TagsTagsHere’s another excellent resource for people trying to make sense of the conflicting claims and counter-claims of the anti-evolutionists: An Index to Creationist Claims. Creationist claims are numerous and varied, so it is often difficult to track down information on any given claim. Plus, creationists constantly come up with new ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism
This is important background information on the Discovery Institute, the main hub of the repackaged creationism that’s been dubbed “intelligent design.” The Wedge Strategy is an internal Discovery Institute memo never intended to be released to the public, that was leaked to the Internet in 1999. It spells out their ...
LGF, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism, discovery institute
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed a stealth creationist bill into law, and American educational standards take a huge step backward: Science law could set tone for Jindal. The creationist front group called the Discovery Institute is quietly crowing, and maintaining the fiction that the bill is not religiously-based. At the ...
LGF, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism
Paul Sunstone has some very interesting details on the story behind the story of that Ohio creationist science teacher who burned a cross into a student’s arm: The Firing of John Freshwater. Yesterday’s report reveals Mr. Freshwater has a long history of complaints against him — all of which have ...
LGF, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Ohio, Mount Vernon, Education, Freshwater
Here’s an article at the Mount Vernon News with more details on the “intelligent design” science teacher in trouble for burning a cross into a student’s arm: Report reveals religion was taught. The key findings of the report are quoted below. * Mr. Freshwater did burn a cross onto the complaining ...
LGF, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Ohio, Mount Vernon, Education, Freshwater
In Ohio, the Mount Vernon school board has voted to fire a science teacher who preached “intelligent design” to his class. That’s not quite the whole story, though; he also used a high frequency generator to burn a cross into a student’s arm. The Mount Vernon School Board passed a resolution ...
LGF, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Ohio, Mount Vernon, Education
He tries to dance around the issue to avoid offending either side, but it’s clear that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal favors the teaching of “intelligent design” in science classrooms. Thanks to Allahpundit for letting me steal his video clip; his comment is also on the mark: The politics of this ...
LGF, Bobby Jindal, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution, Science
Ben Stein’s contention that Darwinian evolution led directly to the Nazi Holocaust is destroyed by genetic science. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research. The study found that bodies from 2000-year-old burial sites in eastern Denmark contained “as much ...
Science, Nazism, Third reich, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Expelled, Evolution, Ben Stein, LGF
Did you know that lizards have evolved to write poetry? From LGF reader Winslow: Who Knows? ’Twas once upon the internet I chanced upon an argument; A blog appeared to splinter into internecine wars. ’Twas all precipitated by a movie dedicated to Portraying Darwinism as a truth-suppressing force. A thousand comments did ...
LGF, Ben Stein, Evolution, Expelled, Creationism, Intelligent Design, poetry
Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know... In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a “rebel” willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But ...
LGF, Ben Stein, Evolution, Expelled, Creationism, Intelligent Design
Allen Forkum of the much-missed cartooning duo Cox & Forkum emailed to point out that he and John did a cartoon related to a subject we’ve been discussing a little bit recently at LGF.
LGF, Cox and Forkum, Cartoon, Creationism, Intelligent Design
Zomblog has photos of a creationist inspired by Ben Stein’s movie Expelled, bringing Ben’s message to the heathens at UC Berkeley: Here come the pro-Expelled demonstrations.
LGF, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Ben Stein, UC Berkeley, Zombie
Sorry, Ben; I agree with you on a lot of things, but with this intelligent design detour you’ve gone completely off the rails. In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr. Stein: When we just saw ...
LGF, Ben Stein, Evolution, Expelled, Creationism, Intelligent Design, ADL, Holocaust, Nazism, Darwinism
I don’t always agree with the Anti-Defamation League, but I do in this case: Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust. New York, NY, April 29, 2008 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film Expelled: No Intelligence ...
LGF, Ben Stein, Evolution, Expelled, Creationism, Intelligent Design, ADL, Holocaust, Nazism, Darwinism
The National Center for Science Education is not amused by Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled, and they’ve devoted a web site to debunking what they say are the film’s dishonest claims: Expelled Exposed.
LGF, Ben Stein, Evolution, Expelled, Creationism, Intelligent Design
Didn’t anyone ever tell Allahpundit that to mention evolution is to risk the dreaded escalating comment swarm? Video: Pelosi’s daughter covers creationism. “Creationism?” I believe the term currently in favor is “intelligent design.” I don’t know about “intelligent design,” but I think there’s plenty of evidence for “stupid design.” And I’ll take any ...
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Natural Selection, Darwin, Monkeys