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The F-card won't wash | Print |  Email
Sarah Palin is disastrous for women's rights, no matter how Republicans frame her as a feminist, writes Jessica Valenti in The Guardian

 
 
The Big Question: Why is creationism on the rise, and does it have a place in education? | Print |  Email
The theory of evolution has held sway in British science curricula for decades. But yesterday, Professor Michael Reiss, Director of Education at the Royal Society and an ordained Church of England clergyman, made the case for bringing creationism back into the classroom, reports Archie Bland in The Independent. 
 
To dump the apostrophe would be apostasy | Print |  Email
No longer trying get words right would be the biggest spelling mistake of all, writes Mick Hume in The Times
 
Apocalypse now? 30 days when the world didn't end | Print |  Email
Will the LHC cause the world to end? Here are some other occasions when reports of the Earth's demise have proven to be premature. By Michael Moran in The Times
 
Stephen Hawking's £50 bet on the world, the universe and the God particle | Print |  Email
When the world’s largest atom-smasher begins colliding particles in a few months time, there is just a chance that it might create a miniature black hole. It would not destroy the Earth, as some alarmists would have it - but it would guarantee a Nobel prize for Professor Stephen Hawking, according to no less an authority than the great man himself, writes Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Times
 
Faith schools ‘will hinder fight against terrorism’ | Print |  Email
The expansion of faith schools in Britain will hinder the fight against terrorism by fostering a belief in separate identity, says a psychologist who has studied the causes of violent religious extremism, reports Steve Connor, Science Editor of The Independent.
 
A Religious-Right Revival | Print |  Email
The senior pastor of Palin's former church preaches hellfire for anyone who isn't saved by Jesus, reports Lisa Miller in Newsweek
 
God: can’t live with Him, can’t live without Him | Print |  Email

Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain's running mate, finds it easy to spot where the deity is at work. The Lord God, apparently, is in favour of a $30bn Alaskan national gas pipeline project. (The big oil companies agree with God.) The invasion of Iraq was a "task from God" in the view of the Alaskan governor. Like the late televangelist, Jerry Falwell, who declared that the 9/11 attacks were punishment for America's tolerance of gays, America's gun-toting super "hockey mom" seems pretty familiar with the working of the creator's mind. Well, God help us, writes Ken Ferguson in The Herald
 
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