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Evolution a hoax?

They could have taken the opportunity to point out that there have been a few hoaxes from evolution scientists (such as Piltdown Man), though better and more reliable evidence still shows evolutionary theory to be accurate.

And, it was scientists, not Creationists, that finally clinched the case of the actual hoaxes being hoaxes, once the more reliable evidence started pouring in.

But, no, they'd rather turn it into a joke. Yes, it is funny. I did get a laugh out of it. But, for what?! I think there is a real lost opportunity when the page looks like that.
 
Wowbagger said:
They could have taken the opportunity to point out that there have been a few hoaxes from evolution scientists (such as Piltdown Man), though better and more reliable evidence still shows evolutionary theory to be accurate.

And, it was scientists, not Creationists, that finally clinched the case of the actual hoaxes being hoaxes, once the more reliable evidence started pouring in.

But, no, they'd rather turn it into a joke. Yes, it is funny. I did get a laugh out of it. But, for what?! I think there is a real lost opportunity when the page looks like that.
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Creationism is a joke. There are plenty of other sites that take debunking the B'leevers seriously.
 
Don't worry, creationists will find a way to misinterpret this. They'll probably just conclude that tumbleweeds are irreducibly complex.
 
Wowbagger said:
They could have taken the opportunity to point out that there have been a few hoaxes from evolution scientists (such as Piltdown Man), though better and more reliable evidence still shows evolutionary theory to be accurate..
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Piltdown Man is an interesting case - the fossil was never recognised as being remotely legitimate outside of the group who found and described it
 
dafydd said:
Creationism is a joke. There are plenty of other sites that take debunking the B'leevers seriously.
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While the tumbleweeds are funny, I can't help but think that it smacks of arrogance.

If a b'leever did happen to come upon that page, they would assume their intelligence was being insulted. (Yes, it might deserve to be, but I've always preferred the diplomatic approach.)
 
Wowbagger said:
While the tumbleweeds are funny, I can't help but think that it smacks of arrogance.

If a b'leever did happen to come upon that page, they would assume their intelligence was being insulted. (Yes, it might deserve to be, but I've always preferred the diplomatic approach.)
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The diplomatic approach doesn't work with them,I gave it up years ago.

 
I would like to make it clear that I am discussing the bedrock crazy fundies,not the majority of Christians. I know two of the latter sort,they are nice people,if a little misguided.
 
MG1962 said:
Piltdown Man is an interesting case - the fossil was never recognised as being remotely legitimate outside of the group who found and described it
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I think that the concept of an ancient man in England hit the right note with a number of the English scientific establishment. As far as hard scientific appraisal was concerned, it was almost immediately cited as a possible mistake by other continental scientists. The Brit David Waterston, French paleontologist Marcellin Boule and American zoologist Garrit Smith concluded the jaw was an ape jaw within a year or two of the announcement in 1912. In 1923 the German Franz Weidenreich accurately described it as "modern human cranium and an orangutan jaw with filed-down teeth".

Interestingly, the writer of the wiki article finds that these sorts of national prejudices and expectational finds were quite often to be found in science, down to the middle of the century, when Nazi and other nationalist excesses burned them out of science. One thing to thank Hitler and Mussolini for, I suppose. A reverse Godwin.
 
Speaking of hoaxes, religions are all hoaxes, technically speaking.

Not yours, dear reader. Yours is true. I'm speaking of the other 6500+ religions that yours conflicts with.

Human hoaxes or hoaxes by the devil, it doesn't really matter.
 
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