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In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

gallup.com - By Frank Newport - Jun. 01 (Poll) - Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question.

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Greatest Country in the World, or Biggest Joke? TN Educators Can Soon Teach Students Total Nonsense

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By BooMan - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - They've taught evolution in Tennessee for my entire life, and I'm 42 years-old. I guess they're still going to teach evolution in Tennessee's schools, but now they are also going to teach whatever the hell they want, including that evolution is a pile of b.s. Their moronic governor is going to sign a new law

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? Pro-Science Rapper’s Shout Out for Evolution

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ben Paynter - Dec. 28 (Special Report) - Baba Brinkman—dubbed the hip hop Richard Dawkins—is releasing music videos from his Rap Guide to Evolution album in hopes that teachers will punch up their science lectures.

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Lynn Margulis, Trailblazing Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 73

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bruce Weber - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Dr. Margulis was a biologist whose work on the origin of cells helped transform the study of evolution.

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The Republicans are now the anti-science party

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Jon Huntsman Jr, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn't a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that's too bad, because Mr Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the Republican party in the United States, namely, that it is becoming the "anti-science party". This is an enormously important development. And it should terrify us. To see what Mr Huntsman means, consider recent statements by the two men who actually are serious contenders for the Republican nomination: Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

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$43 million tax break approved for Ark Encounter theme park

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Lexington Herald-Leader - By Beth Musgrave - May. 19 (News Report) - A controversial biblical-themed amusement park received approval Thursday for up to $43 million in Kentucky tax incentives over a 10-year period. The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority, which oversees tax credits for tourism and film-related projects, unanimously approved the tax credit for the Arc Encounter project, which is scheduled to break ground in August outside Williamstown in Grant County.

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My Take: Jesus would believe in evolution and so should you

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Karl W. Giberson - Apr. 10 (Opinion) - Jesus once famously said, “I am the Truth.” Christianity at its best embodies this provocative idea and has long been committed to preserving, expanding and sharing truth. Most of the great universities of the world were founded by Christians committed to the truth—in all its forms—and to training new generations to carry it forward. When science began in the 17th century, Christians eagerly applied the new knowledge to alleviate suffering and improve living conditions. But when it comes to the truth of evolution, many Christians feel compelled to look the other way. They hold on to a particular interpretation of an ancient story in Genesis that they have fashioned into a modern account of origins - a story that began as an oral tradition for a wandering tribe of Jews thousands of years ago. This is the view on display in a $27 million dollar Creation Museum in Kentucky. It inspired the Institute for Creation Research, which purports to offer scientific support for creationism.

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Glenn Beck: 'I Haven't Seen A Half-Monkey, Half-Person Yet' (AUDIO)

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Oct. 20 (News) - If it's Wednesday in America, then someone, somewhere, is probably saying something astonishingly crazy about evolution. Today, it's Glenn Beck, who is probably happy to...

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Existence of Tea Party Candidates Casts Doubt on Evolution

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Andy Borowitz: - Oct. 17 (Comedy News) - Two of the theory of evolution’s most vociferous doubters, Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell, may be living proof that Darwin was wrong, leading scientists believe.

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Christine O'Donnell Clip: "Evolution Is a Myth"

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - Sep. 25 (Interview) - After last week's viral video clip in which the Republican Senatorial nominee from Delaware spoke of having "dabbled into witchcraft," Bill Maher lobbed another blast from Christine O'Donnell's past on his show last night. In a clip from the Oct. 15, 1998 episode of his old ABC series, "Politically Incorrect," O'Donnell is shown saying "Evolution is a myth." When Maher challenged her to justify the anti-science statement, O'Donnell says, "Well, then why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?" Last week Maher said that he would air more clips of O'Donnell from his old show until she agreed to come onto his HBO series, "Real Time." "It's like a hostage crisis: Every week you don't show up . . . "

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Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Richard Allen Greene - Sep. 04 (News) - "Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he writes in the excerpt.

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Space is the final frontier for evolution, study claims

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Howard Falcon-Lang - Aug. 23 (News) - Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.

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Mr. Freshwater’s Classroom Crusade

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

AU.org - By Rob Boston - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - Jenifer Dennis remembers the shock she felt when she looked at her son Zachary’s arm one night in December of 2007. A section of the 13-year-old’s arm was covered with welts and blisters in the shape of a cross. “I compare it to a sunburn, curling iron burn or an oven burn,” Dennis said. “It was a red raised area that was swollen…. He had trouble sleeping that night.” When Dennis found out how her son was injured, her shock turned to anger: Zachary told his parents he had been burned at school by John Freshwater, an 8th grade science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

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Science teacher divides Ohio town

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Chris McGreal - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Jennifer Dennis studied her 13-year-old son's skin and was uncertain which to be more astonished by: the shape made by the strange dots running the length of his forearm, or how they got there.

