He doesn’t think it should be part of the curriculum.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Barbara Forrest on NPR’s Science Friday
Co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse on Kitzmiller case.
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Gene Sparling on Finding the Ivory Bill
Just a great listen. The guy can tell a story.
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Why Taxonomy Matters
Which plant is which, and its relationship to other plants, are central to our understanding of the world.
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Despite Ruling, ID Is Not Going Away
It’s going to be a long haul.
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Andrew Brown on Religion
A lot of it has to do with theory of mind, and ideas about purpose.
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‘The science is just a façade, a Potemkin village’
The right to believe includes the right not to believe, say plaintiffs’ attorneys in ID case.
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Education is Escape for Muslim Women in Europe
Escape from controlling Muslim radicals and social codes enforced by fathers and brothers.
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Vicar Complains About Secularist ‘Agenda’
Secularist defends ‘quotidian ethics based on our common humanity.’
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Religious Demagoguery Never Palls in US
‘If you don’t stick up for the baby Jesus, who are you going to stick up for?’
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Malleus Mallificarum is Back
Vatican’s 1999 manual on exorcism sparks global surge in – exorcism. Brilliant.
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Identity of Bangalore Attackers Still Not Known
Prof Suresh Chandra calls Puri’s death a big blow to the field of science and research.
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ID Needs Mockery Along With Judicial Decisions
Spaghetti monster and songs about incompetent design may reach more holdouts.
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Hunt for Attackers in Bangalore
No motive has so far been established and no group has said it carried out the attack.
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DNA Tests Ordered on Gujarat Mass Grave
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the 2002 riots.
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A Reading Crisis?
Is it a crisis if people read older books instead of newer ones? Theirs instead of ours?
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Stanford Displays Theory Books Without Apology
Others express desire for ‘theory with less jargon, that is comprehensible.’ Oxymoron?
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The Little Red Book Affair
Some believed the student, some doubted, so questions were pressed…
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Debt Displaces Liberal Education
U. of Phoenix founder: ‘We’re not going for that “expand their minds” bullshit.’
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Martha Nussbaum on Religious Terror in India
Right-wing Hindu extremists who condone violence against minorities are still powerful.