Posts tagged "creationism"
Daily Links 14 January 2005
Stickerless Science U.S. Federal Judge Clarence Cooper has dealt a strong blow to the Intelligent Design movement by ruling that a Georgia school district must remove the stickers it had placed in science textbooks telling students that evolution is an unproven theory, not a fact, and that they should approach their study of it with an open,...
Daily Links 08 December 2004
Dinosaurs Were Created, Too “Uneasy answering questions about radiocarbon dating? Rock layers? Natural selection? Do you want to believe in six literal days, but you’re still confused about the big bang or Grand Canyon? You’ll find answers here!” Metafilter plans a day-trip to “the world’s most unusual museum,” (sorry, Ripley’s), The Creation Museum, soon to open in Petersburg,...
Daily Links 07 December 2004
Schadenfreude Liberal mega-bloggers are indulging in some misplaced schadenfreude over the sad and ugly story of an Iowa Assemblies of God youth pastor charged with the sexual exploitation of a child — a 17-year-old congregant — the day after Bush introduced the man and his wife to the nation as good family values folks who’ve benefitted from...
Daily Links 04 December 2004
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Make ‘Em Join You Fast on the heels of the recent victories for “Intelligent Design” curriculum in public schools, comes the increasing popularity of this creationist meme, today transmitted by Rod Tussing, in The Arizona Republic: “Darwinism is an ‘interpretation’ of the world and its origin and, therefore, qualifies as a religion....
Darwin-Free Fun
Not everything at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationism theme park in Pensacoloa, Florida, is about dinosaurs. For instance, there’s the “Nerve-Wracking Ball,” “a bowling ball on a rope, dangling from a tall tree branch. A child stands before the ball, and then a park guide gives it a shove from a specific angle, so that it...
