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, [...]
IN THIS job one seldom has to wait long for some religious bozo to surface, thus enabling us to point and laugh. But having three turn up in as many days is a tad unusual. First we had mad Bryan Fischer, followed closely by dotty Prince Charles. Then today we were dealt a third lunatic [...]
EYEBROWS were raised – along with the collective fury of many Brits – when heir to the British throne Prince Charles this week exhorted the Western world to adopt Islamic principles in dealing with environmental issues. Lecturing on “Islam and the Environment” at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on Wedsnesday, His Royal Barminess said that: The [...]
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THIS weekend, to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, a “Big Nature Bioblitz” event will take place in Stanmer Park near Brighton. It has the worthy aim of engaging young would-be conservationists – but why on earth, wonders Dr Robert Stovold, of the Brighton & Hove Humanist Society – has religion been injected into [...]
NEWS has just come to light that a teacher at a Catholic school in Fort Dodge, Iowa, has been fired after saying in a Facebook survey she did not believe in God. Administrators of St Edmond Catholic School fired Abby Nurre, 27, late last year, just months after she was hired as an eighth-grade math [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
