Month: December 2005
Why Don’t Proclamations that Evolution and Religion are Compatible Have a Large Effect on this Debate?
For years Darwinists have been doing their best to remind the world of the good news that evolution and religion can be compatible. Yet skepticism of evolution continues to remain at a very high level in the United States. Why is this? A timeline of random samples of statements and polls: These numbers shows that skepticism that life developed via purely unguided evolutionary processes remains very high despite the fact that scientists, educators, and religious leaders have tried to remind people that religion and evolution are compatible. Why does skepticism of Neo-Darwinism remain high? IT’S THE SCIENCE! What these Darwinists don’t get is that for many people, this issue isn’t simply about religion. It’s about science. The science provides plenty Read More ›
KU, Mirecki, Urban Legends, and Intelligent Design
Mike Gene has a noteworthy piece about the Mirecki scandal–and, in particular, about how various groups have reacted to it.
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).
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.evolutionnews.org.
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.evolutionnews.org.