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To: Discovery Institute;
Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…had a bit of a snit on DI’s Evolution News last week over the issue of peer-reviewed intelligent design research—a topic I’ll revisit soon. This week, DI fellow and spokesman John West is upset over the fact that I didn’t appropriately credit those at Discovery for their creationist tactics. West objects to this paragraph: As always, since intelligent design was ruled unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the introduced bills rely on such creat…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…ttendance at previous iterations of the FRC Summit in DC, less than 200 out-of-town attendees feels paltry. Next year’s summit is already planned for DC. George Barna, senior research fellow at the FRC, announces in his opening speech that America is in crisis due to the scourge of “syncretism.” According to Barna, there are several worldviews in America through which people interpret the world and their lives. The only correct worldview is of cou…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…tely so, wielding prayer like a cudgel. The Pennsylvania legislator’s Jesus-laden, jaw-dropping prayer uttered to intimidate the state’s first female Muslim legislator. A preacher echoed this prayer, telling the Virginia House of Delegates that “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.” The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Baptists to an eternity of torture and…

White Evangelicals More Likely to Watch Fox, Fear Shari’ah Law

By Sarah Posner

…ericans’ attitudes towards the hearings planned by House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Peter King (R-NY) into what he claims is extremism in the American Muslim community. While the headline on the survey results is “Majority of Americans Say Congressional Hearings on Alleged Extremism In Muslim Communities Are ‘Good Idea,’” the data actually show not that many respondents had actually heard about King’s hearings. The group that was most…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…ies that intersect religion and science, there was some good news, some not-so-good news and some downright depressing news. Of course, no list of the top science/religion stories can be done without first acknowledging the obvious political agenda some religious conservatives have in fostering this divide, and sadly, Rick Santorum is still at it. The former Pennsylvania senator, who has long led efforts to combat the teaching of evolution in publ…

Latest Shroud of Turin Theory: Nuclear Emissions

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ast, a mystery.” In 1989, three very small samples of the Shroud were radio-carbon-dated in separate labs in Arizona, Oxford, and Zurich, using an already-dated non-Shroud sample of cloth as a control. These tests, as the journal Nature put it, “provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is mediaeval.” That is to say, not nearly old enough to be Jesus’s burial shroud. But for 25 years, people invested in proving the Shroud’s…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…deficit” within them, especially in the Arab world. The more painstakingly-researched responses to such a question have focused on structural and cultural factors—for example, the rentier economies in some of the wealthiest Arab nations which allow for oil revenues that are generated to accrue primarily to small elites, in addition to tribal and social organizations that promote a culture of authoritarianism. Outside of the Arab world, there are…

The Mormon Girl’s Guide to Equal Opportunity in the Workplace

By Joanna Brooks

…concepts. 3. Hand-quilt cover. Pipe edges. Applique flowers. Counted cross-stitch optional. (Sample below.) 4. Spend decades getting all the education and experience you can while devising ingenious workarounds and coping strategies for challenges like gendered pay disparities ($.77 on the dollar), limited access to reliable, affordable child care, absence of paid maternity leave (the U.S. being one of three nations in the world not to guarantee…

Gospel and Country Legend Charlie Louvin dies at 83

By Lauri Lebo

…est known for his work with his brother Ira, the hard-drinking and on-again-off-again born-again member of the Louvin Brothers duo, who was killed in a car crash in 1965. Charlie went on to build a successful solo career and his music had undergone something of a resurgence in the 1990s with the popularity of Americana, becoming the idol of such musicians as Jeff Tweedy, Marty Stuart and Elvis Costello, all of whom recorded with him. In 2001, the…

Did Religious Universities Just Get a License to Discriminate?

By Patricia Miller

…that oppose same-sex marriage and gender nonconformity seek to create ever-widening oases of mid-twentieth century sexual morals that punish LGBT individuals and women who have sex outside of marriage. In fact, one of the universities granted an exemption, Belmont Abby College, a Catholic institution, was one of the very first to file a lawsuit against the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act. In its request to the U.S. Department of…