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Dr. Barbara Forrest is the author (with Paul Gross) of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, and here’s a really informative presentation she gave recently at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, on the roots of the intelligent design movement, the personalities and driving forces behind it, and ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas
An Austin American-Statesman editorial hits the target: State board of education poised to embarrass Texas again. Once again Texas is poised to court national disgrace because of the State Board of Education and the anti-evolution agenda of some of its members. Whether there are enough votes on the 15-member ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas
Some people complain when we post about creationism, or “intelligent design,” its cleaned-up stepchild. They say we should focus on important subjects, nobody really cares about this creationism stuff. But quite a few Texas residents do care about it, as their state has become the latest front in the Discovery ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas
As we noted recently, the Texas State Board of Education has appointed three “intelligent design” creationists to a six-member committee that will review the state’s science curricula for public schools, two of them affiliated with the Discovery Institute—and these two just happen to be authors of an anti-evolution book that ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas
Here’s an interesting podcast from the San Francisco Chronicle, featuring an interview with journalist Laurie Lebo, author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America. Lebo grew up in a small town near Dover, Pennsylvania, where in 2004 the Board of Education tried ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, dover, kitzmiller, Laurie Lebo
An editorial in the Houston Chronicle blasts the Texas State Board of Education for their outrageous appointment of three creationists to a six-member panel that will decide Texas’ science curriculum standards—two of them shills for the infamous Discovery Institute: Board’s actions could put students at a disadvantage. Texas has ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas
“Intelligent design” creationism is a step closer to being taught in Texas science classes, as “social conservatives” on the State Board of Education appoint three creationists to a six-member committee to review science curricula. Not just any creationists, either; two of them are affiliated with the Discovery Institute, and authored ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas
Here’s a terrific, detailed review of one of the textbooks created by the Discovery Institute in order to sneak their “intelligent design” creationism into American science classrooms. John Timmer precisely identifies the slippery tactics of this dishonest organization: A biologist reviews an evolution textbook from the ID camp. The ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Islam, Science, discovery institute
Jeffrey P. Schloss, a former Senior Fellow at the anti-evolution Discovery Institute, has raised the ire of his ex-associates by breaking from the ID/creationist line: The evolution of Jeffrey P. Schloss. In August 2003, Jeffrey Schloss left the Discovery Institute. What happened? In 2005, Schloss spoke out in a ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, discovery institute, Schloss
Earlier today I linked to this highly deceptive post at the anti-evolution Discovery Institute’s "Russia Blog," purporting to lay out a timeline for Russia’s brutal attack on Georgia. (I commented that it read like propaganda directly from the Kremlin.) The Russia Blog titled their post, "Chronology Matters." And they're quite ...
LGF, Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia, discovery institute, Russia Blog, Yuri Mamchur, La Russophobe
A very dangerous situation is getting worse, as the Russian military moves into Georgia from the west while Georgian forces are engaged in South Ossetia. TBILISI, Georgia - Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing ...
In addition to promoting the anti-science hoax of “intelligent design,” the Discovery Institute runs a pro-Russian site called “Russia Blog,” and today they come out in favor of Russia’s brutal assault on the breakaway republic of South Ossetia: Russia Blog: War in Georgia: Yawns and Kneejerks in America. (Hat tip: ...
Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute says I made false claims about them, but he doesn’t actually dispute a single fact in my LGF article. I was going to ignore this post at their anti-evolution blog, but on second reading it struck me as a pretty good example of the ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya, discovery institute, Turkey, AKP
As we noted yesterday, Imam Siraj Wahhaj (named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) is planning a series of subway train advertisements in Manhattan—during September—proselytizing for Islam. The organization behind this effort runs the web site whyislam.org, and featured prominently on their homepage we find: ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya, discovery institute, Siraj Wahhaj, Terrorism
An interesting presentation from the National Center for Science Education on the part they played in the Dover School District creationism case, and their analysis of differing drafts of the creationist textbook Of Pandas and People. The smoking gun moment was when they discovered the nonsense words “cdesign proponentsists” ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, discovery institute, kitzmiller, Dover School District
Last year CBC radio had a segment devoted to Islamic creationism in Turkey, with some amazing revelations: * The Institute for Creation Research has been heavily involved with Turkish creationists for years, supplying propaganda and teaching materials and DVDs, to the point where Turkey’s school system has purged the teaching ...
Turkey, discovery institute, Harun Yahya, Institute for Creation Research, Creationism, Religion, Science, Intelligent Design, Evolution, LGF
Since the “We Got Mail” posts usually feature people who hate me, here’s a change of pace: a few of the emails I’ve received supporting my position on the “intelligent design” con artists. Just wanted to send a thanks for representing conservatives who are not creationists, or at least ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, discovery institute, Email
When they aren’t busy praising Osama bin Laden or applauding Hamas for murdering Jews, the Wahhabi propaganda site IslamOnline is fully on board with the Discovery Institute and their “intelligent design” hoax: Why Muslims Should Support Intelligent Design. Intellectual Muslims, fed up with the pathological anti-Western hatred of the ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, discovery institute, Islam, islamonline
Note to Discovery Institute shill Casey Luskin: To prevent future embarrassment when “critiquing” scientific papers, please look up the words you don’t understand. The word “eponymous” means “named after.” Missing The Wrist. A couple weeks ago Louisiana passed a new science education act that promotes “critical thinking skills, logical ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, discovery institute
Discovery Institute obfuscator John G. West gets a platform to promote creationist propaganda in the National Review, with a headline right out of the grievance theater handbook: Louisiana Confounds the Science Thought Police. This is the current line of Dishonesty Institute hooey; it’s all about “academic freedom,” you see. Creationism? ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Bobby Jindal, discovery institute
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District is a landmark case in the 150-Year Creationism War. The Dover School District voted in late 2004 to require the teaching of “intelligent design” as an alternative to the scientific theory of evolution (heavily influenced by the Discovery Institute’s propaganda), and they were promptly ...
kitzmiller, Pennsylvania, Creationism, Intelligent Design, LGF, Dover School District, discovery institute
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
I was actually searching for something related to a Linux programming trick, when I stumbled on this interesting article (from 10 years ago but sadly still relevant) by University of Chicago Professor Jerry Coyne about the deceptive tactics employed by Discovery Institute advocate Michael Behe: Boston Review: Is Darwin in ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, discovery institute, Behe
At The Corner, here’s John Derbyshire on Bobby Jindal’s support of the intelligent design hoax. As a Republican living in a liberal neighborhood, I spend a lot of time defending the GOP against sneers about us being (as one of my friends puts it) “the snake-handling party.” Bobby Jindal ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, discovery institute, Bobby Jindal
Judging from the loony leftists in his blogroll, Joshua Rosenau will be a bit surprised to see referrals from LGF. But this is an important update to yesterday’s post about Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s support for the “intelligent design” hoax, as Jindal’s college genetics professor asks him not to “hold ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, discovery institute, Bobby Jindal