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Flocks of the Christian faithful in the US will this Sunday hold special services celebrating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The idea is to stand up to creationism, which claims the biblical account of creation is literally true, and which is increasingly being promoted under the guise of "intelligent design". Proponents of ID say the universe is so complex it must have been created by some unnamed designer.
Pope Benedict XVI will this week host a private seminar to firm-up the Catholic Church’s stance on Darwinian evolution.
In a state primary election, Kansas voters have ousted two radical conservative school board members who opposed teaching evolution in schools.
You can get a degree in Creationism from Baylor University...because, you know, it's science.
Efforts were afoot recently on the Polk County School Board (in the Tampa, FL area) to begin teaching the "concept" of intelligent design in science classes as an alternative to evolution, at a time when new state standards mentioning evolution by name for the first time are unde …
The battle between science and creationism has reached the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where a former researcher is claiming he was fired because he doesn't believe in evolution.
The book under review is Fuller's subsequent effort to justify philosophically the position that failed so miserably to sway the Kitzmiller ruling in ID's favor.
It has now been two years since the pseudoscience Intelligent Design got it's rectum handed to it by Judge John E. Jones III in the Kitzmiller v Dover case.
When creationists in the US succeeded in getting one of the best examples of evolution in action removed from the standard school text book 'Biology' in 2000, they failed to predict the veracity of the response of science. The objections that the creationists had against the incl …
Given the furor he feared it would unleash, it is not surprising that Charles Darwin sat on his "great idea," refusing to publish "The Origin of Species" until 1859, more than 20 years after he first devised the theory of evolution.
The nonprofit Institute for Creation Research in Dallas wants to train future science teachers in Texas and elsewhere using an online curriculum.
In January of 2007, I wrote an article title Creationism Evolves European Offshoot, noting the growing prevalence of creationist activism in the UK.
Since several of the Republican presidential candidates regard creationism as a serious theory in biology, it should not be surprising that their economic views also have little connection to reality.
A consortium of US businessmen hope to open a Creationist theme park in north west England.
There have been allot of articles on Religion (Tis' the Season...) and the nature of faith that have questioned the nature of "Atheism" and I have seen many misconceptions leading to some heated arguments.
A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution.
A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution.
Look at the last part of that quote closely. One wonders if Murray has been reading Dawkins or Dennett. By blaming the world's ills on religious people do Dawkins and Dennett incite to hatred and make it more likely that tragedies of this sort can occur? I don't know, b …
I think that we should base our beliefs on what we can see or feel or detect by scientifically established procedures (such as telescopy).
Biology professors from across Texas stressed the importance of educating students about evolution in a letter to the state education commissioner and said Texas Education Agency employees shouldn't be required to stay neutral on the subject.
BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.
Discussing whether Christians were around during Epicurus' time (Epicurus lived from 341-270 B.C.), Sherri chimed in, "[The Greeks] had Christians 'cause they threw them to the lions."
The New York Times exposes today the story of Texas Education Agency's director of science, Christine Castillo Comer, who was fired for refusing to remain neutral about evolution.
As the noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) famously commented, "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." However, creationism in its many forms insists that everything in nature was created by a deity: from the …
There is a great educational injustice being inflicted upon thousands of children in this country, a large percentage of whom come from the Kentucky, Ohio and, Indiana areas.
Is this state's education agency being driven by a political orthodoxy so fierce that it dumped its science director for passing along a harmless e-mail? It's possible.
AUSTIN (AP) — The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who felt she gave the appearance of criticizing the instruction of intelligent design.
The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who said she had given the appearance of criticizing the teaching of intelligent design.
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