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IN THE NEWS: Ignorance or Disdain? Fundamentalists, Science, and Alternative...
The folks at Scienceblog recently reviewed the findings of Gordon Gauchat, a postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina. In his study, Gauchat found that Americans who self-identify as...
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Slaughter, Science, and Fundamentalist America
What if Batman shooter James Holmes had been a seminary student instead of a science student? The horrific shooting at a Colorado cinema on Friday has led to an understandable search for meaning. Why...
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CS Lewis: You Don’t Know Jack
WWAD: What Would Aslan Do? A new essay series at the BioLogos Forum by Intervarsity Christian Fellowship NC State staffer David Williams insists on a more complex understanding of CS Lewis’ theology....
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Does Science Hate God?
If God loves science and scientists love God, why do we keep hearing that they hate each other? It’s the $64,000 question Daniel Silliman asked yesterday on his terrific blog.* As Silliman points out,...
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Scientists Are Dumb
What do elite scientists know about religion? Not much, according to sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund. Asking these out-of-touch elite scientists for advice about religion is akin to asking residents...
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Evolution: Beyond Science and Religion
Outsiders are telling public school families that we must follow the rich man’s elitist religion of evolution, that we no longer have what the Kentucky Constitution says is the right to worship...
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Science, Schools, and Scientism
School science is different from research science. Duh. But this obvious truth seems out of the grasp of some commentators on the creation/evolution controversies. Here’s what I mean: School science is...
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Jesus, Measles, and the Fight against Science
Does Jesus want your children to get measles? A recent outbreak at a Texas mega-church highlights the tangled connections between faith, schooling, and science. The fight against evolution gets all the...
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Jon Stewart and Richard Dawkins
What happens to us when we die? Does religion make society better? Doesn’t science rely on faith? Can’t intelligent people be both scientific and religious? These are some of the questions leveled at...
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Science and Its Discontents
What keeps Americans from believing in evolution? In climate change? Around here, we focus on principled religious dissent, such as the creationism of ministries such as Answers In Genesis or the...
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Faith & Physics, Part III
ILYBYGTH is happy to continue our series of guest posts from Anna. In her first post, Anna described her shift from creation science to mainstream science. In her second, she described her early...
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You Won’t Believe What This Poll Found Out About Dumb Americans
Thanks to the ever-watchful Sensuous Curmudgeon, we see a new poll: Only ¾ of Americans know that the Earth goes around the sun. Dur. But this sort of ignorance raises important questions about what...
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Creationism for Liberals
We know the problem with science in America, right? Ignorant groups cluster around pseudo-scientific claims; people cling to outdated and disproven ideas out of a false sense of moral purity and...
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Can We Tell Students the Truth about Truth?
HT: DL I don’t know what to think. For almost a hundred years, creationists and other conservatives have complained that mainstream science—often symbolized by the idea of evolution—threatened their...
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Conservatives LOVE Science
Or at least they like it very much. Or maybe they love it, but they’re not in love with it. That’s the argument coming out of Dan Kahan’s Cultural Cognition project these days. Professor Kahan takes...
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Atheists and Creationists Agree on This…
You know what they say about the middle of the road: you won’t find anything there but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. In the creation/evolution debates, the John Templeton Foundation has staked...
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Here’s What Creationists Call Anti-Science
Who is anti-science? Depends whom you ask! Recently World Magazine offered a creationist list of the real anti-science stories of 2014. The sophisticated and good-looking readers of ILYBYGTH may be...
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New Evolution Stickers for Alabama
What should they say instead? Alabama’s famed textbook-warning stickers might be on their way out. The National Center for Science Education reported recently that new science standards in the “Heart...
View ArticleWhat Is the REAL Deal with Fundamentalists and the Big Eclipse?
As Bart Simpson put it best, “The ironing is delicious.” Secular folks like me blast kooky fundamentalists for their wacky ignorance of science, while we ourselves show a curiously stubborn ignorance...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Take the Creation Museum Challenge
The Challenge: Can you tell creationism apart from mainstream science just by looking? [Editor’s note: As SAGLRROILYBYGTH are sick of hearing, I’m almost finished with my book manuscript about American...
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