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What are AiG’s thoughts on teaching creation in public schools?

• AiG debates leading evolutionist on CNN!
• The battle heats up
• Feedback: Can Public Schools Be “Neutral”?
• Can Teachers Teach Creation Legally?
• Conventional Thinking
• Creation in public schools?
• Defending Darwin (again) on PBS-TV
• Honest science ‘left behind’ in US education bill
• Misrepresented (sigh) time and time again
• A "sign" of the times
• Textbook wars—a different angle
• Time for evolution wars
• The "Why?" question - why is school violence in the headlines again?

Is there a Christian philosophy of education?

• A Christian creationist view of teaching science
• Evolution in American education and the demise of its public school system
• From a Young Age
• Is creationism important in education?
• Parents—Don’t Leave Teaching to the Church
• Public Schools and Parenting
• Strengthening Families Through God’s Word

What rights do public school students have?

• The Rights of Christians in America's Public Schools
• A battle for men’s souls: part 1
• A battle for men’s souls: part 2
• Christ, Christmas, and the U.S. Constitution
• Defending Christian Freedoms in Public Schools (from CLA)
• Public School guidelines issued (from CLA)
• Visit Christian Law Association for additional advice on legal rights

How can students and parents respond to evolutionary teaching in their school?

• ‘Creation evangelism’ in the public school classroom
• Continuing the momentum to impact society
• A faithful man takes on faith-based teaching
• Evolution Exposed, the latest evolution-combating resource from Answers in Genesis
• Evolution Exposed: Your Evolution Answer Book for the Classroom
• Announcing Answers Education Online!
• "I am only a student"
• ID and President Bush - the deeper issues
• USA President Bush on origins

What are the textbooks teaching?

• Biology 101: Disecting Today's Textbooks
• Do You Know What Your Children Are Being Taught in School?
• Evolution Exposed: Your Evolution Answer Book for the Classroom
• An Examination of Error
• Another textbook teaching outdated ‘evidence’ for evolution
• Leading US magazine exposes evolution’s tall tales!
• How Life Began—A Textbook Recipe
• Human appendix—just can’t get no respect
• What’s happened to the horse?
• Textbook wars: a different angle
• What biology textbooks never told you about evolution
• AiG blesses—and is blessed by—high school student!

Are Christian schools immune from evolutionary influence?

• Combating evolution in Christian education

Colleges and creation?

• So, you’re looking for a college …
• Taking back theology!
• Training to Teach Truth
• The battle for creation in our ‘conservative’ seminaries
• Christian school compromise
• Teaching College Students About Creation
• Alumnus takes on his prestigious school!
• Bad vibes at a Christian university!
• Baptist School Afraid of Creation
• Baylor bailout?
• Bias in higher education
• Creation teaching makes a difference
• Christian college refuses to compromise
• Confused Colleges
• Dunce cap for creationists?
• Evangelical colleges paid to teach evolution
• Faith shipwrecked by compromising ‘Christian’ colleges; restored by Answers in Genesis (Testimony)
• Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford—Once Christian?
• Professor at Baptist University calls intelligent design ‘dumb’
• Role of educational factors in college students’ creation worldview
• US Congressional leader castigated for creation comments
• University of California sued for discriminating against Christian courses
• University of California at Berkeley sued over pro-evolution website

What is AiG’s response to Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States?

• Who’s really pushing ‘bad science’?

What has happened to teachers who have taught ‘evidence against evolution’?

• Chemistry teacher resigns amid persecution (Indiana-18 September 2001)
• Time magazine gets it wrong again!(Minnesota-17 July 2000)
• Muzzled in Minnesota! (8 August 2000)
• Science teacher awaits appeal on the teaching of evolution in his class (Minnesota-18 August 2000)
• Supreme Court: Don’t teach evolution difficulties! (Minnesota-10 January 2002)
• Anti-creationists threaten another teacher’s liberty (Washington-26 July 2000)
• Pacific Northwest heats up with evolution controversies! (25 February 2000)

What happened in Georgia?

• Equal time for creation in Cobb County? (27 September 2002)
• Who won in Cobb County? (1 October 2002)
• Proposed new science standards—where’s the e-word? (31 January 2004)
• Evolution disclaimer on trial (8 April 2004)
• Will the sticker stick? (12 November 2004)
• The sticker didn’t stick (or did it)? (20 January 2005)
• Facing sticker shock in Cobb County, Georgia (USA) (December 13, 2005)
• Stuck on pause in Georgia (May 26, 2006)
• Georgia on the Mind ... Again (September 5, 2006)

What happened in Kansas?

