Larry Moran has written a post in which he presents an opposite view of what I stated here. My statements merely echo those of the National Center for Science Education, the US. Supreme Court, and others because I believe that the “Teaching of the Controversy” should not be allowed in public school science classrooms. […]

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The following is an abstract from an article by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education called “WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE “TEACH THE CONTROVERSY” SLOGAN?” available here.
Teachers are often exhorted by creationists to “teach the controversy.” Although such encouragement sounds on the surface like a […]

According to Randy Moore, who is possibly the nation’s leading expert on law and practice of the Evolution/Creationism struggle:
According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American university, most high-school biology teachers teach evolution. Approximately 25% of students who attended public schools report that their biology teachers also taught creationism, despite the […]

Staphylococcus aureus is a nasty, antibiotic resistant killer bacterium. This bacterium is widespread in hospitals, and is one of the main reasons why people sometimes get sicker when they go to a hospital to get cured of something else.

The human rights monitoring Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved (48-25 vote) a report criticizing creationism, and determining that teaching creationism in schools potentially sacrifices chidlren’s education by imposing religious dogma.Castle, Stephen. “European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism. International Herald Tribune.

European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism
The vote […]

From Public Expresses Mixed Views of Islam, Mormonism, a recent Pew Research Center poll.

Percent
categorical opinion of:
Favorable
Unfavorable
No Opinion

Jews
76
9
15

Catholics
76
14
10

Evangelical
Christians
60
19
21

Mormons
53
27
20

Muslim
Americans
53
29
18

Muslims
43
35
22

Atheists
35
53
12

I find it ironic that only Jews can really be practicing and atheists at the same time.
And why are atheists in this survey to begin with? Is this good news for atheists? Atheism […]

17th century Arabic anatomy drawing, from the Advances of Islamic Sciences web site. In some Islamic sects, drawing living things is not allowed. As a very practical matter, this excludes students from taking part in certain activities in science classrooms.
During the Bell Museum Slapdown panel last week, Myers brought up differences […]

… about this. From RichardDawkins.net

An Open Letter to YouTube Video:
The Rational Response Squad have lost their YouTube account, which is the account that we’ve been posting videos with ever since we lost ours. Apparently “Creation Science Evangelism Ministries” had been submitting false DMCA copyright requests and after RRS came to their defense, they were […]

The It Is Written Guy telling us how absolutely fabulous Out of Thin Air will be. Personally, I think they pulled this Ouf of Their Ass. But I have not seen it yet, so who’s to say?
It Is Written is, according the their web site:
… an international Christian television ministry … […]

Should we kill?

Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.”
Leviticus 24:17 “And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.”

vs

Exodus 32:27 “Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, . . . and slay every man his brother, . . . companion, . . . neighbor.”
I Samuel […]

Woman praying outside the boundary of her local school.
Austin Cline has a valuable summary of a law suit filed against a Teas school district.
The district had students in each school vote on having prayer at high school graduation ceremonies. Americans United filed the suit on behalf of some of the parents […]

supporters are the liars and scum we thought they were.
This is a story that I spotted on Pharyngula of Chris Heard, an Associate Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University.
The Bible
Some years ago, Professor Heard was approached by a crew producing something on Old Testament stories, and he agreed to […]

Kathy Griffin trying to appear as innocent as possible. Keep in mind: She is a comedian.
Before today, I had never heard of Kathy Griffin. It turns out that she is a comedian and actor, and came to my attention because she said out loud things that I and many […]

Kathy Griffin contemplating the possibility that she is going to hell.
Christians Demand Apology:

Academy to censor Kathy Griffin; Still no apology
Last Saturday, Griffin, upon winning the award for Outstanding Reality Program, blurted out a scripted remark, ‘Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now.’
Responding to complaints from the Catholic League, the Academy of Television […]

Concerning the case:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
LARRY CALDWELL,
Plaintiff,
v.
ROSEVILLE JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT; JAMES JOINER and R. JAN PINNEY, in their
official capacities as members of the […]