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Curmudgeon’s Essays
The Global Darwinian Conspiracy Revealed!
The Lost Voyage of Ringo Darwin
What Did Darwin Do?
The Stupid-Driven Life — Part IV
The Stupid-Driven Life — Part III
Who Are the Creationists?
The Ten Laws of Creationism
Evolution, Creationism, and Global Warming
The Theory of Abominable Befuddlement
Racism, Eugenics, and Darwin
Down With Gravity!
Morality, Evolution, and Darwin
Damn You! Damn You All To Hell!
What Would Prometheus Do?
The Scientific Case Against Craterism
Intelligent Design and Swine Flu
Religion and Evolution: Part II
Religion and Evolution
Somalia: A Modest Proposal
Creationism’s Fallacy of Retrospective Astonishment
Intelligent Design: The Dung Beetle’s Tale
The Mind of a Creationist — Inductophobia
Buffoon Award Winner — The Intelligent Designer
But They’ll Behave Like Monkeys!
The Stupid-Driven Life — Part II
The Stupid-Driven Life — Part I
Where’s the Proof — Evolution’s “Smoking Gun”?
Atheism, Science, and Darwin
Intelligent Design: It’s Not About Science
Ben Franklin, Compound Interest, and Evolution
Intelligence Briefing: The State of the Creosphere
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand and Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection
Marx, Stalin, and Darwin
Why Are the Neanderthals Extinct?
Creationists: Ignorant, Stupid, Insane, or Wicked
Jim Jones, Jonestown, and the Discovery Institute
Born 23 October 4004 BC — Happy Birthday, Universe!
The Future of Creationism
Advice for Creationists
Debating Creationists: Where to Begin?
Creationism: the Unending Crusade
The Folly of Creationism
Hitler and Darwin
Discovery Institute’s “Academic Freedom Act” — Presumptively Void
The Plague of Creationism
Debating Creationists: The Big Lie
The Inevitability of Evolution (I)
The Inevitability of Evolution (II)
The Inevitability of Evolution (III)
Where Are The Anachronistic Fossils?
When Gravity was a Theory in Crisis

Religion and Science (moved to separate page)

Politics and Science
Sarah Palin & Creationism (separate page)
Mark Souder, Creationist: Two GOP Challengers
Creationism in Politics: Growing or Fading?
Turkey: Country or Creationist Website?
Governor Mark Sanford: Creationist
Mark Souder Opposes National Science Standards
Heritage Foundation: Going Creationist?
Municipal Politicians’ Creationist Slime-a-thon!
George W. Bush — Pro-Darwin, Old-Earth Too
Buffoon Award Winner — Mark Souder, Creationist Congressman
Congressman Mark Souder: “Souder Delenda Est”
Evolution, Ben Stein, and Global Warming
Olivia Judson: An Obama Fan?
George Bush and Evolution: The Creationist Reaction
America: Intellectual History In Reverse?
McCain and Obama on Science: Another View
Obama and McCain: Their Views on Science
McCain and Obama: Positions on Evolution and Creationism
Science Debate 2008: McCain and Obama Answer 14 Questions
Ben Bova on Science and Presidential Politics
Creationism in Politics: Time for Benign Neglect?
Creationist Candidates at Cape Canaveral
Open Letter to John McCain
Poll: Majority of Likely US Voters Accept Evolution
The Founders Rejected Evolution?
McCain’s Possible VP Choices — Creationists?
Presidential Candidates’ Opinions on Evolution
The Politics of Stupidity

Media and Science
“Time” Magazine Goes Creationist
Videos: Eugenie Scott, Barbara Forrest, Miller, etc.
Creation the Movie: 1st Month’s Box Office Results
“The Age of Wonder” by Richard Holmes
Another Conservative Group Goes Creationist
Richard Dawkins’ US Tour
Creation the Movie: Box Office Results
“Creation” Movie Gets US Distributor
Dawkins Interview: “The Greatest Show on Earth”
Kirk Cameron: World’s Dumbest Human?
Ken Ham on “Creation” the Movie
Olivia Judson on “Creation,” the Darwin Movie
Creation, the Movie: Expelled from the USA
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth
“Weekly Standard” Going Creationist?
The Theory of Intelligently Designed Weather (IDW)
Eugenie Scott is Interviewed
A New Creationism Book To Avoid
Darwinius Masillae, Pravda, & the Discovery Institute
Creationist Reactions to “Darwinius Masillae”
Media Hype About “Darwinius Masillae”
“U.S.News & World Report” Touts Creationism
Ben Bova: Are Humans Still Evolving?
Open Letter to Steve Forbes
Forbes Magazine Promotes Creationism
Darwin Film Project: New Creationist Documentary
Banquet at Delmonico’s — Spencer and Social Darwinism
Joseph Priestley, American Genius
We’re Doomed — Elisabeth Hasselbeck On Evolution
Five Books That Debunk Humbug
Suicide Blamed on Biology Class and Dawkins’ Book
“The Devil in Dover” by Lauri Lebo
Martin Gardner Reviews Ann Coulter’s “Godless”
“Creation” — Movie About Charles Darwin Starts Filming
Two TV Shows on Evolution and Creationism
Book Review: “The Creationists” by Ronald L. Numbers
New York Times Promotes Ken Ham

