TagsTagsFort Wayne’s Journal Gazette has a report on some home-schoolers teaching their children to reject modern science. Part of the reason the Neffs opted for home schooling was scheduling. Mark Neff, Jennifer’s husband, works second shift, and if his children attended a traditional school, he’d never see them, she says. Plus, ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Home Schooling, Fundamentalism
Here’s an excellent article at Washington Monthly by Mariah Blake, showing how the atavistic GOP creationist agenda has a direct and highly deleterious effect on education in the United States: Revisionaries. Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, discovery institute, Propaganda, Right Wing, Texas, Don McLeroy, Education
You have got to be kidding. Tonight we learn that the religious right isn’t just anti-science — they’re anti-science fiction too: Beware of Science Fiction. Science fiction takes the reader into a strange world without God. Oh, there might be “a god,” a “force,” but it is definitely not the God ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Anti-Science, Science Fiction, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Evolution, Bad Craziness
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Racism, Christian Action Network, Homophobia
A clip from my Bloggingheads discussion with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation has been posted at the New York Times video page today: Bloggingheads: Conservative Fascism? - Video Library - The New York Times. Notice how Carroll tosses in a blatant straw man argument at the conclusion of this clip, ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing
They laid low for more than a year, waiting for attention to go elsewhere, but the Louisiana Family Forum and right wing Republican legislators are now poised to use Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill to sneak the teaching of this anti-science doctrine into public ...
Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Education, Anti-Science
Here’s your humble Lizard Overlord discussing the issues of the day (via webcam) with the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll, who gets increasingly agitated as the issues start to get closer to his biases — finally accusing me of being “pro-death” and “pro-euthanasia.” [Video]
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing
The California Science Center in Los Angeles is being sued by a right wing group called the American Freedom Alliance (that claims to be “non-partisan”), for canceling a “documentary” film that features anti-evolution propaganda from the creationist “think tank” known as the Discovery Institute. L.A.’s California Science Center will start ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, discovery institute, Propaganda, Right Wing
David Frum quotes my post about Minnesota Governor Pawlenty and his support for teaching “intelligent design” creationism to public school children, and takes exception to my remarks: A Problem for Pawlenty. Johnson’s comment seems to me radically unfair. Pawlenty is a model of sensible modern conservatism. His answers to Newsweek’s ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Tim Pawlenty, GOP, Republican Party, David Frum
She’s found her fear-mongering story and she’s sticking to it, no matter how stupid or deceptive: Sarah Palin (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter: ..merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R death panels back in?what’s punishment 4not purchasing mandated HC? Ahhh! Ahhh! Death panels! We’re doomed! [run around ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, Anti-Science, Health Care, Fear
Newsweek has an interview with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, the very model of a modern GOP candidate, considered by many as a possible front runner for the Presidency in 2012: Anti-science and anti-gay. Let me ask you about social issues your party has been dealing with. In her book, Palin ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Tim Pawlenty, GOP, Republican Party
The indispensable Politifact website has named their Lie of the Year, and it came from the pen of none other than Sarah Palin, you betcha: PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘Death panels’. Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. “Death ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, Anti-Science, Health Care, Fear
About a year and a half ago I reported on the collaboration between American creationist groups like the Discovery Institute and Islamist creationists, to spread their atavistic nonsense in Turkey: Audio: The Discovery Institute Collaborates with Turkish Creationists. I got a lot of hate mail over this one from creationists, ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Turkey, Institute for Creation Research, Anti-Science
Here’s some not entirely unsuccessful science humor from the National Center for Science Education, taking down creationist Ray Comfort and his ridiculous “special” version of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.” [Video]
Evolution, Creationism, Ray Comfort, charles darwin, Bananas, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Eugenie Scott, NCSE
She did her best to obfuscate the issue during the campaign, but her book completely settles the question: Sarah Palin is an “I didn’t come from no monkey!” creationist. Elsewhere in this volume, she talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving ...
Sarah Palin, Creationism, Anti-Science, Religious Right, Fundamentalism
The intellectual mismatch of the year: NCSE executive director Eugenie C. Scott vs. creationist Ray Comfort. How Creationist ‘Origin’ Distorts Darwin. Ray Comfort and I agree that “science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.” We agree that it would be nice for students to get a ...
Evolution, Creationism, Ray Comfort, charles darwin, Bananas, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Eugenie Scott
Iowa Republicans have picked creationist Governor Tim Pawlenty to headline the “Leadership for Iowa” event in Des Moines November 7. Note that Pawlenty isn’t content to simply believe in creationism himself; he wants to see it taught to everyone else’s children: Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Why He Supports Creationism. MR. BROKAW: ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Tim Pawlenty, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science
Karl Rove came out today in support of Florida’s former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, in his bid to upset Governor Charlie Crist in the election for one of Florida’s Senate seats. It gives me no pleasure to report that, like almost every Republican politician, Marco Rubio is a creationist — ...
Evolution, Creationism, Marco Rubio, Anti-Science, Florida, karl rove
You know, I don’t think we have enough anti-science homophobic religious fanatic creationists in the running for the 2012 GOP nomination for President. We can always use another; for example: Rick Santorum. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is well aware his forthcoming visit to Iowa will encourage presidential speculation, and ...
Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Far Right, Creationism, discovery institute, Homophobia, Anti-Science
Former teen idol Kirk Cameron and his idiot creationist pal Ray Comfort are distributing a new edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” — with an introduction “explaining” how Darwin’s scientific theory led directly to Adolf Hitler, among other mind-bendingly dumb creationist tropes. Darwin is spinning in his grave like ...
Evolution, Creationism, Ray Comfort, charles darwin, Bananas, Anti-Science, Kirk Cameron
I thought I’d seen everything. Then I saw this completely crazy anti-evolution article at the web’s craziest right wing site, Weird Nut Daily: ’Origin of Species’ edition debunks evolution. That’s right. They’re claiming that Darwin’s ground-breaking work “The Origin of Species” is an anti-evolution book. You almost have to bow down before ...
Evolution, Creationism, Ray Comfort, charles darwin, Bananas, Right Wing, Anti-Science
The new age quackery at the Huffington Post is starting to be obvious even to Salon: The Huffington Post is crazy about your health. The Huffington Post is one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on the Internet these days. It operates mostly as a news aggregation site ...
A pretty good rant from The Sensuous Curmudgeon, triggered by a whiny complaint from Discovery Institute creationist David Klinghoffer (who’s upset because all the visitors to his blog “hate” him): Creationists: Crybabies & Nancy-Boys. Why don’t all of you anti-science theocrats find yourselves another political party — you’re destroying the ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science, Friends
At the South Carolina GOP convention (where creationist Karen Floyd was unanimously elected to lead the state’s Republican Party), Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a speech that became a farce when he said, “Let me tell you — Ron Paul, I like, I admire him, but I don’t agree with him ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science, South Carolina, Karen Floyd, Ron Paul, Mark Sanford, Lindsey Graham
At the South Carolina GOP state convention yesterday, Karen Floyd was unanimously elected to lead the Republican Party: Floyd to lead GOP in S.C. State Republicans elected Spartanburg businesswoman Karen Floyd to head the party at a state convention that underscored the divisions facing the GOP as it prepares for ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science, South Carolina, Karen Floyd