creationism

More woo from Christine O’Donnell And Miss O’Donnell, is there any evidence for creation? http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/the_gops_delaware_senate_nomin.html You go Girl! Turn the “Great State of Delaware” into the “Somewhat Adequate State of Delaware.”

Howdy all, I returned this afternoon from listening to the Disco Institute's talk by Casey Luskin, titled "Intelligent Design: Dead Science or Future of Biology?" and below I have included the transcript of my notes - I apologize to the Mods in advance for the length, it was a long talk. It...

God Created Bigfoot

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1041/1041_01.asp A little creationist humor here.

This is more of a rant...here it goes: http://www.anti-communist.net/ What really irks me about some of these religious fundamentalists is that they bring out their pseudosciences and superstitions to "provide a case against" communism, when in fact some, or most, of their evidence has nothing...

http://www.locolobo.org/majority.html In the last segment of this website: People who choose "evolution" as their preferred theory are most comfortable with the idea that God guided an evolutionary process of human development. A majority -- 51% -- selected the statement "Human beings have...

Here we go again, again, again, again.... Brief excerpt: Read the full article and comments here. (Washington Post)

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-57388-Birmingham-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m7d7-Politics-Education--Evolution-in-Alabama "The Alabama gubernatorial campaign continues to heat up, and between the three candidates vying for office, the race between the two GOP candidates appears more like a...

I often hear of various religious denominations referred to as "communities of faith." However, when it comes to those "communities" that are creationists, I think it more apt to refer to them as communities of faithlessness. Considering that there are plenty of Christians who have no trouble...

So one topic i find that is very important in the subject of woo of all kinds ( you may have noticed my other similar threads.) is how one can decide if someone is fake or not. So i have two questions to two different ( but possibly overlapping groups) of people. 1) If you are an id'er...

I had a reason to review the current state of the science of abiogenesis recently and it seemed worth sharing. 2009:The Origin of Life A case is made for the descent of electrons The science of our origins is moving right along. The Talk Origins page on abiogenesis was apparently last...

All right, creation scientists and ID proponents. It's been a good fight against the evil forces of rationalism, but it's time to step it up a notch. You've been trying to prove creationism by finding cracks in the theory of evolution, but those egghead scientists keep saying you're wrong...

I'll start: 1. It's based on Bronze Age symbological poetry. 2. It has no basis in evidential fact. 3. It presumes a literal, x=x reading of the aforesaid symbological poetry. 4. It's espoused by persons who have no background in or understanding of the scientific method. 5. It's passed on from...

Well...last week I visited my parents' house and tried to dig up some of my old books from when I had been home schooled for 3 years. Unfortunately I could not find the history or health texts but I could find the science book, which I'm sure is the one you'd want to see most of all. Some of...

Last year the Texas State Board Of Education radically revised their science textbooks to reflect the views of a religious fundamentalist and social conservatives voted into the board. As a result of the outcry over this, several board members lost their primary elections to keep their seats...

There seems to be a creationist debate brewing in the "Your Letters" section of my local paper. I first noticed it about a month ago, and was tempted to send in a response, but decided it wasn't worth the effort. I don't usually read the letters section, but I was flicking through last...

Here's a political attack ad (paid for by "True Republicans PAC") from Alabama. Don't vote for Bradley Byrne (Republican running for Governor)! He believes in evolution! He also thinks part of the Bible are not literally true! iJG-7s1e5eM How does Byrne respond? By saying "That's not true! I...

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v3/n1/hominid-baraminology This was done by Todd Wood who is not your typical Creationist (and I'm not sure how much longer he's going to stay one the more research he does). You can read his comments on the results on his blog...

David Coppedge is suing the Jet Propulsion Laboratory claiming religious discrimination because of his support for intelligent design. The Discovery Institute has been busy issuing press releases ("Coppedge is suing JPL and Caltech for religious discrimination" and here, here, and here). So the...

I've been thinking about the creationist dismissal of evolution with "It's only a theory," conflating hypothesis with the scientific meaning of theory. I think the crux of the problem is that evolution was first introduced to the general public as a theory (in the scientific sense) and has been...

I've had a bit of a problem lately. Perhaps I'm becoming more perceptive, but I've noticed a strong rash of evolution denialism at the collegiate level. I'm an undergrad at Purdue University, itself a very science-research school and (one would think) not very likely to harbor many evolution...

This is a last-ditch effort to get an honest answer from any young earth creationist concerning scientific evidence of the age of the earth. On another thread, titled, "Age of the Earth questions you may have for a Bible literalist," I have repeatedly asked AvalonXQ to answer two reasonable...

Hi all, well apparently Ken Ham of Young Earth fame is at it some more (can't say again) with his website iamnotashamed.org. Spectacle of wacky religious belief if ever that happened. Been out there being a general disbeliever letting them know that despite what they strongly desire the world...

My wife shared this lovely tidbit from the local paper, the News Leader, in Macedonia, OH. Apparently Answers in Genesis is hosting a two day creationism conference at a church just down the road from my house. It "includes five sessions with topics covering aliens, dinosaurs, and "The Mystery...

A new article published by Answers in Genesis (AiG), which operates the Creation Museum, explains how you can use a "Biblical framework" to learn about Atlantis and estimate when it "sunk". Full: AiG–U.S. The author of the article is Bodie Hodge, who works full-time for AiG as a "researcher...

AvalonXQ has never tried to hide his or her belief in Bible inerrancy. That includes the idea that evolution as it is taught today has so many errors that it may be classified as incorrect and that all the miracles and stories of the Bible are a true and accurate description of what actually...

I had a pretty good high-school education in the natural sciences, and in recent years have been learning more about them; but I am just not any sort of expert in them and do not expect ever to be one. This presents a problem when some religious type starts putting forward creationist canards in...

Well, apparently, a creationist group thinks it can be done before June and put up this page tinyurl.com/yeuwx89 on FB. Luckily for us (long time JREF Forum lurker here), there's this other page tinyurl.com/yhkfwm6 which was created as a response to the other page and represents the side of...

NOTE: Bible references are from the Old King James Bible From time to time, I’ve encountered some Christian apologists who claim that there is no contradiction in the creation stories of Genesis. However, when I read Genesis chapter 1 and 2, I still see these contradictions. The most glaring...

I don't pose the subject question lightly, especially considering the predictable assumption by some that I'm trying to equate skepticism about Global Warming to the Nazis (which I'm not) or that I'm implying that Global Warming skepticism is equal to Young-Earth Creationists (which I'm not)...