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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC has threatened to stop providing all social services unless the DC City Council drops plans for a gay marriage bill. Under the bill, headed for a council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for ...
Religion, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Washington DC, catholic church
Two of the far right religious fanatics appointed to the Texas social studies curriculum review board by their fellow creationist fanatics are David Barton (of the theocratic Wallbuilders group) and Rev. Peter Marshall (who operates Peter Marshall Ministries in Massachusetts). The Texas Freedom Network has a look at the incredible ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, History, Science, Texas, David Barton, Peter Marshall, Wallbuilders
Pat Condell’s latest video is a brutally direct and very powerful indictment of organized religion. [Video]
The far right religious fanatics appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to the State Board of Education are at it again. Led by David Barton of the extreme fundamentalist group Wallbuilders (who don’t believe in the separation of church and state), the three fanatics on the panel are trying to ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, History, Science, Texas, David Barton, Peter Marshall, Wallbuilders
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who signed into law an “academic freedom” bill intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into Louisiana schools, has been using state-funded helicopters to fly him to church on Sundays: Governor’s Sunday helicopter travels have come at taxpayers’ expense. On Father’s Day this year, Gov. ...
New research into mitochondria provides a devastating refutation of one of the main talking points of Michael Behe and the Discovery Institute neo-creationists, as “irreducible complexity” turns out to be very reducible. Intricate cellular components are often cited as evidence of intelligent design. They couldn’t have evolved, I.D. proponents ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Irreducible Complexity
Unbelievable. Apparently, there are quite a few politicians and school board members in Texas who are either 1) unaware of the existence of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, or 2) actively trying to subvert it: Texas public schools required to teach Bible this year. ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Fundamentalism, Texas, David Barton, Wallbuilders, Fanaticism, Theocracy
In these troubled times, Tulsa Republican mayoral candidate Anna Falling knows what’s important — putting a young earth creationism exhibit in the middle of the Tulsa Zoo. It’s her top priority. “It’s first,” she said to calls of “hallelujah” at a rally outside the zoo. “If we can’t come ...
William Dembski, the “intelligent design” creationist who is a professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has some rather interesting requirements for students of his creationism courses — 20% of their final grade comes from having written 10 posts promoting ID on “hostile” websites: Academic ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, richard dawkins, William Dembski, Intelligent Design, Theocracy, Fundamentalism
Two well-known figures in the public debate over the scientific theory of evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins and Wendy Wright (president of Concerned Women for America) square off for a fascinating glimpse into the glazed mind of a creationist. [Video] That’s part one; here’s part two, and if you can stand ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, richard dawkins, Wendy Wright, Pseudo-Science, social conservatism, Science
The Weekly Standard has been bought for an embarrassingly low price by a Christian fundamentalist billionaire, so don’t be surprised if you see them do a sharp lurch to the creationist side of reality: “Weekly Standard” Going Creationist? Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has sold The Weekly Standard to Christian ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, discovery institute, Weekly Standard, Right Wing
A militant Islamic group called the “Nigerian Taliban” has killed dozens of people with coordinated attacks in the northern part of Nigeria, with the goal of overthrowing the government, imposing strict sharia law, and abolishing “Western-style education.” Especially that whole “rain” concept. They don’t accept that rain is evaporated water. ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, discovery institute, Darwinism, Nigeria, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Nigerian Taliban
Discovery Institute shill David Klinghoffer is utterly without shame. When he isn’t blaming Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution for inspiring every genocidal dictator in human history, he’s claiming that legendary Jewish physician/philosopher Maimonides was into “intelligent design” creationism. There you have it: Maimonides was fighting the good intellectual fight ...
Maimonides, David Klinghoffer, discovery institute, Science, Intelligent Design, Religion, Creationism, Evolution
A pretty good rant from The Sensuous Curmudgeon, triggered by a whiny complaint from Discovery Institute creationist David Klinghoffer (who’s upset because all the visitors to his blog “hate” him): Creationists: Crybabies & Nancy-Boys. Why don’t all of you anti-science theocrats find yourselves another political party — you’re destroying ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, GOP, Republican Party, Anti-Science, Friends
Sure enough, just like clockwork, Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has appointed yet another activist religious fanatic to head the State Board of Education. The rumor going around was that he’d pick Cynthia Dunbar, who considers public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion,” but apparently that was a little much ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Science, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry, Gail Lowe, David Barton, Wallbuilders
When the Texas legislature kicked out creationist dentist Don McLeroy as head of the state’s Board of Education, I wrote: It’s almost certain that Perry will select another creationist; he did, after all, pick McLeroy not once but twice, even after McLeroy’s Biblical literalist views were notorious. There’s no ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Joe the Plumber had a chat with the Almighty, and the word came down from on high: “Don’t run for office, Joe.” Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ...
As we’ve noted previously, in addition to all his other wonderful attributes, “the great Patrick J. Buchanan” (Sean Hannity’s introduction for him) is a creationist. And he has one of those “creationism checklist” articles now running at all the conservative websites (TownHall, WorldNetDaily, HumanEvents), in which he blames Charles Darwin ...
Pat Buchanan, paleoconservatism, Evolution, Creationism, Darwin, Religion
Creationists in Britain apparently tricked several scientists into appearing in a movie that portrays Charles Darwin as a racist. It’s a phenomenon we’ve seen in LGF threads too — zealous creationists will knowingly lie to promote their cause, because they’re lying for Jesus. They have a “get out of jail ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Britain, Science, Darwinism, Creation Ministries International
Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer’s blog at Beliefnet is really a hoot — I’ve been checking in regularly. Here’s a good entry from this week, in which Klinghoffer is hard pressed to disagree with the contention that “Darwinism is a lie sprung straight from the pit of Hell!?” ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, David Klinghoffer, Darwinism
I wondered how long it would be before a creationist tried to link the theory of evolution to the James W. Von Brunn case — I should have remembered that the Discovery Institute’s David Klinghoffer is always first with the Darwin-Hitler connection. In his blog post yesterday at Beliefnet, Klinghoffer ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, David Klinghoffer, Von Brunn
The theocratic, anti-civil-rights, paleoconservative, conspiracy-mongering John Birch Society got together with the anti-science, conspiracy-mongering, young earth creationist writer James Perloff yesterday in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, for a good old-fashioned evening of atavism: Darwin refuted and disputed at John Birch Society meeting. After years of well-deserved marginalization, the John Birch Society ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Massachusetts, John Birch Society, paleoconservatism
Some more good news from Texas; that ludicrous House bill that would have allowed the young earth creationists at the Institute for Creation Research to offer a master’s degree in science education (despite a decision by the Higher Education Coordination Board to deny them this certification) has died when the ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Institute for Creation Research, Texas
Dentist Don McLeroy, the young earth creationist appointed to head the Texas State Board of Education twice by Republican Governor Rick Perry, has been rejected by the Texas Senate. I see this as very good news, but the Discovery Institute (who pushed hard to get their anti-evolution “academic freedom” language ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Here’s a list of the most common creationist talking points, along with refutations of all of them, by Brian Dunning at Skeptoid.com: How to Argue with a Creationist. The audio version: [Audio] Can you guess how many of these endlessly recycled canards have been brought up in the evolution-related threads ...