Questions of the Day: Design.

May 20, 2012 By Custador 68 Comments

According to some Christians, all life on Earth was designed by a perfect intelligence, and humanity is the pinnacle of that design process. This begs a couple of questions, so I’m going to go ahead and ask them:

Theists: If you had to pick just one, what part or action of the human body would you say is the best example of something that had to have been designed by a perfect intelligence, for which evolution does not provide a satisfactory explanation?

Atheists: If you had to pick just one, what part or action of the human body would you say is the best example of something that a perfect intelligence wouldn’t have designed, but which evolution explains well?

Filed Under: Atheism, Creationism / ID, Questions 68 Comments

The Height of Creationist Absurdity

April 3, 2012 By vorjack 17 Comments

Scott Bailey found this breakdown of some Hovind-esque creation science from Dr. Richard Kent. The bulk of the video is background provided by the creator, dprjones, but the point of the video is really at the 3:00 mark, when Dr. Kent unleashes the dumbest hypothesis to ever come out of the mouth of a pseudo-scholarly creationist:

I’ve never understood why men like Kent and Hovind, who are at the extreme end of the creationist insanity spectrum, seem to want to prove that dragons existed. Bad enough that Hovind wants us to believe that the T-Rex breathed fire, but now Kent wants us to believe that the dinosaurs had flaming noses.

Filed Under: Creationism / ID, Videos 17 Comments

God Hates Checkered Whiptail Lizards!!!

February 2, 2012 By Daniel Florien 127 Comments

This is too funny. I can’t believe someone took the time to write all this and print it. But I’m glad they did.



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Filed Under: Christianity, Creationism / ID, Debunking, Fundamentalism, Humor 127 Comments

Senate Panel OKs Creationism Teaching Bill

January 26, 2012 By Daniel Florien 31 Comments

Because it’s important to teach one myth as science in Indiana:

An Indiana Senate panel has approved a bill that would allow creationism to be taught in Indiana’s public schools.

The Times of Munster reported that the Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted 8-2 Wednesday to send the legislation to the full Senate despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of science classrooms.

The bill allows schools to authorize “the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life” and specifically mentions “creation science” as one such theory. Creationism is the belief that the Earth and its creatures were created by a deity.

Purdue University professor of chemistry John Staver told the panel evolution is the only theory of life’s origins that relies on scientific investigations. He says creationism “is unquestionably a statement of a specific religion.”

Filed Under: Creationism / ID 31 Comments

Creationism barred from UK science classes

January 15, 2012 By Custador 44 Comments

One of the major concerns secularists and atheists have with the UK’s program of free schools has been that faith-based schools have effectively been free to teach whatever they want as science – Including Creationism and Intelligent Design. But not anymore.

From the Guardian website:

“Leading scientists and naturalists, including Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir David Attenborough, are claiming a victory over the creationist movement after the government ratified measures that will bar anti-evolution groups from teaching creationism in science classes.”

The measure is not a complete ban, but it confirms that UKgov will not fund any free school that teaches any theory of origin except Darwinian evolution in science classrooms.

“Several creationist groups have expressed an interest in opening schools in towns and cities across England, including Bedford, Barnsley, Sheffield and Nottingham. Critics say they seek to promote creationism, or the doctrine of “intelligent design”, as a scientific theory rather than as a myth or metaphor.”

Well, if they want to do that now then they need to pay for it themselves.

Filed Under: Creationism / ID, Education, News 44 Comments
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