Richard Dawkins was recently issued a challenge --disprove creation in one sentence. I can do that myself. Here it is: If we can see Andromeda --some 2.5 MILLION years distant from earth --then creationism is false!

Talk about a back-to-school special! Watch out co-eds, 'cause this year, Kirk Cameron and his sidekick Ray Comfort are teaming up with Answers in Genesis (the pseudo-scientists who brought you the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY) to convince you and your school chums that Darwin was misogynistic, racist Nazi. Their "Origin into Schools" effort will target 50 major college campuses on Nov. 21, where Creationists will be giving out free copies of Darwin's On the Origin of Species on the classic tome's 150-year anniversary. Only these special editions of the book that introduced the world to the concept of evolution will be prefaced with a 50-page introduction written by Comfort, AKA Banana Man.

In Sedalia, MO the band promoted itself with a nifty T-Shirt that showed the evolution of brass instruments. Evidently this offended members of the community, who think evolution is a religion and band is science class. Confusing, I know, but this situation is ripe for the Flying Spaghetti Monster intervention, isn’t it?

You read that right. The top of this woman's political platform is one piece of religious indoctrination at a local zoo. Falling insists that this number one priority of hers is necessary so that "streets are safer, budgets are balanced, land use and infrastructure are determined wisely for all of Tulsa so that we all have a shot at the 'pursuit of happiness.'" Yes, I'm sure a plaque questioning evolution at the Tulsa Zoo will solve the pothole problem.

"A Pensacola judge has green lighted the government seizure of Pensacola's Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park whose owners, Kent and Jo Hovind, owe $430,400 in federal taxes. The Hovinds' excuse for not paying was that they were employed by God and thus could claim zero income and property."

Cruel, cruel readers. Everyone is sending me links to this recent episode of The View, in which four women babble inanely about something or other. In this case, it's evolution. Do you people like to see me suffer? This was horrible. OK, Whoopi Goldberg is wishy-washy, rather than stupid: she argues for some vague kind of deistic intervention at the big bang, then evolution is the mechanism for creating life. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, though … allow me to paraphrase. 'Really cool handbags and shoes have, like, designers, so really cool people must have a designer, too, even greater than Gucci and Prada.'

Recently, VP Candidate Sarah Palin made an extraordinary claim. "Yes", she said, "I have seen images of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them!", a statement consistent with her attempts to get 'creationists' put on school boards. The proof that she is dead wrong is incredibly simple and beyond the refutation of any fundamentalist, creationist, or throw back.

Texas scientists have finally stopped agonizing over creationism and gotten busy organizing. Today, a group of university professors announced in a press conference the 21st Century Science Coalition, a vehicle to promote science education in Texas and push back against the retrograde agenda at the State Board of Education. It’s about time. The obscure but powerful board is a known hotbed of pseudo-scientific activity. At least six of its 15 members, including Chairman Don McLeroy, are creationists who have done little to hide their contempt for evolutionary biology. With an overhaul of the state’s science curriculum underway, this religious right faction has an opportunity to leave its fingerprints all over biology textbooks.

In the 21 years Patsye Peebles taught biology in Louisiana public schools, she never received one complaint from parents for teaching evolution. "The bottom line is that I never questioned their faith," she said. Whenever she had a student who brought up creationism, she always made it clear that science is science, and religion is religion. "I wanted them to understand," Peebles said, "that science has to be testable and proven with evidence." Whether they agreed with evolution or not, Peebles wanted her students to become what she calls "biologically literate citizens." Now she worries that a new Louisiana law, which would encourage teachers to question evolution, will push the state's education backward. "My whole curriculum was based on evolution, I integrated it into everything I taught," said Peebles, who testified against the law in a state Senate hearing and serves as a regional coordinator for the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Creationists may not be able to walk in the front door of academia to push their ideology…but that hasn’t stopped them from trying every other means of entry. Academic freedom legislation and a “strengths and weaknesses” argument are the latest weapons in a stealth assault upon science.

The Kitzmiller et. al v. Dover Area School District discredited, shredded even, "Intelligent Design" but ID partisans have managed to get an D bill through the Louisiana state legislature and facts have nohing whatsoever to do with this new efforts that's backed by Christian right heavyweight groups such as child-beating advocate Dr. James Dobson's 200-plus million dollar a year nonprofit Focus On The Family and by key Reconstructionist USD history falsificationist David Barton. SB 733 is about the stealth advancement of theocratic Christian nationalism and it's probably more or less a codification of what's already typically getting taught in Louisiana public schools but the bill will silence a minority at least, of teachers who still pay attention to science rather than push the US even faster down the slope towards developing-world and Third World status by foisting incoherent and Medieval "Intelligent Falling" and "Intelligent Grappling" on America's public school students.

"Louisiana has become the latest target of the Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank whose "Wedge Strategy" for getting intelligent design (ID) creationism into public school science classes was thoroughly discredited in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005). The Discovery Institute has teamed up with the LA Family Forum, the Louisiana affiliate of Focus on the Family, to promote a stealth creationism bill in the guise of "academic freedom" legislation. The bill sailed through the Louisiana legislature..." and was just signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal.

I'm an atheist, but I have no problem with believers who don't force their religion on me. But, I'm not OK with John Freshwater, a Mount Vernon, Ohio "science" teacher under fire for teaching creationism.

Having exhausted every attempt to capture Osama bin Laden, the man truly responsible for 9/11, it looks as if they are going to resort to prayer, or maybe an interpretation of Genesis. Ken Ham, founder of the Creation Museum, has been summoned to lead prayers at the Pentagon. We are truly saved.

While apes evolved naturally into pre-human creatures, it was the will and desire of God that turned them into humans, an article in the Vatican newspaper said.

When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually established evolution's truth beyond reasonable doubt. Today that battle has been won everywhere--except in the public imagination. Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy. They lobby for creationist ideas such as "intelligent design" to be taught as alternatives to evolution in science classrooms. As this article goes to press, the Ohio Board of Education is debating whether to mandate such a change.

Lost in the shuffle last night was the official withdrawal of Mike Huckabee in his attempt to become the first Creationist (officially) to be President of the United States. Even though he didn't win a single state after Mitt Romney suspended his race, Huckabee got a healthy percentage of votes in those states. If the Republicans gained delegates based on the percentage of the vote, Huckabee would have a mission in St. Paul in September. But as it is, Romney has more delegates than Huckabee.

This is scary stuff. A legitimate state university (albeit in Florida) is allowing crackpot creationists to lecture to students. Hovind has all of the qualifications of a parking lot attendant. Mr. Hovind, also known as Dr. Dino, is a young-earth creationist and runs Creation Science Evangelism, in Pensacola, Florida. He claims to have a doctoral degree from Patriot University in Colorado. If PU is accredited, they hide the fact very well.

A county school board in Florida has passed this resolution: "[W]e are requesting that the State Board of Education direct the Florida Department of Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for Science so that evolution is presented as one of several theories as to how the universe was formed." One of several theories as to how the universe was formed? Could they be any more blatant in their scientific ignorance? Evolutionary biology examines how living things change over time, not the formation of the universe.

The AH Trust wants a giant Christian theme park that will champion the book of Genesis and make a multi-media case that God created the world in seven days.The trust claims it already has a number of rich backers who are keen to invest in the project.Peter Jones, one of the Lancashire theme park's trustees, said the emphasis would be on multimedia rather than the costume re-enactments