Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn’t taken a friend’s advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old’s biology lessons.Mule’s precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth’s excitement turn to [...]

First good news I’ve heard out of England in a while.. Evolution to be compulsory subject in primary schools Evolution will become a compulsory subject for study in all state primary schools, the Government announced today. Darwin’s theory of how life evolved through natural selection will be a legal requirement in science teaching from September [...]

Muslim academics and students are turning against Darwin’s theory Muslims in many countries are increasingly rejecting Darwin’s theory of evolution, under the influence of conservative elements in Islam, a science conference was told yesterday. Nidhal Guessoum, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, told the conference, [...]

The Information Challenge By Richard Dawkins In September 1997, I allowed an Australian film crew into my house in Oxford without realising that their purpose was creationist propaganda. In the course of a suspiciously amateurish interview, they issued a truculent challenge to me to “give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process [...]

I’ve already covered this before, but here’s an update. What a fucking disgrace. They’re trying to discredit one of the greatest minds of all time. Disgusting. Creationists to distribute Charles Darwin books for free. What’s the catch? Evangelical Christians plan to distribute more than 100,000 free copies of Charles Darwin’s seminal work on the theory of [...]

Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment In 1988 an associate professor started growing cultures of Escherichia coli. Twenty-one years and 40,000 generations of bacteria later, Richard Lenski, who is now a professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University, reveals new details about the differences between adaptive and random genetic changes during evolution. [...]

Richard Dawkins: God among atheists Oct. 16, 2009 | It’s been a rather big year for Charles Darwin. 2009 is the bicentennial of the man’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “The Origin of Species,” and the explorer and naturalist has been the subject of books (including a graphic novel adaptation of [...]