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Iowa State Daily Misconstrues Astrobiologist’s Position on Debating Intelligent Design

The reporter does deserve credit for interviewing Iowa State's Tom Ingebritsen, associate professor of genetics, who says that, while ID shouldn't be taught as fact, it isn't "unreasonable to discuss the subject in a science class" (reporter's language). Read More ›

Did the ACLU Lie to the Federal Courts in the Cobb County Evolution Sticker Case?

*Did the ACLU Lie to the Federal Courts in the Cobb County Evolution Sticker Case?* "The court gives two bases for its findings and they're absolutely wrong," [Judge] Carnes told Atlanta lawyer Jeffrey Bramlett, who argued on behalf of five parents who sued the school board to get the stickers removed. ... At the end of the arguments, Carnes took the highly unusual step of calling Bramlett back up to the podium and suggested he may have mislead the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in his legal brief filed with the court. Read rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

For Darwinists There is No Presenting Both Sides in Intelligent Design Debate

For Darwinists There is No Presenting Both Sides in Intelligent Design Debate It’s okay for Hector Avalos to teach a class that specifically denounces intelligent design, but it isn’t okay for Tom Ingebritsent to teach a class that presents intelligent design and evolution impartially. This is supposed to be free and open debate? Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

Rewriting History: Museum Fails to Disclose Own Role in Social Darwinism

Rewriting History: Museum Fails to Disclose Own Role in Social Darwinism The Museum's current exhibit glancingly mentions eugenics as an aberration, but this so-called aberration was supported by most of America’s elite universities and scientists for several decades. In 1932, for example, the AMNH itself played official host for a scientific meeting titled the "Third International Congress of Eugenics," and in conjunction with that meeting the Museum mounted an extensive public exhibition uncritically extolling the "science" of eugenics (much in the same way the current exhibit uncritically extolls neo-Darwinism). Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

Nature Magazines’s Choice Blogger Has Heaps of Fun with the Crucifixion

Nature Magazines's Choice Blogger Has Heaps of Fun with the Crucifixion The media endlessly inspect the religious affiliations of Darwin critics, of course, supposedly because a scientist's religious views can be used to discount his scientific views. But, in contrast, they do not show us the views of the proselytizing atheists who host so many of the Darwinist organizations and websites, leading so much of the the Darwinist campaign against ID. Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

NYT Story Misinforms on Intelligent Design and Templeton

he New York Times published a letter from the president of Discovery Institute, Bruce Chapman, correcting Laurie Goodstein’s piece “Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker.” In addition to the misinformation Chapman notes, the story also passed along an error concerning the Templeton Foundation. Read More ›

Nature Magazine Promotes Darwinist who Favors Using Brass Knuckles on ID Proponents

Nature Magazine Promotes Darwinist who Favors Using Brass Knuckles on ID Proponents Nature magazine is promoting rabid ID critic PZ Myers as a science blog guru. This is the Myers who wrote about ID proponents on his blog: " I say, screw the polite words and careful rhetoric. It¹s time for scientists to break out the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles, and get out there and hammer on the lunatics and idiots." Read the rest at Evolution News & Views, www.scienceandculture.com Read More ›

Academic Persecution of Scientists and Scholars Researching Intelligent Design is a Dangerous and Growing Trend

Academic Persecution of Scientists and Scholars Researching Intelligent Design is a Dangerous and Growing Trend “There is a disturbing trend of scientists, teachers, and students coming under attack for expressing support in the theory of intelligent design, or even just questioning evolution,” said Robert Crowther director of communications for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “ Discovery Institute hosted a briefing for the media on academic freedom at the National Press Club today, featuring a prominent for his views on intelligent design, Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez of Iowa State University. Read more at Evolution News & Views, online at www.scienceandculture.com. Read More ›

Violence Is Never The Answer In Intellectual Debate

The debate over evolution just blew out of Kansas and into Oz for one college professor. The Associated Press reports that KU professor Paul Mirecki was beaten up Monday morning. And this just after spending a week in the newspapers for caustic remarks he made belittling religion, Catholics, conservatives, and intelligent design. According to the Associated Press: “University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki told the Lawrence Journal-World that two men who beat him were making references to the class that was to be offered for the first time this spring. Originally called “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies,” the course was canceled last week at Mirecki’s request. “I didn’t know them,” Mirecki said Read More ›

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