There is some most excellent news out of California today for those who believe in equal rights under the law for everyone. The California Supreme Court struck down a law banning gay marriage in the state, meaning that same sex couples are now free to marry as they please with full recognition under the […]

After my post concerning the Alabama legislature the site was visited by C. David Parsons, author of a seven-volume textbook called The Quest for Right that claims to finally provide a synthesis of science and the Bible.  Now that I’ve read through his site I’ll have more to say about Quest for Right in future […]

After reading through some of the comments on the most excellent Bad Astronomy blog it appears that the Academic Freedom bill I mentioned in my previous post might have died simply because they’re at the end of their legislative session and all of the leftover junk is just being rushed off the docket.  I’d like […]

The National Center for Science Education is reporting that an effort to get Intelligent Design into the state science curriculum under the guise of academic freedom for teachers has failed. This is definitely a good thing. The Intelligent Design crowd had their asses handed to them in the Dover trial back in 2005, […]

You can’t make this sort of thing up.  A substitute teacher in Land ‘O Lakes Florida has been sacked for wizardry.  The exact brand of wizardry?  He made a toothpick disappear for about half a minute and then made it magically reappear.  For this he is fired.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that there […]

Readers might recall me ranting about California fundamentalists pulling their children out of the public school system due to a bill that made it clear homosexuals were protected by state anti-discrimination laws.  You can read the full story by clicking on the link, but there is a new development in this situation.
A ruling in a […]

The Wisconsin Senate is thinking of passing a bill that will force “conscientious objector” pharmacists to provide contraceptives and the morning after pill to individuals no matter their own personal beliefs on the matter, and boy are Christian groups in that state annoyed.
These Christian groups are trying to turn this into a complicated morality debate, […]

I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]

It’s time to tackle some more creationist stupidity, this time from blogger and Intelligent Design proponent DaveScot at the Uncommon Descent blog.  Dave argues that, all evidence to the contrary aside, the state of science education in America is just fine.  You almost can’t blame a creationist for holding onto an incorrect belief in the […]

Those wacky short-earth creationists are at it again.  They lost the Intelligent Design fight in court back in 2004, so now they’re going straight to the source in an attempt to discredit the entire scientific body of knowledge supporting evolution by resorting to the oldest and most childish of logical fallacies: the ad hominem attack.  […]