tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43691568332516028482024-03-13T21:01:37.986-07:00Evolution MinuteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-2949485659839591582008-11-11T14:51:00.000-08:002009-09-09T18:50:59.197-07:00Britain’s National Academy of Science reprimands teachers for bringing religion into the classroom<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Transcript of today's show:<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Schools have come under attack by <a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/">Britain’s National Academy of Science</a> for misrepresenting evolution in order to promote Christian dogma. The Academy has singled out educators who teach intelligent design. These teachers, the Academy asserts, are partial and selective in the facts they present and treat gaps in scientific knowledge as proof of their own theory. According to the Academy, this amounts to a blatant neglect of scientific method, which is a fundamental standard in all sciences. [source: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/">BBC]</a><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0032a_sci_reprimands.">Listen</a> to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: Science & Faith. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Our point/counterpoint regulars Shelley (the voice of science) and Peter (the voice of faith), comment on the story.<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><dl id="comments-block"><dd style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;"><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Voice of Science:</span> Shelley Greene, Ph.D.</span></span></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">, comments:</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Isn’t it interesting that in the UK, where polls show an overwhelming bias against atheistic science, that the Academy has the good sense to chastise those teachers with a religious, creationist agenda? This is an example of checks and balances that we here in America would do well to emulate. </span></span></p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dd><br /></dd><dd><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Voice of Faith:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Williamson, </span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">M.Div</span>., comments:</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />This reprimand expresses an outright arrogance of the scientific community. What will it take for Intelligent Design theory to be given respect and thoughtful consideration? Any scientist would want this: to be heard with unbiased, objective open-mindedness. The scientific community has been playing unfairly, seeking to control the flow of knowledge in the belief that their accepted ideas and theories are supreme and paramount. The arrogance of science, I believe, is rooted in a fear of the spiritual and all things unseen. And this arrogance, when expressed through public and private education, deprives young, open minds from exploring greater vistas of possibility, understanding, and meaning.</span></span></p></dd><dt><br /></dt></dl><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-41627334024042560762008-11-02T11:18:00.000-08:002009-09-09T18:50:32.556-07:00Culture Wars in Kenya<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/img/fossil_skull.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/img/fossil_skull.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Transcript of today's show:<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>The <a href="http://www.museums.or.ke/">National Museum of Kenya</a> is home to the bones of the famous Homo erectus man, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>discovered by anthropologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leakey">Richard Leaky</a>. But the bones may soon become banned from public display, if the Pentecostal church gets its way. The church is leading an intense campaign to remove the exhibit, which they believe discredits creation theory. Leakey and other scientists are outraged and promise a bold fight to keep the exhibit intact. source: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2701723">Bill Redeker/ABC</a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0042_Kenya_museum.mp3">Listen</a> to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: Science & Faith. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Our point/counterpoint regulars Shelley (the voice of science) and Peter (the voice of faith), comment on the story.<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><dl id="comments-block"><dd style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;"><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Voice of Science:</span> Shelley Greene, Ph.D.</span></span></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">, comments:</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am unceasingly amazed how fundamentalist thinking can so directly interfere with science. As an American travelling to international scientific gatherings, I am constantly embarassed by the "American Problem" of Christian fundamentalism and it encroachment on scientific education. Here now in Africa, we see this same Problem, in the very backyard where the story began. The cord of terror this story raises is the epidemic-level spread of religious fundamentalism in the world, and its interest in dominating the cultural, social, and political landscape along the way.<br /><br />The people of Africa, in my experience of them, are proud of the fact that their land is the birthplace of the human race. Many African people believe in their homo sapien ancestry and feel deeply connected to it. The Penecostal Church and its intractable rejection of the homo sapien bones, is confusing these people, just as Creation theory and intelligent design advocates seek to confuse the young people in America. More disturbing still is the danger that this culture war become fodder for yet another civil war in the ravaged Africa. Why must religion, again and again, sarifice the innocent in order to convince and conquer the non-believing and independent-minded?<br /></span></span></p></dd><dd face="georgia" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></dd><dd><br /></dd><dd><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Voice of Faith:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Williamson, </span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">M.Div</span>., comments:</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />If there ever was a more legitimate reason to listen to other points of view, certainly this controversy in Kenya is a most lucid example. Just as some scientists do not want to "allow" a single book with an alternate version of the creation of the Grand Canyon in it's bookstore, now First World countries are trying to tell Africans what to believe. Many Christians are offended that their beliefs are not acknowledged -- whether in national park bookstores or history museums. If the great majority of Kenyans are offended by the Leakey bones, then they need to be listened to. The Kenyan Christian conversion happened on their own soil. We did not make them slaves in their own country by telling them they must adopt the "White Man's Religion." Their position comes from their own faith and the strength of their belief. Please, let's just try and respect that and mind our own business!<br /></span></span></p></dd><dt><br /></dt></dl><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-20596511591523832122008-10-15T10:00:00.000-07:002008-10-15T16:50:11.800-07:00Palin vs. "Palin"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/palin_vs_palin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/palin_vs_palin.jpg" border="0"></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0098_palin_vs_palin.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120"></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0098_palin_vs_palin.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120"></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="verdana" size="3"><font><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Time</span> magazine recently reported that Tina Fey has seized vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s public image. While Fey spoofs Palin as a beauty queen who has to phone a friend to answer interview questions, the real Palin accuses Obama of befriending terrorists. The Tina Fey version of Sarah Palin appears harmless -- making it harder to see the real candidate as the Spiro Agnew-like hatchet woman she really is.