by Al Webb | Sep 21, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) A group of 30 leading scientists, including a Nobel laureate and a prominent atheist professor, are pressing the British government to ban all teaching of creationism in the nation’s publicly funded schools. The scientists delivered a petition to the...
by Robert Parham | Sep 12, 2011 | Opinion
We are entering a new war against public education, according to an article posted Aug. 17 in Slate, a daily web magazine. The headline read, “The GOP’s New War on Schools.” As if on cue, Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry degraded public education the...
by Michael Helms | Apr 18, 2011 | Opinion
A fellow Rotarian has an intelligent 10-year-old daughter. Already at such an early age, faith and science are colliding in her world, creating tensions she’s trying to reconcile. She asked her father not long ago, “Who came first: Adam and Eve or the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 13, 2011 | News
Half a dozen state legislatures have taken up anti-evolution bills this year. In Tennessee, House Bill 368 passed the House Education Committee. That bill would permit public school teachers to discuss intelligent design and creationism in science classes. On the...
by Daniel Burke | Dec 22, 2010 | News
(RNS) Four in 10 Americans believe that God created humans in something like their present form within the last 10,000 years, according to a new Gallup Poll. While that percentage represents a slight dip from 2008, when 44 percent said they do not believe divinely...