THERE is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said. According to BBC today, Hawking had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science, but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. [...]
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FOR “some time” Kentucky astrophysicist and creationist nut-job Jason Lisle has been grappling with the “distant starlight problem”. This, he explains: Is the issue of how starlight from the most distant galaxies is able to reach earth within the biblical timescale. Although light is incredibly fast, the most distant galaxies are incredibly far away. So, [...]
A FEDERAL judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a creationism “think tank” and school which tried to lumber Texas with dodgy master’s degrees in science education. In 2008, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board rejected the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research‘s application to offer ludicrous master’s degrees, which taught science from a biblical perspective. [...]
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THE Russian Orthodox Church this week called for an end to the “monopoly of Darwinism” in Russian schools, saying religious explanations of creation should be taught alongside evolution. But opponents, according to this report, said they would fight efforts to include religious teaching in schools. Russia’s dominant church has experienced a revival in recent years, [...]
UNTIL a week or so ago, Bruce K Waltke, a prominent evangelical Old Testament scholar in the US, was a highly respected professor at America’s Reformed Theological Seminary, which has campuses across the country. But then he blew his position by featuring in a video posted on the BioLogos Foundation website. In a talk about [...]
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THE father of a Knox County, Tennessee, public school student has lost the second round of his battle to have the school board ban a high school biology textbook which he says is biased against Christians. Kurt Zimmerman demanded that the book be removed from the school after his son drew his attention to a [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
