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Making Religious Mountains Out of Fiscal Molehills
Surely the Guardian is not in the business of misleading readers to drive up views, so the case must at least be a little bit about creationism, or religion in schools, right?
The Non-Battle of Orleans
The school board of Orleans, Louisiana, chose to prohibit the teaching of creationism or intelligent design in its schools.
Science Can Perpetuate Myths
For those who believe science is a self-correcting process leading inexorably to progress in true knowledge about the world, a professor of medical statistics has a heavy dose of realism.
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #1, ENCODE Project Buries “Junk DNA”
The ENCODE project results detonated what had previously been considered among the sturdiest defenses that Darwinian evolutionary theory could still fall back upon.
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #2, Thomas Nagel’s Mind & Cosmos
The defection from Darwinism of atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel, joined with his respectful evaluation of arguments for intelligent design, was huge news this year.