<br /><br /><br /></font></font><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-37696567361863857242008-10-01T09:31:00.000-07:002008-10-05T14:54:04.177-07:00Tina Fey & Amy Poehler start the Palin dialogues<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/fey_palin_poehler_couric.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="fey_palin_poehler_couric" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/fey_palin_poehler_couric.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0097_palin_couric_snl.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0097_palin_couric_snl.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />Tina Fey recently made a special guest appearance on SNL impersonating Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The real candidate who believes that both Intelligent Design and Evolution should be taught in schools has had difficulty proving herself fit for national office. Comedic impersonators Fey and Poehler came back to satirize another actual interview between CBS anchor Katie Couric and Creationist Sarah Palin.<br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-2203392539002872962008-09-24T09:50:00.000-07:002008-10-19T12:29:10.918-07:00Sarah Palin brings back the Culture Wars<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/fey_palin_poehler_clinton.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="sarah palin tina fey" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/fey_palin_poehler_clinton.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0096_palin_culture_wars.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0096_palin_culture_wars.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />Just when we thought the presidential campaign was settling into a discussion about the issues, Creationist Sarah Palin enters the race. Although Hillary Clinton did not take the bait to have a smack down with the pro-life, death penalty diva, Tiney Fey and Amy Pohler did manage to portray them together on Saturday night live.<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-66814633684713053422008-09-10T09:22:00.000-07:002008-09-10T09:43:37.945-07:00The Sarah Palin Church Video<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/richard_dawkins_sarah_palin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/richard_dawkins_sarah_palin.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0095_palin_video.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0095_palin_video.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />With the return the Creationism to national politics brought by vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the atheists have already jumped into the fray. Less than a week after her nomination, Richard Dawkins, atheist superstar par excellence and one of creationism’s most vocal critics, distributed a video of Palin titled: "US VP Candidate Sarah Palin Exposes Herself as a Religious Nut". Palin gave a commencement address at her old church in Alaska whose pastor claims “that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a 'world war' over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.”<br /><br />Here are the unedited videos - you decide:<br /><br />The Sarah Palin Church Video Part One<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QG1vPYbRB7k&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QG1vPYbRB7k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />The Sarah Palin Church Video Part Two<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k84m2orSOaM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k84m2orSOaM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-72035150146712221932008-08-30T10:00:00.000-07:002008-08-31T08:56:25.642-07:00A Creationist enters the presidential race; and she's no friend to the Polar Bears<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/palin_polar_bear.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/palin_polar_bear.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0094_Palin_running_mate.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0094_Palin_running_mate.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />John McCain’s decision to choose an anti-abortion, pro-creationism, death penalty diva as his vice-presidential running mate has stunned the nation. Some creationists are asking why McCain chose unknown Alaska governor Sarah Palin instead of the immensely popular national figure and avowed creationist <a href="http://evominute.blogspot.com/2008/03/will-john-mccain-choose-creationist-as.html">Mike Huckabee</a>. Besides wanting to drill for oil everywhere, Palin is also not a friend of the Polar Bear.<br /><br />Sounds too strange to be true? Read on:<br /><br />Palin is pro-life and a prominent member of Feminists for Life. When she was pregnant with her fifth child, Palin was told the baby had genetic abnormalities consistent with Downs Syndrome, but still chose to go through with the pregnancy. In 2006, while running for governor, Palin was asked what she would do if her own daughter were raped and became pregnant; she responded that she would "choose life" and refuse an abortion. She and her husband stated that they had "faith that every baby is created for a good purpose."<br /><br />As for that man who hypothetically raped her daughter, Palin would "choose death." She is a staunch supporter of the death penalty. In 2006 she said </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>"If the legislature passed a death penalty law, I would sign it. We have a right to know that someone who rapes and murders a child or kills an innocent person in a drive by shooting will never be able to do that again."</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />While running for Governor of Alaska and asked about the teaching of creationism in public school science classes, Palin answered: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."<br /><br />Since being announced as McCain's running mate, she has shamelessly voiced her belief that global warming is man-made. As Governor, in May 2008, she had threatened to sue the federal government over the decision to list polar bears as a threatened species due to effects of climate change. She questioned the scientific basis for the listing, and warned that it would adversely affect energy development in Alaska. Governor Palin has strongly promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska, including opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.<br /><br />More on Sarah Palin next week as she becomes the first female Republican candidate for the vice-presidency.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-18049867762288929812008-07-30T10:00:00.000-07:002008-07-30T18:39:04.558-07:00"Leave us alone!"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.opraheckhart.com/images/megaphone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.opraheckhart.com/images/megaphone.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0093_leave_us_alone.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0093_leave_us_alone.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and talk-show host superstar Oprah Winfrey are not backing down from their evolution position in their weekly web cast <a href="http://www.opraheckhart.blogspot.com"><span style="font-style: italic;">A New Earth</span></a>. Despite being portrayed as Satan by some evangelical church groups, Oprah continues to support Eckhart’s position that evolution and Christianity are not in conflict. They both appealed for religious tolerance. As one Oprah.com message board respondent said, "I don't picket churches on Sunday, so please, leave us alone!”<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-90552233896824671722008-07-23T10:00:00.000-07:002008-07-23T11:56:14.516-07:00Eckhart Tolle squares off with Creationists<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/eckhart_cr_flag.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/eckhart_cr_flag.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0092_Eckhart_Creationists.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0092_Eckhart_Creationists.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />Spiritual teacher & New York times best-selling author Eckhart Tolle has found himself directly in the middle of an evangelical defamation campaign. While teaching his book <a href="http://www.opraheckhart.blogspot.com"><span style="font-style: italic;">A New Earth</span></a> with Oprah Winfrey, highly organized evangelical creationists have bombarded Oprah’s message boards with hundreds of thousands of derogatory comments and apocalyptic warnings about Eckhart’s simultaneous embrace of evolution and the teachings of Jesus.