This one’s for you Alba — per your request.
Sorry for the limited posts this week. We’ve been busy releasing our poll, which the Cincinnati Enquirer picked up today.

For weeks we’ve been talking about how the Creation Museum represents a schism within the religious right. Well now we’ve got the numbers to prove it. This poll (link to PDF) conducted by a national polling firm and released today by DefCon reveals bad news for Ken Ham and his Creation Museum. It also reveals […]

From The Register:
UK Gov boots intelligent design back into ‘religious’ margins
The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.
It has also defined “Intelligent Design”, the idea that life is […]

Over the weekend the folks at ThinkProgress caught this article from last Thursday’s Seattle Times.
From the Seattle Times:

Gonzales is scheduled to deliver a 45-minute speech at the Seattle Westin Hotel’s Grand Ballroom on the Justice Department’s efforts to protect intellectual property and combat cybercrime. Justice Department spokesman Evan Peterson declined to confirm details of Gonzales’ […]

It’s Friday! What’s going on out there?

From the Associated Press:
Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research….
To blunt criticism, the White House said Bush is issuing an executive order directing the Health and Human Services Department to promote research into cells that — like human […]

The President is holding a press conference today to announce an executive order encouraging “government agencies to support research that offers the promise of creating medically useful stem cells without destroying human embryos.”
This announcement will apparently come moments after he vetoes a stem cell bill that nearly three quarters of Americans support and has passed […]

Check out this enlightening photo taken at the Creation Museum over the weekend.

Good to know where Ken Ham stands on this important topic.

Here’s an update on a suit that was filed against Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis by Ham’s fellow Australian creationists.
From the Lexington Herald-Leader:
There is trouble in paradise, with a fight of biblical proportions raging between a Kentucky-based creationist group and the Australian group from which it sprang.
Three days after the Memorial Day opening […]

FRC has a snippet of a new video they produced in conjunction with Coral Ridge Ministries explaining how they could possibly oppose laws that outlaw hate crimes.
You can see it here.

The message here: don’t mess with the king.

Colorado Right to Life was kicked out of the National Right to Life coalition on Wednesday, in part for publicly criticizing Focus on the Family founder James Dobson.
The Colorado group and three others accused Dobson of misrepresenting a Supreme Court decision that upheld a ban on dilation-and-extraction procedures, […]

Robert over at EvangelicalRight.com now has photos of the Creation Museum’s ex-Adam — you know the one who was also involved in the sex site BedroomAcrobat.com — involved in some not-so-Answers-in-Genesis friendly acts.
From Robert’s Post:

Of course, we could care less about Linden’s sexuality. We do take issue with individuals, such as Linden, who support Christian […]

The schism within the religious right between Creationism and Intelligent Design is rearing its head lovely head yet again.
On Monday, David DeWolf — a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute — published an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled “Evolution and Dissent,” attempting to argue that Intelligent Design should be taught in schools. Check out […]

PZ Myers over at Pharyngula caught this terrifying poll out today. From Gallup Poll:
The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates […]

And of course, the real thing: