I go to a small semi-private school in Victoria, a Christian school, supposedly non-denominational. Every fortnight we have a compulsory chapel service that runs for 45mins. Today we had Dr. Mark Harwood of creation.com come and lecture us on how the world was created. The whole thing was utterly pathetic, for 4 main reasons: 1. Yes […]
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This article was also posted at bastardsheep.com The thin edge of the wedge (the name of the strategy being actively used by the anti-reality, anti-science, and pro-creationism thinkignorancetank The Discovery Institute) has left its mark in the Queensland department of education. Creationism has wormed its way in to Queensland classrooms. On a positive note, the […]
The University of Melbourne Secular Society is holding an event in response to the Creationist’s handing out the Ray Comfort version of On The Origin of Species last week. If you aren’t sure what I’m talking about, see my article on the shenanigans here, and read about Jack Scanlan’s experience here. Details of the event […]
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 […]
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 […]
The chance to have email debates with creationists is one of the reasons I write for the Young Australian Skeptics and have my own blog — I’m a debate junkie, actually. Nothing’s better than sinking your teeth into a few new arguments that you’ve never heard of, or at least taking the time to explain the problems […]
[The following is a slightly modified version of a post on Homologous Legs, my evolution/creation-themed personal blog.] It seems every day now you hear about new evidence for the theory of evolution, be it from the fossil record or phylogenetic analysis. Well, if you live in the Internet, that is. The mainstream media is not a massive […]
