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, [...]
THE Templeton Prize, which we reported on earlier this week, has been awarded to Professor Francisco Ayala, who insists that that attacking religion and ridiculing believers forces people to choose between God and Darwin. He singled out Richard Dawkins for criticism. Richard Dawkins has been a friend for more than 20 years, but it is [...]
The John Templeton Foundation, that’s what. And Richard Dawkins (among others) is furious over the fact that this body of faith-heads has managed to infiltrate the NAS, which has agreed to host the 2010 Templeton Prize this Thursday, March 25. The Templeton Prize was established to recognise: Exemplary achievement in discoveries regarding life’s spiritual dimension. [...]
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THE stupidification of American children continues at depressing speed … According to this report, Christian-based teaching materials dominate an escalating home-school education market encompassing more than 1.5 million students. And for most home-school parents, a Bible-based version of the Earth’s creation is exactly what they want. Federal statistics from 2007 show 83 percent of home-schooling [...]
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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 