<br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-49467155564279606512008-07-02T10:00:00.000-07:002008-07-02T13:58:56.939-07:00Is Obama catering to the creationists?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0091_Obama_faith_based.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0091_Obama_faith_based.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0091_Obama_faith_based.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0091_Obama_faith_based.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />Taking a page from President Bush, Barack Obama wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service dollars to religious groups. Calling the Bush faith-based program "a photo op", Senator Obama says he would scrap the office entirely and create a new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that would be a "critical" part of his new administration.<br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-71813183896400976332008-06-25T10:00:00.000-07:002008-06-25T14:44:56.583-07:00A leading creationist accuses Barack Obama of pushing a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/dobson_obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/dobson_obama.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="302">Hear the 1 minute show:</td></tr><tr><td width="150"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0090_Dobson_Obama.wax"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/LISTEN_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="47" width="120" /></a></td><td align="center" width="150"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0090_Dobson_Obama.mp3"><img src="http://www.renewableminute.org/blog/DOWNLOAD_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="51" width="120" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />As Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. Dobson told millions of his listeners on his weekly radio program, Focus on the Family, that Obama is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.<br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-68164739180194658342008-06-18T10:00:00.000-07:002008-06-19T00:08:39.110-07:00Is Pope Benedict the American Pope?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/pope-benedict-saturno-hat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 176px;" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/pope-benedict-saturno-hat.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Pope Benedict made his first papal visit to the US this April. Is this Pope an ally to creationists? Last year we reported on Vatican holy cards, praised by creationists, that declare that humans are not a casual and meaningless product of evolution. And yet, <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/04/04/national/nationalspecial2/index.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1207774933-OmL08fgrbpKaxgV6DLO3tA">Time</a> </span>magazine portrays this new pontiff as celebrating America’s separation of church and state -- calling him the "American Pope".<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>[source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/04/04/national/nationalspecial2/index.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1207774933-OmL08fgrbpKaxgV6DLO3tA"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Time magazine</span></a>]<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0083_American_pope.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0083_American_pope.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=6816473918019465834"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=6816473918019465834"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from an article published in April 2007 in the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Daily Mail</span>:<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>Pope Benedict has aired his views on evolution fo the first time - and says he partially believes Darwin's theories. <p> The Pontiff said science had narrowed the way life's origins are understood and said Christians should take a broader approach to the question. </p><p>However, he did not adopt a strictly scientific view of the origins if life, believing instead that God created life through evolution. </p><p> He said he "would not depend on faith alone to explain the whole picture". </p><p>As well as praising scientific progress, the Pope's views, published in a new book 'Schoepfung unt Evolution' (Creation and Evolution), did not endorse the creationist, or 'intelligent design' view of life's origins. </p> [<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=447930&in_page_id=1811">read full story</a>]<br /></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from a comment posted on the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Daily Mail</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>in response to the above article:<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote>As we understand more and more about DNA, Scientists are proving that there is intelligent design behind the creation of human beings. Darwin's theory was exactly that, a theory, but because people choose not to believe in God or Creation, they have adopted his theory as fact.<br /><br />Darwin's theory is increasingly becoming flawed with more and more medical and scientific evidence proving we are created by an intelligent design, although some Scientists won't tell you this truth, why, what are they afraid of?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">quoted from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pope Benedict XVI</span>:</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />Ultimately it comes down to the alternative: What came first? Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason. The latter, however, would then be nothing more than a chance result of evolution and thus, in the end, equally meaningless. As Christians, we say: I believe in God the Father, the Creator of heaven and earth. I believe in the Creator Spirit. We believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason. [<a href="http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=3275&AFID=12&">more</a>]<br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-33957772074921953742008-06-11T08:05:00.000-07:002008-06-11T08:18:51.147-07:00Barack Obama promises a return to science<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0089_Obama_science.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 260px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0089_Obama_science.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>In a direct fire across the bow of Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity, the presumed</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span> Democratic candidate for US president has clearly stated where he stands on the evolution-crea</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>tionism controversy. In his first speech after winning the Democratic nomination, Senator Obama took this very public opportunity to remind voters that his administration will be renewing a commitment to science, as had Bill Clinton when he was president.<br /><br />Listen to the 1 minute show:<br /></span></span><blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0089_Obama_science.wax"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 66px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/LISTEN.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></blockquote><br /><blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0089_Obama_science.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 66px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/DOWNLOAD.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-9342921404857271902008-06-04T10:00:00.000-07:002008-06-06T08:26:56.153-07:00Judgment Day in Texas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0088_mormon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0088_mormon.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0088_judgment_day.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0088_judgment_day.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /><br />Like the PBS documentary about <a href="http://evominute.blogspot.com/2007/11/intelligent-design-on-trial.html">Intelligent Design</a>, Judgment Day was equally harsh for Texas Child Protective Services. The Texas State Supreme Court upheld an appellate court’s ruling that the 450 girls forcibly removed from a Mormon cult in Texas be returned. The court ruled that the Fundamentalist Mormon’s polygamist and other sexual practices were protected by the separation of Church and State as set forth in the U.S. Constitution.