PRESIDENT OBAMA has nominated Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. It would seem a brilliant choice. Dr. Collins's credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head of the Human Genome Project.

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State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy, R-Bryan, faced searing questioning during his uncommonly long confirmation hearing Wednesday at the Senate Nominations Committee.

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It might seem contradictory to believe that humans were created in their present form at one time within the past 10,000 years and at the same time believe that humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.

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Creationism's Either/Or Fallacy

Creationists of varying stripes (including Intelligent Design Creationism) insist that evolution is "just a theory", and that equal time should be given to Creationism.

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Not even 2 months old, the 60,000-square-foot institution near Cincinnati exceeded expectations by passing the 100,000-visitors milestone last weekend.

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Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project "Creation Wins!!!," says he disproved part of the theory of evolution.

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There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral degree in geosciences here at the University of Rhode Island.

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This week in Federal Way schools, it got a lot more inconvenient to show one of the top-grossing documentaries in U.S. history, the global-warming alert "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Refuting the Creationists

A Creationist website, Answers in Genesis, has presented several arguments to "prove" that the Earth is 6,000 years old and therefore that Creationism is more accurate than evolution.

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