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Category: Creationism
Mike Haubrich, of Tangled Up in Blue Guy blog, has documented a discussion between a biologist, a commenter, and the Discovery Institute (a creationist "think" tank). No apes were harmed during this incident, but one of them may be rather embarrassed. It's quite intresting, have...
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Category: Science Education
I mention the New Hampshire anti-evolution bills at The X Blog. Here's an update from the NCSE:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:25 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Education
The two antievolution bills on the horizon in New Hampshire have now been prefiled in the state House of Representatives. House Bill 1148, introduced by Jerry Bergevin (R-District 17), would charge the state board of education to "[r]equire evolution to be taught in the public...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:16 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Why we still have to take creationism seriously: Adventures in Defending Evolution:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:19 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Suppose you are an intelligent, thoughtful person with a thirst for information, a desire to be challenged, and a tendency to not accept received knowledge at face value. You are embedded in a traditional Christian culture where most of your family, your child's teachers and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:43 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Michele Bachmann
She's running for president, so this is important....
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Category: Creationism
Apparently, when you make a movie, there's this box of stuff left over that someone has to own. It can include things like the original unedited film/video, from which the director and editors selected/cherry picked what they wanted to include, as well as various correspondences...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Miss USA contestants have been asked for the upcoming beauty contest if evolution should be taught in US schools. In a seemingly unrelated question, they are also to be asked if they would ever pose nude for photographers. It is not clear what the correct...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:03 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Florida Senate Bill 1854 would have required a so-called "thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution" which is code word in US state legislatures these days for "taught along side Intelligent Design Creationism as an alternative to established scientific reckoning of...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:07 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
I have always thought, naively and probably incorrectly, that what defined Accommodationist is what they think, not how they argue. At the same time, I have always thought that what defined a "New Atheist" is how we argued, and not what we think....
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