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Student To Michele Bachmann: “Presidential Candidates Shouldn’t be able to Make Stuff Up”

By Lauri Lebo

…hmann goes around saying, as she did in 2006, that she knows of Nobel Prize-winning scientists who believe in intelligent design. On Friday, Kopplin testified before the Louisiana Senate, urging them to support SB 70, which would have repealed LSEA. But the bill died in committee and LSEA still stands. Here he is testifying here. In his testimony, he explains the difference to lawmakers between a scientific theory and the popular use of the word t…

Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…o the toilet, FTE editors quickly went through the manuscript with a search-and-replace word processor option, taking out “creation science” and replacing it with “intelligent design”. Really. That’s all they did. But when the Kitzmiller legal team went through the earlier creation science version of Pandas and compared it to the intelligent design one, they noticed that other than those small wording changes, practically nothing else had been alt…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…alidity of evolution. In what was a confusing and convoluted flurry of back-and-forth motions—during which science experts who had testified earlier in the week were not permitted to come back and address the proposals—the board finally agreed to what some board members thought was compromise language. After ignoring a petition from fifty-four scientific and educational societies urging the board to reject language that misrepresents or undermines…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…ry’s arm [see image above]. They say the burn, which in photos show an 8-by-4-inch mark on his forearm, raised blisters, kept their son awake that night, and lasted for several weeks. At first glance, they saw the mark as a religious emblem. But their first concern was less about religion and more about what they considered to be a case of a teacher injuring their son. Their accusations and their resulting lawsuit against the district have brought…

The Man of Science vs. The Man of Faith: Richard Dawkins Spars with Stephen Colbert

By Byron R. McCane and Dan Mathewson

…er cups.” And so Colbert struck a blow for intelligent design. In this made-for-late-night TV confrontation between the Man of Faith and the Man of Science, the winner very clearly was the viewing audience. Even by Stephen Colbert’s lofty comedic standards, this interview was a hilarious hit. What made it a hit was Colbert’s genius parody of the well-known and eminently mockable cultural trope of the woefully naïve proponent of intelligent design….

Louisiana Citizens Horrified that there’s Evolution in Science Books

By Lauri Lebo

…“supplemental textbooks,” which are just code words for creationist and pro-intelligent design materials. Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, co-founder of Louisiana Citizens for Science and one of the creationist movement’s most damning critics, said she believes the complaints are merely a tactic to get disclaimers (Warning: These books teach evolution!) added to the textbooks, or pave the way for the in…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…lliance Defending Freedom in Latin America. The report documents the behind-the-scenes work ADF is doing at the Organization of American States and its Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The push into Latin America follows earlier expansion of its presence in Europe. Today, ADF is one of the largest conservative legal organizations in the United States, with a budget dwarfing those of sister groups like the Becket Fund and Liberty Counsel….

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…rejecting—or remaining totally unaware of—the personalists’ particular anti-liberal and anti-secular understanding of this concept. Moyn acknowledges in passing that the rhetoric of rights and the person may have prevailed precisely because of the “indeterminacy” of its conceptual content. Yet he never reckons with the implications for his argument as a whole. Instead, he quietly exchanges concepts for tropes or tropes for concepts depending on wh…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…rait of the aftermath of 9/11, I think it will resonate with all of the non-Americans who have followed the real-life version. And many of the novel’s questions are universal: how do you decide what you believe, and how do you act on that? How do you balance loyalty to the dead and the living, to family and country, and to yourself? How do private histories or personal insecurities shape public dramas—and thus the course of history? The Submission…

MLK Monument That Never Was, is a Reminder of the King Too Often Ignored

By Ed Simon

…es was giving final due respect to the legacy of one of our most important human rights activists, a theologian instrumental in not just adapting his faith into a doctrine of emancipation, but whose rhetoric helped to encapsulate the full covenantal potential of America. As only the fourth non-president with a memorial on the National Mall, and the first African American, King’s statue would be rightly seen as a proud moment whereby the nation rec…