The New York Times has the article up under a different title: “Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota”
The ban actually goes further than either title suggests. The law, which is expected to pass, will outlaw all abortions except to protect the life of the mother. That means no abortion if the [...]
South Dakota Banning Abortions For Rape And Incest Victims
The Conservative Penguin
Why is it amusing that conservative groups are adopting a movie about penguins for their causes? Because penguins are one of the species that proves homosexuality is not a choice. Penguins do mate for life, some of them with the same sex. I’m willing to bet that in the neoconservative echo chamber, most of them aren’t aware of that fact.
Creationism vs ID vs Evolution
Evolution is real. It is concrete. It stands on millions of fossils that all fall into place perfectly with one another, none of them out of place, nothing contradicting the theory. Referring to it as a theory is like referring to the “theory of gravity” as just a theory. Last time I looked out the window, the neighbors weren’t floating over their porches.
Monkeying with Man
What if scientists had the ability to take an ape embryo and flip all the genetic markers necessary to make it human? Insert a little DNA here, snip a little out over there. It would open up any number of moral, ethical, legal, and religious questions.
Cloning Stem Cells
The subject is cloning stem cells, often called therapeutic cloning. Paul Berg, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, recently made the statement “We are not cloning people, we are cloning stem cells to treat patients.” That sounds good and people on both the left and right support stem cell research, which supporters hope will lead to therapeutic cloning, but people on the far right like to use words like “murder” when referring to stem cell research.
Pope Admits Evolution is Real!
Man, that will just floor the religious right won’t it? Can you imagine the next President saying something stupid like that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution? Here’s the catch: the Pope made these statements back in 1996.