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 …
Craig Brown reviews Damian Thompson’s Counterknowledge in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday: Was Princess Diana murdered by MI5? Were the Twin Towers brought down by President Bush? Were the Apollo Moon landings actually fabricated in a studio on earth? Did Jesus marry Mary Magdalen and sire …
Today’s Daily Telegraph carries two extracts from Counterknowledge. Here is the link, and here is how the first piece starts… George Bush planned the September 11 attacks. The MMR injection triggers autism in children. The ancient Greeks stole their ideas from Africa. “Creation science” disproves …
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 …