by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
Millions of dollars have been spent promoting Ben Stein’s creationist propaganda movie ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ to conservative church groups, but that money would have been better spent on fact checkers, say its critics. The National Center for Science...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 28, 2008
A Canadian church magazine has become the first North American sponsor of a travelling exhibit of the life and work of natural scientist Charles Darwin – writes Kristine Greenaway Darwin’s theory of the evolution of species has long been an occasion of...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 16, 2008
Hundreds of US churches and many thousands of religious believers defied the stereotype that American Christianity is a cipher for anti-science creationism last week, as they marked Evolution Weekend with sermons and seminars on the consonance of spiritual and...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 7, 2008
A group of leading scientifically and theologically qualified scholars has issued a clear rebuttal of the ‘intelligent design’ ideology that has gained ground among conservative religious believers, especially in the USA, in recent years. The International...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has told a gathering of academics that science should serve rather than enslave humanity, warning that the reduction of human beings and nature to mere ‘objects’ is not good for the spirit of reasoned enquiry. The comments came on Monday...
