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Who Beat Up Paul Mirecki?

December 7, 2005

A dark sequel has been added to the story of the Univ. of Kansas prof who was going to teach a class ridiculing intelligent design, then canceled it when a defamatory email he wrote surfaced (see 11/29/2005 story). Now, he claims he was accosted while driving off campus early Monday morning and beaten up by […]

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Mao Tse-Tung Killed 77 Million for Darwin

November 30, 2005

World Net Daily reported that the body count from Mao’s reign of terror in China has been revised upward to 77 million by R. J. Rummel, a Nobel Peace Prize winning political scientist who had earlier estimated it at half that (38 million). This augments Mao’s Guinness reputation as the worst mass murderer in history. […]

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Darwinism: Struggle for Existence of a Controversial Theory

November 30, 2005

Darwin taught that the struggle for existence in nature produced the survival of the fittest. A struggle between Darwinism and intelligent design (ID) seems to be producing media red in tooth and claw, as seen by the following recent stories. Define the Opposition Out of Science: Another University of Kansas professor is offering a class […]

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SETI: Search for Educational Targets Inc.

November 18, 2005

SETI may be the laughingstock of Congress, refused funding since William Proxmire gave it his Golden Fleece Award in the 1980s, but privately it is moving apace. The Science Channel gave it prominence in its weekly report Friday, visiting with pioneering signaler and listener Frank Drake. It surveyed everything from the first humble attempts to […]

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Darwin Lovers Unite Against ID

November 17, 2005

Pictures of Darwin looking like a wise guru draped in white hair seem to adorn many articles attacking intelligent design. With 2009 being the Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of The Origin, Bruce H. Weber in Nature remarked, “Impending anniversaries and the trial over ‘intelligent design’ make this a good time to revisit […]

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Like, Make a Tree

November 14, 2005

Three Darwinist professors lamented recently in Science1 that few scientists are making like a tree: “‘tree thinking’ remains widely practiced only by professional evolutionary biologists,” they said. And just what is “tree thinking”? It is basically thinking like Darwin; i.e., looking at the living world with phylogenetic glasses: The central claim of the theory of […]

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Dover School Board Members Ousted

November 9, 2005

Eight school board members in Dover, Pennsylvania, who had backed the intelligent-design policy that led to the ACLU lawsuit, lost their seats in Tuesday’s election. A slate of Democrats who opposed the policy will take their place December 5. The campaign against the Republicans who lost was spearheaded by a group named Citizens Actively Reviewing […]

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Kansas Removes Darwinism from Protected Status

November 8, 2005

It’s official; the Kansas school board has accepted new science standards that permit criticisms of Darwinism, reported Evolution News. This makes Kansas the fifth state to allow both evidences for and against Darwinism to be taught, and brings their definition of science in line with the majority of other states. News reactions were […]

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Evolution Thriving in Mexico; Creationismo No Comprendo

November 4, 2005

Mexicans, religious or not, have no problem with Darwinism, and cannot understand their American neighbors who get so uptight about it. That’s the gist of an article by Antonio Lazcano, a Mexican biology professor and origin-of-life researcher, who was given lengthy press in Science1 this week under the heading “Global Voices of Science.” I am […]

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Dover Darwin Defenders Provide After-Game Impressions

November 3, 2005

Like a TV commentator with the MVPs in the locker room after a big game, Geoff Brumfiel in Nature1 interviewed two pro-evolution witnesses who testified in the Dover trial. Brumfiel asked Ken Miller and Kevin Padian what it was like, what they had to do to get ready, how the lawyers treated them, and what […]

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Educator Suggests Inoculation Technique Against Creationism

November 1, 2005

Give them some ID, then swamp it with counter-arguments. That’s the new method of “educational intervention” that Stephen Verhey of Central Washington University has found most effective in overcoming college student objections to evolution, reported EurekAlert. Verhey tested 103 students with prior exposure to creationism. He assigned the book Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells, […]

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Is Darwin or ID the New Halloween Spook?

October 30, 2005

Scary, isn’t it? A textbook committee in Montgomery, Alabama approved dozens of new textbooks, but found objectionable material in three of them: they contained material on evolution that was deemed controversial for children. They decided that pictures of reptiles evolving from amphibians and humans evolving from apes was not appropriate for elementary children who were […]

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Intelligent Design War Rages

October 24, 2005

Because of the high-profile Intelligent Design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, the news media and scientific societies are all discussing Darwin vs Design with fervor. Surprise, Surprise: AP reports that the Dover school board did not expect the uproar when it drafted its policy allowing alternatives to Darwinism to be heard; see LiveScience.com. MSNBC News also […]

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Dover I.D. Trial Calls Star Witness

October 18, 2005

Michael “Irreducible Complexity” Behe, the Lehigh biochemist famous for flagella, mousetraps and black boxes, took the stand in the Dover, Pennsylvania trial Monday Oct. 17. This was widely reported, such as in New Scientist, MSNBC News and the Washington Post. For an ID-friendly report with more detail of the actual proceedings, see EvolutionNews. […]

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Darwin on Offense I: Museums

October 17, 2005

What’s the solution to decreasing belief in evolution? More evolution. That’s the message of an article by Lisa Anderson from the Chicago Tribune published online by Yahoo News, “Museums take up evolution challenge.” Natural history museums around the country are mounting new exhibits they hope will succeed where high school biology classes have faltered: convincing […]

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