January 3rd, 2012
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The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (January 3, 2012) editorially criticized Indiana’s Senate Bill 89.
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NCSE: Opposition to Indiana’s creationist bill
Sunday, January 8th, 2012NCSE: The Granite Geek on New Hampshire’s antievolution bills
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
January 2nd, 2012
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The Nashua Telegraph’s science columnist revisits the two antievolution bills recently prefiled in the New Hampshire legislature.
NCSE: Creationism in British higher education by Steve Jones
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
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Steve Jones
Writing in The Telegraph (December 3, 2011), the geneticist Steve Jones reflects on his experience in teaching university students who reject evolution – and refuse even to learn about it – because of their religious objections.
Scientists demand tougher guidelines on teaching of creationism in schools
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Prominent scientists, including Sir David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins, have called on the British government to toughen its guidance on the promotion of creationism in classrooms, accusing "religious fundamentalists" of portraying it as scientific theory in publicly funded schools.
NCSE: Vindication for Corbett
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
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James Corbett
Was it unconstitutional for a teacher to describe creationism as "superstitious nonsense"? In 2009, a federal district court ruled that it was, in C. F. et al. v. Capistrano Unified School District et al. But the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a decision (PDF) issued on August 19, 2011, overturned the district court’s decision "to the extent it decided the constitutionality of any of Corbett’s statements" while upholding its grant of qualified immunity to James Corbett, the teacher in question.
Progress in Texas?
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
July 20th, 2011
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"Efforts to push creationist instructional materials into Texas science classrooms were dealt a setback today," the Texas Freedom Network reported on its blog (July 15, 2011).