Dr. Ralph D. Winter argued that all violent forms of life – including all disease pathogens – are the works of an “intelligent evil power” that seeks to destroy God’s creation. As a result, God has for far too long been taking the blame for Satan’s destructive works. And even Christians are confused over who is responsible for all the evil in the world, including disease and suffering. Some even claim that God wants diseases in the world. ... [More]

A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism "superstitious nonsense" during a classroom lecture. U.S. District Judge James Selna ruled Friday in a lawsuit student Chad Farnan filed in 2007, alleging that teacher James Corbett violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by making repeated comments in class that were hostile to Christian beliefs. ... [More]

Several American science organisations explicitly accommodate religious sensibilities. These organisations have considered it necessary to calm the fears of American religionists that science, particularly evolutionary biology, undermines religion. ... In my view, that is a deplorable step. ... [More]

Texas Senate should put brakes on Don McLeroy's nomination as chairman of the State Board of Education. ... At a time when education leaders are focused on raising science standards, McLeory led efforts to weaken the instruction of evolution. ... [More]

Clarence Darrow is arguably one of the most famous American lawyers of the 20th century. He participated in many controversial and highly publicized trials, tirelessly defending the underdog and fighting for civil rights. ... [More]

The mischief-making of social conservatives on the State Board of Education has drawn the bipartisan attention of members of the Texas Legislature. What has drawn their attention is the demonstrated interest of those conservatives in ideology over education. ... [More]

Texas Board of Education handed science a mixed bag of victory and defeat with their Friday vote on state science standards. Although they voted to not include the "strengths and weaknesses" creationist code words, they added amendments that provide major loopholes for creationist teaching. ... [More]

The Texas Board of Education approved a science curriculum that opens the door for teachers and textbooks to raise doubts about evolution. Critics of evolution said they were thrilled with Friday's move. ... [More]

Tensions over how evolution is taught simmered Wednesday as the State Board of Education held the final hearing in the process of adopting new classroom science curriculum standards. Activists took advantage of the last opportunity to testify on the proposed standards, which would drop a 20-year-old rule that requires "strengths and weaknesses" of all scientific theories to be taught. ... [More]

Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution. “I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. ... [More]

Richard Dawkins tells a crowd of 2,000 in Omaha, Nebraska that intelligent design promoters are "theocrats" who are losing their battle to try to get religion into schools, so they "are behaving like cornered ... animals." ... [More]

Dentist Don McLeroy is chairman of the Texas State Board of Education and he is leading the fight against Texas' science curriculum. A "young earth" creationist, McLeroy believes that the earth is between 6000 and 10,000 years old. He wants Texas school children to be taught that natural selection cannot explain the complexity of cells. ... [More]

The Vatican sought Tuesday to show that it isn't opposed to science and evolutionary theory, hosting a conference on Charles Darwin and trying to debunk the idea that it embraces creationism or intelligent design. ... [More]

Religion might not be the only reason people buy into creationism and intelligent design, psychological experiments suggest. No matter what their religious beliefs, college-educated adults frequently agree with purpose-seeking yet false explanations of natural phenomena - finches diversified in order to survive, for instance. ... [More]

Almost half of adults in the east of England believe the theory of evolution makes God obsolete, and more than 80% disagree with creationism and intelligent design, which propose that humans were created by God in the past 10,000 years, and that life owes its complexity to divine intervention. ... [More]

When you come across the terms "Darwinism" or "Darwinists", take heed. When evolution is described as a "blind, random, undirected process", be warned. While genetic mutations may be random, natural selection is not. ... [More]

The US isn't the only place with heated debates about Darwin's theory of evolution: Europe has its own hardcore creationists and intelligent design backers, too. Increasingly, they are making their voices heard. ... [More]

Washington State woman really digs the "supreme ruler of the universe" - and she wants the government to make sure that nobody is allowed to disagree with her Kim Struiksma, 25, of Blaine WA and other members of her church have created Ballot Initiative Measure 1040, which "would p... [More]

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) has informed Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal that they will not hold their 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans, due to Louisiana's passage of a new state law that will make it easier to teach creationism in public schools. ... [More]

At Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, denying evolution is a top priority for science professors, who are "dedicated Christians who affirm students in the faith ... and encourage them to evaluate all things from a Christ-centered perspective." ... [More]