Science (mostly evolution)
Human Evolution in the Future
Penguin DNA Defies Genetic Dating Techniques
Darwin, Evolution, and Alien Life
The Falklands Wolf, the Platypus, & Leprosy
What Did Darwin Do?
Naked Mole Rats and Cancer Resistance
Sabotage From The Future!
Killer Algae, Global Warming, & Mass Extinction
Why We Can See Blue Sky
Can Noah’s Flood Explain Banded Iron Stripes?
Olivia Judson: Alarming Behavior
Pygmies: A Small Evolutionary Problem
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
“Ardi” — Pre-Lucy Hominid Fossil Found
First Evolutionary Branching For Bilateral Animals
We Are All Mutants
Artificial Life Is Only Months Away?
All In The Family: Our Primate Heritage
The Lessons of Tiktaalik
Transparent Aluminum, Really — Thanks, Scotty
Olivia Judson: What’s In Your Guts?
Fossilized Dung Balls: A Dung-Based Ecosystem
Cold Case: Neanderthal Killed by Sapiens?
Olivia Judson: Ant Communications
Ben Bova: The Search For Life’s Origins
Humans Related to Orangutans, Not Chimps?
Martin Cohn: Outstanding Developmental Biologist
The Origin of Life: Solved?
Evolution in a Test Tube
Unique English Snail Species Discovered
US Adults Flunk Basic Science
Kepler Mission: Searching for Earth-like Planets
New Evolution-Creationism Resources
New Discoveries: Earliest Animals and Transitional Whales
Is There a “Longevity Gene”?
Human DNA Repair Process Recorded
Female Promiscuity and Evolution
A Treasure Trove of Bird Poo
“Origins” — A Promising New Website
Synthesis of Self-Replicating RNA Molecules
“Understanding Science” — Great New Website
Olivia Judson: The Romance of Fossils
15 Evolutionary Gems from “Nature”
Desmond Morris on Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin: The Greatest In British History?
Olivia Judson: The Ten Days of Newton
Charles Darwin in “Scientific American”
Olivia Judson: How To Stage a Resurrection
Olivia Judson: The Process of Evolving
Lethal Mutagenesis — It’s Coming!
Who’s Your Daddy?
Evolution Guides Itself — Without “Intelligent Design”
Olivia Judson: Voting, Obesity, and Evolution
Evolution in the Lab
Pre-Cambrian Animal Footprints Discovered
How Old Is the Earth and the Universe?
Olivia Judson: Secrets of the Natural History Museum
Philadelphia’s Year of Evolution
Olivia Judson: The Paradox of Genetic Screening
Why do people believe weird things?
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters
Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Olivia Judson: Evolution’s Profound Optimism
Olivia Judson: Ponderous Thoughts
Olivia Judson: Making Eyes At Us
Visit the AAAS and NCSE Websites
Olivia Judson: Evolution Here, Now, Everywhere
From Reason: Evolution Debate at FreedomFest 2008
Did Alfred Russel Wallace believe in Intelligent Design?
First of July: Natural Selection’s Birthday
“Only a Theory” by Kenneth R. Miller
How Did the Brain Evolve?
Michael Ruse: Why Darwin is remarkable
Darwin’s “Voyage of the Beagle” Reviewed
New Transitional Fossil — linking frogs and salamanders
God and “academic freedom” in science class
Cause of Mass Extinctions Discovered?
More Voices for Reason (Creationists “Insulted” Again)
Where Are The Anachronistic Fossils?
When Gravity was a Theory in Crisis
Clarke’s First Law and Intelligent Design

