Randy Olson, Island Press. October 29, 2009. Attempting to subvert the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking 'Origin of the Species,' 50,000 copies will be handed out.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009. A film about Charles Darwin that is being shown throughout the world can't find a U.S. distributor.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009. "I don't think evolution should be associated with our school," said one parent, who teaches in the district.
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, The Faster Times. August 31, 2009. Creationist theme parks are filled with paleontological wonders. How do Christian fundamentalists reconcile creatures millions of years old with their Young Earth ideas?
Matt Zeitlin, Campus Progress. July 22, 2009. One of the architects behind the unscientific intelligent design movement is finding success in referencing its greatest enemy: Charles Darwin.
PZ Myers, AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2009. Stephen Meyer is arguing that Thomas Jefferson supported ID. Actually, Jefferson was dead when Darwin came up with his theory of evolution.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 12, 2009. A quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and 36 percent don’t have an opinion either way.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: Media and Technology. December 15, 2008. 'Really cool handbags and shoes have, like, designers, so really cool people must have a designer, too, even greater than Gucci and Prada.'
Robert Jensen, AlterNet. August 15, 2008. Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.
Lauri Lebo, AlterNet. April 24, 2008. With "Expelled," proponents of Intelligent Design prove that they are much better at marketing than they are at science.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. March 27, 2008. Disturbing and infuriating footage of creationists manipulating young children on anti-evolution tours of museums.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2008. A 2005 national review gave Florida’s science standards a failing grade because of its "superficiality of the treatment of evolutionary biology."
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: PEEK. December 24, 2007. It's actually pretty shocking that Paul would use the "evolution is just a theory" argument to justify his nonacceptance of it.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. December 5, 2007. Amanda Marcotte: Texas is a state to be watched, because so many right wing ideas and strategies hatch there only to be exported elsewhere.