Paul Abramson of Evansville announced plans to seek the Republican nomination and challenge Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth.
Abramson is the founder and editor of http://www.creationism.org, which calls evolution a 'spiritual deception.'
The gang of prevaricators behind Ben Stein's Expelled movie had their own way of celebrating Darwin Day: they wrote a blog post that was a solid wall of lies and nonsense. In a way, I'm impressed; I'd have to really struggle to write something that was such a dense array of concentrated stupid, but for them, it seems to be a natural talent, allowing them to blithely and effortlessly rattle off a succession of falsehoods without blushing.
We've all heard about the importance of YouTube in the 2008 presidential campaign.
But what about GodTube?GodTube is a new online video social networking community for Christians -- basically, YouTube for The Righteous. Its motto is: "Broadcast Him."
The service is essential, says former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister and Republican presidential candidate, because Christians need a way to infuse themselves and their views into the political process.
Ah, because having In God We Trust on all currency, god in the pledge and in the opening Senate prayers (except when there was a Hindu prayer and people felt the need to protest) and forced into science rooms thanks to creationists just isn't enough.
In 1984 and again in 1999, the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s most eminent scientific organization, produced books on the evidence supporting the theory of evolution and arguing against the introduction of creationism or other religious alternatives in public school science classes.
On Thursday, it produced a third. But this volume is unusual, people who worked on it say, because it is intended specifically for the lay public and because it devotes much of its space to explaining the differences between science and religion, and asserting that acceptance of evolution does not require abandoning belief in God.
You can also download Science, Evolution and Creationism in PDF format and discuss Science, Evolution and Creationism.
Twelve months ago I offered a roundup of the "advances" made by the intelligent design movement in 2006, a month-by-month roundup which differed significantly from the assessment of John West. I had started to do the same for this year, but quickly realized that the ID movement achieved absolutely nothing over the past twelve months. They had achieved so little, I was actually not posting much on the subject. Seriously. Sure, I discussed West getting destroyed in public by historian Mark Borrello, and Frank Beckwith quitting the DI, but by and large the year was filled with ... nothing. The Disco Institute spent the end of the year either beating the dead horse that is Gonzalez's tenure rejection, blathering on about Expelled or cheerleading Antony Flew's conversion. (Of course the latter doesn't mention Flew's apparent eugenic sympathies.) Put bluntly, ID has not moved forward as a science one iota since this time last year. Depressing really. I mean, you'd like the opposition to at least try, otherwise the victories are just too damned easy.
