School Assemblies - Secondary. Plenaries on a Plate. The Bloom Buster: Improve Questioning in Lessons. The 20 big mistakes most teachers make. Creationist Congress: Broun, Akin & 'Early Earth' 6,000 Years Ago. As 2012 comes to a close, I'd like to take a moment to bid farewell to a few congressmen who were voted out of office this year, hopefully for their antiscience views.
But let's not get too excited. There are still many, many politicians left in office who deny global climate change, believe in magical thinking, and actually claim that Earth was created by God 6,000 years ago. So I want to take you all the way back to "early Earth" and show you what was really happening in 4,000 BCE.
I know you're going to have a lot to say after you watch this video. I sure had a lot to say when I wrote it. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Religion and Sexual Ethics. Religion is Science, Science is Religion. Major Religions Ranked by Size. Christianity > Anglican | Catholic | Evangelical | Jehovah's Witnesses | Latter-day Saints | Orthodox | PentecostalIslam | Hinduism | Buddhism | Sikhism | Judaism | Baha'i | Zoroastrianism | more links (Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number.
This list is sociological/statistical in perspective.) A major source for these estimates is the detailed country-by-country analysis done by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organization, whose data are published in the Encyclopedia Britannica (including annual updates and yearbooks) and also in the World Christian Encyclopedia (the latest edition of which - published in 2001 - has been consulted). Religion, World Religions, Comparative Religion - Just the facts on the world's religions. Education resources. Topmarks Education: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help.