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Really?
What most people cannot comprehend is that there is no one absolute make-or-break piece of evidence for evolution.
Shocker.
No, not so. Evolution is a conclusion from the totality of the evidence.
There are thousands of cases that demonstrate that the principles of evolution work and are useful for understanding the natural world; and there are no cases whatsoever where [...]

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John McCain is stopping in Louisiana in an unexpected move, and rumor has it he’ll be chatting with the antiscience ID-supporting creationist exorcist Governor of that state, Bobby Jindal, who is considered to be on McCain’s shortlist of vice-presidential candidates…

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Remember Chris Comer, the Texas director of science curriculum, who was pressured into resigning because she forwarded an e-mail announcing a talk by Barbara Forrest?
She sued the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Robert Scott, alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding said e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to promote intelligent design [...]

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According to a new Gallup poll, 60% of Republicans believe humans were created “as is” 10,000 years ago. Democrats aren’t much better, though, since 38% think the same:

Look through the results. It’s eye-popping… And scary.

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NCSE’s archives provide the missing link to prove that intelligent design is just another version of creationism in a new video.
The video, “Jesus in My Classroom,” posted today at www.ExpelledExposed.com, shows how NCSE’s archives helped win the seminal Kitzmiller v. Dover trial by tracing the history of the “intelligent design” textbook at issue in the [...]

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This could be taken straight from just about any religious right web site in 2008, and they’d fit right in.

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Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust
New York, NY, April 29, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent [...]

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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
said Ben Stein.
So, basically he equates [...]

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