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Signs of the controversy in Canada
2007-10-24 18:00:00 Reports indicate that a growing number of science teachers are bowing to pressure from parents who want creationism or intelligent design taught in public schools. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Teachers in Britain suddenly caught in the evolution debate
2007-10-17 18:00:00 The number of British students who believe in creationism is rising sharply. Many teachers are uncomfortable with addressing creationism in their science classrooms. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Scientists hoodwinked by documentary filmmakers
2007-10-10 18:00:00 Controversy surrounds a new documentary film hosted by Ben Stein and titled Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film criticizes scientists and educators for suppressing intelligent design theory. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Europe poised to ban creationism in schools
2007-10-03 18:00:00 The British government has issued a new set of guidelines that prohibit the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in science classes. More About: Science , Society , Europe , Education , Events
A church-state controversy erupts in New Jersey
2007-09-26 18:00:00 In New Jersey, high school student Matthew LaClair secretly tape-recorded a teacher to prove that he was preaching a pro-Christian, anti-science message to students. More About: Science , Society , Church , Education , Events
Another academic makes a case for intelligent design
2007-09-12 18:00:00 A professor of internal medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia recently praised intelligent design theory to an audience of 100 colleagues. More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Society , Education , Design
In Texas, a surprising victory for science
2007-09-12 18:00:00 Despite their pro-creation personal views, members of the Texas State Board of Education have voted to keep intelligent design out of public school science classes. More About: Science , Society , Victory , Events
The Kentucky tourism board promotes the controversial Creation Museum
2007-09-05 18:00:00 A Kentucky scientist is furious at the state visitor bureau for it's favorable description of the controversial Creation Museum. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Conservative Christian takes the helm of the Texas school board
2007-08-29 18:00:00 Don McLeroy, the new chair of the Texas state Board of Education , is threatening to throw out high school biology books because they don't list weaknesses in the theory of evolution. More About: Science , Society , Christian , Events
Darwin under fire in Poland
2007-08-22 18:00:00 In a public outburst, Poland's deputy education minister criticized evolution theory as a lie that science has cleverly sought to legitimize. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Is Wikipedia biased against intelligent design?
2007-08-15 18:00:00 The Discovery Institute has been reporting unfair and erroneous Wikipedia entries on intelligent design that are biased against the theory. More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Society , Education , Design
The Creation Museum planetarium proves the universe is only thousands of ye
2007-08-08 18:00:00 Ken Ham's Creation Museum planetarium uses blue supergiant stars to prove that the universe is very young -- only thousands of years old. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Creationism on sale at the Grand Canyon
2007-08-01 18:00:00 Despite repeated complaints, bookstores at the Grand Canyon are still selling a book that claims the canyon was created by the biblical flood. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Atlas of Creation makes an academic splash in the US
2007-07-20 18:00:00 University professors across the US have been seeing the Atlas, a Muslim creationist coffee table book, in their mailboxes this week. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
New poll figures on American's view of creation
2007-07-18 18:47:00 In a recent poll of American adults, 48% said they believe that God, in a single act, created human beings in their present form, sometime within the last 10,000 years. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
The bible meets biology in an Oregon classroom
2007-07-11 18:47:00 In the biology class he taught, Kris Helphinstine referred repeatedly to the Bible and gave a PowerPoint presentation that linked evolution, Nazi Germany, and Planned Parenthood. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
The Scopes Monkey Trial hits Broadway
2007-07-04 18:47:00 Now playing on Broadway: a play that tackles the U.S. debate over Darwin's theory of evolution. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Australian clergy push for intelligent design in public schools
2007-06-29 18:00:00 Catholic and Anglican archbishops in Australia have said that intelligent design theory should be taught in public and private schools. More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Society , Education , Design
Brits protest eccentric millionaire for pushing Creationism in his privatel
2007-06-25 18:00:00 Protests were held recently outside the office of Sir Peter Vardy, a British multimillionaire who has funded several state schools and colleges accused of promoting creationism in their curriculum. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Culture Wars in Kenya
2007-06-22 18:00:00 The National Museum of Kenya is home to the bones of the famous Homo erectus man, discovered by anthropologist Richard Leaky. But the bones may soon become banned. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Culture
South Carolina questions the theory of evolution
2007-06-15 18:00:00 New teaching standards in South Carolina public high schools encourage science teachers to criticize evolution theory. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
The US Department of Education makes a quick come back
2007-06-12 01:16:00 After being accused of discriminating against evolutionary biology students by excluding them from a science grant program, the Department of Education quickly back-pedaled. More About: Science , Society , Events , Evolution
Britain's National Academy of Science reprimands teachers for bringing reli
2007-06-05 01:12:00 Schools have come under attack by Britain's National Academy of Science for misrepresenting evolution in order to promote Christian dogma. More About: Society , Education , Events
A typo gets the US Department of Education in hot water
2007-06-02 01:03:00 An education grant rewarding excellence in science has mysteriously omitted evolutionary biology from its list of eligible majors. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Baby Dinosaurs in Noah's Ark!
2007-05-28 17:19:00 Yes, there were baby dinosaurs in Noah's Ark, according to Australian evangelist Ken Ham, whose Creation Musuem opens this Memorial Day. More About: Science , Society , Education , Baby , Events
Bill Maher sneaks into the Creation Museum
2007-05-25 18:00:00 Left-wing political satirist Bill Maher may be the first celebrity to visit the Creation Museum, the 27 million dollar crowning achievement of evangelical Ken Ham opening this Memorial Day. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Public mockery is still free publicity
2007-05-24 17:17:00 Foreign media and science critics are sniggering at exhibits explaining how baby dinosaurs fit on Noah's Ark and Cain married his sister to people the earth. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Internet petitions oppose the Creation Museum
2007-05-23 18:00:00 Petitions asking educators to voice their opposition to evangelical Ken Ham's Creation Museum have begun to circulate on the Internet . More About: Science , Society , Education , Events
A new skirmish in the war between God & Science
2007-05-22 18:00:00 Ken Ham?s Creation Museum may become the biggest controversy yet in the God vs. Science wars. More About: Society , Education , Events , Evolution
Trying to have it both ways
More articles from this author:2007-05-21 18:14:00 William Dembski, a leading intelligent design theorist, has an apparent knack for parlaying his theory into one-size-fits-all proselytizing. More About: Science , Society , Education , Events , Evolution 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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