Here’s a little light viewing. This YouTube video shows Richard Dawkins reading some of his hate mail, shortly before confronting the unbelievably smug Wendy Wright of Washington-based Concerned Women for America. The first sixty seconds are the most amusing; the last sixty the most disturbing. If you …
She’s a self-confessed “hockey mum”; a pro-lifer, yet a supporter of the death penalty. But does Sarah Palin, John McCain’s candidate for the vice-presidency, promote the teaching of creationism in schools? In a live television debate in October 2006 (during her race for the Alaskan Governorship) the …
Extreme Creationists have been given the use of a lecture hall at University College, London, to preach against evolutionary science. Tomorrow’s event has been organised by the college’s Islamic Society as part of “Islamic Awareness Week”. Is that why UCL doesn’t have a problem with …
The CIA created Facebook and is using it to spy on students. This claim is made by a Facebook group with 776 members worldwide. There are 84 others with similar claims – a combined membership of 7,656. But, says the group’s founder, a US student: …
Steve Fuller, a professor of the sociology of science at Warwick University, has written a postmodern defence of Intelligent Design, entitled Science v. Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. And here is a thrillingly savage review of it in eSkeptic magazine by Norman …
Last night I found myself talking to a very senior Oxford academic about Creationism. To my dismay – but not to my surprise – she seemed to imagine that this noxious pseudoscience is largely confined to American fundamentalist Christian circles. Not true. In the 21st …