Barbara Forrest catches the Creationist Intelligent Design crowd redhanded. (Hat tip to Nick Matzke).

It looks like the Vatican has decided to set the record straight: “The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim,” he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that “the universe didn’t make itself and had a creator”. This idea was… Continue reading

John Allen at the National Catholic Reporter has some “interesting” comments from the new Nuncio to the Persian Gulf: The Holy See’s new nuncio to Kuwait and several other Gulf States, Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, a Lebanese Maronite Christian, recently gave an interview to Monday Morning, a Beirut-based newspaper. El-Hachem’s comments illustrate the views of one… Continue reading

The grave of Nicholas Copernicus found? WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish archeologists believe they have located the grave of 16th-century astronomer and solar-system proponent Nicolaus Copernicus in a Polish church, one of the scientists announced Thursday. Copernicus, who died in 1543 at 70 after challenging the ancient belief that the sun revolved around the earth,… Continue reading

And another thing, says John Derbyshire: I spent last Saturday evening over at Cold Spring Harbor lab with a bunch of geneticists. One of them, a self-described conservative, said something like this: “Biology takes it from the Right and the Left. On the Right we get these ‘Intelligent Design’ nuisances telling us that one of… Continue reading