The Controversy of “Creation”

If someone had told me that the movie chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival, a British movie starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, was having trouble picking up US distribution, I wouldn’t believe them.  Granted the reviews have been mixed (The writer at Movieline was not a fan) but many have said it is [...]

Fort Wayne highschoolers sound off about evolution/creationism

Michael B. just pointed me to a recent article in today’s Journal Gazette called, rather obliquely headlined, “Species of education: Evolution teaching, beliefs vary for two local students“.
Reporter Jaclyn Youhana talked with two local students about how they felt about their evolutionary science education in high school. Because Indiana Department of Education rightly says that [...]

Skepticism – You’re Doing It Wrong.

Are there people in your life whose skepticism switch seems to be jammed in reverse?
Take evolution, for example.  The evidence is nothing if not completely overwhelming.  We have libraries full of peer-reviewed scientific papers and museums full of a supporting fossil record.  The explanatory power of evolution – which, as a scientific theory, is its [...]

Ep. 15 The Enlightenment Show – Charles Darwin to Pareidolia

Charles Darwin’s Bicentennial Born Feb 1809 • A very brief overview of his life • Turtles All the way down! • Rep. Mark Souder and our comments about his role in the Intelligent Design propaganda movie, “Expelled.” • Music Video of Tiktaalik by the Indoorfins • FreeThinker’s Toolkit on Pareidolia • CFI- It’s time for science and reason • What’s the harm? Evolution Denial

Congressman Mark Souder says his highlight of the year was being on Ben Stein’s “Expelled.”

Sylvia Smith interviewed Congressman Mark Souder for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in which Souder states his “personal highlight of the year.”  The highlight is none other than being in Ben Stein’s anti-evolution propaganda movie, “Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed.”
You appeared on the big screen this year. What was that experience like?
The biggest single moment [...]

At least we don’t live in Texas

Our “atheist prophet”, PZ Myers, posted a really great video about the Texas State School Board, and where many of the candidates stand on teaching evolution and creationism to children in schools. Needless to say, it’s not looking good. Republican Gail Lowe, running for re-election to the board, says she will never support the adoption [...]

Encounters with a Nutcase

My friend Dave is an outspoken atheist and lived in Indy. He out this hilarious email last night to a bunch of friends, and gave me permission to share it with you:
About 2am last night I heard two guys arguing vehemently outside one of the buildings of my apartment complex.
Obviously I walked outside and became [...]

Knowledge or Excuses?

The Washington Post recently published the article Study Links Gene Variant in Men to Marital Discord. Recent research out of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm shows that men with multiple copies of a particular gene variant, which regulates the hormone vasopressin, are more likely to have troubled marriages and/or dissatisfied partners than men with only [...]

Evolution as symbol of the clash between Faith and Science

The New York Times ran an article, A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash, last Saturday. The article follows a teacher in the Florida education system and one of his Christian students. The teacher was instrumental in the adoption of the new Florida education standard that now requires all Florida public schools [...]

Ignorance is nonpartisan

Phil over at the Bad Astronomy Blog notes an interesting Gallup poll that asked participants whether they believed:

that God created humans exactly as they are now sometime in the last ten centuries,
or that humans developed over millions of years but with guidance from God,
or that humans developed over millions of years and God had no [...]