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 [...]
Ben Dry has created a visual representation of the evolution of the changes in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (you know, our Most Sacred Holy Bible!) throughout the six editions.
This is what Ben says about it:
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as [...]
By vorjack on August 15, 2010 in Bible Absurdities & Contradictions, Books, Christianity, Evolution.Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, is making some waves again with a sermon entitled Thank God for the New Atheists(pdf).
Dowd wants to thank us for forcing Christians to face the scriptural passages “that portray God as brutal, cruel, vindictive, and genocidal.” In doing so, the New Atheists are forcing believers towards [...]
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
Reader Rellas Natas on the forum directs us to a fascinating interview with David Dunning, co-author of the Dunning-Kruger effect: the idea that a person may be too ignorant to know how ignorant they are.
According to Dunning, the epiphany came to him when he was reading an unusually ridiculous “dumb crook” story in [...]
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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