Posted on August 3, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
It’s long been known that creationists love to quote-mine. They’ve long done it Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Gould, Albert Einstein, and plenty of other scientists in order to support their positions. No one is really all that surprised when they keep doing it again and again.
So it is nonchalantly* that I present yet [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
Very frustrating, but entirely typical for creationists. They have a single intuition, that functional systems do not evolve gradually by undirected processes. Virtually all of their scientific arguments are based on attaching poorly understood jargon to that intuition. They have no real understanding even of what the questions are, much less what to do to [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by Michael Hawkins
Good job, Cincinnati Zoo.
A promotional deal between the Cincinnati Zoo and the Creation Museum was scuttled Monday after the zoo received dozens of angry calls and emails about the partnership.
The promotion was billed as “Two Great Attractions, One Great Deal” and offered a package deal on tickets for the zoo’s annual Festival of Lights [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by Michael Hawkins
Apparently, the Cincinnati Zoo is offering some awful deal where people can get into both its attractions and the Creation Museum for the price of one admission.
PZ Myers has a post on his blog on the topic. He has provided contact links for the zoo, along with some encouragement to raise some noise about [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2008 by Michael Hawkins
Every once in awhile (read: all the damn time), a creationist will say evolution is random. Sometimes they say natural selection is random (the words are rather interchangable among some creationists). But one creationist does us one better and calls both of them random (and the Big Bang, too). So here is an article I [...]
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