Archive for the ‘Creationism’ Category

Creationists on Campus!

By Richard Hughes

10
Mar. 10

Cross-​​​​posted from Divisible By Pi
Today began as most days do. Wake up, have a shower, brush my teeth, feed the goat that has taken up residence in my dishwasher, and then head off to uni. On my way home from uni, however, things got interesting.
Some of you may remember a while back Ray Comfort wrote an introduction […]

Cross posted at Divisible by Pi.
…as in the case of ;this article on Conservapedia. Currently my mind is playing a kind of tug-​​​​of-​​​​war with itself; as I sit here, I can’t help but try to convince myself that this is absolutely the bottom of the barrel, and that it doesn’t get any worse than this. At […]

I mean seriously, folks  —  Dolly was cloned in 1996. I think we can stop referring to it as ‘breaking news’…

…if only someone would tell Answers In Genesis.

I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/​​advocate, and due to his status as […]

Intelligent design proponents, like those found at the Discovery Institute, love to claim that their intellectual weapon of choice, ID, has a basis in science and the scientific method. A prominent claim within this is that ID is falsifiable, just as all good (wait, no, just all) hypotheses must be in order to be scientific. […]

Broadening Horizons

By Joanna Zorya

05
Jan. 10

A link to some fascinating Jewish religious MP3s

This year has been an excellent one for new books  —  some of my favorites published this year include:

How many creationists clichés can you fit into a two minute video? Unfortunately this guy has the answer  —  42!
Someday I can’t wait to work at the CSIRO.
Want to know how to misrepresent agricultural science? Watch this hippie video of fail!
Climate change denialists like Andrew Bolt are jizzing their pants over the hacked “ClimateGate” emails. Thankfully a […]

Hot on the tail of a DDoS attack on the Global Atheist Convention site, the Discovery Institute is reporting that the Shepherd Project Ministries website was attacked earlier this month in a similar way. The reason for the attack? The website contained information about upcoming talks by Discovery Institute fellows Stephen C Meyer, Michael Behe, […]

Seeing that the Atheist Foundation of Australia and Professor Richard Dawkins himself will understandably see no merit in responding to this self-​​​​promoting nobody, I thought I would respond publicly on their behalf.
To begin, let me quote a few excerpts from an article published this morning on Christianity Today titled Australian challenges Dawkins, the Goliath of atheists, […]