• Here’s the scoop—what’s really in the standards!
• Confusion in Kansas—evolution not outlawed! (18 August 1999)
• From the start, the fix was in (5 January 2000)
• More fallout in Kansas (February 1, 2000)
• Controversial Kansas school board member to run for re-election! (27 April 2000)
• Education Week needs educating!
• Whose religion is central to evolution debate?
• Evolutionary politics! (1 June 2000)
• Kansas and evolution again in the news — state primary looms (31 July 2000)
• Campaign of distortions leads to shake-up of Kansas school board (3 August 2000)
• Kansas to can controversial curriculum! (12 January 2001)
• The Truth about Kansas (on the True.Origin site)
• Kansas school board in international spotlight … again (10 May 2005)
• Kansas evolution hearings: the case of the missing data (18 May 2005)
• Kansas controversy continues (August 19, 2005)
• What happened in Kansas? "Anti-evolution" curriculum likely to be overturned (August 10, 2006)
• Evolution “restored” in Kansas? (February 15, 2007)

What happened in Kentucky?

• Chopping out the ‘E-word?’
• Evolution out of the curriculum, but in the tests (14 January 2000)
• Posting our response to The Post (July 26, 2005)

What happened in Louisiana?

• Creationist Win (November 1983)
• U.S. Supreme Court’s evolution ruling reveals hostility toward Christianity (20 June 2000)
• Lawmakers miss the boat! (22 May 2001)

What happened in Ohio?

• Creationism battle heats up again in US schools (8 February 2002)
• Ohio—first US state to teach ‘intelligent design’? (8 March 2002)
• Eyes of the science world turn to Columbus, Ohio, USA (13 March 2002)
• A teacher comments on Ohio’s proposed science standards (23 May 2002)
• Poll: teach ‘intelligent design’ (14 June 2002)
• Worst court decision in 50 years … or a boon to US Christian parents? (1 July 2002)
• Vote on evolution in Ohio (9 September 2002)
• Vote in Ohio stirs evolution controversy (17 October 2002)
• ‘Intelligent design’ whimpers out in Ohio (11 December 2002)
• An unlocked door… (17 January 2003)
• Local fights have begun in Ohio (2 June 2003)
• Ohio educators to be applauded (24 March 2004)
• Darwinists descend on Ohio and Kansas in ongoing origins battle (February 9, 2006)
• Whatever happened to academic freedom in America’s public schools? (February 15, 2006)

What happened in Oklahoma?

• If it’s okay for Kansas, is it okay for OK? (5 November 1999)
• Support grows for Oklahoma’s disclaimer about evolution (23 November 1999)
• Creationism bill passes in Oklahoma! (12 April 2000)

What happened in Pennsylvania?

• Science curriculum decision in Pennsylvania may be a first (21 October 2004)
• Will intelligence prevail in Dover, PA? (23 December 2004)
• Defending “design” in Dover (26 September 2005)
• Dover, Pennsylvania (USA) Intelligent Design trial ends today (4 November 2005)
• Federal judge rules on landmark Intelligent Design case (20 December 2005)

What happened in Poland?

• Creation vs. evolution in Poland

What happened in Texas?

• Don't mess with Texas! (30 September 2003)
• Another vote for evolution (8 November 2003)

What happened in West Virginia?

• Here we go again!
• ‘Religious bigotry’ in West Virginia? (27 January 2000)
• Teachers’ committee makes ‘intelligent’ choice! (17 March 2000)
• WV county shaping up as creation vs. evolution battleground! (1 April 2000)
• Media coverage grows over textbook controversy in W. Virginia! (18 April 2000)
• ‘Obviously, somebody got to them’ … (2 May 2000)
• Pastor prefers the profane over Pandas and People! (5 May 2000)

What happened in the UK?

• Ken Ham stirs up England (16 March 2002)
• Christians—‘Fundamentalist Taliban Wannabees’? (25 May 2002)
• Letter signed by 27 British scientists & educators, "Don't change the National Curriculum!"
• Error in the UK classroom (16 January 2006)
• Education, medicine, evolution and The Times (14 March 2006)
• "Wilful ignorance" of the English National Curriculum (21 March 2006)
• The UK media buzzes about creation (18 April 2006)
• No "right and wrong" in English classrooms (15 August 2006)

What happened in Utah?

• ACLU watching Utah origins bill (25 January 2006)

What happened in Serbia?

• ‘Creationism’ explodes in the Balkans (11 September 2004)

What happened in the Netherlands?

• Creation Commotion in Dutch Parliament (7 June 2005)
• A Dutch treat

What happened with the US education bill?

• US Senate supports intellectual freedom! (23 June 2001)
• Honest science ‘left behind’ in US education bill (7 January 2002)

What do the polls reveal?

• And the survey shows…
• Poll: teach ‘intelligent design’
• Teaching Creation and Evolution in Public Schools: Solid research reveals American beliefs (1999)
• America says: ‘Teach creation in public schools!’ (11 March 2000)
• New poll of public school students: Teach us creation! (15 January 2002)
• Poll by liberal group reveals: Americans want creation in public schools!(15 March 2000)
• ‘People For the American Way’ betray their name!
• Sliding Down the Polls (September 19, 2006)