

Steve Story, 1976-2021
We have good reason to believe that a longtime member of the OTB community has passed.
We have good reason to believe that a longtime member of the OTB community has passed.
Pope Francis restates something the Catholic Church has taught for a long time and, again, the American media thinks its something new and revolutionary.
It is now illegal to teach creationism as science in the United Kingdom in any school, public or private, that receives public funding.
More bad news when it comes to scientific literacy.
Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?
Once again, some groups in Texas are trying to block approval of a science textbook because it is too deferential to Evolution.
Do prayers opening legislative sessions violate the First Amendment? The Supreme Court is set to decide that issue.
Huntsman’s tactics reinforced his fellow Republicans’ natural skepticism of his candidacy.
Is it every appropriate to ask candidates about their religious faith? In some cases, yes it is.
Like Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry has something to say about evolution today and he handled it very differently.
Michele Bachmann’s view of history is based in a world view that would be foreign to most Americans.
Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.
Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.