John Freshwater Affair
John Freshwater Update (27 Aug ‘09)
John Freshwater Trial Update (09 Jan)
John Freshwater Trial Update (06 Jan)
John Freshwater Trial Resumes Today
John Freshwater Trial Update (31 Oct)
John Freshwater Trial Update (30 Oct)
John Freshwater Trial Update (29 Oct)
John Freshwater Trial Update (28 Oct)
Freshwater Trial Starting in Ohio
John Freshwater, suspended Ohio teacher: Update
Creationist Science Teacher John Freshwater is Fired

Litigation and Creationism
Kitzmiller v Dover: Science and Law
Judge Jones Honored, Howling Heard in Seattle
John Haught: Witness in the Dover Case
Texas: Christina Comer’s Lawsuit Dismissed
The Caldwell Case — It’s Over!
Lauri Lebo: “Academic Freedom” is Creationism 3.0
The Caldwell Case — It’s Back!
A Witness at the Scopes Trial
Three Years Since Dover — Merry Kitzmas!
Caldwell Litigation Against UC: Dismissal Affirmed on Appeal
Comer v. Scott: Update for 15 Aug
Fired Iowa Professor Bitterman Gets Settlement
Scopes Transcript: Darrow’s examination of Bryan
Kitzmiller v. Dover: Michael Behe’s Testimony
Comer v. Scott — Background Information
Victim of Anti-Evolution Discrimination Files Lawsuit
Kitzmiller v. Dover: The Role of The Discovery Institute
Kitzmiller v. Dover: What’s the Wedge Document?
Kitzmiller v. Dover: Who is the Intelligent Designer?
Kitzmiller v. Dover: Is ID Science?
Caldwell Litigation Against UC Berkeley
Creationism: the Unending Crusade
Discovery Institute’s “Academic Freedom Act” — Presumptively Void

Debunking Creationism
The Mystery of the Cambrian “Explosion”
The Peppered Moth is Turning White Again
Michael Behe Speaks at Penn State
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Lives!
Behe’s North Carolina Fiasco: Part 2
Behe Admits He Has No Theory
Project Steve: Total Reaches 1,000
Project Steve: Total Reaches 900
The Onion: Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
Creationism and Nylon-Eating Bacteria
How Old Is The Creationists’ Universe?
Curmudgeonly Rumblings: reDiscovery Institute

Creationist Foolishness (moved to separate page)

Creationist School Board Folly
Evolution T-Shirts, Journalism, & Brain Death
Kansas City: Evolution T-Shirts Banned
Ohio: Creationism’s Newest Battlefield
Creationist School Board in North Carolina is Slapped Down
Butteville School Board Drops Intelligent Design
Northern California Town May Teach Intelligent Design

Celebrity Creationism (Shut up and sing!)
Ben Stein: Expelled by the New York Times
Pat Buchanan Presents Every Creationist Fallacy!
Pat Boone: Rhymes with … Maroon!
Chuck Norris: America’s founding creationists
Ron Sexsmith and Intelligent Design?
Ben Stein’s “Expelled” — A Canadian Conspiracy
Hey, Pat Boone: Shut up and sing!

Food Fights
Debate: Comfort vs. Scott — Phase 2
Debate: Ray Comfort vs. Eugenie Scott
Food Fight: Bill O’Reilly and Richard Dawkins
Discovery Institute: Food Fight with Harun Yahya
Food Fight: Discoveroids, Jonathan Wells, NY Times, NCSE, etc.
Food Fight: Inayat Bunglawala and Harun Yahya
Food Fight: Discovery Institute and PZ Myers
Food Fight: Discovery Institute and Richard Dawkins
Food Fight: Discovery Institute and NY Times
Food Fight: Discovery Institute and Barbara Forrest
Food Fight: Jonathan Wells and Richard Dawkins

Darwin, Darwin Day, etc.
Darwin’s “Origin” Anniversary: 24 Nov 1859
Concert for Darwin in Dover
Darwin Day Miscellanea
12 February: Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday
The Charles Darwin £2 Coin
A Darwin Birthday Message
Darwin in Dayton — Oh Dear!
Darwin Day Draws Nigh– Signs and Wonders!
Arizona State University’s “Darwinfest”

Anti-Science Legislation: Generally
The Curmudgeon’s Amendment
Evolution & Creationism: Multi-State Update (14 Nov 08)
Evolution & Creationism: Multi-State Update (30 Sept)
Evolution &.Creationism: Multi-State Update (20 Sept)
Groups Opposing Anti-Science Legislation
Anti-Evolution Bills: Louisiana, Michigan, Alabama, & Missouri
Florida Citizens for Science
Discovery Institute: A Blizzard of Misrepresentation About Florida

