials provided by mainstream publishers. The real victory is the fact that these publishers - you guessed it - explain the results of biological science without drowning those results in the pre-established dogmas of the region (i.e.,most of America). Evolution has just planted its feet firmly in the Lone Star State.

Creationists find support for the Biblical story of creation in the heat emitted by a moon of Saturn.

Atheist activist is speaking out against the employment of an Illinois high school science teacher who was caught teaching creationism in his classroom.