<br /><br />The order signed by Texas District Judge Barbara Walther, responding to a state Supreme Court ruling last week, allowed parents in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to pick up their children from foster care facilities around the state almost immediately.<br /><br />In exchange for regaining custody, the parents are not allowed to leave Texas without court permission and must participate in parenting classes. They were also ordered not to interfere with any child abuse investigation and to allow the children to undergo psychiatric or medical exams if required.<br /><br />However, it does not put restrictions on the children's fathers, or require parents to renounce polygamy or live away from the sect's Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas. "We're really grateful to get the order signed," said Willie Jessop, an FLDS elder.<br /><br />The FLDS denies any abuse of the children. Church officials have always maintained that they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs. The FLDS, whose members believe polygamy earns glorification in heaven, is a breakaway sect of the Mormon church, which renounced polygamy more than a century ago.<br /><br />Walther's order does not end a separate criminal investigation. Texas authorities last week collected DNA from jailed FLDS leader Warren Jeffs as part of an investigation into underage sex with girls, ages 12 to 15. He has been convicted in Utah as an accomplice to rape and is jail in Arizona awaiting trial on separate charges.<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0088_judgment_day.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0088_judgment_day.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-57849443592902255452008-05-27T10:00:00.000-07:002008-05-28T15:16:22.170-07:00Creationism, the Constitution, and the Mormon Mess in Texas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/mormon_mess.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/mormon_mess.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Somehow, the same constitutional law that scientists invoke to keep creationism out of the classroom has now appeared to favor polygamy in the bizarre case of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Eldorado, Texas.<br /><br />Hundreds of pro-bono lawyers looking to distinguish their careers by being associated with the case (& staying in the national news cycle), have won their appeal in a citing that uses the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution to guarantee the rights of the FLDS, a plural marriage fundamentalist religious cult that established itself near Austin, Texas.<br /><br />Scientists will have to support this pro-Creationism decision, because if religion cannot influence secular education, then secular education cannot influence religious practices. This means that the court's decision is a left-handed compliment to secularists invoking the Constitution's establishment clause to keep creationism out of the classroom.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0087_mormon_mess.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0087_mormon_mess.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=5784944359290225545"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=5784944359290225545"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /></span></span></span><blockquote><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-69595844009558027962008-05-21T10:00:00.000-07:002008-05-21T19:22:41.762-07:00Vatican Chief Astronomer says Bible is not a science book<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0086_bible_not_science.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 203px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0086_bible_not_science.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>The new Chief Astronomer for the Vatican <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jose Gabriel Funes</span> says science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion. He believes the Big Bang Theory is the most "reasonable" explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0086_bible_not_science.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0086_bible_not_science.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=6959584400955802796"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=6959584400955802796"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /></span></span></span><blockquote><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-3916935066908152862008-05-07T10:00:00.000-07:002008-05-07T13:59:16.955-07:00Oprah Winfrey and the creationism controversy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.opraheckhart.com/images/show_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.opraheckhart.com/images/show_3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Much to the surprise of webinar participants, Oprah Winfrey and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle were directly confronted during their <a href="http://www.opraheckhartvideo.com"><span style="font-style: italic;">New Earth</span> webcast</a> with a question about the use of the word 'evolution' in his teachings. Eckhart responded that most Christians world-wide don't have a problem with evolution. Oprah added that it's obvious everyone is evolving every day. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.opraheckhart.blogspot.com">OprahEckhart.com</a>.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0085_Oprah_creationism.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/audio/0085_Oprah_creationism.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=1387649216522813643"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=1387649216522813643"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-15897921048178744062008-04-30T15:15:00.000-07:002008-04-29T15:12:58.548-07:00The Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Creationism and Darwinism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0080_Archbishop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0080_Archbishop.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, criticized both extremes, saying: "Neo Darwinism and Creationist science deserve each other. Creationism is a version of slightly questionable science pretending to be theology, and Neo Darwinism is a questionable theology pretending to be science." Both Neo Darwinism and Christianity are telling stories, the Archbishop continued, Christianity acknowledges that fact, Neo Darwinism doesn't.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>[source: <a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2008/03/archbishop-of-c.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Times Online</span></a>]<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0080_Archbishop.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0080_Archbishop.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=1589792104817874406"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=1589792104817874406"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from the blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">Faith Central</span> of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Times Online</span>: <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>The Archbishop hit out against the "two extremes" in the range of theories of how the world began in his Holy Week lecture on Faith and Science last night. He said "Science has more to do than is simply covered by these theories."<br /><br />Creationists believe in the literal version of creation as told in Genesis, and argue that man walked the earth at the same time as the dinosaurs. Neo Darwinists argue that culture is subject to evolutionary forces which will eventually weed out religion.<br /><br />Dr Williams admitted that Neo Darwinism, a theory supported by Atheist Professor Richard Dawkins, is "most problematic" to theology, but he called it "a pseudo science" and "deeply vulnerable to intellectual challenge because it is trying to be a theology."<p> [<a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2008/03/archbishop-of-c.html">read full blog post</a>]<br /></p></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from a comment posted on the blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">Faith Central</span>:</span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote>Surely there is a difference between 'stories' with no supporting evidence, and 'stories' with an abundance and growing body of observed and observable evidence to support them? This is an important distinction he fails to make when comparing the competing stories of Christianity and Neo-Darwinism.