Tag: Evolution

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.”

Amendment allows students to reject school assignments that ‘violate his or her religious beliefs’

In a mass resignation, 150 Mormons leave the church over issues ranging from polygamy and gay rights to church discrepancies with science.

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?

A Gallup poll released today reveals that 46% of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.

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.

America’s Darwin problem is really a science problem. The easier it becomes to depict the scientific enterprise as a special interest immersed in the culture wars, the easier it becomes to reject scientific findings.

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.

Does the Texas governor believe his idiotic religious rhetoric, or is he just pandering for votes?

Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn’t a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that’s too bad, because Mr. Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the G.O.P. — namely, that it is becoming the “anti-science party.” This is an enormously important development. And it should terrify us.

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.

Now some conservative scholars are saying publicly that they can no longer believe the Genesis account. Asked how likely it is that we all descended from Adam and Eve, Dennis Venema, a biologist at Trinity Western University, replies: “That would be against all the genomic evidence that we’ve assembled over the last 20 years, so not likely at all.”