creationism

During the recent "Great Debate" about wether or not science has rendered religion obsolete, Ian Hutchinson, arguing for the theist side, fished out an old chestnut, one often used by creationists, to whit that the Genesis 1 creation myth differed from all others in that, in every other creation...

I have located a comprehensive resource which indexes and lists YouTube videos useful for several skeptical topics: Science and critical thinking How cosmological and biological evolution work The problems with creationism and intelligent design What the Bible and other religious scriptures...

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/30/379125/bachmann-evolution-censorship/ After all, evolution is only a "theory"...

Good news everyone. Answers in Genesis is finally going to determine what "Created Kinds" were on the Ark. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v4/n1/Ark-kinds-Flood-baraminology-cognitum This should be good. :roll:

TL/DR version: skip to highlighted line A few days ago I got into a slightly heated discussion with my sister. We were talking about what is, is not, can and can not be taught in schools here in Canada. For background, she will soon graduate with an education degree (English major) to...

On Christian forums there's this infamous troll in the Creation and Evolution subsection (well, "infamous" to me - a lot of other atheists and skeptics there find his trolling entertaining) that has as his tag "Science can take a hike". This Daily Show segment represents his particular...

Cambridge University to Offer Degree in Creation Science Read first, THEN comment.

Interesting Talk Of The Nation segment today: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=140710361&m=140710353 Over recent declarations by some Evangelical thinkers that maybe, just maybe, the strict biblical-literacy thing might have to be abandoned in light of...

What future will we have....watch this and see if you can guess... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NKgAaMthA&feature=player_embedded :yikes: :hb: :scarper:

I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in politics but I kind of want to get the opinion of the science minded crowd. Backstory: we have local education board elections coming up this November and someone I sorta know is going to try and get on it by unseating a long time member with some...

I just realized Creationists/IDers had a conflict in the claims they make: 1) Microevolution (improvement withing a kind) happens. 2) Macroevolution (development into new kinds) doesn't happen. 3) Darwin, and evolution, were responsible for the Nazi holocaust. The Nazi's, with their policy of...

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Humans Didn't Evolve From Apes - How Do We Know? I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but I've only just developed an interest in science/biology/evolution after a misspent youth and am playing catch up! When looking at fossils of early hominids such as Australopithecus...

Recently I went on vacation with my family. There's a little girl in the family who was asking about my sugar glider. She called it a flying squirrel. I said no, its a marsupial. She asked why it looked like a squirrel. I then explained that it was an example of convergent evolution, when to...

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Here is a list I put together a few years ago with ten of the top ten invalidations of the Creationist theory (as defined in the Bible). A number of these points can be addressed by "not taking the Bible literally," but on top of all the outright contradictions in the bible, no amount of...

I just saw this kid interviewed on Hardball and wow was he impressive. 17 Year Old to Michele Bachmann: Show Me Your Nobel Laureate Scientists He's on a one kid campaign to repeal a new law that lets Creationism teaching in the back door to Louisiana science classes.

I just participated in a poll from the "God, Religion, and You blog on the Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/evolution-301183-believe-percent.html?cb=1306108573 It's ongoing, the current results stand as: Poll Results from the Orange County Register "Does the Bible...

New instruction material prepared by the Board of Education says the 'null hypothesis' has to be that there had to be some intelligent agency behind the appearance of living things. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/142452/20110507/texas-controversy-over-teaching-evolution-brews.htm

Define "kind".

I don't know if this has been done yet, but I'd like to dedicate a thread to all of the "Intelligent Design" and "Creationism" theory out there. This is for scientific evidence to support these "theories." There are only a couple of rules I would impose. 1. Cannot reference evolution, or...

This is what IDist people I know are crowing. Dawkins proved wrong! Tree of life is fiction! Based on the following: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/03/venter_vs_dawkins_on_the_tree_044681.html Of course the source's bias is clear, but is there anything to the claims within the article...

"Teach the controversy" -- they think this would somehow benefit them. Ok, I'll bite. Intelligent design, such as it is, makes some predictions. God knows there's enough on all these all over the place. So rather than pick things apart piece by piece, address the larger issues. ID, for...

[There doesn't seem to be any actual science in this book so I started the thread in R&P rather than SMM&T] "Dr" Jerry Bergman has written a new book entitled The Dark Side of Charles Darwin. In doing so he appears to have finally given up an any attempt to maintain touch with reality...

Apologies if this was already posted. The Gallup poll is here. What I found really irritating about this poll, aside from the fact that 40% are creationists, are the number of people who say they believe in evolution, but that God is guiding the process. Isn't that just a cop out? Well, at...

Beck denies evolution: "I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet" Video at the link above.

Apparently all the discussion over the years with William Dembski concerning the reasonableness of intelligent design has been utterly pointless: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/10/are_we_at_all_surprised.php ~~ Paul

I teach high school & college science in Illinois, and I'm also a member of both teaching unions here - the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Education Association. I'm often proud to be a member of these organizations, though at times my patience is worn rather thin with them...

This shows true stupidity JDrhVR8d2Gk Not what you would expect, right? This shows how freaking stupid the left wing press have been and how arrogant and foolish they really are to have dragged this poor woman through the mud and have painted her as an idiot. They should all loose their jobs.

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