Over 40% of those questioned think creationism or ID should be taught in science lessons.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Women in India Told to Shut Up and Cover Up
Soft porn is everywhere, but women must be kept in line with fatwas, cops, death threats.
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Eastern Philosophy
‘What then is Indian and Chinese philosophy, and what reason is there for studying it?’
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Dennett on Religion
‘Can just any religion give lives meaning, in a way that we should honor and respect?’
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Carlin Romano Reviews Cosmopolitanism
In Cosmopolitanism, Appiah expands the thinking of his previous book, The Ethics of Identity.
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Religious Groups Shape History Textbooks
Historical accuracy can conflict with ‘enhancing the pride and self-esteem of believers.’
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Review of Debating Design
Cambridge University Press gives Dembski and ID more academic cred than they should have.
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Culturally Relative Science in Australian Schools
One curriculum describes Western science as ‘only one form among the sciences of the world.’
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Darwin the Geologist
It was a geological underpinning that led to much of what was most original in his work.
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Why We Should Remember Darwin the Geologist
Sandra Herbert examines the ways Darwin understood changes in time and space.
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Does Liberalism Need Multiculturalism?
The politics of recognition focuses on groups and cultural belonging.
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PZ Myers on Another Religious Assault on Education
The Vedic Foundation and Hindu Education Foundation go after California textbooks.
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David Bromwich on Eagleton on Terrorism
‘The nice balance of anarchy with absolutism strikes me as a literary man’s conceit.’
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Report Says Reform Will Lead to Segregation
Research suggests selectivity in school admissions would increase social segregation.
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Friends of South Asia v Vedic Foundation
Repetition of recent attempts in India to inject sectarian doctrines into history books.
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Festival of Muslim Cultures Refuses Gay Event
Director says festival is non-ideological and non-political and non-sectarian. Eh?