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Here’s an excellent video presentation from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, explaining why religion and science need not be in opposition. As the wise and venerable Lao Stinky once said: Belief in God does not preclude belief in evolution. Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism
New York Times writer Amy Harmon follows high school science teacher David Campbell’s efforts to reach students who’ve been raised as strict creationists, fighting a Florida political establishment that’s hostile to the science of evolution: A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash. Bryce came to ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Florida
An LGF reader emailed a link to this article from last November at swissinfo.ch, showing that the deniers of evolution are hard at work in Europe as well: Scientists and education experts criticise textbook which put creationism on a par with evolution. Thirty percent of the Swiss public rejects evolution? ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Switzerland, Europe
A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that a majority of conservatives now think religion should be kept out of politics. Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches ...
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
Following up on that ridiculous “fossil” recently announced by a creationist group, that purports to show a human footprint partially overlapped by a dinosaur’s, Glen Kuban has a great piece that goes into detail on the ludicrous claims of Alvis Delk and the Creation Evidence Museum: The Delk Print. (“Alvis ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Dinosaurs, Creation Evidence Musem
Yet another stealth creationist play was shot down by the courts yesterday in California. The Association of Christian Schools International, Calvary Chapel Christian School, and parents attending the Chapel School filed suit against the University of California, after UC ruled that several courses taught by the Christian schools did not ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, California
In 1881, Charles Darwin wrote a letter to Klara Pölzl containing a bombshell revelation. Was Ben Stein right after all? Darwin Exposed!
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Humor, Darwin
Roy Zimmerman (no relation to Bob) performs “Creation Science 101,” and lo, it is good. [Video]
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Humor
Last November, radio host Michael Medved was made a Senior Fellow at the anti-evolution “think tank” known as the Discovery Institute, and he has some rather interesting things to say about “intelligent design:” One on One: Broadcast views. Q: Speaking of your desire for this kind of particularity, you ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Michael Medved
Here’s one of the creepiest unhinged rants I’ve read in a long time, praising Bobby Jindal for signing Louisiana’s stealth creationist bill and explicitly advocating Sneaking Intelligent Design into Schools—by making alliances of convenience with Islamic creationists. So why not piggy-back on Islam? Do Moslems believe in Darwin? Did ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Islam
Remember the Alvis Delk Cretaceous Footprint we covered recently? That “fossil” discovered by an “amateur archaeologist” in Texas, showing a dinosaur footprint overlapping a human one, thereby proving that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? I hope you’re sitting down. Because that “fossil” is an obvious fake: Stones and ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Dinosaurs
In the race for the Kansas State Board of Education, voters have dealt a crushing blow to creationist candidate Alan Detrich: Conservatives Leading Half of School Board Races. In the 4th District, with 85 percent reporting, conservative Bob Meissner of Topeka, had 76 percent against Alan Detrich, of Lawrence. ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Kansas
Here’s a reminder that The History Channel is airing the second episode of their excellent series on the process of evolution tonight, a show titled “Guts.” It’s followed by a rerun of the first episode, “Eyes.” 10:00 PM Evolve: Guts It doesn’t just take willpower to survive. It takes ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, eyes, guts, History Channel
Biologist Ken Miller is one of the best advocates for evolutionary science, and I just learned that he has a new book out, tearing apart and debunking the claims (and the clams) of the “intelligent design” movement: Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul: Kenneth R. Miller. ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Kenneth Miller, Books
I haven’t found a video clip at any of the usual sources, but The History Channel has a new show titled Evolve that looks like it’s going to challenge many of the most common “intelligent creation” talking points, starting with Eyes. It’s on at 9 pm tonight on some cable ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, eyes
Here’s a thread to discuss the earth-shattering discovery made by amateur archeologist Alvis Delk: Rock-solid proof? Before we conclude that Darwin really was stupid after all, though, see: Paluxy Dinosaur/’Man Track’ controversy.
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Dinosaurs
At Physics Today, here are the stated opinions of the presidential candidates on six important science-related issues: Where do they stand on science? Six questions for the candidates. On evolution: John McCain on teaching evolution From his 2005 book “Character is Destiny”: “Darwin helped explain nature’s laws. He did ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Politics, Election 2008
In 2004, National Geographic ran an excellent piece by David Quammen exploring an important issue: Was Darwin Wrong? Evolution is both a beautiful concept and an important one, more crucial nowadays to human welfare, to medical science, and to our understanding of the world than ever before. It’s also ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Darwinism, charles darwin, Darwin
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
The Texas State Board of Education has begun hearings on teaching the “weaknesses” of evolutionary science—which means, of course, teaching the “strengths” of the creationist flavor of the month, “intelligent design.” And in a creepy real-life inversion of Ben Stein’s “Expelled,” the Texas Education Agency recently fired their Director of ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Texas
It’s our favorite libertarian-ish anti-idiotarian magicians, with a whole episode of Bullsh*t! devoted to ... yes ... creationism and its repackaged descendant, “intelligent design.” (Screams and pandemonium ensue.) Featuring footage from the Creation Museum, and interviews with some people whose names are often invoked during the LGF Evolution Wars, including ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, creation museum, Penn and Teller
Before we get to the real point of this post, here’s some background information on the Creation Museum in Kentucky: The Creation Museum is a 60,000 square foot museum in the United States designed to promote young Earth creationism. The museum presents an account of the origins of the ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, creation museum
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