TV Lookout for Nov. 11-17

Science or religion? The debate (or would it be more apt to say battle?) goes on surrounding the theory of intelligent design. PBS' "Nova" explores the question in "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial."

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Papal summit to debate Darwinian evolution

Pope Benedict XVI will this week host a private seminar to firm-up the Catholic Church’s stance on Darwinian evolution.

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A new lawsuit has been filed against the Cheatham County, Tennessee school system over a range of church/state violations including allowing Bible distribution in classrooms, teacher-endorsed prayer at football games and school-sponsored prayer at graduation ceremonies and the te …

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For those who have slightly better memory of recent events than an average gerbil, you'll surely remember that not too long ago, the Intelligent Design folks, with the help of Ben Stein, put together a whole movie about how evilutionists are all a bunch of evil fascists, out to s …

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One of the low points for the defense in Kitzmiller was the testimony of Alan Bonsell, who was President of the Dover Area District Board of Education at the time of the adoption of the policy that provoked the lawsuit.

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Wired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists * By Brandon Keim Email Author * November 16, 2009 | * 3:00 pm | * Categories: Animals, Biology * darwinfinches2 finches2

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On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.

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"There are 64 environmental learning centers that are run by the state of Minnesota or the federal government. You couldn't teach creation science at any one of those," said Bill Schultz, who heads planning and resource development at Lutheran Island Camp.

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In a recent book review for The British Journal for the History of Science, Thomas Dixon asks what contribution historians of science can make to the debate about intelligent design (ID).

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"I will have a discussion with somebody who has a genuinely different scientific point of view," he said when asked why he won't have a debate with Intelligent Design proponent Stephen Meyer.

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This was the last of three October hearing sessions. The next sessions are scheduled for November 17-19.

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Following on the heels of his last bestseller, The God Delusion, Darwinian biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins has scored another publishing triumph. The No.

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Terri Mahan testified earlier in the hearing when the Board was putting on its case in chief. Hamilton elected not to cross examine at that time because he would call her now.

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The main burden of Daubenmire's testimony was that he took responsibility for having organized the April 16, 2008, public demonstration in Mt. Vernon to bring attention to the Freshwater situation.

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Professor Thornton is playing games.

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Everyone seemed to like Neil deGrasse Tyson. Good, it shows you have good taste.

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Joe Thornton is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oregon who studies how molecules evolve over hundreds of millions of years. His most recent study suggests that it is difficult for natural selection to drive a molecule back to its old form.

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#7 Nylon Eating Bacteria

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Asked if the legislature would be open to academic freedom legislation, Rubio told the Witness, "I think so. Sure. Well, I think the Florida House would. I can't speak for the Senate."

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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning that members of the Mount Vernon school board don't have to testify in the termination hearing of John Freshwater, the eighth-grade teacher accused of teaching religion in science class and burning students with a laboratory device.

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A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists' understanding of bird and flight evolution, researchers report.

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Thursday of last week, the 17th, Hamilton and Freshwater were interviewed on a radio program hosted by David Barton, notorious revisionist pseudo-historian who is in the process of polluting social studies standards in Texas.

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"I found over the last year, when I said an atheist is someone who believes nothing created everything, they go berserk and say, 'We don't believe that,'" said Comfort, co-host of "The Way of the Master" television show with actor Kirk Cameron and the head of Bellflower, Calif.-b …

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An international team of researchers say they have discovered a blueprint for a general understanding of the evolution of the "machinery" of our cells providing more evidence, at the molecular level, in support of one of the key tenets of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

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It's a two-fer: creationists angry at science complain over the school band's t-shirt design, and the school can't tell the difference between science and religion."I made the decision to have the band members turn the shirts in after several concerned parents brought the shir …

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The British Humanist Association has asked the tourist board to stop promoting the Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in because the zoo "misleads the public by not being open about its Creationist agenda in its promotional activities and by advancing misunderstandings of the natural world …

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Published reports this morning (see also here and here) says that the federal lawsuit brought by the parents of the boy who was burned with a Tesla coil in an 8th grade science class in the Mt. Vernon City Schools has been settled. According to the report

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