Archive for the 'Creationism' Category

Ken Ham Is Not Ashamed, for Some Reason

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Not too long ago, in a post entitled
“I Am Not Ashamed,
Ken Ham, director of that epicenter of idiocy, Answers in Genesis,
criticizes Christians too wimpy to admit that they still believe in
fairy tales. He urges all True Christians™ to embrace their
inner crazy and proudly proclaim their gullibility to the world.
AIG will lead this charge by erecting [...]

A Scientific* Experiment

Friday, February 5th, 2010

* Not scientific.

I normally don’t read Denyse O’Leary, because I like Canada too much to taint my mental image of it with her ignorant hackery. But for the past few days, she’s had a series of posts at Happy Dembski’s House of ID Circle-Jerk called about “Access Research Network’s top ten media-related intelligent design stories [...]

ID ≠ YEC?

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

If you’ve been following the ID movement for any time, you know that the group they try to publicly distance themselves from the most, after Darwiniacs, are other creationists, especially young-earthers.
So you’ll understand my surprise when I saw this come in on the ID the Future podcast feed:
On this episode of ID the Future, Casey [...]

Ray Comfort, Plagiarist?

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Looks like Ray Comfort found it too hard to write a 50-page introduction to Origin on his own: Metropulse.com, a Knoxville, TN local paper, has a story about Stan Guffey, a University of Tennessee lecturer who wrote a brief bio of Charles Darwin. Turns out that bio bears a striking resemblance to the first few [...]

Kent Hovind’s Dissertation

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I think I just came a little in my mouth. But then again, I’m a glutton for punishment.
Kent Hovind’s “doctoral dissertation” at Patriot “University” has been released on Wikileaks. Grab it while it’s hot!
Those who lack the patience to read the whole thing may wish to read Karen Bartelt’s analysis.
(HT PZ.)

ID at 25

Monday, December 7th, 2009

ID the Future has a new episode entitled Intelligent Design Turns 25. I haven’t listened to it, but the title alone is cause for contemplation.
25 years of “Darwinism will be dead within 5 years”.
25 years since the phrase “scientific creationism” was deemed too obviously religious to pass legal muster, and therefore in need of a [...]

Disco Tute Sues

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Oh, lovely. The Disco ‘Tute is suing the California Science Center. Technically, the suit is about the California Science Center (I was going to say “CSC”, but that’d be confusing) not releasing certain documents that Disco asked for under FOIA. But what really chaps their hide is that scientists have a bias against bullshit pseudoscience:
“We [...]

Is David Berlinski Redecorating His Home?

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

For those who don’t know, David Berlinski is one of the Disco Tute’s pet “scientists”. If you’ve seen the movie Expelled, he’s the one who spent his entire interview practically lying on his couch, spouting airy nonsense filled with sesquipedalian words.
The IDists love him because in addition to being an evolution denialist, he’s also a [...]

Happy Birthday, World!

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

According to James Ussher, the world was created on October 23, 4004 BC.
So happy 6012th birthday, world!

Dinosaur Adventure Land Closed

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

This is old news, but alert reader Fez points out that Kent Hovind’s Backyard Swing-Set Of Delusion, Dinosaur Adventure Land, has closed its doors.

Our ability to minister as a creation theme park here in Pensacola, Florida has been recently impeded. On Thursday, July 28, 2009, a federal judge gave the United States Government permission to [...]