Your Pseudoscience Beach Read: Creationist Infighting Edition
As Joe Laycock noted here on RD, another creation museum called the “Northwest Science Museum” recently opened in…
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Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?
In a recent article in the New Republic psychologist Paul Bloom charges that the evangelical scientist is using the same logic as those who push ID. Is he right?
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Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege
Will the challenge to build “an homage to the historic/literary Satan” at Oklahoma’s capital actually change anything?
Read MoreThe Explanation for Everything
Ten questions for the author of a novel inspired by a landmark Intelligent Design case discusses what it’s like to create a Darwinian blowhard, and more.
Read MoreCreationists Portray New Science Standards As “Big Government”
There are only two significant problems with that charge.
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Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster
With a PhD in philosophy of science from Cambridge, the author of the latest argument for intelligent design isn’t your typical creationist hack, but he is something of a huckster; the flaw in his argument is difficult to spot because it is so blatantly obvious.
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Atheist Monument: Proof of Unintelligent Design
The right to erect a monument, for any cause, is an opportunity. It’s a chance to lend dignity and consequence to a public space. A monument is also an aesthetic opportunity. It doesn’t have to be beautiful, but a successful monument makes it hard to imagine its setting without it. The American Atheists monument fails on both counts.
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The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence
Both an intellectual history and a spiritual memoir, God in Proof is the story of “the search for proofs for God’s existence”—how dozens of world-historical thinkers have applied logic and reason to questions of faith.
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.
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