Young Earth Incident: Cal State Fires Microscopy Scientist — Mark Armitage filed a lawsuit against California State University Northridge this week, claiming he was fired by college officials after he discovered soft tissue on a triceratops horn and published his findings.
Religious Kids, The Bible, and Other Fiction
Religious Kids, The Bible, and Other Fiction — The GetReligion monitor site discusses how a piece of research is framed in a study of children, reading stories, and judging what is fiction and what is real. From the study abstract: “The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children’s differentiation […]
An Executive Order and Relgious Exemptions
An Executive Order and Religious Exemptions — An executive order President Obama signed on 7/21/2014 prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in federal hiring may not immediately affect many religious organizations, but leaders are still raising their eyebrows.
The IRS, the Church, and Political Speech
The IRS, the Church, and Political Speech — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to investigate the political activity of churches after reaching a settlement with an atheist legal group. But a court has yet to decide whether or not to close the case.
Gordon College and the Religious Exemption Disputes
Gordon College and the Religious Exemption Disputes — Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College, co-signed a letter to President Obama, asking that Obama include a religious exemption in his imminent executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Within hours of the letter’s reproduction in the Atlantic, […]
Using and Editing Wikipedia on Religion
Using and Editing Wikipedia on Religion — Wikipedia is the fifth most-trafficked website on the Internet and its complex policies and regulations for editing — more than 50 of them — for editing the open-source site total nearly 150,000 words (thick enough for a book). The problem confronting many Wikipedia editors is that religion elicits passion — […]
