Here’s a look at the Vatican’s walking-on-eggshells attitude toward Darwin’s theory of evolution, and their apparent dismissal of the “intelligent design” form of creationism: Reconciling Science, Religion. “The ongoing and vigorous engagement of the Catholic Chur...

Standing back to survey Gordon Brown’s Britain, it’s clear to me, and to many other observers, what the main problems are. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and that banana The main areas of concern cluster around two characteristics of Brown’s personality: 1. Stultifying complexity...

This morning at Parkrose Community United Church of Christ we noted "Evolution Sunday" and the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin.  Our Scripture readings included Genesis 1:1-2:2 and Psalm 8. Over 1,000 congregations across the United States are taking part in Evolution Sunday - promoting the idea ...

During the election of of 1800, voters could open their Sunday papers to find an advertisement from John Adams's campaign attacking the religious beliefs of his opponent. At the present solemn and momentous epoch, the only question to be asked by every American, laying his hand on his heart, is "Sha...

In the face of systematic attempts to efface from public view, Darwin's racism, a friend writes to offer quotes from Darwin's Descent of Man : Savages are intermediate states between people and apes: "It has been asserted that the ear of man alone possesses a lobule; but 'a rudiment of it is found i...

It's tough out there.  More jobs lost, no real "stimulus" yet.  Companies hunkering down, noses to the grindstone doing everything possible to stay out of the limelight.  No one wants to see their name in the paper any more - let alone have to sit at the feet of arguably the most hypocritical and...

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One of the enduring falsehoods repeated endlessly by anti-evolution fanatics is that there are no “transitional fossils” — intermediate species that share characteristics with two distinct groups of animals. Here’s a good article at LiveScience on the many examples of transit...

  Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.  Unless you have lived your entire life in a black hole, you are probably aware of the singular book for which he is famous: On The Origin of Species (chapters.ca, amazon.com).  This book challenged the idea that some magical sky-go...

Aren’t you just sick of Charles Darwin? On his 200th birth anniversary he’s all over the media like measles. On the BBC (where else?) David Attenborough sheds a discreet tear and religiously places a bust of the great one in the National History Museum, replacing a more deserving scienti...