USA Today reports on Ball State creationism class

Just a quickie: Seth Slabaugh’s piece on Eric Hedin’s shameful class in creationism and Christian proselytizing at Ball State University, published yesterday in the Muncie (Indiana) Star Press, has been picked up and reprinted—at least online—by USA Today, the country’s most widely-read newspaper. I suspect Ball State is getting a wee bit nervous about the […]

Creationist neurosurgeon speaks at yet another commencement

Dr. Benjamin Carson, a Seventh-Day Adventist neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, and also an outspoken young-earth creationist, was invited to give the commencement address at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. (I’ve posted before about his giving a similar address at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.) Carson is apparently a brilliant surgeon, but how does […]

Readers’ wildlife photos: the malachite sunbird (a creationist icon)

Reader Richard, who lives near Cape Town, South Africa, sent some photos he took of a malachite sunbird, and noted this: A Nectarinia famosa visits our garden each year when these flowers emerge. Sunbirds, including this species, are the Old World equivalent of hummingbirds: an example of convergent evolution. They make their living, like hummingbirds, […]

Panorama from Grandfather Mountain (and a creationist teacher)

UPDATE:  I’ve received an apologetic post from Mr. Eastman, which he tried to post on the picture page, where nobody would see it. I’ve therefore put it here for the record: Dear Jerry : I am very sorry I wrote on a blog without thinking in a reactive manner> I did not want to enter […]

Is there any hope for people like this?

Stuff like this shows up every day in my inbox, and I usually don’t let it through, but I suppose it’s salutary from time to time to let readers see it. This post came with the reader’s name: Hassan Badr : ) commented on Talk in North Carolina next week Dear Evolutionists, I stand before you here […]

Peter Hitchens tries (and fails) to respond to me about evolution

Peter Hitchens has been promising for a while to respond to my criticism of his views on evolution. His main beef is, to wit, that he considers evolution possible but not strongly supported. To use his words: I am perfectly prepared to accept the possibility, dispiriting though it would be, that evolution by natural selection […]

Kansas public school mandates “Creation Truth Foundation” assemblies

by Greg Mayer According to The Raw Story, Hugoton [Kansas] Public Schools invited Creation Truth Foundation’s founder Dr. G. Thomas Sharp to teach the “Truth about Dinosaurs” at two assemblies next week. At least one of the assemblies will be mandatory for all students and teachers. You’ve probably never heard of the Creation Truth Foundation […]

Why do people pretend that religion isn’t responsible for creationism?

If there’s one characteristic of faitheists and accommodationists when facing the issue of American creationism, it’s their refusal to see the palpable fact that religion is the source of that creationism. While this seems trivially obvious to those who have followed the creation/evolution controversy, people like Chris Mooney, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller and the like […]

Latest Gallup Poll on U.S. acceptance of evolution: flatlined, as usual

This Gallup poll is about ten months old, but I don’t think I’ve posted it before, and I like to update the statistics since the same poll is given every year. The question, too, is always the same (see below) and deals specifically with human evolution. Here are the overall data: Gallup’s summary is this: […]

Business Insider screws up evolution reporting

Business Insider (founded in 2009) is an up-and-coming website that seems to be a must-read for financial folks, rivalling the online Wall Street Journal. It’s like HuffPo, having some original content but also many links to other pieces. And the articles are short and easily-digested, just right for the harried capitalist who has to make […]