From Sept 2001:
Here’s Wikipedia on McLean v. Arkansas:
A lawsuit was filed in theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by various parents, religious groups and organizations, biologists, and others who argued that the Arkansas state law known as the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act (Act 590), which mandated the teaching [...]
By Custador on August 4, 2010 in Articles, Christianity, Creationism / ID, Education, Evolution, Myth, Oh the Stupidity!, Pseudoscience.I read this on Pharyngula today and… Wow. I’m not even going to comment on it. I’m just going to let you read it:
“PRIMARY school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there is fossil evidence to prove it.
Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking Religious Instruction (RI) classes in Queensland [...]
by VorJack
The newest battle over creationism in the schools may take place in Louisiana. You may remember a small flap over Governor Bobby Jindal’s passage of the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act, which allowed school boards to approve supplemental material to be added to the science curriculum. Several watchdog groups predicted that it [...]
by VorJack
“It appears that although the Court has twice required Plaintiff to re-plead and set forth a short and plain statement of the relief requested, Plaintiff is entirely unable to file a complaint which is not overly verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering, and full of irrelevant information”
– From the Texas Court Ruling (pdf) which continues to [...]
by Edman
As a resident of the Southern US, I tend to make the mistake of thinking that the power struggle between fundamentalists and secularists is confined to my region, and that the rest of the world is somehow a little more enlightened. A UF reader has kindly sent in a letter informing us of a [...]
The NCSE has put up a number of evolution book excerpts on their website:
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin Of Species: A Graphic Adaptation
by Michael Keller
The Tangled Bank
by Carl Zimmer
Evolution, Second Edition
By Douglas J. Futuyma
Evidence of Evolution
by Susan Middleton and Mary Ellen Hannibal
Evolution: The story of life
by Douglas Palmer
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came [...]
What kind of god would design such creatures?
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