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Creationism And Intelligent Design Gain Foothold In Turkey

Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Harun Yahya, Islam, Noah's Ark, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Atheism, Turkey, School Boards, Secularism, Science, Anti-Evolution, Institute for Creation Research, Discovery Institute, Charles Darwin, Religion, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Darwin, God, Humanism, Egypt, Saudi Arabie, Evolution, Colleges, Muslim, Ankara, Universities, World News

With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is ...

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Is Science Just a New Religion?

Cara L. Santa Maria | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion-in-Schools, Thomas Kuhn, Religion, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Michael Shermer, Scientific Method, Living News
Cara L. Santa Maria

Once intelligent design squeezes its way into the pages following evolution in our biology books, we might as well add astrology to our astrophysics lectures and toss some alchemy into the chemistry lab.

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In Which I Try My Hand at Cartooning and Encounter Crazy People

Barrett Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: William Dembski, Racism, Intelligent Design, Robert Stacy McCain, Media News
Barrett Brown

Conservative pundit Robert Stacy McCain responded to my cartoon with a big blog post in which he likens me to the commissar of "a Maoist re-education camp."

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Splitsville

Steven Weber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligent Design, Conservatives, Liberals, Public Discourse, John F. Kennedy, Fox News, Tea Party, Fair and Balanced, Politics News
Steven Weber

Avowed liberals consider themselves to be loyal to the truth while die-hard conservatives seem only to be loyal. Somewhere in the middle lies the perfect American.

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Con Games: The Birth, err, of Death Panels

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Birthers, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Climate-Change-Deniers, Birther-Movement, Sarah Palin, Evolution, John McCain, Green News
Michael Conniff

For too long politicians of every persuasion have hewed far too closely to inconvenient and ultimately unfungible truths.

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Intelligent Design, Online Edition

Barrett Brown | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bible Literalists, Uncommon Descent, William Dembski, Creation Theory, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Monty Python, Politics News
Barrett Brown

The blog Uncommon Descent is among the most interesting things on the Internet because it provides us with a sense of how the leaders of the intelligent design movement would run things.

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What Ever Happened to Truth?

Carter Phipps | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Carter Phipps, Holocaust Revisionism, Iran, Intelligent Design, Objective Truth, Postmodernism, Truth, Living News
Carter Phipps

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.

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The Immorality of Intolerance and Inconsistency

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Iran, Intelligent Design, Jesus, Cheney, Korea, Evolution, Gingrich, Bush, Left Wing, Right Wing, Partisan, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

The inconsistent standards by which Gingrich, Cheney and Republicans are judging Obama are troubling.

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Armageddon Friday

Bill Allen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Ayatollah, Textbooks, Intelligent Design, Education, Creationism, Science, Texas Board of Education, Religious Right, Texas, Schools, Science Education, Darwin, Evolution, Taxes, Intelligent-Design, Texas Schools Creationism, Intelligent Design in Textbooks, Religion in Schools, Intelligent Design in Schools, Politics News
Bill Allen

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.

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On Darwin's Birthday, Examining Why Evolution Is True

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Evolution Intelligent Design, Dover Intelligent Design, Darwinism, Why Evolution Is True, Intelligent Design, Darwin, Evolution Debate, Charles Darwin, Jerry Coyne, Evolution, Darwin Day, Richard Dawkins, Michael Behe, Green News
Stuart Whatley

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.

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Promoting the Pornography of Creationism

Bill Allen | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Theory of Evolution, Intelligent Design, Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Textbook Adoption, Life on Earth, Biology, Texas, Steven Weinberg, Darwin, California, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Textbook Publishers, Textbooks, Creationism, Students, Institute for Creation Research, Online Education, Creation Science, Texas State Board of Education, Anti-Science, Evolution, Politics News
Bill Allen

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.

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Ending the Pornography of Creation

Bill Allen | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Life on Earth, Biology, President Obama, Theory of Evolution, Obama, Myths, Barack Obama, Scientific Theory, Mysticism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Education, Creationism, Stevie Wonder, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science, President Bush, Evolution, Politics News
Bill Allen

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.

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The Extremism of Bobby Jindal

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Abortion, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Jindal, Evolution, Republican Party, Bobby Jindal Governor, Social Conservatives, Religious Right, Creation Musem in Kentucky, Public School System, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

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.

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Does Sarah Palin Believe in Oil?

Jessica Olien | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Fossil Fuel, Evolution, Oil, Drill Baby Drill, Dinosaurs, Sarah Palin, Intelligent Design, Elementary School, Political Satire, Green News
Jessica Olien

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.

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Geology. Palinology.

David Horton | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Intelligent Design, Evolution, Creationism, Sarah Palin, Heather Mills, Christianity, Politics News
David Horton

Sarah Palin continues to behave like one of those old computer programs which simulated the appearance of being intelligent by partly repeating the qu...

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Unintelligent Design

Gary Marcus | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Evolution Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Back Pain, Biology, Bobby Jindal, Science, Memory, Evolution, Theory of Evolution, Creationism, Politics News
Gary Marcus

Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design is one simple basic fact: the human species isn't intelligently designed.

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Top Republican VP Pick Jindal Lets Public Schools Teach Creationism

The Times Picayune | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican VP, Intelligent Design, Jindal, Creationism, Bobby Jindal, Politics News

Gov. Bobby Jindal attracted national attention and strongly worded advice about how he should deal with the Louisiana Science Education Act. Jindal i...

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Joining GOP's Bold March Backwards, Bobby Jindal and Louisiana Democrats Pass "Stealth Creationism" Education Bill

Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Intelligent Design, Louisiana, Creationism, Democrats, Bobby Jindal, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

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.

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Jindal: Intelligent Design "The Very Best Science" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bobby Jindal Exorcism, Intelligent Design, Bobby Jindal Governor, Evolution Debate, Creationism, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Mccain Vp Search, Bobby Jindal VP, Politics News

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...

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Evolution Opponents' New Strategy: Teaching The "Strengths And Weaknesses" Of Evolution

New York Times | LAURA BEIL | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Opponents, Strengths and Weaknesses of Evolution, Evolution, Living News

Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the las...

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

Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Intelligent Design, Darwin, Creationism, Science Teachers Creationism, Biology, Science, Theory of Evolution, Schools, Living News

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...

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Arianna v. Ben Stein: Apocalypse Soon?

Chip Collis | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: George Bush Science, Expelled Ben Steing Intelligent Design, Ben Stein Documentary, Nico Marquardt Science Project, George Bush, Science Debate, Apophis Asteroid, Arianna Huffington, Nico Marquardt Asteroid, Creationism, Nico Marquardt Potsdam, Apophis - the Killer Asteroid Killer Astroid, Michael Moore, Nico Marquardt Apophis, Apophis, Creationsism Lite, Ben Stein, Nico Marquardt Apophis the Killer Asteroid, Ben Stein Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home News
Chip Collis

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.

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He Blinded Me Without Science

Chez Pazienza | Posted 04.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ben Stein Expelled, Ben Stein Intelligent Design Film, Intelligent Design, Ben Stein, Entertainment News
Chez Pazienza

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.

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Ben Stein: Yoko Ono On Line One (And The Killers Are On Hold)

James Boyce | Posted 04.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ben Stein, Manufactroversy, Expelled, Ben Stein Expelled, Intelligent Design, Expelled Film, Walt Ruloff, Ben Stein Intelligent Design Film, Creationism, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Imagine Yoko Ono, Entertainment News
James Boyce

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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