Creation Catechesis and Evolutionary Theory:
Trial Exposes America’s Division Over Evolution
DOVER, Pa. — Outside the Dover fire hall last week, taking a break from a video lecture on “Why Evolution is Stupid,” Judy Grim blamed Darwin’s theory for America’s moral woes. “If I’m taught there is a God I’m responsible to, I know I have to treat people right,” said Grim, 63. “But if there’s no creator to answer to, Read More ›
New Mexico Schools Could Enter Battle Over ‘Intelligent Design’
Original Article HARRISBURG, Pa. — As a federal judge hears arguments over whether a Pennsylvania school district can include “intelligent design” in its biology curriculum, Dan Barbour fears that the New Mexico high school where he works could face a similar showdown. The school board in Rio Rancho, N.M., voted in August to allow the discussion of alternative theories to Read More ›
Does God Have a Place in Class?:
Evolution is once again in the public spotlight. As always, local school boards and legislatures debate it; lawyers from California to Kansas, Georgia and Pennsylvania litigate it. But this time around there is a noticeable change. The topic is no longer fuelled merely by the next lawsuit or flap over textbook stickers. One opens a recent New Yorker and sees Read More ›
The Timeless Truth of Creation
Original Article Have you heard about Flying Spaghetti Monsterism? FSM is a four-month-old ”religion” founded on the belief that the universe was created by an invisible flying clump of spaghetti and meatballs. This blob of pasta, FSM’s ”followers” say, uses its ”noodly appendage” to play an ongoing role in human affairs. For example, it tampers with carbon-dating tests to make Read More ›
God and Matter: The Evolution of the Evolution Debate
Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn has stepped into the confused controversies surrounding evolution, and added some much needed clarity. Just enough clarity, mind you. Not too much. Not too little. In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, “Finding Design in Nature,” Cardinal Schönborn issued a crystal-clear warning to proponents of Darwinism: Stop misusing Pope John Paul II’s Read More ›
Roseville District Keeping Close Eye on Evolution Trial
Original Article Granite Bay resident Valerie Weinberg sees a striking similarity between the fight she waged to keep anti-evolution material out of her sons’ high school science classes and the trial unfolding this week 2,700 miles away in Pennsylvania. “I see it as right along the lines of what we would have had to deal with had our board voted Read More ›
Intelligent Design Revisited
Intelligent design on trial
It’s unfortunate that intelligent design is standing trial in Pennsylvania. Scientific theories require decades, sometimes centuries, to develop, to withstand scrutiny before they are accepted as legitimate. Trying to force acceptance – or denial – quickly is an end-run around the scientific method and the spirit of free inquiry. Whatever the lower courts decide about whether intelligent design can be Read More ›