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In reality, Nye is saying, “Your theory shouldn’t be taught in schools, but my theory should. Your assumptions aren’t acceptable, but my assumptions are.” ...
When a public school teacher walks into his or her biology classroom, he or she cannot legally teach creationism or intelligent design. In late 2004, the local school board in Dover, Pennsylvania ...
Radical creationists don’t hate the idea of their children learning evolutionary theory, but they do hate—with good reason—any notion that public schools will treat their children’s faith ...
Why Creationism Bears All the Hallmarks of a Conspiracy Theory In the US today, up to 40% of adults agree with the young Earth creationist claim that all humans are descended from Adam and Eve ...
In what’s being heralded as a secular triumph, the UK government has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all existing and future academies and free schools. The new clauses, which ...
I first began investigating creationist school vouchers as my part of my fight against creationism in my home state of Louisiana. Activist and student Zack Kopplin. Jan. 16, 2013, 3:56 PM EST ...
The argument for I.D., and for "scientific creation theory" before it, is that evolution isn't up to the task of accounting for life. Given biology's complexity, ...
Using a phrase employed by creationists even before the Scopes trial in 1925, the labels described evolution as “a theory, not a fact,” while remaining silent about creationism.
Creationists have devised a theory called “Intelligent Design” (ID) and are trying to get Ohio’s Board of Education to make sure it’s taught alongside Darwinism.
In a sane world, the ringing denunciation of intelligent design and creationist "science" delivered by a federal judge in 2005 would have eradicated these concepts from the schoolroom.
It suggests that creationism itself could be seen as a belief system involving the ultimate conspiracy theory: the purposeful creation of all things. Stephan Lewandowsky is chair of Cognitive ...
Floyd labels those who want to include the theory of creation as a part of school curriculum “anti-science dinosaurs,” “religious cranks,” and “blowhards,” apparently for believing ...