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Kevin the Creationist returns to Madison farmers market

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Skip

Kevin the zany young earth creationist brought his Box O Bullshit display (now just panels of bullshit) back to the farmers market this year, and much hilarity ensued. Larry wasn’t with him, probably saving heathens someplace else. But Kevin was … Continue reading →

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ICR distorts real scientific research… again

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Skip

I guess that headline is about as surprising as, “Man buys morning paper, reads front page”, but this one is interesting because I want to post it here along with a prediction. Nature recently published a paper detailing the recent … Continue reading →

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Creationists and Y Chromosomes archived here

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Skip

In the interest of centralizing all my posts about creationism and creationists in one location, I’ve copied my piece Creationists and Y Chromosomes from Pandas Thumb to the section of Larry’s bogus claims of 2010. Larry the Creationist claimed that … Continue reading →

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Sticklebacks, Manatees, and Creationists

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Skip

The other night our local PBS station re-aired a NOVA two-hour special, What Darwin Never Knew. It was pretty cool stuff, and incidentally featured Sean Carroll of UW Madison. I mention that because I want to digress for a moment. … Continue reading →

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Oh, when will they… ever learn

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Skip

More legislation, this one in Indiana. Senate Bill 89 actually calls for the teaching of “creation science,” as if all those court cases never happened. Nowadays, most creationist are at least clever enough to call for some kind of “teach … Continue reading →

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More creationism legislation in New Hampshire

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Skip

I already posted about the idiotic bill in the New Hampshire legislature that would require science teachers to espouse on the political views of science, but there’s even more stupidity brewing in that state. NCSE has the news. House Bill … Continue reading →

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Created in His image

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Skip

If God created humans in his image, he didn’t create the great apes very far behind. When Louise Leakey heard the reports from Jane Goodall, whom he had sent to Tanzania to study the chimps, that they were making and … Continue reading →

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Get Thee to a Museum!

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Skip

Life Before Dinosaurs is a really good blog about what life on the planet was like before dinosaurs emerged. It’s well-written, well-researched and very informative… and the author is seven years old! This kid is amazing and he’s also trying … Continue reading →

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More About Tetrapods

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Skip

The evolution of tetrapods, four limbed critters like us, is one of the most fascinating and increasingly researched transitions in the history of life. I’m currently reading Carl Zimmers At The Water’s Edge, which covers this topic extensively. Science Daily … Continue reading →

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Sense About Science: A Very Cool Looking Organization

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Skip

Sense About Science is a UK-based charitable trust “that equips people to make sense of scientific and medical claims in public discussion.” They partner with over 5,000 scientists including Nobel prize winners, postdocs and PhD students to make science accessible … Continue reading →

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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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Date and Rate of Earth’s Most Extreme Extinction Pinpointed

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Skip

While creationists recycle the same old arguments for a 6,000 year old earth, most are blissfully unaware that scientists around the world continually research topics from across the sciences that support a planet billions of years old. Just one more … Continue reading →

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