The Americans have infected us
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »Apparently the UK has its own creationist museum now, according to BBC News. The project has been financed and designed by these witless retards at the Creation Science Movement, officially the oldest such organisiation in the world, and already over ...
Countering Hovind’s Propaganda
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »A few months ago I decided to commit myself to a vitally important task - I was going to download all of Kent Hovind's lecture slides, and write rebuttals to every single one of his arguments, also in Powerpoint format, ...
The Genius of Charles Darwin – Review
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Biology, Creationism, Education, Religion | No Comments »Professor Richard Dawkins has been at the forefront of the modern assault against religious fundamentalism for many years, culminating in his recent publication of 'The God Delusion', which has been translated into 31 million languages and sold over 1.5 million ...
Is Richard Dawkins a Raelian?
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Creationism, E.T., Religion | No Comments »Please don't ask me how I found this, but here you are: Is it possible that renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is a Raelian? The article is on the Raelian news website, here. Many of you may have heard of Raelians ...
Powerpoint Library
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Internet | No Comments »I've had a cunning plan. Believe it or not, it began when I watched a debate between Kent Hovind and Michael Shermer that I blogged about ages ago. I noticed that every single thing Shermer said, Hovind had a ready-prepared ...
ICR-Baiting
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Natural Computation | No Comments »I just remembered some fun I had a few years ago with the comedy Institute for Creation Research. For those of you who don't know about this particular institution, it's basically a pseudo-scientific front for extreme biblical literalist evangelical Christian ...
Divided by a common language
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »Winston Churchill once said that America and Britain were two nations "divided by a common language". In fact, the story of language provides an excellent analogy to the story of evolution within a biological context. British and American English have ...
Criticising science; follow-up
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Creationism | No Comments »So I've just been pacing up and down in my kitchen for half an hour, waiting for dinner to cook, and I think I've worked out the fundamental problem with the new Louisiana laws. It's very simple. Or, rather, it ...
More ID Craziness
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Religion | No Comments »Yes folks, guess what? Yet another wacky US state is sliding backwards to the dark ages with more legislation designed to sneak intelligent design into the science classroom. And you thought it was all over with Kitzmiller vs. Dover. Well, ...
Mixing with the Enemy
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, General | No Comments »I guess this post is sort-of following on from yesterday's, but I'm also keen to talk about something new, which is a simple question: how much should skeptics interact with proponents of supernatural or paranormal phenomena? Eugenie Scott, executive director ...
