DR USAMA Hasan, Vice Chairman of the Masjid Madrasah al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton High Road has invoked the wrath of fundamentalist hotheads who want him dead for daring to suggest that Muslims need to accept the theory of evolution. According to this report, a lecture given recently by Dr Hasan was disrupted by protesters who [...]
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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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WHEN the Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear recently announced a joint venture with creationist crackpot Ken “Dinosaurs walked with man” Ham to build a Noah’s Ark theme park, the rest of the world pointed and laughed. The laughter has now been overtaken by some rather awkward questions – the most important focusing on a feasibility [...]
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BY sponsoring a peg in return for a $100 dollar donation, or a plank ($1,000), or a beam ($5,000) you could help a bat-shit crazy creationist organisation build a replica of Noah’s Ark in the state of Kentucky. Earlier this week, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (Democrat) unveiled a plan to construct a creationist theme park [...]
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, [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