Anti-Science Legislation: Michigan
Michigan Creationism: Update (14 December 2008)
Creationist Legislation in Michigan: Update
Michigan and Texas: Anti-Evolution Bills
Creationism in Michigan
Michigan’s Creationist Legislation
Anti-Science Legislation in Michigan

Anti-Science Legislation: South Carolina
South Carolina Creationist Bill — It’s Dead
South Carolina — Creationism in Science Class?
South Carolina Creationist Bill — Nine Days Left
Creationist Legislation in South Carolina

Anti-Science Legislation: Missouri
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Missouri Creationism Bill Dies

Anti-Science Legislation: Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Creationist Bill — It’s Dead!
Creationist Legislation in Oklahoma

Anti-Science Legislation: Maine
Maine Creationism Issue Off School Board Agenda
Maine school controversy over evolution is growing
Creationist Madness in Maine

Anti-Science Legislation: Alabama
For related items in 2009, go here
Alabama creationism bill dies

Anti-Science Legislation: Florida
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Florida’s Ronda Storms: Much More Than Creationism
Intelligent Design and Florida’s Marriage Protection Amendment
Florida Evolution Bills Die in Legislature
Florida Creationism’s Final Day
Florida Legislature — Creationism and Bull Testicles
Florida Creationism Bills are Dying
Florida Creationism News Roundup — 01 May
Florida Creationism News Roundup: 30 April
Florida Creationism Bills — Two Informed Opinions
Florida Creationism News Roundup: 28 April
Florida House Passes Creationism Bill
Florida Creationism Bills Approach Climax
Florida Evolution Debate: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ronda Storms’ Godly License Plate Bill Fails
The Real Ronda Storms
Florida’s Creationism Bills May Fail
Ronda Storms: Creationist Queen of the Florida Senate
Florida Senate Goes Insane!
Florida’s Legislature: Of Testicles and Evolution
Ronda Storms Creationism News Roundup
Florida Anti-Evolution Bills: Inside Info
Ronda Storms Squirms in Florida Senate Session
Evolution and Sex “Academic Freedom” Update
Ronda Storms’ Head Explodes!
More Press Attacks on Florida’s Creationism Bill
“We’re the laughingstock of the enlightened world.”
Florida’s Anti-Evolution Bills: Sectarian Legislation?
The Meaning of “Critical Analysis” in Florida
Florida’s Creationism (or “critical analysis”) Bill
Florida: The Flat Earth State
Florida Moves Closer to Insanity
Ronda Storms: Florida’s Own April Fool
Florida: Kansas of the South

Anti-Science Legislation: Kansas
Kathy Martin, Kansas Creationism & Swine Flu
Kansas Creationism: It’s Not Over Yet!
Kansas Creationist School Board Election Results
Kansas Creationism: Kathy Martin Update (02 Nov)
Kathy Martin Slyly Slings Slime
Kansas Citizens for Science
Kansas Creationism: Kathy Martin Update (28 Oct)
Kansas Creationism Update (26 Oct)
Kansas Creationism: Kathy Martin Update (24 Oct)
Kansas Creationism: Kathy Martin Update (22 Oct)
Kansas Creationism: Kathy Martin Update (19 Oct)
Kathy Martin: Kansas and Creationism
Kathy Martin: “It’s in the good Lord’s hands.”
Kathy Martin: Kansas Primary Election Tomorrow
Bleeding Kansas: Pawn in the War for the Enlightenment
Kansas Creationists May Return to Power
Kansas: Going Creationist Again?
Kathy Martin: Creationism in Kansas Politics
Kathy Martin, Kansas Creationist, Up for Reelection

Not yet sorted
Freak Sentence for Dale & Leilani Neumann
A Gallery of Creationist Hotties
Of Pandas and Pornography
Dale & Leilani Neumann: The Wages of Stupid
Islamic Creationism in Africa
Darwin & Evolution: The View From Africa
Evolution-Creationism Controversy: Mid-Year ‘09
Events to Watch For (29 Apr ‘09)
Curmudgeon’s Secret Identity Revealed!
Events to Watch For (Jan 2009)
Romania: Land of Vampires and Creationists
Creationism in South Dakota, and More!
29% of British Teachers Say “Teach Creationism!”
Analogies to Intelligent Design
“Teach the Controversy” T-Shirts
Online Debate: Does Intelligent Design Have Merit?
Katie Couric asks Cindy McCain about Creationism
Evolution Evangelist in Tennessee
Olivia Judson, or … Springtime for the Curmudgeon
British to vote on hybrid embryo bill

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