THE stupidification of American children continues at depressing speed …
According to this report, Christian-based teaching materials dominate an escalating home-school education market encompassing more than 1.5 million students.
And for most home-school parents, a Bible-based version of the Earth’s creation is exactly what they want.
Federal statistics from 2007 show 83 percent of home-schooling parents want to [...]
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SCIENCE still has a way to go in Texas, where a new poll suggests that a majority in the Lone Star State – albeit a slim one – reject evolution.
The poll also noted:
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time.
This prompted David Prindle, a professor of government [...]
GUEST blogger Dr Robert Stovold weighs up some Creationist arguments, and finds them wanting.
Having tried (and failed) to smuggle Creationism into schools in the guise of “Intelligent Design”, Creationists now have another Trojan Horse strategy – bundling their ideas with Darwin’s masterpiece itself in the form of a Creationist introduction to Darwin’s On the Origin [...]
A BRITISH film about Charles Darwin has failed to secure a US distributor because the theory of evolution is considered too controversial for American audiences, according to a report this weekend in the Telegraph.
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of Species. [...]
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A WHILE back I received an email from someone called Terry in Bristol regarding a creationist zoo in his area. He wrote:
I thought readers might be interested in this little titbit. Last month, I was wandering through Broadmead, which is the main shopping drag in Bristol. Posters for Broadmead’s competitions and events were on display [...]
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WE predicted last month that a planned visit to Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, by P Z Myers – along with members of the Secular Students’ Alliance – would turn out to be a barrel of laughs.
We were wrong. The visit yesterday turned out to be a muted affair. The visitors strongly resisted [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
