Bobby Jindal’s recent victory to become Louiana’s Governor has gained national media attention. As we’ve told you in the past, Jindal has not been shy about his creationist leanings. So it’s not surprising that tucked away in the many articles about Jindal’s success are not insigificant paragraphs about his desire to see creationism taught in […]

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A 1955 paper widely used by creationists as proof that life on Earth couldn’t have happened without Divine intervention has been retracted by the author, who did not like the fact that creationists were using his paper to fuel their arguments. According to The New York Times:
In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor […]

According to a new study out of the University of Manchester in England, St. Bernard dogs have disproved the creationism theory:
Biologists from the University of Manchester say that changes to the skull shape of St Bernards over the last 120 years “can only be explained” via evolution and natural selection.
The research team analysed arrived at […]

According to the Orlando Sentinel for the first time, Florida public school children will explicitly learn about evolution:
Florida has written new standards for teaching science that for the first time say public-school students need to learn about evolution.
The proposed science standards, released Friday, call evolution one of the “big ideas” that must be taught as […]

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Remember when we told you that Louisiana Rep. David Vitter had earmarked $100,000 of public money to fund the creationist group the Louisaiana Family Forum. According to The Times Picayune, Vitter has decided not to earmark the money, after all:
Vitter went to the Senate floor Wednesday and announced that “to avoid more hysterics,” he wanted […]

We’ve talked before about the increasing ties between Israel and the religious right. Now check out this article from the Jerusalem Post, detailing the fact that John Hagee’s group, Christian’s United for Israel, has raised $8.5 million for Israel:
The curtain rose to a hundred performers singing “Hinei Ma Tov” as the audience swayed back and […]

Remember a few weeks ago when we told you about the creationists tendencies of Representative Bobby Jindal from Louisiana, who is now running for Governor? Well, now Talk2Action has very extensive piece detailing Jindal’s creationist ties:
Bobby Jindal participated in a televised gubernatorial forum in Louisiana on September 27, 2007, at which a journalist asked him […]

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In case you missed it, we wanted to make sure you all read this excellent New York Times op-ed outlining the fact that the United States is not a Christian nation…shocking, we know:
The only acknowledgment of God in the original Constitution is a utilitarian one: the document is dated “in the year of our Lord […]

Remember a few months ago when we told you about the Department of Defense’s plan to allow the shipment of the Left Behind video games to troops serving in Iraq? Well, now, according to an article on Truthout, the DOD has actually given two evangelical Christian groups access to several military bases:
The Defense Department (DOD) […]

It’s Friday, what is going on out there?

First, the bad news: it appears that the republican candidate for Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, is a proponent of intelligent design. Now the good news: today’s edition of The Advocate, the Baton Rouge newspaper, features an editorial slamming intelligent design:
There’s nothing wrong with faith being a motivator and providing an ethical framework for actions by […]

Congress focuses today on hearings around Blackwater, the security firm hired by the Department of Defense to protect U.S. ambassadors in Iraq, and most of us are familiar with the scathing report recently released by Congress on the firm’s actions in Iraq. However, you all may be interested to learn of Blackwater’s ties to the […]