TagsTagsIs Canada’s Minister of State for Science and Technology a creationist? In today’s news stories he’s trying to obfuscate the remarks that caused an uproar; the Globe and Mail calls it “clarifying:” Minister clarifies stand on evolution. OTTAWA — Science minister Gary Goodyear now says he believes in evolution. “Of course I ...
The Wall Street Journal has an article on wacko Islamic creationist Harun Yahya, aka Adnan Oktar, and his disturbing progress in promoting his anti-science nonsense in Turkey: An Islamic Creationist Stirs a New Kind of Darwinian Struggle. ISTANBUL — As scientists around the world celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles ...
Last year the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board refused to approve a master’s degree program in “science education” offered by the Institute for Creation Research, a young earth creationist institution in Dallas founded by Henry Morris in 1972. Morris is one of the authors of The Genesis Flood, a founding ...
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The BBC still does documentaries like no one else. This special hosted by David Attenborough for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday is beautifully produced and filmed, and actually informative as well. It’s posted in six parts at YouTube: [Video] [Video] [Video] [Vi deo] [Video] [Video] (Hat tip: Jimmah.)
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A judge in Raleigh, North Carolina, has ordered a woman who was home-schooling her children with creationist beliefs to put them in public school. RALEIGH, N.C. — A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding ...
Thanks to Andrew Marcus of Founding Bloggers for the words of support and the groovy Darwinian LGF logo: Little Green Darwin. In homage to Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs, and his continuing efforts to expose the escalating movement to thrust creationism into tax payer funded education, we here at Founding ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science
Here’s a creationist movement of which we can heartily approve: Creationist Students Take Trip to Evolution Headquarters: The Smithsonian. Every winter, David DeWitt takes his biology class to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, but for a purpose far different from that of other professors. DeWitt brings his Advanced Creation ...
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Young earth creationist Don McLeroy, recently reappointed as chairman of the Texas State Board of Education by Republican Governor Rick Perry, is profiled by the Austin-American Statesman: Education board leader set to challenge evolution. COLLEGE STATION — Some go to church to find answers. Bryan dentist Don McLeroy, chairman of ...
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A big LGF thank you goes to Timothy Sandefur at Panda’s Thumb, for his nice recommendation a little while back: LGF on Creationism - The Panda’s Thumb. It’s great when conservatives and others who tend to support the Republican party are willing to take a stand against the creationist elements ...
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The Discovery Institute is seriously pissed off about being dissed by the Vatican, and they’re raising a stink about it through the media: The Associated Press: Rome meeting snubs intelligent design, creationism. ROME (AP) — A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from people who weren’t invited to participate: ...
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In New Mexico, the Legislative Education Study Committee has analyzed the stealth creationism bill (disguised as “academic freedom”) we recently noted, and discovered that it’s ... a stealth creationism bill. While it is difficult to predict the actual outcomes if SB 433 were enacted, the bill analyses by PED and ...
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An evolution-based understanding of Hot Peppers - Why Are They Hot? Back in 1960s, Dan Johnson had an interesting proposal he dubbed “directed deterrence” which suggested that some plants may make choices as to exactly which herbivores to attract and which to deter. Hot peppers are prime candidates for such ...
As we noted in early February, Florida State Sen. Stephen Wise (R) intends to require the teaching of “intelligent design”, even though he knows it will cost Florida a lot of money when it’s legally challenged. State Sen. Stephen Wise, a Jacksonville Republican, said he plans to introduce a bill ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Florida
Here’s a look at the Vatican’s walking-on-eggshells attitude toward Darwin’s theory of evolution, and their apparent dismissal of the “intelligent design” form of creationism: Reconciling Science, Religion. “The ongoing and vigorous engagement of the Catholic Church with evolutionary theory reflects, in my opinion, a fluid and dynamic pathway that combines ...
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Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society interviews Answers in Genesis’s star young earth creationist Georgia Purdom (who has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Ohio State University), at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY on February 18, 2009. Apparently this video may not be on Google video for much longer, so ...
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Apparently there is a significant faction of hidebound GOP spokesmen who believe that criticizers of Bobby Jindal must be cast into the outer darkness: Rush: If you think Jindal reeked last night, I don’t want to hear from you again.
Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Creationism, Evolution, GOP, social conservatism
Come with us now on a journey into the philosophical implications of ... Intelligent Design? Since Charles over at LGF was kind enough to link to my blog in this article, and identified me as an “anti-intelligent design” blogger, I figured it would be best to write something about the ...
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We weren’t intending to make a big thing of it, but we should have known that as soon as we offered to link to pro-evolution bloggers, the links would start pouring in through the hatches. Here’s the most current list, just to give ‘em all big plugs for standing up ...
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Earlier I mentioned in passing that I’d link to any bloggers who aren’t down with the “intelligent design” creationist movement — conservative/liberal/other. Here are some of the bloggers who’ve responded so far, and it’s not the usual geeks from ScienceBlogs: Defining “Creationism” Down Noblesse Oblige » Which Controversy? Discovery Institute vs ...
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Randy Barnett follows up his post on the appalling prevalence of creationists in the GOP, with a point I’ve also been hammering over and over: Defining “Creationism” Down. If your favorite candidate is on record favoring creationism as science to be taught in government schools, he or she has already ...
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The latest jaw-dropping spin from the creationists on the Texas State Board of Education: Darwin would have wanted us to teach creationism. Complete with classic out of context, deceptive Darwin quotes! They’re shameless. Darwin himself would not have supported censorship of the scientific weaknesses of his own theory. Indeed he ...
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For reference, I’m not the only blogger who believes that the GOP’s association with creationism is one of the factors that caused massive losses in the last two elections; Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy: This is Not Good. And since there are so many people who insist on denying this, ...
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Here’s an Associated Press article on three Republican governors who are being looked at as front runners in the 2012 presidential election: Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal. All creationists. Mark Sanford: Newswatch * WIS * TV * January 29, 2006 Host: David Stanton Guest: Gov. Mark Sanford DS: What do you think about ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sanford
This morning Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was on Meet the Press, and despite the fact that David Gregory’s call for questions on his blog resulted in many suggestions that Gregory ask Jindal about his support for creationism and his other extreme social conservative positions, there wasn’t a single question from ...
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A textbook example of being unclear on the concept of “the separation of church and state.” Kim Struiksma doesn’t think evolution should be taught in schools. So the 25-year-old Blaine resident, along with a group of friends from her church, have fashioned Initiative 1040, which “concerns a supreme ruler of ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, First Amendment, Establishment Clause, Theocracy