Tag: Creationism

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.

Oklahoma faces new proposed legislation that seeks to add creationism to the public school curriculum and to define when life “begins” within the womb. The new bills proposed by Republican legislators also seek to allow public funding for churches and to make stem cell research in the state illegal.

A settlement has been reached in the case of creationist astronomer Martin Gaskell, who was passed over as the director of the new observatory for the University of Kentucky, and who sued the university for religious discrimination.

Facing a rising tide of joblessness, the governor of Kentucky has found one solution: build an ark.

Physicist Stephen Hawking writes in his new book, ‘The Grand Design,’ that God did not create the universe, because gravity means it would have happened on its own.

Palca and scientist Neil Shubin discuss the genetic commonalities between humans and ancient fossil species including yeast, fish, and Australopithecus.  Link to the page and listen to the audio.

Sperm whale fossil has the biggest whale bite ever seen.

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a creationism think tank and school that attempted to force the state of Texas to allow it to offer master’s degrees in science education.

A group of scientists, including Richard Dawkins, have called upon the U.K.‘s new government to make it compulsory to teach evolution in school.

A class experiment has left a deep mark in a strongly religious community in Ohio.  The firing of a christian, middle school science teacher has divided a town, and surfaced the undeniable truth that creationism is being taught in American public schools.

Controversy over the firing of an aggressively proselytizing Christian science teacher in Ohio.

New Zealand born evangelical Christian Ray Comfort, aka “the banana man”, has published a new 150th anniversary edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, complete with a 50-page creationist introduction. Working with child actor Kirk Cameron, Comfort and his lackeys will be distributing 50,000 copies of the book for free on 50 college campuses around the US tomorrow. “All we want to do is propose the opposing and correct view,” says Growing Pains star Cameron, who, as far as I can tell, has equally impeccable credentials in evolutionary biology as Comfort—meaning, of course, none whatsoever.

Mass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to a British scientist. Michael Reiss, who is a professor of education at the Institute of Education in London and an Anglican priest, said the evolution-creationism debate could no longer be thought of as something that happened elsewhere and that more and more people in the UK did not accept evolution. Reiss told the Guardian that countries with a higher proportion of Muslims or fundamentalist Christians in their population were more likely to reject evolution. He added: “What the Turks believe today is what the Germans and British believe tomorrow. It is because of the mass movement of people between countries.