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Science Education and the “Quest For Right” »

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 […]

Alabama Addendum »

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 […]

Creationism Strikes Out in Alabama Legislature »

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, […]

Taking Your Right Wing Politics Too Literally »

Evidently there is a gentleman running for the Senate in Idaho who has legally changed his name to Pro-Life.  Please take a moment to let the enormity of this man’s idiocy sink in.  Here I thought that the Midwest had the market cornered on fundamentalist nutjobs, and that the Pacific coast would be free of […]

Local Pharmacist, Local Babykiller, or Local Quack? »

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, […]