Posts tagged: creationism
You F*cking GO GIRL!
*Swoon*
Oh, Hellzzz Yeah!
So, now that you have some proper motivation. Go! Post a blog entry, comment on one (or more), make a video or whatever you can. Make your voice heard. Stand up for your secular American rights.
A Concerned Matt Damon
And rightfully so.
Via: Ungodly Cynic
In da beginnin…
At least this theory has some level of photographic proof. I’m skeptical, but its still more than most creat-design proponent-ists can show.
What will Willis think of next?
Tom Willis, the creationist who was wondering whether evolutionists should be allowed to vote (and, of course decided ‘no’) has a new silly question (and insane answer) for us all. Should Evolutionists Be Allowed to Roam Free in the Land?
His conclusion, though predictable, still comes with some amazing highlights of insanity. After concluding that all evolutionists are incompetent warriors against Christianity (If we’re incompetent, why be scared in the first place?), he lists a few options for what could be done with us all.
- Labor camps. Their fellow believers were high on these. But, my position would be that most of them have lived their lives at, or near the public trough. So, after their own beliefs, their life should continue only as long as they can support themselves in the camps.
- Require them to wear placards around their neck, or perhaps large medallions which prominently announce “Warning: Evolutionist! Mentally Incompetent – Potentially Dangerous.” I consider this option too dangerous.
- Since evolutionists are liars and most do not really believe evolution we could employ truth serum or water-boarding to obtain confessions of evolution rejection. But, this should, at most, result in parole, because, like Muslims, evolutionist religion permits them to lie if there is any benefit to them.
- An Evolutionist Colony in Antarctica could be a promising option. Of course inspections would be required to prevent too much progress. They might invent gunpowder. A colony on Mars would prevent gunpowder from harming anyone but their own kind, in the unlikely event they turned out to be intelligent enough to invent it.
- All options should include 24-hour sound system playing Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris reading Darwin’s Origin of Species, or the preservation of Favored Races by Means of Natural Selection. Of course some will consider this cruel & unusual, especially since they will undoubtedly have that treatment for eternity.
I’m just… yeah.
Via: Pharyngula
Penn & Teller tear down creationism
The Genius of Charles Darwin by Richard Dawkins
Another excellent documentary by Richard Dawkins on the elegant simplicity of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Within just the first 10 minutes, Dawkins creates an excellent metaphor for the body of evidence supporting evolution.
Nobody’s actually seen evolution take place over a long period but they’ve seen the after-effects and the after-effects are massively supported. Its like a case in a court of law where nobody can actually stand up and say, “I saw the murder happen.” But yet you’ve got millions and millions of pieces of evidence which no reasonable person could possibly dispute.
The Young And The Restless Talk Science
The supa-hottie Beauty (Abbie Smith) and the supa-atheist Beast (PZ Myers) have recorded an excellent discussion for everyone over at Bloggingheads where they successfully break down epigenetics, creationism, and crackers.
Via: Pharyngula & ERV
P.S. Sorry about the “Beast” part PZ. But honestly, in comparison…
Take That, Atheists!
It’s amazing there are any skeptics left with ‘evidence’ like this pouring in from all over. According to Chuck Missler, if evolutionary theory stood up, jars of peanut butter would occasionally contain new life when you opened them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504
Oh. My freakin’ gourd! That’s the kind of profound misunderstanding of evolution we’re dealing with. And when I say, “we’re dealing with,” I mean this is the kind of stuff being peddled to people who understand even less about evolution.
John Oliver’s Sticker Solution
Skepchick pointed me to this brilliant bit of old stand-up comedy by Daily Show corespondent John Oliver regarding politics, evolution and creationism.
I agree. Let’s teach the controversy about creationism. Let’s put stickers on all Bibles explaining that they only offer one of many creation theories.
The Scattering Begins
Yessir, they’re already scattering over the “cease & desist” order sent from XVIVO regarding the blatant plagiarism of their Inner Life of the Cell video in Ben Stein’s soon-to-be-released Expelled movie. Uncommon Descent has the first post. You can watch them jump through semantic loops in the comments. The excuses go on and get more absurd the further you read… ”Who owns the copyright?”, “Credit vs. Copyright”, “Big science has to come up with something to sue Expelled over so it might as well be a cell animation” … Then, there’s this quote from Jonathan Wells,
Expelled does NOT use the Harvard animation. The producers paid a professional to create a new animation that is more accurate than the Harvard one (based on current knowledge of cellular processes). Any similarities between the Expelled animation and the Harvard one are due to the fact that both animations depict many of the same processes.
Ahem…
… More accurate? Need I mention the copying of errors again? They never admit it when they’re wrong.
ID In Public School Classrooms
Here’s an excellent presentation by ERV given at the Oklahoma Americans United for the Separation of Church and State conference on Intelligent Design in public school science classrooms.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8433405459470913413
Excellent work ERV! We need more cute biologists people doing small presentations like this. Especially during the promotional drive of the Expelled creationist propaganda film whose ignorance of real science and deceitful tactics she addresses.
The curator (I’m assuming he’s the curator) makes a very good point at the end. Intelligent Design will not stop with science. Let me just say that again because it bears repeating.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN WILL NOT STOP WITH SCIENCE.
The Big Question – Why Are We Here?
It’s been almost two years since I first stumbled upon this video that introduced me to Richard Dawkins and his wonderful, humorous way of telling it like it is. I just stumbled across it once again and thought I should share it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8572351836469636547
Mike the Mad Biologist’s Skeptics in the Pub Lecture
Mike the Mad Biologist of Seed Magazine’s ScienceBlogs speaks on How to Defend Evolution the Right Way at the Boston Skeptics in the Pub.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4506496747144149427
