Below The Beltway

Apparently, she believes in the fallacy of so-called creation science.

Evolution, it’s not just for textbooks anymore:
A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show [...]

A celebration of the 150th anniversary of On The Origin Of Species will be held next year at The Vatican:
The Vatican is planning a special conference in 2009 to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution.
First printed in November 1859, Darwin’s evolutionary [...]

Apparently, America’s biology students are still being used as pawns in the war on science:
One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology.
Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted by Penn State University political [...]

National Review’s John Derbyshire continues his attack on Ben Stein’s movie Expelled:
In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr.
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great [...]

John Derbyshire on Ben Stein’s new film Expelled and the nonsense that is so-called Creation Science:
Western civilization has many glories. There are the legacies of the ancients, in literature and thought. There are the late-medieval cathedrals, those huge miracles of stone, statuary, and spiritual devotion. There is painting, music, the orderly cityscapes of Renaissance [...]

Scientists have discovered that humans arrived in North America at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought:
Scientists have found and dated the oldest human remnants ever uncovered in the Americas — a discovery that places people genetically similar to Native Americans in Oregon more than 14,000 years ago and 1,000 years earlier than previous estimates.
Using [...]

Scientists in Europe have uncovered remains of human ancestors in Europe dating back more than a million years:
Excavations in a cave in the mountains of northern Spain have uncovered the oldest known remains of human ancestors in Western Europe, scientists reported Wednesday.
The fossils of a lower jaw and teeth, more than 1.1 million years old, [...]

An excellent ABC report on a group of creationists who take children on a tour of a museum and lie to them:

Poor kids and their misguided parents.

Stories like this just make me sigh:
In surveys conducted in 2005, people in the United States and 32 European countries were asked whether to respond “true,” “false” or “not sure” to this statement: “Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals.” The same question was posed to Japanese adults in [...]