One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough
In a famous 1958 address commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s…
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Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry
The average American might not realize that the prejudices and superstitions that underlie the push…
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Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’
We are all like Sanders and other conservative white evangelicals insofar as we all have confirmation bias, making it difficult for us to accept evidence contrary to what we already believe, but the history and faith practices of white evangelicals offer an additional set of tools of belief.
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The God of the Holocene Epoch Is Dead: Religion’s Fatal Flaw
The “world religions” suffer from their provenance. They are, one and all, children of the…
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A New Book Explains How the Christian Right Has Gotten Selective Denial Down to a Science
Author Antony Alumkal answers RD’s 10 Questions
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How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics
“Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.”
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Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution
What is remarkable is not even how many times Axe repeats the same argument, but how many times this same argument has been repeated by intelligent design (ID) proponents before him.
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Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists Their Next School Strategy?
Since the 1990s the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank, has tried to make it easier…
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Larycia Hawkins’ Actual Violation of Wheaton’s Statement of Faith Hints at the School’s True Intentions
It’s been established by now that Dr. Hawkins’ assertion that Muslims and Christians worship the same…
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The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe
Creationism, like baseball, is an American pastime. And, like baseball, creationism can feel like a…
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