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  • On teaching evolution: New year, old fight

    It's a new year, but familiar debates continue to rage over God, evolution and exactly what the nation's students should learn about each.


  • Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman is currently rapping his version of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" at the SoHo Playhouse with music from his frequent DJ collaborator Jamie Simmonds. (Ben Hider via Associated Press)

    Rapper Baba Brinkman gets positively medieval

    NEW YORK | Most rappers boast about their intellect, but few go out and actually get a master's degree in medieval and Renaissance literature so they can spit better rhymes.


  • Cambridge posts Newton manuscripts online

    The University of Cambridge says it is posting almost all of Isaac Newton manuscripts to the Internet.


  • Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the RedState Gathering, a meeting of conservative activists, where he announced his run for president in 2012, in Charleston, S.C., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

    KNIGHT: Can Perry summon courage of true convictions?

    The modern-day faith in science makes the most fanatical fundamentalist look indifferent by comparison. Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of macroevolution, which even he admitted had scant evidence to support it, the intelligentsia have pushed science as the Final Decider of All Things. If you think this is harmless, see how Alfred C. Kinsey's cooked surveys on sex in the 1940s helped launch and justify the still-disastrous sexual revolution. And look at how junk science is littering Supreme Court opinions.


  • CA science center pays $110,000 over canceled film

    A documentary on intelligent design, a theory of creation that has been dismissed by some in the scientific community as comparable to claiming the South won the Civil War, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced Monday.


  • CA science center pays $110,000 over canceled film

    A documentary on intelligent design, a theory of creation that has been dismissed by some in the scientific community as comparable to claiming the South won the Civil War, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced Monday.


  • Famed fossil isn't a bird after all, analysis says

    One of the world's most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it isn't a bird at all.


  • Darwin's travels may have led to illness, death

    The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalist for decades and ultimately led to his death, a gastroenterologist said Friday.


  • BOOK REVIEW: A time of intellectual triumphs

    The claim that there is a conflict between science and religion and that Christianity is to blame is one of our most treasured pieces of cultural baggage. In "The Genesis of Science," James Hannam exposes it as a stubborn lie. His principal goal is to restore the good name of the Middle Ages, and in this he succeeds admirably.


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