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Entries Tagged as 'Antiscience'

Jenny McCarthy’s logical defense

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Remember Amanda Peet? The one talking about the antivaccination nonsense for Cookie magazine?
Jenny McCarthy sniped at Amanda Peet with an interesting (and telling) argument:
“(Peet) has a lot of [nerve] to come forward and be on that side, because there is an angry mob on my side, and I like the fact that I can say [...]

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Tags: Antiscience

Palin and science — two worlds collide

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.

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Tags: Antiscience · Creationism · Politics

How to read people’s [sic] minds

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s a new, relatively decent — though irritating – How-To video up on YouTube on psychic powers. It’s basically a list of steps you can take to fake your way through a reading.
How many of these tactics do you see so-called “psychics” on TV use? And what does that tell you?

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Tags: Antiscience

A visit to the Discovery Institute, Part 2

September 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Remember the ladies from Seattle visiting the Discovery Institute?
Here is part 2 which includes a dark secret…

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Tags: Antiscience · Creationism · Intelligent Design

Global warning is a myth

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

And here is an explanation why:
When God sent the rain on this Earth for 40 days and nights, all this water had to go someplace so the Earth would be dry again.
Remember, God is the Creator and controls the universe.
God tilted the Earth from its original position and caused all the excess water to rush [...]

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Tags: Antiscience · Religion

A visit to the Discovery Institute

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

A couple of ladies in Seattle decided to just up and visit the Discovery Institute. No appointments or anything…they just walked up to the door, buzzed the intercom, and got a tour from Casey Luskin.

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Tags: Antiscience · Creationism · Intelligent Design

Kansas breeds and attracts the most amazing kooks

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments

When last we heard from Tom Willis, big-wig in the Creation Science Association for Mid-America, he was pondering whether evolutionists should be allowed to vote. Since Tom Willis is batshit insane, he decided that no, they should not, because they’re wicked godless atheists with no moral sense (theistic evolutionists aren’t spared — they are even worse).
Now he [...]

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Tags: Antiscience · Creationism · Intelligent Design

No evidence for evolution?

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Really?
What most people cannot comprehend is that there is no one absolute make-or-break piece of evidence for evolution.
Shocker.
No, not so. Evolution is a conclusion from the totality of the evidence.
There are thousands of cases that demonstrate that the principles of evolution work and are useful for understanding the natural world; and there are no cases whatsoever where [...]

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Tags: Antiscience · Creationism · Intelligent Design · Science