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Here’s an interesting back-and-forth volley on the subject of intelligent design and science; first an article by Gordy Slack on What neo-creationists get right. Then, evolution advocate Nick Matzke (who was featured in that video I posted yesterday on the Dover School District controversy) replies to Slack’s article in ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, origin of life, OOL
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
Thoughts on the Evolution Sesquicentennial from Rand Simberg.
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism
One hundred fifty years ago today, a paper was read to the Linnaean Society of London, and the scientific theory of evolution was born. Darwin was still working on his magnum opus when in June 1858 he received a letter from an English naturalist working in Malaysia. Alfred Russel ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, New Zealand, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya
At New Scientist, Lawrence Krauss looks at another attempt by the Discovery Institute to push “intelligent design” pseudo-science into classrooms, this time in Texas: Commentary: Stop creationists undermining school science. The most recent and blatant example of the sorry condition of state education boards comes from Texas, whose education ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Texas
Here’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 ...
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. ...
LGF, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
LGF, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Ohio, Mount Vernon, Education
Carl Zimmer has a fascinating post at The Loom (part of the ScienceBlogs network), with more details on that 20-year experiment in evolution conducted by Richard Lenski at Michigan State University: A New Step In Evolution. Based on what scientists already knew about evolution, Lenski expected that the bacteria ...
In an experiment that has been underway for 20 years at Michigan State University, biologist Richard Lenski has actually observed evolution at work in E. Coli bacteria. A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Science, Nazism, Third reich, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Expelled, Evolution, Ben Stein, LGF
Here’s a fascinating presentation at Case Western University on evolution and intelligent design by renowned biologist Ken Miller, dealing with many of the arguments of ID proponents (for example, Michael Behe’s “irreducible complexity”). It’s almost two hours long, but well worth watching if you’d like to get deeper into the ...
discovery institute, Religion, Science, Intelligent Design, Evolution, 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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...
LGF, Ben Stein, Evolution, Expelled, Creationism, Intelligent Design, ADL, Holocaust, Nazism, Darwinism