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Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 July 2013

Does Creation science have any convincing arguments?

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Oxford Skeptics in the Pub hosted Peter Harrison this week.  He is based at St Andrews University (of which I am a graduate) so it was fun ...
Monday, 17 June 2013

Teaching the other controversy

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People preach about ' teaching the controversy ' in the debate about evolution, as if Intelligent Design were science.  Maybe there ...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Perspectives on the Cambrian Explosion

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I must have been listening to too much pro-ID propaganda!  (I have!)  The proponents of Intelligent Design put up a superb, almost-convinci...
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Friday, 3 May 2013

Adam Rutherford at Oxford Skeptics

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The speaker at Oxford Skeptics in the Pub this week was one of the best yet.  Adam Rutherford engaged an audience of about 60, speaking on t...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Discovery Institute's latest 'divine comedy'

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It is not unusual for The Discovery Institute's podcast, ID the Future to be filled with pseudo-scientific nonsense (in the style that...
Monday, 18 March 2013

The surprising origins of YEC - 'The Genesis Flood'

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Young Earth Creationism (YEC) is a surprisingly recent phenomenon!  Yes - I know that some of the old arguments are based on the work of Arc...
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Thursday, 14 March 2013

Why didn't God just start again?

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Some people claim that God was planning to start again at various points in the Old Testament, but that something persuaded him not to do th...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

ID - not even a theory

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Creationists dress up their wacky beliefs in a variety of ways.  'Intelligent Design' (ID) is one that has been quite popular in rec...
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Monday, 6 August 2012

Stenger 1 : God 0

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Today I am continuing (and completing) my commentary on contents of Victor Stenger's challenging but excellent book The Fallacy of Fine ...
Friday, 3 August 2012

Exposing finely tuned fallacies

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Yesterday I started to describe the contents of Victor Stenger's challenging book The Fallacy of Fine Tuning and referred to the list ...
Thursday, 2 August 2012

Fine tuning explained . . . or is it?

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I have been saving a book for holiday reading, and looking forward to understanding all about " The Fallacy of Fine Tuning ".  I h...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Creationist makes nearly ALL the common mistakes

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If you would like to practise spotting almost all the common mistakes that creationists make when the are speaking about evolution, I recom...
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Sunday, 12 February 2012

Darwin's Heretic - an exercise in logical fallacy

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The Intelligent Design (ID) community has pushed the boat out and made an entertaining little movie which they think will help to promote th...
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Poe's Law in action!

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This is the best example yet of Poe's Law in action on Something Surprising . I honestly can't tell whether the barely literate ...
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Saturday, 14 January 2012

Teach the controversy - but teach it from the pulpit!

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Those of us who follow the argument about the teaching of evolution in schools realise that there is an ongoing battle around the world.  In...
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Friday, 30 December 2011

I'm a Creation Agnostic too

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Have you ever noticed how some people just need to believe something about everything.  There are no areas of knowledge where they are cont...
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

A life without belief is possible - if not preferable!

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A few days ago, on the post ' Long live the legacy of Hitch ' one of my most regular and popular commentators, @Hilary, wrote a para...
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Sunday, 27 November 2011

Irreducible complexity explained with a mousetrap

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This nice short video explains one of the faults in the concept of irreducible complexity - a concept used by creationists to 'explain...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

The entropy of the soul?

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One of the standard pseudo-scientific arguments against evolution is that order can not come from chaos.  Well - of course this is not true ...
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Monday, 7 November 2011

By far most scholars . . .

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"By far, most biblical scholars hold that the historical account of the life of Jesus is true."  I have often been told this when ...
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