Can Nuisance Suits Stop the Insidious Spread of Evolutionary Understanding?

Apparently the Pacific Justice Institute is suing a couple of Berkeley professors for putting up a website that explains evolution. The PJI apparently sues anyone who might constrain Christian evangelism in America, including in public schools. I read about this current suit here, on CitizenLink.org. CitizenLink is a newsletter for…

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More about the Worst President Ever

In my daily scan of Creationism related news, I found this historical analysis of presidential faux pas. Author Wm. C. Shelton explains in detail how Dubya's lowest presidential approval rating in history is not his reason for rating our present leader the "Worst Ever": The measure of a bad presidency,…

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What to do about all of those college students who aren’t qualified to go to college.

What do you do about all of those college students who have no business being in college? If you're a conscientious English teacher, you flunk them. And when you get incredibly frustrated that you really must flunk so many of them, as did "Professor X," you write about your dilemma…

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An American Problem

I was meandering in cyberspace, and stumbled onto this column by Australian Michael Ruse: The struggle between evolution and creation: an American problem. This appeals to me after all the news about Australian Ken Ham and his Creation Museum here in the U.S. The muse of Mr. Ruse is that…

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