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 parents want to [...]
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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 Origin [...]
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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WE predicted last month that a planned visit to Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, by P Z Myers – along with members of the Secular Students’ Alliance – would turn out to be a barrel of laughs.
We were wrong. The visit yesterday turned out to be a muted affair. The visitors strongly resisted [...]
A FEDERAL judge in the US has cleared the way for the government’s seizure of Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, Florida.
A ruling last week said the nine properties that make up the creationist park, and two bank accounts associated with it will be used to satisfy $430,400 in restitution owed to the federal government.
Kent Hovind, [...]
ON August 7, P Z Myers, creator of the popular religion-crushing blog, Pharyngula, will be touring the multi-million dollar Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.
Myers has long mocked and ridiculed Ken Ham’s infamous, biblically-literal museum, but so far has not visited this “monument to scientific illiteracy”.
However, the Secular Student Alliance – as part of its 2009 [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
