Between April 11 and April 15 of 2004, I hosted an atheist table at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon. This is an account of what I did, how I did it, and the response to what I did. Getting the table was not difficult: I submitted the same paperwork that the religious groups on [...]
In an amendment sponsored by board member Barbara Cargill, the board of education voted to replace a requirement to teach the “concept of an expanding universe that originated about 14 billion years ago”. Universe’s age erased from Texas school science standards – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist
Doesn’t the Oklahoma legislature have anything better to do? Dawkins Vs. OKlahoma | MetaFilter
Third in a series – collect them all! A few more examples of links I’ve posted (harvested in turn from other sources) showing up later at boingboing.net. Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexistedPosted by Xeni Jardin on 30 September 30, 2008.Posted by Trevor Blake on 28 September 2008. American YouTube manga girl making waves [...]
only 25 percent of adults in Turkey agree that human beings developed from earlier species of animals, whereas 40 percent of people in the United States agree with this scientific fact, Hameed writes. And Turkey is one of the most secular and educated of Muslim countries. Evolution Arguments Headed for Islamic World | LiveScience
