Darwin News

Now and again, some well-meaning but clueless person gets it into their head that teaching creationism in the schools is a good idea - that the clash of ideas is a good pedagogical technique.

Very often in science one finds that there are ideas in the air, and lots of people hold them, but they don't even realize they hold them.

Moral: science is the forbidden as such - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? If you tuned in to that local debate on Christian radio, you know that one of the points the Christian fool trotted out was the tired old claim that the Nazis were no true Christians - no True ... (more)