Because I hate all of you and want you to suffer as much as I have, you get a double helping of Christian glurgey WTF. The first part is The Monkey Song, perhaps the catchiest expression of anti-evolutionary ignorance and superstition that I’ve heard. But stick around, because then they sing The Ecumenical Movement, an… Continue reading Your Friday Morning Gah
Recently Kent Hovind’s International House of Lunacy offered to send out free DVDs to anyone who asked. So naturally, I had to take them up. Yesterday, it was delivered to my… let’s say “imaginary roommate”, with the oh-so-subtle name “Sevil Natas” (thanks to Fez for suggesting that). I haven’t watched the DVD yet. But it… Continue reading Craziness Loves Company
You may want to save this post at Uncommon Descent, in case it disappears down the memory hole. If you’ve been following Intelligent Design, you’ve probably run across William Dembski’s notion of Complex Specified Information, or CSI. Basically, the argument is that if a system has CSI above a certain level, then it was intentionally… Continue reading Just Because We Can’t Define It Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Science
1) Premise: there are no beneficial mutations; all mutations lead to decay, disease, or death. 2) From (1), some mutations cause death. 3) Presumably, some mutations cause death at a very early age, or even in utero. 4) When young children die, they go directly to heaven. 5) Going to heaven is the best possible… Continue reading Beneficial Mutations: a Reductio ad Absurdum
One common creationist objection to evolution is “where did the information come from?“. There are many responses to this. But one thing that often gets lost in the noise is: it doesn’t matter. What matters is, how do new organs appear? How do new body parts, behaviors, genes, chromosomes appear? As long as that happens,… Continue reading Information vs. Other Stuff
I recently happen to come across your website www.ooblick.com through the section /text/evoquotes. Actually, I had bookmarked the quotes some time ago and happen to cleaning up some old favorites when I saw them again. I do not know if this website is still being maintained or if you are still interested in any dialogue… Continue reading I Get Email
A Baptist group on campus invited G. Charles Jackson of the Creation Truth Foundation, a young-earth creationist ministry, to give a talk. So naturally I had to attend. Unfortunately, my recorder’s batteries died during the pre-talk service, so I wasn’t able to record the event. But I tried to take notes. The short version is… Continue reading YEC on Campus
From Kent Hovind’s outfit, Creation Science Ministry’s Facebook page comes word that Kent is now in solitary: Creation Science Evangelism Pleas pray for Dr. Hovind. We were just informed that he is solitary confinement. We are not sure why he is there and how long he must stay. He is need of your prayers. Thank… Continue reading Breaking: Kent Hovind in Solitary
I feel chastised. Undoubtedly the most controversial, most thought-provoking talk at TAM 8 was Phil Plait‘s “Don’t be a dick” talk, in which he decried what he sees as the rise of incivility in the skeptical blogosphere. He wrote it down ahead of time so as not to ad lib and accidentally say something he… Continue reading The “Don’t Be A Dick” Heard Round the World
We’ve all heard about the peppered moths of England: how soot from the Industrial Revolution turned English trees dark, and how as a result, peppered moths went from being mostly light-colored to being mostly dark. One argument in creationsts’ bag of misinformation is that peppered moths don’t rest on tree trunks. Therefore, a textbook that… Continue reading Another Creationist Myth Bites the Dust
