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Creationism In US High Schools: 16 Percent Of US Science Teachers Are Creationists

Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living


ABC News reports on the findings of a study that concluded 16% of U.S. science teachers are Creationists, and that, disturbingly, one in eight are tea...

Expelled: Ben Stein's Fall from Disgrace... to... Something Even Lower

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


Jeff Dorchen

Ben Stein is the face of Creationism in the new movie Expelled, which is about how "Big Science" is robbing radical geniuses of their rightful rewards.

Dust-Up Round 3! Ben Stein's Expelled

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics


Greg Lukianoff

If Ben Stein cares so much about free speech and academic freedom, where has he been all these years?

Ben Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy

Valerie Tarico | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living


Valerie Tarico

Ben Stein's new movie, em>Expelled, attempts to turn intelligent design/creationist complaints into mainstream media.

Only Make Believe

David Horton | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living


David Horton

If evolution has worked perfectly well to produce all the other features of all the other species on the planet, why on Earth would god even bother to design a flagellum?

Are you there Mr Darwin?

David Horton | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics


David Horton

You all know about my belief in the supernatural, and this week I have been communicating with Charles Darwin in a seance. He doesn't have access to a...

Next Time Boychick, We Take the Whole Thing

Erica Jong | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living


Erica Jong

What is wrong with the chosen people? Chosen for pain? All the psychological troubles of Jewish men -- from Freud to Lenny Bernstein to Philip Roth -- must stem from the dubious ritual of circumcision.

Atheism as a Stealth Religion IV: The Transformation of the Obvious

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living


David Sloan Wilson

Biological and cultural evolution are messy processes with lots going on at the same time. Religion is not a single thing but a large collection of traits--what mathematicians call a fuzzy set.

Atheism as a Stealth Religion

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics


David Sloan Wilson

The conflict between atheism and religion could be the fight of the century. It's science and reason against dogmatism and faith, making it obvious who the enlightened liberal should root for. Well, not quite.

Goodbye Selfish-Gene: A New Upheaval in the Science of Human Behavior

Dan Agin | Posted 11.03.2007 | Living


Dan Agin

The Darwinian prop of the lone cowboy rugged conservative bundle of selfish genes has now been pulled out from under the cowboy and the lone cowboy has suddenly collapsed into a mumbling baffled cartoon.


 

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