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16 Mar 09

BBC NEWS | Education | Schools get advice on creationism

  • Creationism is to be debated alongside the theory of evolution in science and religious education lessons in secondary schools across Hampshire.
18 Feb 09

British Centre for Science Education • View topic - The Estelle Morris "Gang" At it Again

  • SIR – We are bemused that your distinguished correspondents (Letters, February 9) express concern that only 37 per cent of the British population find Darwin’s theory of evolution convincing.

    They might consider that the problem is that neo-Darwinism has far outrun its basis in scientific evidence.
17 Feb 09

Creationists are still denying Darwin. Stephen Moss asks why | World news | The Guardian

  • The fundamental ideas behind the theory of evolution have been scientific gospel for decades - and yet creationists refuse to go the way of the dinosaurs. Who exactly are they? And just what do they believe? Stephen Moss reports
07 Feb 09

The big debate: Creation v evolution - Northampton Chronicle and Echo

  • More than 150 years after Darwin's voyage, the debate about evolution versus creationism continues, not least here in Northamptonshire.

    Today, the Chronicle & Echo speaks to Northampton people about how the conflict and debate has continued into the 21st century.
06 Feb 09

Legal action looms in faith school row | News | TES

  • Protestors are preparing legal action over a reorganisation that would effectively force parents to send their children to a faith school.
05 Feb 09

Charles Darwin?s revolution is unfinished | Unfinished business | The Economist

  • Charles Darwin’s ideas have spread widely, but his revolution is not yet complete
28 Jan 09

Attenborough gets hate mail from viewers | TV Blog - Yahoo! TV UK

  • Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he gets hate mail from viewers for not crediting God in his documentaries.

    The veteran broadcaster, who is presenting a new series on Charles Darwin, said that he has received letters telling him to burn in hell because of his views on evolution.
27 Jan 09

Pork pie makers lead the way for academies - Telegraph

  • A pork pie manufacturer and a company producing diesel engines will be handed control of state schools under a huge expansion of the controversial city academy programme, it emerged last night.

Academies ?expel pupils over league tables? - Telegraph

  • "Our range of concerns about academies is huge," she said. "But they remain secretive societies, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act but given the right to exclude children willy-nilly.
17 Jan 09

The Cumberland News

  • One of the men in charge of a group of successful academy schools in the north east sponsored by evangelical Christians has been drafted in to help Carlisle’s Richard Rose Federation.
30 Dec 08

The nation?s risk of death by numbers soars | Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot - Times Online

  • The rate of cervical cancer in teenagers has been rising by 6.8 per cent a year for the past 25 years - up five times overall - a conference on teenage health was told. Teen promiscuity was promptly presumed and condemned.
28 Dec 08

DESMOND MORRIS: Two centuries on, a salute to Charles Darwin, a hero for our age | Mail Online

  • If such a being existed, this monstrous designer would have to accept the responsibility for having created all the wonderful life forms we see around us, and then of cruelly inventing countless unspeakable agonies for them in the shape of leprosy, cholera, cancer, syphilis, plague, malaria, AIDS, fevers, parasitic worms and the rest.

    What a charmer this designer must be; creationists are welcome to their hideous creation.
27 Dec 08

Gordon?s Blog: Dr Grady McMurtry - What are his qualifications and scientific expertise?

  • Given his high profile in the UK on Revelation TV recently and his novel ideas on genetics, global warming and plate tectonics I thought I would check out his qualifications and record of scientific research in these areas.
05 Dec 08

British Centre for Science Education • View topic - Creationism at RAF Lakenheath

  • As chief of the Cheddarites, a religious order that believes that the moon is made of cheese (Cheddarism), I can assure you George that the real reason for your problem is not the atheists but a lack of reverence towards, belief in, and consumption of cheese. Rises in violence, drug abuse, family breakdowns, school shootings, venereal disease and abortion rates have all been incontrovertibly linked to a decline in cheese consumption.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

  • Then I was sent a PowerPoint presentation by an airman at RAF Lakenheath, the largest U.S. Air Force base in England. On the MRFF scale of classifying by various expletives the egregiousness level of things that are reported to us -- "holy crap," "holy shit," and "holy f..." -- this one, promoting creationism as a means of preventing suicide among our military personnel, was definitely a "holy f..."
04 Dec 08

Faith schools ?should not select on religion? - Times Online

  • It concludes that faith schools educate a disproportionately small proportion of poor children, offer inadequate education about other religions and often display an “insular and absolutist” approach to the rest of society.
30 Nov 08

?Atheist bus? more like a bandwagon on highway to hell - Analysis - Independent.ie

  • Troubled and immature young persons, given a nihilistic message that there is no meaning to life -- that we are just reasonably clever animals who evolved from a set of molluscs, quite by chance -- are easily driven down the road to despair.
23 Nov 08

?Just a little jab, won?t hurt? by David Horton, Huffington Post - RichardDawkins.net

  • Remember the fuss about the cervical cancer vaccine? The religious fundamentalists were outraged that a scientist was attempting to remove one bit of the "wages of sin is death" mentality. So they were refusing to let their daughters be vaccinated because then they (the daughters) might be tempted to engage in S.E.X. without realising that if they did they would die, horribly. God intended them to die horribly, I guess, by creating cervical cancer in the first place.
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