http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog Standing up for reason since 2007 Wed, 21 May 2008 05:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New Scientist reports from a survey from Pennsylvania State University that around 12% say they teach creationism or intelligent design as a "valid, scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species". http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2008/05/20/16-of-us-high-school-science-teachers-are-creationists/ Well, we're a bit late to the party, but this was just too good to pass up: Illinois Democratic state representative Monique Davis telling an atheist activist testifying before the Assembly that "it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!" and yelled at him to get ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2008/04/09/knowledge-of-atheism-considered-harmful/ Ed Humes’ Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul is now out in paperback and californiaauthors.com is holding a drawing to celebrate. Two lucky winners will get an autographed copy of Humes' critically acclaimed book on the Dover, PA creationism case. Visit CaliforniaAuthors.com for details. Drawing ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2008/02/19/66/ Big bull evangelical James Dobson tells the rabid-right-o-sphere that he'd rather not vote than to vote for John McCain. In a statement released to the Laura Ingraham show, Dobson says: But what a sad and melancholy decision this is for me and many other conservatives. Should John McCain capture the ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2008/02/05/john-mccain-develops-evangelical-poll-repellant/ When South Korea's president-elect was mayor of Seoul, he said the city was a holy place governed by God. He's been associated with Korean evangelicals who pray at their monster rallies for the destruction of all Buddhist temples in Korea. The mega-church he attends is chock full of other government ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2008/02/02/gods-new-man-in-the-blue-house/ God in the White House -- a new book from religious historian, episcopal priest and editor-at-large of Chrisitanity Today, Randall Balmer -- explores the history and the consequences of the "religionization" of the presidency from John F Kennedy through George W. Bush. From an excerpt offered at npr.org: ... [E]xamples suggest ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2008/01/28/what-the-hell-happened/ Hey, Atheists like piney holiday goodness too. Celebrate the season by adorning your solstice evergreen with nifnak.com's Flying Spaghetti Monster Ornament. Or get your craft on for the New Year and whip up some of Kate's make-your-own solstice decorations. Click here to get step-by-step instructions for making solstice lanterns from strings ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2007/12/11/holiday-decorating/ AP: Pope Benedict XVI strongly criticized atheism in a major document released Friday, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known. Read more from the Associated Press. Read the encyclical "Saved by Hope" at the Vatican web site. It is hard ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2007/12/04/isnt-that-torquemada-calling-the-kettle-black/ CNN: American Academy of Religion is noodling the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Politico: Dean says Jews can go to heaven. Newsweek: No communion or Presidency for Giuliani say Catholic Bishops. http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2007/11/28/god-heads-a-dyd-news-round-up/ Mitt Romeny -- whose religion accounts for just 2 percent of the US population -- says there will be no Muslims in his cabinet, according to an opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor, because "based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot ... http://www.declareyourdisbelief.com/blog/2007/11/28/romneys-american-way-no-musilms-in-cabinet/