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Carter Phipps | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
As a culture, we must begin to recognize that while truth and objectivity may not be absolutes that exist perfectly free of time and history, neither are they hopelessly embedded in personal perspectives.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
The inconsistent standards by which Gingrich, Cheney and Republicans are judging Obama are troubling.
Bill Allen | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
The religious right in Texas -- in a move that any ayatollah in Iran would be proud to claim -- is dangerously close to substituting religious dogma for science.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green
According to biologist Jerry Coyne in his new book Why Evolution Is True, it's 40 percent of the population doesn't accept The Origin of Species.
Bill Allen | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
I proposed in jest the idea of an online degree in "creationism." I never imagined that anyone could seriously put forward such an outlandish idea. Boy, was I ever wrong.
Bill Allen | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
Now is the time to confront one of the major myths perpetuated by the previous anti-intellectual, anti-science regime. Now is the time to keep science in science class and keep religion out.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living
In spite of evolution's unprecedented success in explaining the living world, creationism has crept into the mainstream of American thought and into public school curricula in several states.
Jessica Olien | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green
Palin doesn't believe in those funny-lookin' fossils that eventually evolved into you and me. This is extremely funny as she certainly seems to believe in their byproduct oil.
David Horton | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin continues to behave like one of those old computer programs which simulated the appearance of being intelligent by partly repeating the qu...
Harry Shearer | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Has Governor Jindal ejected himself from the Veep Rocket whose trajectory seemed so impressive just two weeks ago?
Gary Marcus | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design is one simple basic fact: the human species isn't intelligently designed.
The Times Picayune | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Gov. Bobby Jindal attracted national attention and strongly worded advice about how he should deal with the Louisiana Science Education Act. Jindal i...
Bruce Wilson | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Jindal has joined the GOP in its bold march backwards towards the days of when Medieval concepts such as Geocentrism, phlogistan and the "Four Humors" held sway.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
How did this country become so colossally retarded? Sure, there will always be the lunatic fringe, but they belong on the fringe -- not playing host to presidential candidates.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Governor, exorcist, and potential McCain running mate, was interviewed on CBS's Face The Nation on Father's Day. Among the top...
New York Times | LAURA BEIL | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living
Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the las...
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
With Hillary Clinton still "not making any decisions," she now joins a select group of causes and phenomena that just won't go away, no matter how much you wish they would.
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...
Chip Collis | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
Once you subjugate science to religion, you end up fighting for the survival of the species with a National Day of Prayer, asking Him to deflect the killer asteroid with His Noodly Appendage.
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
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.
Paul Abrams | Posted 04.22.2008 | Entertainment
Ben Stein manufactures a conspiracy theory in which Big Science, Big Media, and Big Government conspire to suppress academic freedom.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment
Ben Stein can rage against the scientific machine all he wants. It won't make a spurious assertion -- that intelligent design deserves a seat at the lab station -- any more sound.
James Boyce | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment
Ben Stein works in Hollywood. Ben Stein knows the rules. I would like to ask him how he feels about using John Lennon's song without permission.
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David Horton | Posted 06.17.2009 | Living