<br /><blockquote><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from <span style="font-weight: bold;">PZ Myers</span>' blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pharyngula</span>:</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />Rowan Williams clearly has no idea what the neo-Darwinian synthesis says, because nowhere does it claim that evolution will weed out religion; even I, brutal opponent of all things godly, can see reasonable arguments for the adaptiveness of religion, or the absence of selection against religion, or that there are acceptable rationales for religion as an exaptation. But otherwise, the admission that science is a problem for theology, and the ignorant claim that evolution is a pseudo-science, are useful tools for the atheist conspiracy. [<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/archbishop_flames_on.php">read full blog post</a>]<br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-38864274218906497372008-04-23T08:00:00.000-07:002008-04-23T00:44:20.352-07:00An Intelligent Design documentary offers rebates on movie tickets<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0072_expelled_movie_rebate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0072_expelled_movie_rebate.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Producers of a pro-Intelligent Design movie starring Ben Stein are raising money for schools by making donations in exchange for ticket stubs. Christian schools, in particular, are urged to book theaters during the opening weekend and receive up to $5 for each ticket stub returned. The film is called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, and opens in theatres April 2008.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>[source: <a href="http://www.getexpelled.com/schools.php"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Expelled Challenge</span></a>]<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0072_Expelled_movie_rebate.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0072_Expelled_movie_rebate.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=3886427421890649737"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=3886427421890649737"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from <span>the</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Expelled Challenge </span><span>web site</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>Welcome to the Expelled Challenge web site where we can help Christian schools raise up to $10,000 while educating their students, parents, and staff of the controversy that is surrounding the Intelligent Design and evolution debate. This is an extremely important project for those of us who believe our world was designed by a creator and not an act of random chance. What is the Expelled Challenge? To engage Christian schools to get as many students, parents, and faculty from your school out to see Ben Stein’s new movie <span style="font-style: italic;">Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed</span>. [<a href="http://www.getexpelled.com/schools.php">visit the site</a>]<br /><br /><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from the blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Frame Problem</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span> <blockquote>It is curious that on the one hand, leaders of the ID movement claim that ID is not about religion but about science, while on the other hand, the promoters of this movie are campaigning specifically to Christian schools. If it’s all about science, why not campaign to schools of all faiths and, dare I say it, public schools.<br /><br />If ID is a secular scientific program, why direct act as if the only people who the film is aimed at is Christians—and not just Christians, but the kind of Christians that would attend or put their child in a Christian private school? Why describe your movie as being “an extremely important project for those of us who believe our world was designed by a creator and not an act of random chance”?<br /><br />If it’s about science, then shouldn’t the movie be important to all of us? When early quantum physicists were promoting their colloquia and conferences, I’d be willing to bet that they didn’t run promotions exclaiming that the upcoming event was extremely important for those of us who believe in a non-deterministic probabilitistic universe. It was important to anyone interested in honest inquiry. [<a href="http://theframeproblem.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/producers-of-expelled-trying-to-bribe-christian-schools-into-forcing-their-students-to-see-their-movie">read full blog post</a>]<br /></blockquote><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from a comment posted on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pharyngula</span> blog: </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />These schools are disposed to favor ID already for the most part, but many of them would not ordinarily participate simply because schools (yes, even Christian schools) are hotbeds of competing activity. Without an incentive or strong leadership, even hardcore funded schools are not that likely to participate simply because teachers and staff have so many demands on their time.<br /><br />But offer the school site a significant prize, and lo and behold, the full apparatus of administrative support is likely to manifest itself. Virtually all schools are chronically underfunded and looking for new, even one-shot revenue streams. The financial inducement is a clever strategy, because it will tip the scales in an area that is already conducive to being tipped---for both ideological and financial reasons.<br /><br />Further, they are, according to the link, offering how much cash per school? 300 ticket stubs gets you a $2,500!! My friends, it might take as few as two teachers at a given school making viewing the film a required assignment to reach that goal. $2,500 is more than three times my annual classroom budget for supplies, so the incentive is definitely there…..<br /><br />Add it all up, and we've got something that's going to have a considerable impact rebuilding the cottage industry of creationism within the churches. And make no mistake, that's the real motive, pumping up the market for creationism within Christianity. We can mock it from the outside for their marketing tactics, but the Christians who buy into this will see the financial incentives as a 'love offering' to Christian education, and they will be well-disposed to show it. I further predict that 6-12 months after it leaves the theatres many copies of this film will be purchased/donated by Christian high schools….<br /><br />This film is going to make a big splash with the audience they are targeting, and it's going to cause problems for real science education, and it needs to be challenged. In particular, the slimy, under-handed way it was produced should be put out there, and those associated with the film's production should be challenged to justify it. [<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/expelled_not_even_released_and.php#comment-716984">read full commentary</a>]<br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-70636729087121824972008-04-16T12:24:00.000-07:002008-04-16T14:32:59.120-07:00Is Pope Benedict a Creationist?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0084_Creationist_Pope.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 244px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0084_Creationist_Pope.jpg" alt="George Bush & Pope Benedict" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>In our continuing coverage of Pope Benedict's US visit, the Holy Father has sent confusing signals about creationism and Catholicism. While the Pope and President Bush find common ground in opposing abortion and gay marriage, the Pope's new book ‘Creation and Evolution‘, does not endorse creationism or intelligent design. But this did not stop the Pontiff from <a href="http://evominute.blogspot.com/2007/02/vatican-astronomer-repudiates.html">firing his Chief Astronomer</a>, Father George Coyne, for not supporting intelligent design.<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0084_Creationist_Pope.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="evolution creationism" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0084_Creationist_Pope.