Tag: Intelligent Design

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

Evolution has become a touchstone issue for Republican presidential hopefuls.

The wishy-washy teachers, like the governor of Louisiana, are not uneducated. Some of them simply refuse to accept settled science because of their religious beliefs.

Republican state senator in Texas introduces a bill that bans “discrimination” in universities against faculty members and students who believe in Intelligent Design.

Florida state senator pushes a law to force Florida science teachers to offer a “thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution” and to include “intelligent design” in the classroom.

Despite 80 years of court battles ousting creationism from public classrooms, most public high school biology teachers are not strong advocates for evolution.

A 2005 court battle over intelligent design led scientists to seek better ways to improve students’ understanding of evolution.

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.

Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.

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.

According to a Mori poll commissioned by the British Council, more than half the population believes it’s OK for children to be told about creationism and Intelligent Design in school science lessons along with evolution. The poll shows 54 per cent of Britons would not object to biology teachers discussing ‘alternative perspectives’ on the origin of life alongside explanations of evolution.

British Council poll finds UK adults overtake Americans in wanting science teaching in schools to include intelligent design

A well researched article about the fundamental differences between evolution and intelligent design.  It also goes into a debate about keeping creationism out of university science curriculum.  Worth a read.

A School marching band T-shirt design includes the image of primate evolution to man, each stage holding a trumpet. Teacher Sherry Melby says she’s disappointed and that she doesn’t “think evolution should be associated with our school.”

PZ Myers joins the Secular Student Alliance Trip to the Creation Museum.

Noah’s Ark farm denies allegations, saying it promotes debate between science and religion over evolution

An uninspired re-hashing of NOMA (Non-Overlapping Magisteria), that attempts to use Intelligent Design to prove the existence of God.

The never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed to fail.