Creationism - A Tippling Philosopher (Page 3)

Why don’t we just ban fundamentalist schools?

I posted a Guardian article about ACE (Christian fundamentalist) schooling. I have found the website of the author (Jonny Scaramanga) and came across this interesting post. See what you think:

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Are fundamentalist schools up to standard?

Biased political statements in Accelerated Christian Education schools' curriculum may be incompatible with new standardsAn Ace English test question. The 'correct' answer is b. The Accelerated Christian Education (Ace) group of fundamentalist schools has gone largely unnoticed by academic research

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Creationist stakes $10,000 on contest between Bible and evolution

I wonder what our very own Andy Schueler thinks of this, as an molecular evolutionary biologist! The Guardian reports: Creator of Literal Genesis Trial believes people who argue in favor of evolution are at a scientific disadvantage

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Megavolcanoes Tied to Pre-Dinosaur Mass Extinction: Apparent Sudden Climate Shift Could Have Analog Today

So meteorites aren't the sole culprits. I guess the question is, how do Creationists rationalise this entire gamut of evidence and research? [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] Along sea cliffs in southern England, geologist Paul Olsen of Columbia University's

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Old Earth, Young Minds: Evangelical Homeschoolers Embrace Evolution

This is a fascinating article. It amazes me that parents can torture their children with AIG inspired textbooks. This is an albeit small step in the right direction:

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AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHH!

No need to write a commentary about this. Just read it. Shit me.

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Dang. The Republicans: dinosaurs + people = pass your exams...?

Oh shit. UPDATE: On February 19, HB1674 passed through the Oklahoma Common Education committee on a 9-8 vote. In biology class, public school students can't generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But

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Endogenous Retroviruses as evidence for evolution

Here is a concise synopsis from Smilodon’s Retreat, here at SIN. I am fascinated with endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). It seems that they are simply not adequately explained on a creationism thesis. This usually entails trying to debunk them since they have no other answer!

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Four US states considering laws that challenge teaching of evolution

Oh dear. The Guardian reports: Four US states are considering new legislation about teaching science in schools, allowing pupils to to be taught religious versions of how life on earth developed in what critics say would establish a backdoor way of questioning the theory of evolution. Fresh legi

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Government changes rules to require Free Schools to teach evolution

Sorry, /i know I have posted a lot of news articles recently, but this one from the British Humanist Association has made me sooo happy: The Government has announced today that it has changed the rules governing Free Schools in order to require them to teach evolution. The British Humanist

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Creationism Controversies The Norm Among Potential Republican 2016 Contenders

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised eyebrows Monday when he told GQ he couldn't answer a question about the age of the earth because "I'm not a scientist, man." Having a top prospect for the 2016 presidential nomination say the age of the planet is "one of the great mysteries" comes at an awkward time

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Here Is What Louisiana Schoolchildren Learn About Evolution. I could cry.

Oh dear. Fifth graders in some state-sponsored schools in Louisiana study both creationism and evolution as competing theories. “Fact or Theory?”

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Intelligent Design is Creationism, just not Biblical (or Young Earth) Creationism

In their FAQ, the Discovery Institute write in response to the question "Is intelligent design theory the same as creationism?": "No. Intelligent design theory is simply an effort to empirically detect whether the "apparent design" in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine d

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Why do normal people believe ridiculous things?

Why, indeed, do normal people believe ridiculous things? We have heard much from John Loftus about the OTF – the Outsider Test for Faith – which essentially illustrates that religion is a (geographical) accident of birth. It claims that if believers used the same critical powers they use to assess,

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Creation Museum Attendance Drops for Fourth Straight Year

Some good news, courtesy of James McNair at City Beat. The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., created quite an uproar in 2007 when it opened with exhibits showing early humans co-existing with dinosaurs. Five years later, the public fascination with that take on paleoanthropology seems to be fading. This week,

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America's theologians of climate science denial

Now that Sandy has exacted a steep toll in lives and property, the question is unavoidable: why do so many people in America refuse to take climate science seriously? Rick Santorum at the RNC, in August 2012: the former presidential candidate has voiced Christian Dominionist ideas. Photograph:

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Evolution - don't throw the baby out with the bath water

I was having a discussion about evolution over on another thread of a post I made from the other day. After explaining a few misconceptions and showing that evolution really does have a good smorgasbord of evidence to support it as a theory in a way that promotes bewilderment in

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Does the world need yet another Creationist museum?

Here is an article from the Guardian in the UK. Another punch in the face to rationalism and serious science in supposedly the most advanced country in the world. Can't someone put a stop to this rabid stupidity? Creationists plan yet another museum for northern KentuckyCreation Science Hall