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=7063672908712182497"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=7063672908712182497"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pope Benedict</span><span>, speaking recently to the Italian Ecclesial Congress:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"At the roots of being a Christian, there is no ethical decision or lofty idea, ... but a meeting with the person of Jesus Christ. The fruitfulness of this meeting is apparent ... also in today's human and cultural context, correlation between its structures and the structures of the universe ... excites our admiration and poses a great question. It implies that the universe itself is structured in an intelligent fashion, in such a way that there exists a profound correspondence between our subjective reason and the objective reason of nature. It is, then, inevitable that we should ask ourselves if there is not a single original intelligence that is the common source of both the one and the other."</span><br /><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pope Benedict</span><span>, in his book <span style="font-style: italic;">Creation and Evolution</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">:</span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"Science has opened up large dimensions of reason...and thus brought us new insights. But in the joy at the extent of its discoveries, it tends to take away from us dimensions of reason that we still need. Its results lead to questions that go beyond its methodical canon and cannot be answered within it. The issue is reclaiming a dimension of reason we have lost."</span><br /><br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-16273993103258889732008-04-02T12:35:00.000-07:002008-04-02T14:25:12.723-07:00What does a creationist, FedEx, and McCain’s search for a vice president have in common?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0082_McCain_VP.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0082_McCain_VP.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>A secret list of 20 potential running mates was revealed by presidential hopeful John McCain today. Mike Huckabee, who wants to revise the U. S. Constitution to reflect more Biblical values, could help increase McCain's appeal among cultural conservatives. But McCain has repeatedly praised Frederick Smith, CEO of Federal Express, as an excellent VP choice from the business sector.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>[source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402/ap_on_el_pr/mccain"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Associated Press</span></a>]<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0082_McCain_VP.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0082_McCain_VP.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=1627399310325888973"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=1627399310325888973"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Huckabee</span>, on the campaign trail in January:<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /><br /><br />Video clip of <span style="font-weight: bold;">CNN</span> report on Huckabee's above comment</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-024042965528200255 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"></a><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-024042965528200255 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"></a><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-024042965528200255 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"></a><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-024042965528200255 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"></a><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-024042965528200255 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"></a><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-024042965528200255 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"></a><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0Xo3Z27sSM&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></span></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">comment posted at<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> One News Now:</span> </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />McCain should remember that a Christian serves God first - and that alone accounts for McCain's perception that he's "his own man." In other words, he won't bow to popular opinion but will stand by the commands of Jesus. [<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=71275">see complete story</a>]<br /><br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-24791915392064208922008-03-26T14:03:00.000-07:002008-03-26T14:30:30.612-07:00Atheists are banned from an intelligent design movie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0081_atheists_banned.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 206px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0081_atheists_banned.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>The banning of atheists from a prescreening of Ben Stein’s film, <span style="font-style: italic;">Expelled No Intelligence Allowed</span>, drew hundreds of postings in the blogosphere this week according to Technorati, a leading blogpost barometer. Producers of the film about intelligent design claim the furor is around the value of their message. Atheists question a film that associates Darwin with the Nazi Holocaust.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0081_atheists_banned.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0081_atheists_banned.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=2479191539206420892"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=2479191539206420892"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from a blog post by <span style="font-weight: bold;">PZ Myers</span>, who was banned from the film screening: <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled, a few minutes ago. Well, I tried … but I was Expelled! It was kind of weird — I was standing in line, hadn't even gotten to the point where I had to sign in and show ID, and a policeman pulled me out of line and told me I could not go in. I asked why, of course, and he said that a producer of the film had specifically instructed him that I was not to be allowed to attend. The officer also told me that if I tried to go in, I would be arrested. I assured him that I wasn't going to cause any trouble.<br /><br />I went back to my family and talked with them for a while, and then the officer came back with a theater manager, and I was told that not only wasn't I allowed in, but I had to leave the premises immediately. Like right that instant.<br /><br />I complied.<br /><br />I'm still laughing though. You don't know how hilarious this is. Not only is it the extreme hypocrisy of being expelled from their Expelled movie, but there's another layer of amusement. Deep, belly laugh funny. Yeah, I'd be rolling around on the floor right now, if I weren't so dang dignified.<br /><br />You see … well, have you ever heard of a sabot? It's a kind of sleeve or lightweight carrier used to surround a piece of munition fired from a gun. It isn't the actually load intended to strike the target, but may even be discarded as it leaves the barrel.<br /><br />I'm a kind of sabot right now.<br /><br />They singled me out and evicted me, but they didn't notice my guest. They let him go in escorted by my wife and daughter. I guess they didn't recognize him. My guest was …<br /><br />Richard Dawkins.<br /><br />[<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php">read full blog post</a>]<br /></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">a comment posted on PZ Myer's blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pharyngula</span>:<br /></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote>The strategy of keeping the skeptical and rational sectors of society out of preview screenings of this movie makes a lot of sense. If we can't see it we can't destroy it's credibility before it is widely released, and it follows that they will be able to blindside uninformed people much more easily.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">excerpt from a press release issued by the makers of the film <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Expelled</span>: </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />Executive Producer Logan Craft noted: “EXPELLED makes it clear that academic freedom is at stake. Yet Dawkins and his friends continue to misrepresent the film and slander the producers. It is obvious that they do not want to debate the real issues raised in the movie. Their only interest is to control the damage their interviews have done to their cause. We are happy to let the public decide where the truth rests on this controversial issue when the movie opens nationwide on April 18th.”