As Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and the U.S. Constitution.
In a direct fire across the bow of Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity, the presumed Democratic candidate for US president has clearly stated where he stands on the evolution-creationism controversy
The same constitutional law that scientists invoke to keep creationism out of the classroom has now appeared to favor polygamy in the bizarre case of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Eldorado, Texas.
Oprah Winfrey and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle were confronted during their New Earth webcast with a question about the use of the word 'evolution' in his teachings.
A secret list of 20 potential running mates was revealed by presidential hopeful John McCain today, one of whom was Mike Huckabee, who wants to revise the U. S. Constitution to reflect more Biblical values.
The banning of atheists from a prescreening of Ben Stein?s film, Expelled No Intelligence Allowed, drew hundreds of postings in the blogosphere this week.
Ken Ham and co-author Dr. Charles Ware reveal a compelling history of the effect of an evolution-based belief system on the history of the United States, touching on abortion, slavery, and the civil rights movement.
In a precedent-setting decision, Florida education officials voted to add evolution to required course work in public schools, but only after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely a theory
Last weekend, as Evolution Sunday celebrated Darwin's birthday and the compatibility of evolution and Christianity, Presdiential Candidate Mike Huckabee avowed he will not give up his fight to become the first Creationist President
Like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is being privately previewed by the religious right before its general opening in April
Running on a platform of faith, family and freedom, the evangelical preacher turned presidential candidate confronts secular voters with the question, "is the US ready for a president who believes the Earth is 6,000 years old?"
In Texas, events surrounding a January 2008 meeting of the State School Board are escalating into a highly charged debate between the pro- and anti-evolution camps lobbying for changes in the state's science curriculum.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee bristled when asked recently if creationism should be taught in public schools. Huckabee is one of 3 candidates who has confessed his disbelief in evolution.
Six months after its opening, the controversial Creation Museum has attracted over one quarter of a million visitors, double the number predicted. The largest audiences are home-school families and Christian school students, who come to learn the creation-based science that the museum so vividly portrays.
When religious scholars gathered at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting this weekend, pasta was on the agenda. There to give talks was the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
A day after PBS aired a documentary on the court trial that indicted intelligent design as "creationism in disguise", advocates of the theory are crying foul play.
In 2008, public and private high schools throughout South Africa will begin teaching evolution. This recent decision has already ignited a tremendous uproar among parents, teachers and religious groups.
Reports indicate that a growing number of science teachers are bowing to pressure from parents who want creationism or intelligent design taught in public schools.
The number of British students who believe in creationism is rising sharply. Many teachers are uncomfortable with addressing creationism in their science classrooms.
Controversy surrounds a new documentary film hosted by Ben Stein and titled Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film criticizes scientists and educators for suppressing intelligent design theory.
In New Jersey, high school student Matthew LaClair secretly tape-recorded a teacher to prove that he was preaching a pro-Christian, anti-science message to students.
Despite their pro-creation personal views, members of the Texas State Board of Education have voted to keep intelligent design out of public school science classes.
Don McLeroy, the new chair of the Texas state Board of Education, is threatening to throw out high school biology books because they don't list weaknesses in the theory of evolution.
In a recent poll of American adults, 48% said they believe that God, in a single act, created human beings in their present form, sometime within the last 10,000 years.
In the biology class he taught, Kris Helphinstine referred repeatedly to the Bible and gave a PowerPoint presentation that linked evolution, Nazi Germany, and Planned Parenthood.
Protests were held recently outside the office of Sir Peter Vardy, a British multimillionaire who has funded several state schools and colleges accused of promoting creationism in their curriculum.
The National Museum of Kenya is home to the bones of the famous Homo erectus man, discovered by anthropologist Richard Leaky. But the bones may soon become banned.
After being accused of discriminating against evolutionary biology students by excluding them from a science grant program, the Department of Education quickly back-pedaled.