The author of The God Delusion is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine. ... [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]

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]

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]

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]

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]