Monthly Archives: December 2011

Do they really believe this crap?

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Skip

Every time I think I’ve read the craziest thing a creationist could believe they top themselves. If you feel your lower jaw has been too long right beneath your palate and would like it to drop to the floor for … Continue reading →

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Highly Recommended: The Discovery of Evolution, by David Young

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Skip

Too many creationists (I could have ended right there, eh?) seem to think that 1859, the publication of The Origin of Species, marks this definitive barrier between light and dark. Before Darwin’s opus hit the stands everyone knew the earth … Continue reading →

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Chinese Fossils Shed Light On Evolutionary Origin of Animals from Single-Cell Ancestors

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Skip

ScienceDaily (Dec. 22, 2011) — Evidence of the single-celled ancestors of animals, dating from the interval in Earth’s history just before multicellular animals appeared, has been discovered in 570 million-year-old rocks from South China by researchers from the University of … Continue reading →

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Will Ark Encounter Sink?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Skip

Ark Encounter, the proposed theme park by Answers in Genesis, seems to have run aground, as fundraising has stalled and groundbreaking has been pushed back until Spring. LEO Weekly, published in Louisville, Kentucky, contacted the Tourism Cabinet, and was told … Continue reading →

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Who Knew They Were This Stupid in New Hampshire

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Skip

As already noted by Greg Laden and Ed Brayton, New Hampshire state representative Jerry Bergevin, a Republican elected in 2010, has introduced what must be the dumbest piece of legislation in that state’s history. HB 1148, to be introduced in … Continue reading →

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What Scientists Do and Creationists Don’t

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Skip

A favorite creationist mantra these days, and one you especially hear from young earthers, is that creationists and scientists both have the same facts, they just look at them differently. To laypeople that may sound reasonable. The handful of guys … Continue reading →

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An excellent example of fossil evidence concurring with genetic data

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Skip

Creationists can wax eloquently all day long about the complexities of DNA replication, and wonder aloud endlessly how such a thing could evolve. But while they do this real scientists are doing actual research that unfolds the evolutionary relationships between … Continue reading →

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Creationists distort new finding… film at 11.

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Skip

PZ Myers documents the ICR distorting recent findings yet again. As PZ points out, they’ll seize on any discovery of organic material surviving longer than expected to claim that all of modern geology, astronomy and physics are wrong, and the … Continue reading →

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Informed positions on Junk DNA

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Skip

So-called Junk DNA is one of those topics that creationists have been beating a seriously dead horse about. Jonathan Wells wrote a whole book about it, which has been thoroughly panned by reputable scientists. Here are two excellent explanations for … Continue reading →

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