Archive for the 'Evolution and Creationism'

My dear friend Genie Scott has announced her retirement as the executive director of the National Center for Science Education at the end of this year. A peaceful retirement is certainly something she has well-earned after 26 years of leading the organization and doing more to protect science education than anyone else I can think of. And they’re now looking for a replacement: Read more

Uh oh, you guys. We evil atheists have made Ken Ham angry. You see, we “lashed out” at a Christian school in South Carolina after an image of a truly ridiculous “science” test given at the school was made public online and went viral. And now he’s clutching his pearls over it all. He even reveals the name of the school, which was previously unknown: Read more

Someone on Facebook pointed me to the Conservapedia entry on the National Center for Science Education and it’s rather amusing. The first sentence is going to leave you scratching your head a bit, though. It certainly does me. See if you can figure out what the hell this means: Read more

The ACLU is trying to get a Kansas school district to cancel a mandatory school assembly put on by the Creation Truth Foundation, an Oklahoma creationist group. The assembly is going to be about dinosaurs, which this group claims were in the Bible and lived alongside human beings. Read more

Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel bravely leaps into the field of science and, unsurprisingly, lands with a resounding thud. Read these two paragraphs, which betray either complete ignorance of the big bang and evolutionary theories or the deliberate construction of an absurd straw man: Read more