Creationism:
Remember the lizard men permlink
Category: Evolution
Carl Zimmer points me an article about a former anthropologist who has some weird ideas about the origin of man: Since his resignation from the university in 1990, however, Horn has changed his tune. Once a staunch Darwinist and tenured...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:22 PM • 20 Comments •
Northeastern Protestants & Catholics accept evolution permlink
Category: Creationism
On a lark I decided to see how Catholics & Protestants broke down in regards to evolution by American region in the GSS. Specifically, I clustered the Census Divisions to create the categories of: Northeast = New England + Mid...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:08 AM • 1 Comments •
Darwin is a white thing permlink
Category: Creationism
I was mentioning to a friend that Whoopi Goldberg is apparently a semi-moon landing denialist. At least Goldberg isn't a Creationist like fellow View co-host Sherri Shepard. In fact Goldberg took issue with Shepard's stance when it came up. Rather...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 9:09 AM • 12 Comments •
Creationism in America & Europe permlink
Category: Creationism
So I'm reading/hearing about something flaring up in Texas again in regards to Creationism. I always get these strange "articles" in my RSS for the "evolution" query on Google Alerts where an uninformed columnist rambles on how the theory has...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:56 AM • 13 Comments •
Which religious groups are Creationist? permlink
Category: Evolution
Pew has the numbers: The main surprise here are Mormons. I knew that they had become much more Creationist over the past 3 generations due to their identification with conservative Protestants, but I didn't know that it went this far....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:52 PM • 38 Comments •
Cross-cultural comparison of evolution & God permlink
Category: Creationism
Acceptance of Evolution & belief in God, over at Secular Right. Here's my conclusion: ... In any case, I think the two observations I would make is that Roman Catholicism's acceptance of evolution shows, as those nations tend to be...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:27 AM • 1 Comments •
Acceptance of human evolution due to ideology, not intelligence permlink
Category: Creationism
During a conversation with Nick Matzke he asserted that Creationists weren't less intelligent necessarily. I contended that they were less intelligent. I based on this on snooping through the GSS when I was posting about the association between lower educational...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 6:24 AM • 18 Comments •
Conservatives & Creationism permlink
Category: Creationism
I was browsing RedState today and I noticed an advertisement for the National Geographic special on the Neandertal genome. At first I was surprised at the appearance of this on a right-wing website; after all, there is a bias toward...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 8:30 PM • 15 Comments •
Bobby Jindal: Creationist (???)...Politician!!!! permlink
Category: Creationism
I have already posted on Creationism & Bobby Jindal. Here's more: As a parent, when my kids go to schools, when they go to public schools, I want them to be presented with the best thinking. I want them to...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:17 PM • 5 Comments •
"Harun Yahya" goes to jail? permlink
Category: Creationism
Via The Corner, Turkish Islamic author given 3-year jail sentence: Controversial Turkish Islamic author Adnan Oktar was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday for creating an illegal organization for personal gain, state-run Anatolian news agency said. ... Oktar,...
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