Bill Nye Video Riles Creationists
Really? Are we having this discussion?
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Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents
How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states? Where did the energy come from? While pundits still insist that he won’t topple the moneyed Mitt—whose campaign still generates about as much excitement as the winter sport of curling—Santorum is holding onto the spotlight long enough to put religious populism front and center.
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Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism
Instead of science facilities or even churches.
Read MoreID, Please Come Out
Another week, another piece of anti-science legislation.
Read MoreCreationists and Dawkins Agree: Science Rules Religion
New anti-evolution legislation reiterates this odd agreement.
Read MoreRick Warren’s Illiteracy Problem
The mega-pastor’s views on evolution don’t seem to be evolving.
Read MoreAre Creationist Beliefs Too Extreme for Creationists?
They want science the way they want it, not the way it is.
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Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben
Author/activist Bill McKibben led this past weekend’s encirclement of the White House urging the the Obama Administration to block construction of a 1,700-mile pipeline to transport tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf. As McKibben savored a new protest-triggered State Department inquiry into a too-cozy environmental review process related to the pipeline, contributing editor Peter Laarman caught up with him on some religious dimensions of climate-change activism.
Read MoreEvangelical: Why Do Many Evangelicals Get Science From a Creationist?
Religion and science in couples therapy.
Read MoreNeuroscience Says Evil is “Over”: Not So Fast…
What scientists discover and what they say about it are two different things.
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