Creationism: California sells out on textbooks

Tough stand on creationism

British biologists look worryingly at the developments on the issue of creationism and intelligent design in the US, where constant pressure from powerful conservative Christian groups seeks to continue to set a scientific alternative to evolution. There is wider support for evolutionary theory in the UK, but creationists are pushing their agenda there: lavish textbooks have been sent to school...

ENVIRONMENT: California Out in Front

Textbooks.

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Science, evolution, and creationism.

O n December 20, 2005, John E. Jones III, federal judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, issued a 130-page-long decision (Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District) declaring that ‘‘The overwhelming evidence at trial established that ID [intelligent design] is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory . . . ID is not supported by any peer-reviewed r...

She sells stem cells…

“Some time next year an embryo will be cloned from a human adult. It will be implanted in the uterus of a young woman selected with some care for her wide pelvis and robust health. A son will be born at the dawn of the third millennium. Neither angels nor news wires are likely to herald the birth. The father — an Asian plutocrat, South American kleptocrat or aging Western rock star — won’t be l...