TagsTagsA 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 $591 million Kepler mission launched successfully last night, and will soon begin looking for Earth-like planets in other solar systems. The Delta II rocket carrying the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft lifted off on time at 10:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...
Japan. Robots. The moon. Need I say more? TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is considering putting a robot on the moon by 2020 and an astronaut by 2030, a report from a government office showed on Friday, amid fears that the country will be left behind in Asia’s space race. The plans ...
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: ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican
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 ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, academic freedom, New Mexico
The square root of a number x is a number r such that r2 = x, or, in other words, a number r whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself) is x, and today is Square Root Day! REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Dust off the slide rules ...
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
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for a new species of freaky fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a psychedelic rubber ball. [Video]
Quicktime VR panoramas of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, from photographer Peter McCready: One, two, three, four, five, and six. (Hat tip: Boing Boing.)
Wired Science lists some of the things in Obama’s budget that are making scientists smile. A $2.7 billion increase in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. That’s a 35 percent increase that will push the agency’s budget to $10.5 billion. The EPA also got $7 billion in the stimulus package. The National ...
NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula. This striking composite indicates that four monstrously massive stars, collectively called the “Trapezium,” at the center of the cloud may ...
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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 ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Politics, Philosophy
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 ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Politics
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 ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Politics
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 ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sanford
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, ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sanford
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
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is on Meet the Press this Sunday; David Gregory has a post on his blog asking for questions: The View From Here: I need YOUR thoughts on Jindal. (Hat tip: Cronus.) Thinking about the interview with Governor Bobby Jindal Sunday. He’s thought to be a serious ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
Add New Mexico to the lengthening list of states in which Republican politicians are introducing bills intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into science classes, under the deceptive mantle of “academic freedom.” (Hat tip: wrenchwench.) UPDATE at 2/20/09 8:41:10 pm: And again, the creationists at the Discovery Institute provided the model for ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, academic freedom, New Mexico
If this had happened a little bit closer to our solar system, we wouldn’t be worrying about the stimulus bill any more: Huge gamma-ray blast spotted 12.2 bln light-years from earth. WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say ...
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Some LGF readers have been asking, “Hey, why are you opposed to these ‘academic freedom’ bills? Do you hate academic freedom? What’s wrong with teaching kids all sides of the evolution controversy?” Before continuing, this needs to be said: there is no “evolution controversy,” except the bogus one ginned up by ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, academic freedom
Following the lead of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who promoted and signed into law a bill intended to sneak creationism into science classrooms, Republicans in one state after another are trying to do the same thing. The latest example is in Missouri: Antievolution legislation in Missouri. House Bill 656, introduced ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, academic freedom, Missouri