Andrew Marr, former BBC politics editor, amongst other things, has written a piece for the BBC about "The danger of worshipping Darwin". Now, as if that wasn’t enough to raise red flags in the heads of all those who accept evolution through natural selection as being the current best explanation for how life as it [...]
Mar 05, 2009 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: andrew marr, bbc, darwin, evolution, foolishness, in the news, missing the point, straw men | Leave A Comment »
There’s a story in the Grauniad to day about the prevalence of Young Earth Creationism amongst undergraduates (link, via Stephen Law). Such views are less unusual among UK students than you might think. In a survey last month, more than 12% questioned preferred creationism – the idea God created us within the past 10,000 years [...]
Jan 16, 2009 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: creationism, evolution, guardian, in the news, religion, science, surveys, worrying, young earth creationism | Leave A Comment »
I am, as you'll be aware, many things. Slayer of Dragons, baker of muffins, programmer, occasional scribbler, amateur photographer, cynic, lover of the weird and wonderful. I'm also, I'd like to think, a reasonably good scientist (Physics was my mistress before Computer Science; we still keep in close contact and send each other nostalgic letters [...]
Feb 27, 2008 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: academia, atheism, creationism, evolution, freedom of speech, new humanist, religion, ucl, universities | Leave A Comment »
