A new President for BioLogos, but no progress on the Adam and Eve question

Alert reader Sigmund keeps a weather eye on the doings of the accommodationist organization BioLogos. Founded by Francis Collins, who resigned when he became director of the National Institutes of Health, BioLogos had the goal of turning evangelical Christians towards accepting evolution. They proposed to do this by showing literalist Christians that the Bible and Darwin […]

Don McLeroy leaves creationist comment: evolution can’t explain “biochemical complexity”

UPDATE: See the first comment below: reader SES notes that one can watch the film “The Revisionists” online here (it’s free until February 27), and some PBS stations in America are broadcasting it tonight. The schedule is also at the link. ________________________ If you’ve followed the attempts of American creationists to get evolution of ouf the […]

I can haz?

A Twitter picture from Paul Kedrosky, author of the Infectious Greed website: UPDATE: You can buy this one, and many other cool “teach the controvery” teeshirts, here. h/t: Scott near Berkeley, Michael

Tom Nagel’s antievolution book gets thrice pummeled

Last October I mentioned that the famous philosopher Thomas Nagel had produced a new book that proclaimed the falsity of neo-Darwinian evolution. I’ll quote from my earlier post: As I’ve mentioned before, the respected philosopher of mind Thomas Nagel has joined the ranks of Darwin-dissers with the publication of his new book Mind and Cosmos: Why the […]

Turkey suppresses evolution books

UPDATE: In the comments below, reader mecwordpress calls attention to an article in the Hurriyet Daily News in which TÜBITAK denies having censored evolution books: The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) has strongly denied reports that it has stopped printing books on evolution, saying the claims were “black propaganda” against their institution. […]

Lame creationist/evolutionist debate at the BBC

Four days ago the BBC “Religion and Ethics” site posted a written debate on evolution between a Muslim and a Christian.  Unexpectedly, the evolution side was argued by the Muslim, Inayat Bunglawala (media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain), while the wrong side was represented by the Christian: young-earth creationist Greg Haslam, senior pastor […]

Quote of the Day: Robert Ingersoll on Intelligent Design

Susan Jacoby, who’s just written a new book on atheist writer Robert G. Ingersoll, has called my attention to a really fine essay he wrote in 1872: “The Gods” (full reference below). It’s free online, and twenty pages long when printed out in 12-point type, but lengthen your attention span and read it. You’ll be […]

Antievolution music: did Charlie make a monkey out of you?

Reader Atom sent me this catchy Christian anti-evolution video, “Did Charlie make a monkey out of you?”, with the song by Tom Walk and Russel Alan Pratt. This is the Kool-Aid that our Christian friends imbibe. I have to say that it’s a bouncy tune, even if the only substantive argument is that there arent’ […]

Pittsburgh creationist identifies mysterious animals from the Bible

Well, I knew the examiner.com is a pretty trashy news source, though I don’t know much about it, but this time it’s reached a new low.  In a piece called “What are the Biblical cryptids of cryptozoology?“, writer Dale Stuckwish (an appropriate name!), susses out what the creatures mentioned in scripture actually were. He obviously has […]

Three easy pieces: creationists pwned

The battle against creationism is never-ending, but I declare three victories this week. The first is symbolic but important, the others not so consequential but fun. 1. Creationism banned in New Orleans. From The Raw Story (thanks to several readers who alerted me to this), we learn that ”the New Orleans schools board has banned the teaching […]