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A Mickey Mouse approach to Evolution

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

HOW do you begin to reverse the religious stupidification process that has left millions of Americans, and a sizeable number of Europeans and others wallowing in a nonsensical belief in creationism, or its ugly sister, “intelligent design”?
In a fascinating, albeit depressing New York Times article this week – A Teacher on the Front Line as [...]

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Yoko Ono’s copyright suit against creationist film fails

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

A JUNK-science “documentary” which screams out for “intelligent design” to be given – at the very least – a status equal to that of evolutionary science has pissed off a great number of people since its release in the US earlier this year.
Most lately, the movie – a kind of porno for gibbering fundie [...]

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Crafty Muslim creationists are given the brush-off in Israel

Thursday, July 17, 2008

A PLANNED Jewish-Muslim reconciliation conference due to be held at the Hebrew University in Israel turned sour when it appeared that a Turkish contingent of scientists might hijack the event to advance their anti-Darwinist views.
According to a YNet News report:
The Turkish lecturers arriving from Istanbul on a joint initiative between the research and scientific foundation [...]

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Theology has no place in science, say Russian scientists

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

TEN members of the Russian Academy of Sciences have written an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V Putin stating their ‘deepening concern over the increasing clericalisation of Russian society’, and the Russian Orthodox Church’s infiltration of all areas of public life.The signatories include two Nobel Prize winners Zhores Alferov [...]

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And on the seventh day God created pillocks

Sunday, December 16, 2007

AND you thought it could happen only in America! Think again. Britain looks like getting its own creationism adventure park, where kids can be indoctrinated into the idea that Earth is about six thousand years old and man and the dinosaurs coexisted. According to today’s Observer, “The 5,000-capacity park will be the first of its [...]

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Kenyan evangelicals hopping mad over evolution exhibition

Monday, November 12, 2007

I agree that to say that conservative Christians are descended from apes is an insult. To the apes!
That comment, by Christopher Hobe Morrison, of Pine Bush, USA, was one of many added on-line to a report in The Times that evangelical Christians in Kenya have got their cassocks in a twist over an exhibition in [...]

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St Bernard savages creationist theory

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

THE St Bernard dog – named after the 11th century priest Bernard of Menthon – provides the latest proof that creationist thinking is just plain wrong.
Biologists at The University of Manchester say that changes to the shape of the breed’s head over the years can only be explained through evolution and natural selection, according [...]

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UK Goverment advice on ID/Creationism: it’s not science

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The British government has finally issued its promised guidelines regarding the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in science class. The verdict: they are not science, and they have no place in the curriculum.
From a government obsessed with creating “faith schools”, this is a welcome breath of fresh air. These guidelines from the Department of [...]

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