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Conservatives & Creationism
I was browsing RedState today and I noticed an advertisement for the National Geographic special on the Neandertal genome. At first I was surprised at the appearance of this on a right-wing website;...
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Acceptance of human evolution due to ideology, not intelligence
During a conversation with Nick Matzke he asserted that Creationists weren’t less intelligent necessarily. I contended that they were less intelligent. I based on this on snooping through the GSS when...
View ArticleCross-cultural comparison of evolution & God
Acceptance of Evolution & belief in God, over at Secular Right. Here’s my conclusion: … In any case, I think the two observations I would make is that Roman Catholicism’s acceptance of evolution...
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Which religious groups are Creationist?
Pew has the numbers: The main surprise here are Mormons. I knew that they had become much more Creationist over the past 3 generations due to their identification with conservative Protestants, but I...
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Creationism in America & Europe
So I’m reading/hearing about something flaring up in Texas again in regards to Creationism. I always get these strange “articles” in my RSS for the “evolution” query on Google Alerts where an...
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Darwin is a white thing
I was mentioning to a friend that Whoopi Goldberg is apparently a semi-moon landing denialist. At least Goldberg isn’t a Creationist like fellow View co-host Sherri Shepard. In fact Goldberg took...
View ArticleNortheastern Protestants & Catholics accept evolution
On a lark I decided to see how Catholics & Protestants broke down in regards to evolution by American region in the GSS. Specifically, I clustered the Census Divisions to create the categories of:...
View ArticleRemember the lizard men
Carl Zimmer points me an article about a former anthropologist who has some weird ideas about the origin of man: Since his resignation from the university in 1990, however, Horn has changed his tune....
View ArticleDemocracy & Creationism in Turkey
Another article on Creationism in Turkey: To John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in Dallas, however, the news could hardly be more encouraging. “Why I’m so interested in...
View ArticleCharles Darwin was quite the infidel
There was recently a conference on evolution in Egypt. Some interesting numbers: Dr Guessoum, who is a Sunni Muslim, said that in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, only...
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