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]

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]

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]

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 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]

Marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published a special report providing a wide-ranging analysis of the ongoing public debate over evolution... [More]

Texas State Board of Education voted Friday to drop the requirement that science teachers present "strengths and weaknesses" of a theory ... [More]

Opponents of teaching evolution seem particularly intent on emphasizing the supposed "weaknesses" of the theory ... [More]

"Scientific creationism" and "intelligent design" will continue to be permitted in Louisiana's public school science curriculum ... [More]