Indiana creationist bill passes committee | NCSE. Midwestern U.S. states are attempting to foist creationist or intelligent design teaching on their public school students, all the while trying to circumvent the Establishment Clause of the Bill of Rights. Indiana’s Senate Committee… Read More »Indiana creationist bill passes committee
My Turn: The Darwin connection | Concord Monitor. While researching some points for my article on intelligent design, I stumbled onto a poignant and pointed article written by Leslie Brunetta, a New Hampshire science author who has been diagnosed with… Read More »Anti-evolution bills put healthcare at risk
Since the start of the new year there seems to have been concerted effort in several midwest US states, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Indiana, to circumvent the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution by pushing creationist religious… Read More »Intelligent design in 2012
Mounting opposition to Indiana’s creationist bill | NCSE Missouri and Oklahoma have been at the forefront of the 2012 Republican push to add anti-science curriculum to public school science curricula in the form of creationism (apparently in the guise of… Read More »Mounting opposition to Indiana’s creationist bill
Rosa Rubicondior: Where Creationists Get Confused.. Creationists utilize numerous logical fallacies to either “disprove” evolution (using rhetoric and religious text) or to “prove” creationism. Usually, however, they stick with trying to showing how evolution is wrong, thereby, implying that creationism… Read More »Rosa Rubicondior: Where Creationists Get Confused.
Oklahoma bill attacks evolution and climate change | NCSE. Not only is the sixth evolution denialist bill proposed by state legislatures since the beginning of the year (which is about 3 weeks long so far), it throws in climate change… Read More »Oklahoma bill attacks evolution and climate change
Update from Missouri | NCSE. The chief sponsor of this bill says the “jury is still out on evolution.” Uh, what jury is that? The one in Kitzmiller v. Dover, where a Federal Judge ruled that Intelligent Design is not… Read More »Update from Missouri | NCSE
A second antievolution bill in Missouri | NCSE. Right after I pushed the “publish” button, I saw a second news article about Missouri. Apparently, there’s nothing really important going on in Missouri, so they decided to write two bills to… Read More »A second antievolution bill in Missouri | NCSE
“Intelligent design” bill in Missouri | NCSE. Not that anyone needs reminding, but just in case, Intelligent design is not scientific, it is not a scientific theory, and it is religion. In Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District, the US… Read More »“Intelligent design” bill in Missouri | NCSE
Polling pastors on evolution–National Center for Science Education There are a few interesting points regarding this poll: The poll was commissioned by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, a rather conservative Christian denomination. I’m concerned about the inherent… Read More »Polling pastors on evolution | NCSE