A BUNCH of lame-brained members of the Indiana state Senate recently made complete asses of themselves when they passed a bill to promote creationism in public schools. Sponsored by Republican Dennis Kruse, the new bill was worded thus: The governing body of a school corporation may offer instruction on various theories of the origin of [...]
FUNDING is to be withdrawn from any free school in England and Wales that teaches “evidence-based views or theories” that run “contrary to established scientific and/or historical evidence and explanations”. According to this report – following a campaign by the British Humanist Association – the Department for Education has revised its model funding agreement, allowing [...]
EARLIER this year, the UK’s Department for Education issued guidance on how to apply for free school or academy status. Guidelines included the requirement that: Creationism, intelligent design and similar ideas must not be taught as valid scientific theories. But, according to this report, critics point out that there is nothing statutory to prevent such [...]
GOOD sense has triumphed over biblical bullshit in Texas. On Friday, the State Board of Education voted unanimously to approve sound-science materials for public school biology courses. By a 14-0 vote, the board chose to approve supplemental materials from mainstream publishers, not creationist crap from Religious Right-backed suppliers of dodgy Bible-bases hypotheses. According to this [...]
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AND this one speaks volumes about the rapid growth of the recently launched Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS). At the end of April this year, we carried an exclusive interview with Levi Chui Monton, corporate secretary of PATAS, and have since kept in close touch. Founded to promote atheism, agnosticism, humanism, atheism, rational thinking, [...]
HOARSE and coughing, the Pope used a service in Rome to tell the faithful that humanity was not a random product of evolution. Ratzinger, according to this report, emphasised the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily, saying it was wrong to think at some point: In some tiny corner of the cosmos [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
