The Orca’s Thumb

When last we heard from Tom Willis, big-wig in the Creation Science Association for Mid-America, he was pondering whether evolutionists should be allowed to vote. Since Tom Willis is batshit insane, he decided that no, they should not, because they’re wicked godless atheists with no moral sense (theistic evolutionists aren’t spared — they are even worse).
Now he [...]

[Read more →]

This is so fucking stupid, I do not even need to comment on it.

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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…

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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.

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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

[Read more →]