We've had conversations before, here, about this topic, especially in the context of school. We've spoken about how to deal with students who are trying very hard to push creationism in the classroom, where you are the teacher. We've spoken about what a parent of a student in school might like...
NCSE policy director Steve Newton explores the evolution of American creationism and how anti-evolution activities have changed from the Scopes era to the present. Newton explains creationism's many faces, from dinosaurs-lived-with-humans young earthers to "intelligent design" advocates to...
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Baton Rouge, LA -- (March 27, 2012) -- At Senator Santorum's March 23rd rally in Pineville Louisiana, student activist, Zack Kopplin, had the chance to question the Senator about creationism laws. Kopplin, who has led the effort to repeal Louisiana's creationism law, the misnamed...
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Adolf Zeising, whose main interests were mathematics and philosophy, found the golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves. He extended his research to the skeletons of animals and the branchings of their veins and nerves...
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 friends and those...
Sir David Attenborough:
"Evolution is an extremely powerful idea that lies at the heart of biology. At the same time, it's a sufficiently simple concept that there's no good reason why it should be left out of the primary curriculum. If creationism is discussed, it should be made clear to...
How much does politics affect teaching evolution? How is the "fairness" argument exploited to undermine evolution education? Genie Scott explores these and other antievolution strategies in a recent speech before the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Where: Scottsdale, AZ...
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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I'm an Atheist and she is a Christian, best friends for a long time. We were stoned when we were arguing about our beliefs or lack of, i proceeded to bring up Charles Darwin and she said "Who's that?" That shocked me because Darwin is my hero and my friend is graduating college soon, I'm...
My son came home confused because his teacher told the class that he believes in Creationism (didn't say that word, instead he explained it) and not what their school books say, but that they need to answer the questions on the test in accordance with the school book anyways. He told them things...
Evolution? Creation Scientists have found the key to proving intelligent design the talking snake in Genesis!
Snakes today have no vocal cords- that proves Evilution NEVER happened!
Yes, this proves without a doubt that snakes were created by God otherwise how could they talk?
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when all of their foremost scholars admit they cant prove evolution and its just a theory, yet all Creationist scholars agree that the Bible is the truth? How can they think their argument has any standing against Creationism when their own community doesn't even believe it?
KA-BOOOOOOOOOM INDEED!
when all of their scholars admit they cant prove evolution and its just a theory, yet all Creationist scholars agree that the Bible is the truth? How can they think their argument has any standing against Creationism?
By now you've heard of the Pew research poll testing American's knowledge of religion. You may not have learned about the poll's evolution and creationism questions, as they've gotten much less press. In the poll...
[r]espondents were asked, "Which of these people developed the theory of...