Tag Archives: creationism

It’s Darwin’s Birthday Today, But….

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s Darwin’s birthday today, which is a good excuse to note that his message may not have entirely got through. Here’s Gallup from June 2012: Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the … Continue reading →

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Testing the Flagship

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Kyle Plotkin (Gov Jindal’s communications director) responds to my earlier post on the Guardian’s report on Louisiana’s voucher schools as follows (I am publishing this with his permission): This is a complete red herring attack from … Continue reading →

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Time to Fix the Flagship

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: If there’s a policy that deserves to be a winner for the GOP (as well as being a thoroughly good thing in its own right), it is school choice and Bobby Jindal has done well to … Continue reading →

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Et Tu Obama?

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Slate’s Daniel Engber sighs over Rubio’s geology problems, but then gives us this extract from a Q&A with then Senator Obama at the Compassion Forum ( know, I know) at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. on April 13, 2008: Q: … Continue reading →

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Dumb sentence of the day

Posted on November 20, 2012 by David Hume

I Believe and Am Thankful: “Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty.” Yes, that’s how it goes in science. Aristotle’s ethics may be relevant for moderns, but his physics most certainly … Continue reading →

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Bad Start

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in an interview that he isn’t certain what the age of the earth is, and that parents should be able to teach their kids both scientific and religious attempts to answer … Continue reading →

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Darwin the Candidate

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The election results didn’t give me much to smile about, but here’s one exception. The Athens Banner-Herald reports: Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke County in balloting … Continue reading →

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Lies, All Lies, I Tell Ya

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s no news that Georgian congressman Paul Broun is a strange bird (he’s the clown who wanted to ban Playboy from the PX), well, here he is again (TPM reports): Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of … Continue reading →

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Would you Adam and Eve it?

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s Ann Coulter: Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were “gaps” in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New … Continue reading →

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Fiscal priorities, never mind

Posted on April 10, 2011 by David Hume

Congressional Republicans may have been willing to sell social conservatives down the river, but not so the Republican party of Tennessee. Creationism Gains Ground in Tennessee: Tennessee House Bill 368, the creationist friendly legislation that we have previously covered on … Continue reading →

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