James Irwin Charter Middle School pulls creationist content following parent concerns

James Irwin Charter Middle School has removed a portion of its science curriculum featuring creationism after receiving a letter from the national nonprofit the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The ...
Education Week

So Your Students Have Asked You About Creationism ...

Science curriculum featured prominently in the debate between Bill Nye and Creation Museum founder Ken Ham held Tuesday. As I wrote earlier this week, Nye defended science’s grounding in facts, while ...
Reason

Belief in Creationism Doesn't Necessarily Mean You Don't Understand How Science Works

Dan Kahan over at the invaluable Yale Cultural Cognition Project has conducted an interesting poll of 2,000 Americans inquiring into what they know and believe about creationism and evolutionary ...
Wired

Many High School Biology Teachers Still Teach Creationism

One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology. Of more than 900 teachers who responded ...
Colorado Times Recorder

CO Springs Public School Teaching Creationism

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has issued a letter to a Colorado Springs charter school, accusing the school of violating the Constitution by teaching creationism as part of ...
NPR

Creationism Vs. Evolution: The Debate Is Live Tonight

After two weeks of hype about a football game that turned out to be far less exciting than expected and after what feels like two months' worth of reports about wicked winter weather, it's nice to ...
Business Insider

3 Ways Teachers Are Still Trying To Push Creationism In Public Schools

, Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection, which has become a foundation stone for modern society's understanding of our origins and biology in general. Over ...
Los Angeles Times

Creationism again stalks the classroom

In a sane world, the ringing denunciation of intelligent design and creationist “science” delivered by a federal judge in 2005 would have eradicated these concepts from the schoolroom. District Judge ...
USA Today

Creationism support is at a new low. The reason should give us hope.

Fundamentalists are vowing to make a last stand for God in Dayton, Tenn., on July 14 when a new statue will be installed on the courthouse lawn. Going up alongside a likeness of William Jennings Bryan ...
Los Angeles Times

Study tracks the evolution of pro-creationism laws in the U.S.

The forces opposed to teaching evolution in U.S. public schools just got a new reason to resent the bedrock scientific theory: A researcher has used the principles of evolutionary biology to show that ...
Libcom

Creationism in the science classroom - 29% of science teachers say 'yes'

More than a quarter of science teachers polled by Ipsos MORI think creationism should be taught in the science classroom. Submitted by Choccy on December 24, 2008 Ipsos MORI reports 'Teachers Dismiss ...