HERE are two encouraging snapshots from The Esquire Survey of The American Woman, published in the May 2010 edition: And, off-topic admittedly, is another:
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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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RATHER belatedly I have just come across a book review in the New Scientist which not only rips into creationists and “intelligent design” proponents, but criticises John C Avise – author of Inside the Human Genome: A case for non-intelligent design – for attempting to reconcile evolution and religion. Avise is an evolutionary geneticist at [...]
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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 -Â 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
