Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:04:55 pm
The fraudulent CA driver's licenses used by David Daleiden and Susan Merritt Planned Parenthood of California filed a federal lawsuit today against the anti-choice extremists of the Center for Medical Progress, accusing CMP of violating the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act and numerous other state and federal laws. Anyone who's ...

Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:01:06 pm
Video In Missouri, the idea that public schools should teach creationism and treat the theory of evolution as an evil fraud is disturbingly popular, as this video from KCTV shows: Missouri Lawmaker Wants to Make Evolution Teaching Optional. CASS COUNTY, MO (KCTV) - A lawmaker from Cass County believes the Missouri ...

Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:28:26 am
Here we go again in Kansas, where Republicans are trying to use the "religious freedom" ploy to get their creationist nonsense into public school science classes: Anti-Evolution Group Sues to Block Kansas School Science Standards. This is the Republican Party in 2013: ignorant, reactionary anti-science religious fanatics, and proud of it. ...

Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:05:07 pm
Here we go again in Texas, where reactionary Republican religious fanatics are trying once more to insert nutty creationist falsehoods into high school science textbooks. (And climate change denial too; they often go hand in hand.) AUSTIN -- Religious conservatives serving on state textbook review panels have criticized several proposed ...

Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:39:58 pm
Remember the last time the religious right in Texas tried to sneak Christian creationism into public school science classes? Well, they're back. Actually, they never went away, and the Republican anti-science religious fanatics on the State Board of Education are making another big play to influence the textbooks that teach American ...

Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:12:11 am
The most embarrassing controversy is his support for teaching creationism in Louisiana's public school science classes. It gives the rest of the country a reason to laugh at us, and surely Louisiana has had enough of that kind of derision. After some prodding on Kotb's part, Jindal finally came right ...

Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:28:21 pm
Republicans across the nation simply never stop trying to find ways to reintroduce creationism into public school science classes. The latest example is in Montana, where Rep. Clayton Fiscus (R-Billings) is hauling out the old "teach the controversy" canard for another spin. According to Rep. Fiscus, "It's been about 150 years ...

Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:49:54 pm
Roger Ebert: A great many Americans no longer believe in the separation of Church and State, and indeed deny it is a principle found in the Constitution. Yet the wording of the First Amendment is quite clear, and its importance to the founders is underlined by its being first. Certainly ...

Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:01:48 pm
The National Center for Science Education has long been a leader in the battle against those who relentlessly try to insert creationism into public school science classes; they're probably most well-known for the key role they played in the Dover "intelligent design" trial. (Which didn't go well at all for ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:13:26 pm
Just to drive home the point that the Republican Party has become the anti-science bad craziness party, Michele Bachmann came out today and joined Rick Santorum in calling for creationism to be taught in public school science classes. BACHMANN: I think what you’re advocating for is censorship on the part ...

Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:33:38 pm
www.blogherenow.net In my previous post, "The Republican Modus Tollens", I pointed out that arguments apparently having the valid form [Numbered List] allow for serious irrationality when P represents a matter of well-confirmed scientific theory and Q represents a prescriptive policy preference or a tenet of religious faith. So, to use one ...

Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:05:55 pm
Ann Coulter has always been willing to take the crazy rhetoric one step farther, and now she's coming out as the champion of right wing American creationism: LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE!!! Intelligent design scientists look at the evidence and develop their theories; Darwinists start with a theory ...

Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:58:32 am
Remember the days when Mitt Romney was considered a moderate Republican, a rational guy who didn't follow the standard GOP anti-science line? A guy who accepted the science of both evolution and global warming? Well, those days are gone: Romney says would not put limits on emissions. (Reuters) - Presidential candidate ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:33:13 pm
Steve Benen makes a good point here, about Rick Perry's statement that "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools:" Perry may have no idea what goes on in Texas’ public schools, but if they’re teaching “both creationism and evolution,” they’re violating the law. It’s not ...

Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:54:34 am
(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...

Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:05:49 am
Today's must-read article is Ryan Lizza's in-depth look at Michele Bachmann -- the most extreme religious fanatic ever to run for President of the United States: The Transformation of Michele Bachmann. Bachmann belongs to a generation of Christian conservatives whose views have been shaped by institutions, tracts, and leaders not ...

Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:10:32 pm
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), rising star of the 2012 GOP presidential contest, absolutely epitomizes the anti-science, theocratic wing of today's Republican Party. Not only does she totally reject the voluminous scientific evidence for climate change, she's also an open, unapologetic creationist. And she doesn't just want to teach creationism to her Quiverfull ...

Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:54:41 pm
Today at UCLA, a group of high profile climate change deniers are featured at a conference titled: "Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny?" By itself this is nothing special; climate "skeptics" are always having these echo chamber conferences, to keep the deluded masses fully stocked up with hooey. But this ...

Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:21:55 pm
Across the country, Republicans in state and local governments are pushing hard to destroy environmental protections, destroy women's rights, prevent gays from having rights, destroy unions, destroy child labor laws, etc. etc. etc. There's a parade of right wing atavism going on, the likes of which I've never seen. And as ...

Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:53:14 am
While everyone's attention was focused on Washington DC last week, Republicans in Tennessee's House of Representatives passed a bill that will shield science teachers from being disciplined if they're creationists or global warming deniers. The Republican Party: protecting ignorance and destroying America's scientific future. Some quotes from the Neanderthals who pushed this ...

Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:42:12 pm
The religious fanatics on the Texas State Board of Education are gearing up for another fundamentalist hoedown, as Chairwoman Gail Lowe tries to stack the panel that will review the state's science curriculum with creationist loons. Lowe has nominated more potential panelists than any other board member. And a number ...

Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:54:09 pm
In March 2009, Florida Republican science denier Sen. Stephen Wise introduced an anti-evolution bill that quickly died in the legislature for lack of support. This year, though, after the influx of far right anti-science Tea Party candidates in 2010, Wise thinks his attempt to sneak creationism into public school science classes ...

Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:33:58 am
Although the vast majority of creationist politicians are Republicans, here's a monumental facepalm of a story from Kentucky, where Democratic Governor Steve Beshear is proposing to hand over millions of state dollars and tax breaks to a dishonest fundamentalist Christian group run by fanatics, to build a ludicrous creationist "theme ...

Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:57:39 pm
Here's an excellent new video from "QualiaSoup," debunking the nonsensical arguments for "irreducible complexity" and "intelligent design." (Creationism by any other name would smell as rank...) [Video]

Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:16:56 pm
Since Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed the anti-evolution "Louisiana Science Education Act," the sponsors of this law have been oddly silent; but now the other shoes are starting to drop, as a group of citizens backed by the Christian Louisiana Family Forum (there's that "family" word again) are attacking the ...