AHEAD of last Saturday’s celebrations across the world of Charles Darwin’s birth (February 12, 1809) Secular News Daily used the occasion to highlight attempts to derail the teaching of evolution and weaken science education in public schools in the US. They quoted Bill Nye, “The Science Guy”, as saying that teachers’ reluctance to teach Darwin’s [...]
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HALF of the respondents in a British poll do not accept the theory of evolution as accounting for the world’s existence, according to a new report – entitled Rescuing Darwin – by the religious thinktank Theos. Published on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on February 12, the report reveals that only 25 per [...]
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A MEMBER of the British Humanist Association, Rupert Young, is challenging “the authority and exclusivity of the Church of England” by means of a petition calling on Westminster Abbey to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Says Young: Darwin was undoubtedly one of this country’s greatest scientists and one of the world’s most [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
