{"id":721,"date":"2011-07-10T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=713"},"modified":"2011-07-10T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:48:57","slug":"science-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/07\/science-education.html","title":{"rendered":"Creationism and Bad Science Education around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/07\/everyone_is_entitled_to_a_bad.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28Pharyngula%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">P. Z. Myers shared the excellent cartoon<\/a> below (<a href=\"http:\/\/jimgetz.org\/2011\/07\/10\/a-misunderstanding-of-genre\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Getz also mentions it<\/a>) as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/07\/they_have_secret_meetings.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28Pharyngula%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">information about a secret Intelligent Design conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.imgsrv.uclick.com\/comics\/db\/2011\/db110710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"598\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2011\/07\/a-little-cis-st.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">P. Z. Myers also has a post at The Panda\u2019s Thumb explaining a recent article in <em>Nature<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2011\/07\/turnabout-is-fa.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">another on a study that uses young-earth creationism\u2019s own dubious methods to demonstrate evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/evolution-and-the-origin-of-biological-information-part-6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dennis Vennema has posted part 6 of his series on evolution and the origin of biological information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/evolution-and-the-origin-of-biological-information-part-6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a>Scott Bailey tries <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/07\/lets-read-literally-the-tower-of-babel\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reading the tower of Babel story literally<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/06\/r-c-sproul-vs-rudolf-bultmann\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">contrasts R. C. Sproul and Rudolf Bultmann on elements of ancient worldview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/going-down-with-creationists.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThoughtsInAHaystack+%28Thoughts+in+a+Haystack%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Pieret discusses the latest Discovery Institute attempt to claim ID is scientific<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencestandards.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/discovery-institute-and-basic-math.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ted Herrlich tries to help them with basic math<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/07\/07\/a-leap-of-truth-evolutionary-creation-and-genesis-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Creed highlights the movie <em>Leap of Truth<\/em><\/a>, as <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/a-leap-of-truth-the-book-of-genesis\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">does the BioLogos blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingcreationism.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/youtube-epic-creationist-fails-of-our.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debunking Creationism links to an evaluation of a running egg-laying crocoduck video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Epic creationist fail -- Dinosaurs laid eggs on the run!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pzoI0_IBpS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/openparachute.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/08\/galileos-modern-critics\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open Parachute talks about Galileo\u2019s modern critics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandcreation.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/geocentrism-goes-catholic.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jimpithecus has a post on the growing popularity of geocentrism as a fringe viewpoint among Catholics<\/a> (see further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-galileo-was-wrong-20110704,0,1142889.story\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the article he links to in the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandcreation.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/pz-myers-takes-apart-ken-ham.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim also discussed P. Z. Myers\u2019 response to Ken Ham\u2019s famous response to all scientific claims about the past: \u201cWere you there?\u201d<\/a> I think that everyone should answer <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.answersingenesis.org\/blogs\/ken-ham\/2011\/06\/23\/nine-year-old-challenges-nasa\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ham\u2019s claims<\/a> in the same way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGod created the world in 6 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know? Were you there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, but God says so in his word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know God said these things? Were you there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, but Jesus accepted Genesis as the work of Moses and inspired by God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know? Were you there when Jesus supposedly said these things?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, but his followers recorded what he said, and they were eyewitnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know who wrote the Gospels? Were you there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so on until Ham ceases from his seemingly unrelenting inanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/03\/a-scentific-test-of-noahs-flood-a-good-idea-which-is-mine\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Coyne proposes a scientific test of the story of Noah\u2019s flood<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemeetsreligion.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/can-an-evolutionary-process-generate-english-text\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Bailey offers computer-produced text snippets as examples of the ability of the combination of rule and randomness to produce complexity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Belief Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/07\/the-surprising-history-of-prayer-in-space\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">surveys the history of prayer in (and about) space<\/a>, and offers <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/06\/my-take-space-travel-is-a-spiritual-experience\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a view of spaceflight as a spiritual experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/09\/a-buttload-of-blogs\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Coyne points out<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/network-central\/2011\/07\/05\/welcome-the-scientific-american-blog-network\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new <em>Scientific American<\/em> blog network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5817219\/cosmic-pluralism-how-christianity-briefly-conquered-the-solar-system\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Also<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/saturday-sermon-science-vs-faith-a-false-dichotomy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/06\/30\/science-as-critical-thinking-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">interest<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5818008\/the-universe-probably-isnt-a-giant-hologram-after-all\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">physics data suggesting the universe isn\u2019t a hologram<\/a>, and work on <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/christian-versus-atheist-turing-test.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an atheist-Christian Turing test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P. Z. Myers shared the excellent cartoon below (Jim Getz also mentions it) as well as information about a secret Intelligent Design conference. P. Z. Myers also has a post at The Panda\u2019s Thumb explaining a recent article in Nature and another on a study that uses young-earth creationism\u2019s own dubious methods to demonstrate evolution. 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