Perhaps Bill Frist isn’t running for President after all: In a break with President Bush, the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, has decided to support a bill to expand federal financing for embryonic stem cell research, a move that could push it closer to passage and force a confrontation with the White House, which is …
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Creationism Update
Another day, another battle in the war on science. Some members in the Catholic church are urging caution: A recent article by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in The New York Times, asserting that “unguided, unplanned” evolution is inconsistent with Catholic faith, should be read with caution warn a number of Catholic scientists and theologians, including the …
We Have Lift-Off
Just watched the space shuttle Discovery lift off live on HDNET, and it seemed flawless. It was, as it always is, breath-taking. Crooks and Liars has the video.
Creationism Update
This piece pretty much is a representative portrayal of what is going on in the evolution/creationism debate all over the country: Intelligent design emerged in the late 1970s and suggests there are certain aspects of the universe and nature that are best explained by an intelligent designer. But it avoids discussion of the designer, instead …
Life, The Universe, and Everything
Creationists gather at a conference to explain, well, everything: The 2005 Creation Mega-Conference, slated from Jul. 17 to 22 in Lynchburg, Va. tackled several prominent issues facing the creation/evolution debate, such as the dinosaurs, the flood and Big Bang theory. The six-day conference opened with a performance by Buddy Davis – a Dinosaur sculptor, author/speaker, …
The Utility of Intelligent Design
This is interesting: ID operates somewhere near the boundaries of science, and it can play an important role that is discussed below. ID cannot be considered a part of science proper, however. It lacks the features that make it an acceptable scientific theory including the ability to make predictions to be verified by experiment. For, …
More Creationism
Next stop on the creationsim train- South Carolina: Some might think South Carolina – a staunch Republican state nestled in the Bible Belt – would be an easy sell when it comes to passing a law requiring public schools to teach alternatives to evolution. State Sen. Mike Fair has found little success so far but …