A recommendation for new science curriculum standards up for state board consideration in Texas would not require that students be taught about the weaknesses in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.¹

Even evolutionary scientists of high degree are in danger of losing their jobs and garnering criticism from their peers over the issue of creationism.

The Republicans threw a curve ball for the nation when John McCain announced that his vice presidential running mate would be Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She has received a great deal of criticism on almost every aspect of her public and personal life, including her stance on the creation/evolution debate.

Who: James Clerk Maxwell
What: Father of Electromagnetic Theory
When: June 13, 1831 - November 5, 1879
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland

From an early age, James Clerk Maxwell had an astonishing memory and an unquenchable curiosity about how things worked. His first teacher, his mother, encouraged him to "look up through Nature to Nature's God":

As the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew to a close this week, we celebrated not only the accomplishments of the athletes, but also the resilience of the world’s most populous nation.