TOPEKA, KS—In response to a Nov. 7 referendum, Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life.
“From now on, the streets, forests, plains, and rivers of Kansas will be safe from the godless practice of evolution, and species [...]

Starting next week, Channel 4 in the UK is screening a three-part documentary series on the scientific legacy of Charles Darwin, hosted by our old friend Richard Dawkins.
Digiguide describes the series:
In 1859, English naturalist Charles Darwin published his masterpiece On the Origin of Species. In it Darwin put forward his theory - that everything on [...]

Christopher Hitchens lets loose with a bit more of that fighting talk that he’s (in)famous for in his article Losing Sight of Progress: How Blind Salamanders Make Nonsense of Creationists’ Claims over at Slate Magazine.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Hitchens on eyes”, url: “http://www.nullifidian.net/2008/07/22/hitchens-on-eyes/” });

Darwin exposed!
/hattip Sneer Review
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Dear Frau Hitler”, url: “http://www.nullifidian.net/2008/06/16/dear-frau-hitler/” });

although if the Discovery Institute get their way, they shouldn’t have any right to complain at all.

Although it does beg the question as to why they don’t put pressure on their churches to do this already, to lead by example so to speak, if they’re all about “fairness”.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “It’ll never happen”, url: “http://www.nullifidian.net/2007/12/14/itll-never-happen/” });

Pedro over at Way Of The Mind has recently posted about the fallacy often used by creationists to argue that “life could never happen by chance”. Go and read it, then come back, and I’ll give you my take on it.
Back? Ok.
One of the things that Pedro didn’t address is his post was [...]

Professor Michael Reiss, scientist, priest and head of science at London’s Institute of Education, has written a new book aimed at encouraging teachers, who it seems are avoiding the teaching of evolution in schools for fear of the “controversy” and not wanting to dismiss creationist pupils’ beliefs out of hand.
This could leave pupils with gaps [...]

I wasn’t able to blog about this when it first came out, but Tuesday’s The Telegraph has an article about naturalist and broadcaster Richard Attenborough’s complaint to the BBC over a Dutch evangelical christian fundamentalist broadcaster’s “editing” (read ripping to shreds) of a series television programmes, The Life of Mammals, that he has presented for [...]