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Divine Impulses: Richard Dawkins on 'the arrogance of religious persons'

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sally Quinn - Dec. 07 (Interview) - The atheist and author of a new book on evolution talks with On Faith's Sally Quinn about how evolution may have led to religion and belief in God.

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Darwin's masterpiece revisited - 11 November 2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Steve Jones - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Unique among scientific theories, evolutionary biology finds its roots in a popular book by a single author.

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Déjà vu All Over Again

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

csicop.org - By Chris Mooney - Sep. 13 (News Analysis) - This is how it begins: Proponents of a fringe or non-mainstream scientific viewpoint seek added credibility. They're sick of being taunted for having few (if any) peer reviewed publications in their favor. Fed up, they decide to do something about it. These “skeptics” find what they consider to be a weak point in the mainstream theory and critique it. Not by conducting original research; they simply review previous work. Then they find a little-known, not particularly influential journal where an editor sympathetic to their viewpoint hangs his hat. They get their paper through the peer review process and into print. They publicize the hell out of it. Activists get excited by the study, which has considerable political implications.

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The life lessons of Burning Man

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Mark Morford - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - As I've been lured back to the sweltering, dusty sexed-up madness that is Burning Man again this year -- my sixth time -- by a gaggle of delicious friends, I am hereby reminded of a few hundred truths, half-truths, outright lies and astonishing epiphanies offered up by the world-famous, Christian-feared, beautifully debauched, sensory overloaded, impossible-to-describe art-survivalist-camping-rave megaspectacle now underway in the remote Nevada desert.

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Scientists in a flap over dinosaur nesting

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

bozemandailychronicle.com - By Gail Schontzler - Aug. 11 (News Report) - The science of the living and the science of the dead clashed Monday at a Museum of the Rockies symposium on dinosaur nesting and whether the creatures brooded on their nests like gigantic chickens. It was all very civilized, but it was hard not to miss a few feathers flying.

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10 Worst Evolutionary Designs

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Wolman - Jul. 30 (Review) - 1 Sea mammal blowhole. Any animal that spends appreciable time in the ocean should be able to extract oxygen from water via gills. Enlarging the lungs and moving a nostril to the back of the head is a poor work-around. 2 Hyena clitoris. When engorged, this "pseudopenis," which doubles as the birth canal, becomes so hard it can crush babies to death during exit. 3 Kangaroo teat. In order to nurse, the just-born joey, a frail and squishy jellybean, must clamber up Mom?s torso and into her pouch for a nipple. 4 Giraffe birth canal. Mama giraffes stand up while giving birth, so baby?s entry into the world is a 5-foot drop. Wheeee! Crack. 5 Goliath bird-eating spider exoskeleton. This giant spider can climb trees to hunt very mobile ...

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Culture Wars Hit History Classes in Texas

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Stephanie Simon - Jul. 15 (News Report) - The curriculum culture wars have taken a new twist, with a brewing controversy in Texas about how much of the Bible belongs in American history.

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Most Scientists Politically Liberal (Reality Must Have a Liberal Bias)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Steve Benen - Jul. 13 (Poll) - Only 9% of the scientists, meanwhile, consider themselves conservative, while fewer still (6%) identified themselves as Republicans. It's just speculation, but the party's hostility towards the basics of modern biology, global warming, and evidence-based reasoning may have something to do with this. Call it a hunch.

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Early Primate Provides Evolution Clues - ABC News

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Ned Potter - May. 20 (News Report) - The fossil, of a young female that probably resembled a modern-day lemur, is described as "the most complete primate fossil ever found." It is small -- its body is about the size of a raccoon -- but it has characteristics found in later primates and in humans.

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Fossil Ida's great big?family | Colin Tudge | Comment is free

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Colin Tudge - May. 19 (Comment) - – what she tells us about Charles Darwin; and what she can tell us about our attitudes to nature and our own survival on this Earth. So many years after her death, this humble creature could help to restore a little sanity in a world that seems to have run short of it.

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The Serpent and the Platypus

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

southernfriedscience.com - By Southern Fried Scientist (Andrew) - Apr. 19 (News Report) - Pound for pound, convergence is the most persuasive evidence for the truth of evolution out there; different lineages finding novel paths to the same solution. While I mostly talk about convergences in morphology, genetic convergence is often even more fascinating. Enter the bizarre case of the serpent and the platypus.

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