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Are Creationist Beliefs Too Extreme for Creationists?

By Paul Wallace

…hallenged is, in my view, symptomatic of their profound ambivalence toward science. They are smitten with science. They see how powerful a tool it is for exploring and describing the world. They want a piece of it. But that’s all they get: a piece. Their theology, based as it is in a shallow and demonstrably false reading of scripture, just isn’t deep and wide enough to swallow all of science. So they queue up for “cafeteria science”: They like el…

In a Field of Anti-Science Candidates, Santorum Sets Himself Apart

By Lauri Lebo

…nator Bob Casey—quit the TMLC board. He also denounced the teaching of ID. Santorum said he wasn’t “comfortable with intelligent design being taught in the science classroom,” proving that not only is he anti-science, but he’s dishonest, too….

Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…iefs on the local schools. You’ve just proved how little you know not just about constitutional law but about the theory of evolution. Sadly, O’Donnell’s statement revealed a stunning lack of knowledge of both. As Harvey wrote to me: In the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board case we were trying to stop the school board from establishing the Christian faith (or at least one particular view of the Christian faith) in public school science class b…

Attacks on Science: Predictions for the New Year

By Lauri Lebo

…tian organization Louisiana Family Forum, have lost their battle to defeat science textbooks that include legitimate science. It’s doubtful that its creationist supporters are just going to accept defeat. So, look for them to try to sneak in anti-evolution supplemental materials into local local school districts. In other news, keep an eye out for ongoing developments about Kentucky’s planned $150 million Noah’s Ark theme park, which is receiving…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…the classroom. But they also studied the Koran and the Torah. They learned about Hinduism and Buddhism. All students must take a comparative religions class. The notion that this isn’t the case in the United States is surprising to the British. Unlike in the United States, where evangelicals preach that unless you are washed in the blood of Christ you will perish in hell, the British are less likely to be presented with such a strict religious dic…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…dyed-in-the-wool Pentecostal fundamentalist. All my life. She was serious about God, serious about the Bible, serious about how if you don’t do what the Bible says you’re going to hell. Plain and simple. And I remember one day having a sort of epiphany about my mother. And I said, you know, How do I reach my mother? Shirley and I had been together several years by that time and my relationship with my momma was kind of troubled. Cause she was oka…

Meditation Sickness: Everyone is Talking About How Nobody is Talking About The Risks of Meditation

By Ira Helderman

…r You As You Think: There Are Negative Side Effects That No One Ever Talks About,” and “The Side Effects of Meditation No One Talks About.” But this growth has been proportional to the continuing boom in media coverage of therapeutic meditation in general that remains overwhelmingly positive. Meanwhile, some meditation teachers respond to efforts to raise awareness about the existence of unpleasant meditation experiences by describing it as, essen…

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From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

…y use projects, and gained a vested interest in policing the boundaries of science. The term ‘pseudoscience’ gained popularity and was applied to UFOs and aliens, belief in which became the hallmark of not only bad science but also bad religion. Bowman does well to analyze science and religion as categories for claiming authority, rather than objective descriptions. Seeing UFOs came to be seen as a psychological problem or scientific illiteracy pr…

How Evangelical-Friendly Are Scientists? A Response

By Jonathan Orbell

…her findings 70% of self-identified evangelicals “do not view religion and science as being in conflict.” Aghapour highlights two glaring issues. First, although 70% of evangelicals may indeed view science and religion as compatible, he rightly notes that all other groups surveyed affirmed the compatability view at significantly higher rates than evangelicals. Second, while evangelicals may pay lip service to the ideal of more scientific collabora…

Is it Blasphemous to Describe Science as “Magic”?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ich takes the form of a barely observable particle, will reveal new truths about the underlying forces that produce their visible world. When you returned, would “science” or “religion” alone be a sufficient category for describing what you saw? When it came time to analyze Whiteson’s speech, it was clear that translation was a bad model: by assuming that there must be two clear and distinct languages, it overlooked all of the interesting hybrids…