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 [...]
YEMENI cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani explains all that is wrong with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Darwin, he says, may have concocted his theory as a result of having “hidden psychological feelings”.
Here is an extract from the learned cleric’s TV address:
[The Darwinists] say: ‘Look at this creature. We found it in a lower stratum, and we [...]
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 [...]
STARTLING news from the Vatican today: The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a conference on astrobiology, the study of life beyond Earth.
According to the Telegraph, for centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life elsewhere in the universe would mean for the Church: at least since Giordano Bruno, an Italian monk, was [...]
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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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TAKE, for example, the row that erupted at the Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia, Missouri, over this cool T-shirt:
The shirts, designed to promote the band’s fall programme, are light gray and feature an image of a monkey progressing through stages and eventually emerging as a man. Each figure holds a brass instrument. Several instruments decorate [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
