Banning intelligent design books

In honor of Banned Book Week, Casey Luskin has posted a series of entries with the idea that Intelligent Design (ID) books are being “banned” in various places across the United States. This is part of his and other ID proponents strategy to play the role of the oppressed to gain acceptance. This follows the [...]

Discovery Institute believes pseudoscientific “strengths and weaknesses” should be taught in Texas

In a recent post from the Discovery Institute, Casey Luskin writes that "Texas Darwinists Reject the Scientific Method of Analyzing “Strengths and Weaknesses” of Scientific Theories." The post argues that it is fundamentally unscientific to not teach the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution (read: teach the controversy) to students. Luskin’s writing is in regard [...]

Academic freedom: should religous students learn other religions?

The Discovery Institute is all up in arms about an editorial that appeared in American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Today. The writing in question is by Gregory A. Petsko, the president of ASBMB, on the state of evolution denial. He discusses the propaganda film Expelled and the Trojan horse legislative activities given the [...]

Top 10 Intelligent Design Tactics

Note:This post is written with respect to Poe’s Law.
Here are the top ten ways that ID proponents can further the cause of elevating Intelligent Design to a level where it is accepted at or above Darwinism.

Teach the controversy – Contrary to what Darwinists say, there are still gaps in the theory of evolution.  These areas [...]

Science’s big problem is not anit-religious prejudice

In a recent post entitled “Gutsy Article on Science Students Still Avoids Problem of Anti-Religious Prejudice,” Bruce Chapman writes about how he thinks that religious students are being persecuted in higher education science classes:
That problem is the contemporary hostility that many committed Christian young people, and perhaps other religious youth, encounter in the sciences these [...]

Louisiana academic freedom legislation roundup

The Evolution News and Views blog from the Discovery Institute has put out a series of posts bragging about the success of academic freedom legislation. They seem to think that this is some big win for the side of ID (and irrationality).  Well, they are right. The newest strategy of ID proponents seems to attack [...]

Academic Freedom does not mean freedom from reality

From the May 16, 2008 entry entitled “Evolution Academic Freedom Bill Submitted in South Carolina is Sixth this Year“.
Casey Luskin reminds us that there are currently six proposed “academic freedom” bills in the United States.  As you are probably aware, the new technique used by creationists/IDers is to attack evolutionary theory by using the guise of [...]