<br /><br />Myers has apparently been asking supporters to sneak into the different private screenings for many weeks. After being denied his chance to see the movie, Myers blogged about his experience and expressed his outrage.<br /><br />Executive Producer Walt Ruloff responded, “This is the typical reaction of Darwinists and atheists who are so blinded by their own self importance that they fail to understand what is really going on. They yell and scream when one of their friends isn’t allowed to see a movie weeks before it goes public. All this outrage while these same people organize witch hunts to expel those who disagree with them.”<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080325006175&newsLang=en">read complete press release</a>]<br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-67958385154251534432008-03-12T15:01:00.000-07:002008-03-12T16:08:31.956-07:00Will John McCain choose a Creationist as his running mate?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0079_Rep_dream_team.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0079_Rep_dream_team.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>With McCain the Republican 2008 presidential candidate, the “Dream Team” may include Mike Huckabee as the vice-presidential nominee. Huckabee proved the strength of the evangelical vote by winning the first republican Iowa caucus & then stayed in the race long after big spender Mitt Romney bowed out. McCain-Huckabee vs. Clinton-Obama would be a presidential contest of Biblical proportions.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0079_Rep_dream_team.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0079_Rep_dream_team.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=6795838515425153443"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=6795838515425153443"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from <span style="font-weight: bold;">The News & Observer</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>Who will be Arizona Sen. John McCain's running mate? Party activists are more interested than usual in his pick for three reasons:<p>* He needs to shore up support from conservatives, and the running mate is his best chance to do that;</p><p>* The vice presidential nominee could be first in line to win the presidential nomination the next time it's open;</p><p>* Given McCain's age -- he'd be 72 on Inauguration Day -- the presidency could come open sooner than eight years .</p>The most-discussed name right now is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Here are the pros and cons of Mr. Huckabee, according to conventional wisdom among the Republican party:<br /><p><b>Pro:</b> He's shown his ability to win in the South and has support among evangelical Christians. A solid social conservative.</p><p><b>Con:</b> He raised taxes as governor and supported equal benefits for the Arkansas children of illegal immigrants. Picking him might not excite conservatives.</p><p> [<a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/949890.html">read full story</a>]</p></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from the blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">A Lanson Boy</span>:</span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote>Huckabee is becoming just too powerful a figure to ignore. Consider McCain's position. He is unpopular with the God brigade because he is perceived as weak on abortion and gay marriage. He doesn't play well in the South and he is viewed as weak on immigration. So the whole spectrum of the right are arrayed against him. As I said before, if Obama is the Democratic candidate then the GOP could face problems in traditional red states. McCain needs a good solid bible belt southerner to shore up his position. The trouble is that there just aren't that many credible candidates around. What Huckabee has going for him is that he hs proven he can win in these states and that he was brave enough to put his head above the parapet and compete. On Super Tuesday, Huckabee won 5 states and was second in a further 3. He is a force to be reckoned with even if he cannot win.<br />[<a href="http://lansonboy.blogspot.com/2008/02/mccains-running-mate-decision.html">read full blog post</a>]<br /><blockquote><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from a commentary by Abe Greenwald, published at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Commentary Magazine.com</span>: </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />Since Mike Huckabee’s surprise showing on Tuesday, talk about a McCain - Huckabee ticket has neared the level of legitimate speculation. The thinking is that Huckabee victories in southern states like Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia, demonstrate the value of an Evangelical-friendly name on a GOP ticket.<br /><br />When this idea was floated on Fox News Tuesday night, Karl Rove, in his new talking head role, dismissed it immediately—with good reason. Christianity Today reports that evangelical voters are now more concerned with national security than with social issues such as abortion. (Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Giuliani made that clear.) John McCain’s vision of the enemy as a threat to the American way of life is comfortably close to the Evangelical vision of jihad as a threat to Christianity. Somewhat shockingly, unlike some of the conservative media, Evangelicals can prioritize. John McCain has said many times (including, once, to me) that he’s looking for a strong national security vice president. He’d have an impossible time defending his choice of the man who didn’t know of the existence of the NIE on Iran. The compulsion to over-strategize in speculating about the McCain campaign has grown directly out of the Limbaugh-right’s insistence that McCain is embattled within the party. And in a national election, few evangelicals are going to pull the lever for Hillary or Obama over him. But if, after running almost entirely on national security, he hitched himself to a foreign policy ignoramus like Huckabee, he may first face detractors en masse.<br />[<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/2362">read complete article</a>]<br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-50426809895386875322008-03-05T17:09:00.000-08:002008-03-05T11:01:19.180-08:00Mike Huckabee rouses evangelicals in Texas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0078_Huckabee_campaigns.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0078_Huckabee_campaigns.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Mike Huckabee has focused his Texas primary campaign on his core constituency in the Texas Bible Belt. Huckabee may bring enough conservative fundamentalist voters to the polls on March 4 to swing the balance of power on the Texas school board to supporters of creationism. One school board seat may go to Republican Barney Maddox who calls Darwin's theories "pre-Civil War fairy tales."<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>[source: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1718533-1,00.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Time</span></a>]<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0078_Huckabee_campaigns.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0078_Huckabee_campaigns.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=5042680989538687532"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=5042680989538687532"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Greg Laden's Blog</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>On one hand, we have the Huckabee factor ... Huckabee's draw on hard right voters in tomorrows primary may lead anti-evolutionists to victory. On the other hand, we have the Obama factor ... Obama's draw on moderate republicans may lead to a cleansing of pernicious liberal elements from the Republican party. <p>Hilary Hylton has an interesting and informative piece in, of all places, Time, about tomorrow's events in Texas. You need to know this. </p> <p>Texas has a state-wide school board. This means that when it comes to textbook adoption, Texas is the largest single customer, and thus, traditionally, Texas has determined the fundamental nature of textbook production in the United States for years.