PBS.org – Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

“In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, a group of parents of high-school students challenged a public school district requirement for teachers to present intelligent design in biology classes as an alternative “explanation of the origin of life”. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled that intelligent design is not science, that it “cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents”, and that the school district’s promotion of it therefore violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” Read more »

No condoms for Africa

I am an angry atheist because Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of 1 Billion people says “You can’t resolve [aids] with the distrubtion of condoms … On the contrary, it increases the problem.”
According to UNAIDS, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Three-quarters of all AIDS deaths worldwide in 2007 were in sub-Saharan Africa, where some 22 million people are infected with HIV accounting for two-thirds of the world’s infections. Read more »