Government control of the Internet?
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“Skeptics” are one-trick ponies #456
The root of all evil?
Better educated Americans don’t drop religion – they water it down
Religious people happier than others in hard times, researchers say
Why do atheist Protestants need symbols alien to their materialist beliefs?
Secularism: Yes, that IS all there is
Prominent Brit atheist Polly Toynbee pulls out of debate with apologist William Lane Craig
The Darwin lobby has been forced to take a part time job?
Ian Binns, a science education researcher at Louisiana StateUniversity, told Science that a law such as Louisiana’s, which misdescribes established scientific theories such as evolution as controversial, “tells our students and teachers that there are problems that there aren’t” and distort their understanding of the nature of science;
NCSE’s Joshua Rosenau added, “Science is not about providing balance to every viewpoint that’s out there.” NCSE is now monitoring controversies over the teaching of climate change as well as controversies over the teaching of evolution, but the scope of the problem is as yet unclear; as Rosenau explained, “Just like with evolution, it’s difficult to know what a given teacher in a given classroom is teaching.” Read More ›
ID-friendly US prez hopeful Rick Perry has announced his bid, blow for also pro-ID Bachmann?
Here. Here’s beloved commentator Chris Matthews on the threat Rick Perry poses to science. Question: If Perry cops is party’s nomination, will Obama choose to feature a Darwin love-in, in his re-election bid?
Just in: But Bachmann won the straw poll.
ID-friendly US prez hopeful Rick Perry to announce run for party nomination tomorrow in South Carolina
Superstition surprisingly high in those with scientific background
New book: John Lennox asks, If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, am I denying the authority of Scripture?
ID-friendly Oxford math prof JohnLennox has a new book out, Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science . Can’t imagine which seven days. Blurb:
What did the writer of Genesis mean by ‘the first day’? Is it a literal week or a series of time periods? If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, am I denying the authority of Scripture? Read More ›