On AlterNet: intelligent design

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "intelligent design"

An Evolutionary Biologist Visits the "Creationism Museum"

PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. August 11, 2009.

Where guards are ready with tasers to suppress criticism of the museum's loony ideas.

Intelligent Design's Latest Sneaky Assault on Science

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.

Intelligent Design Proponent Makes Another Stupid Argument

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.

Obama Puts Evangelical in Charge of National Institutes of Health -- Will His Religion Get in the Way of Science?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. July 11, 2009.

Francis Collins has defended practices derided by the God squad. But a man committed to reconciling faith and science brings back bad Bush memories.

Evolutionary Biology Is Over ... it Was Fun While it Lasted

PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. June 24, 2009.

Sad days for the reality-based set.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck Uses Handbags to Prove God's Existence (Seriously)

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.'

Sarah Palin's Big Bad Creationism

Nathan Schneider, AlterNet. September 9, 2008.

People are whispering that McCain's VP pick doesn't believe in evolution. But how much would this really affect policy?

Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Creationists Cling to Unreality

Nathan Schneider, AlterNet. July 31, 2008.

Battling creationists will not fix science education. Teaching science will.

Christopher Hitchens Attacked by Creationists Over Salamanders

PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. July 29, 2008.

Hitchens' latest article riles up fans of intelligent design.

What Happens When a School Board of Religious Zealots Will 'Lie for Jesus'?

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. June 20, 2008.

Lauri Lebo, author of Devil in Dover, gives an insider's account of a historic court battle about dogma and Darwin in small-town America.

Faith vs. Science: The Consequences of What We Teach Our Children

Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. June 5, 2008.

Is America beginning to reap what it's sewn with faith-based education?

16% of Biology Teachers are Young Earth Creationists

PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2008.

For a significant portion of American biology teachers, evolution takes a back seat to the Bible.

Intelligent Design Propaganda Is Coming to a Theater Near You

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.

The Missing Link in Creationism

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. December 10, 2007.

How can social conservatives deny Darwin's theory of evolution while espousing social Darwinism?

Texas Science Curriculum Director Forced to Resign After Questioning Legitimacy of "Intelligent Design"

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.

Christian Right Wants Bigfoot, UFO's, Elvis in Science Curriculum?

Bruce Wilson, AlterNet: PEEK. April 6, 2007.

Bruce Wilson: "Teach The Controversy", A Bold New Pedagology

Science fights back

Prema Polit, AlterNet: PEEK. February 20, 2007.

Prema Polit: Association fights willful ignorance of science; charts evolution of non-scientific thought.