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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

Why ID is no theory

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Contrary to the claims of some of our political leaders, intelligent design is not an alternative theory to evolution. It’s a belief, and maybe - on a really good day - a hypothesis.
But it is not a theory.
To become a scientific theory, a hypothesis has to be developed into principles that not only explain what [...]

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Tags: Intelligent Design · Science

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

Xiang’s Cloak of Invisibility +1

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Have you ever wanted to saunter into mass inconspicuously one Sunday morning to grab one of those delicious crackers — without starting a riot?
Well, if this sounds like you, then your lucky day is (almost) here.
Dr. Xiang Zhang and his group from the University of California are announcing this week, in a pair of articles [...]

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Tags: Science

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

Jeff Medkeff has died

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Fellow skeptic, Jeff Medkeff, aka Blue Collar Scientist, succumbed to cancer on Sunday.
Damn.

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Tags: Science

Global warming denial at its best

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Dr. Chilingar. Now there’s a character.
After comparing CO2 over billions of years to human CO2 over centuries back in 2006, he is now using formulas that assume greenhouse effects don’t change to argue that greenhouse gases will have no effect.

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Tags: Antiscience · Science