Monthly Archives: November 2009

Cleaning up Comfort’s trash

In my previous post I noted that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are handing out free copies of On the Origins of Species, which features an introduction filled with creationist trash, and that the book is published right here in … Continue reading

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Comfort’s trash is in Florida’s yard

Creationist loon Ray Comfort is shipping out his own special edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. If you don’t already know about it, you can read a debate Comfort had with National Center for Science Education’s Genie Scott recently … Continue reading

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The Florida creationism library

I’ve been researching the history of Florida creationism for a couple of years now, and in that time I’ve collected quite a bit of stuff. I have hundreds of newspaper articles. I have school board meeting minutes, memorandums, letters, legislative … Continue reading

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No basic skills to be found in Florida?

Rather than wait to dump this in one of my this-n-that posts, I thought this was important enough to mention on its own. The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations did a survey and are now holding meetings around the state … Continue reading

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Nova Series “Becoming Human”

Nova’s new three part special “Becoming Human”  airs this coming Tuesday, November 3rd and for the following two weeks November 10th and 17th (See your local PBS for listings and times) Part 1. “First Steps” examines the factors which caused us to … Continue reading

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