</p> Fortunately, children nation wide are protected by the constitution even from Texans, and strong political efforts in Texas and elsewhere, including pressure on publishers, has meant that social studies and science textbooks available for adoption across the country for grade school and high school have not been as bad as they might have been had Texas conservatives succeeded in their plan to take over education nationally. [<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/how_the_presidential_election.php">read full blog post</a>]<br /></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from a comment posted on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bad Astronomy Blog</span>:</span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote>Some info for district 2 voters (which includes Corpus Christi) can be found in this article: <p><a href="http://www.caller.com/news/2008/feb/26/teaching-of-evolution-may-be-affected/" rel="nofollow">http://www.caller.com/news/2008/feb/26/teaching-of-evolution-may-be-affected/</a></p> <p>The vote will be on electing a member to the State Board of Education, which determines text books used in TX schools.</p> <p>Bad:</p> <p>Lupe A. Gonzales wants to stop teachers from teaching science by insisting that the sound scientific theories of evolution be taught alongside creationism. </p> <p>Good:</p> <p>Mary Helen Berlanga wants to ‘leave God out of science’. Not because it promotes atheism, but because religion has no place in the science class.</p> [<a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/03/03/texans-get-out-and-vote-huckabee-edition/#comment-159407">read full blog post</a>]<br /><blockquote><br /><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network</span>, quoted in an article in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Dallas Morning News</span>: </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody">When you think about the fact that the State Board of Education in Texas determines what every child in Texas public schools will be taught in K through 12, the impact that those members have is extraordinary on the future of Texas. These races are absolutely critical. ... </span></span><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody">Membership of the State Board of Education is clearly, very evenly divided between the far right faction of the board and everyone else. </span></span><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody"> </span></span> [<a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8V045HO0.html">read complete article</a>]<br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4369156833251602848.post-89578709415562982312008-02-27T13:35:00.000-08:002008-02-27T06:49:54.975-08:00A popular creationist links Darwin to racism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0077_Darwin_and_racism.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 255px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/0077_Darwin_and_racism.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Transcript of today's show:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>Ken Ham, evangelical creationist and founder of the very popular Creation Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, has just come out with a new book entitled <span style="font-style: italic;">Darwin’s Plantation: Evolution’s Racist Roots.</span> Ken Ham and co-author Dr. Charles Ware reveal a compelling history of the effect of an evolution-based belief system on the history of the United States, touching on abortion, slavery, and the civil rights movement.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span>[source: <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Answers in Genesis</span></a>]<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0077_Darwin_and_racism.mp3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/audio_icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.evolutionminute.com/audio/0077_Darwin_and_racism.mp3">Listen</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span>to the 1-minute broadcast of this story [mp3]<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=8957870941556298231"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 20px;" src="http://www.evolutionminute.com/blog/Pencil_Icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4369156833251602848&postID=8957870941556298231"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comment</span></a> on this story.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:georgia;" > <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sound Off: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What is being said about this story from around the blogging and opinion world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br />from <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Associated Press:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>In the new book, Ham says that Darwin's theory - that natural selection caused gradual biological changes over time - puts some races ''higher on the evolutionary scale'' and others ''closer to the apes.''<br /><br />''Although racism did not begin with Darwinism, Darwin did more than any person to popularize it,'' Ham writes. He further contends that the theory fanned the flames of ''ethnic superiority.''<br /><br />''Stalin, Hitler and Mao were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions - and it can be shown they did this because of the influence of Darwinian naturalism,'' Ham writes.<br /><br />Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, a California group that defends teaching evolution in public schools, said Hitler rarely mentioned evolution.<br /><br />''Darwinian evolution is based on natural selection, which means that any population can adapt to its environment,'' Scott said. ''The ironic thing for the creationists is that Hitler grounded Aryan superiority as a God-given quality.'' [<a href="http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=27724">read full story</a>]<br /></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from the blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Darwin Report</span>:</span></blockquote></span></span></span></span><blockquote>Historically speaking, Charles Darwin came from a family of abolitionists. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, strongly disapproved of slavery. And Charles Darwin wrote negatively about the slavery he witnessed on his travels in his book, The Voyage Of The Beagle. Darwin’s The Descent Of Man is also an argument against racism, since one of the points in it is the common ancestry of all the humans races. And simply using the word “savage”, as Darwin did, in its 19th century context doesn’t make a man a racist. Political correctness and cultural sensitivity were more than a century away. [<a href="http://thedarwinreport.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/another-ken-ham-darwin-sham">read full blog post</a>]<br /><blockquote><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from a report by <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WDC Media</span>, a Christian Media relations firm: </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />Ham and Ware show that although racism certainly did not begin with Darwin, his beliefs did more to fuel racism than the ideas of any other single individual. "Racism is a consequence of sin in a fallen world infused with evolutionary thinking," Ham writes.<br /><br />The subtitle of Darwin's "Origin of Species" is "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life." Darwin himself writes in "The Descent of Man" that he would rather be descended from a monkey than a "savage."<br /><br />"As soon as one believes that human beings have evolved from creatures of lesser intelligence, it is an easy corollary to assume that some people groups are more evolved than others," the book says. [<a href="http://www.wdcmedia.com/newsArticle.php?ID=3755">read complete article</a>]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">from PZ Myers' blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pharyngula</span>: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Just when you think these guys can't get any more dishonest, here comes Darwin's Plantation: Evolution's Racist Roots. The tag line on the book is a quote from Ham: "Although racism did not begin with Darwinism, Darwin did more than any person to popularize it."<br /><br />Wow. More than Martin Luther, who helped make anti-semitism a favorite German pastime? More than Nathan Bedford Forrest, who helped the Ku Klux Klan grow to half a million members? More than Hitler? More than our Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision? More than Richard Butler, founder of the Aryan Nations? More than Lester Maddox and Strom Thurmond? More than King Leopold II of Belgium? [<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/ken_hams_new_book.php">read full blog post</a>]<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.evominute.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/full</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com