TagsTagsThe New Humanist has an article on the Islamic creationist group led by Turkish kook Harun Yahya (nee Adnan Oktar), and their mysteriously well-funded efforts to promote the anti-science agenda in Europe: Western front. Examples cited of a growing creationist influence ranged from subtle downgrading of evolution in science education ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya
Here’s an interesting article with lots of detail on the Turkish radical Islamic creationist Harun Yahya (real name: Adnan Oktar), who has joined forces with US creationist groups like the Institute for Creation Research, to promote their Dark Ages anti-science agenda around the world: Muslim creationist preaches Islam and awaits ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya
Discovery Institute obfuscator John G. West gets a platform to promote creationist propaganda in the National Review, with a headline right out of the grievance theater handbook: Louisiana Confounds the Science Thought Police. This is the current line of Dishonesty Institute hooey; it’s all about “academic freedom,” you see. Creationism? Where? ...
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Six years ago Scientific American published an article titled: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense. All of the points covered in their article continue to be raised today, as we’ve seen in recent LGF threads related to the theory of evolution, so this is a good chance to review; the definition of ...
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Here’s an interesting back-and-forth volley on the subject of intelligent design and science; first an article by Gordy Slack on What neo-creationists get right. Then, evolution advocate Nick Matzke (who was featured in that video I posted yesterday on the Dover School District controversy) replies to Slack’s article in an ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, origin of life, OOL
Thoughts on the Evolution Sesquicentennial from Rand Simberg.
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One hundred fifty years ago today, a paper was read to the Linnaean Society of London, and the scientific theory of evolution was born. Darwin was still working on his magnum opus when in June 1858 he received a letter from an English naturalist working in Malaysia. Alfred Russel Wallace ...
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At New Scientist, Lawrence Krauss looks at another attempt by the Discovery Institute to push “intelligent design” pseudo-science into classrooms, this time in Texas: Commentary: Stop creationists undermining school science. The most recent and blatant example of the sorry condition of state education boards comes from Texas, whose education board ...
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Here’s another excellent resource for people trying to make sense of the conflicting claims and counter-claims of the anti-evolutionists: An Index to Creationist Claims. Creationist claims are numerous and varied, so it is often difficult to track down information on any given claim. Plus, creationists constantly come up with new ...
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I was actually searching for something related to a Linux programming trick, when I stumbled on this interesting article (from 10 years ago but sadly still relevant) by University of Chicago Professor Jerry Coyne about the deceptive tactics employed by Discovery Institute advocate Michael Behe: Boston Review: Is Darwin in ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, discovery institute, Behe
At The Corner, here’s John Derbyshire on Bobby Jindal’s support of the intelligent design hoax. As a Republican living in a liberal neighborhood, I spend a lot of time defending the GOP against sneers about us being (as one of my friends puts it) “the snake-handling party.” Bobby Jindal sure ...
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Judging from the loony leftists in his blogroll, Joshua Rosenau will be a bit surprised to see referrals from LGF. But this is an important update to yesterday’s post about Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s support for the “intelligent design” hoax, as Jindal’s college genetics professor asks him not to “hold ...
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At the Church of England’s official newspaper, an extraordinary (in a very bad way) editorial says Britain will be an Islamic state within 30 years. If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, ...
Religion, Immigration, Islam, Anglican, C of E, Church of England, Britain, LGF
Here’s a fascinating presentation at Case Western University on evolution and intelligent design by renowned biologist Ken Miller, dealing with many of the arguments of ID proponents (for example, Michael Behe’s “irreducible complexity”). It’s almost two hours long, but well worth watching if you’d like to get deeper into the ...
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A progressive Catholic group named “Call to Action” (which may actually be an Episcopalian black ops unit) gives us our creepy-groovy giant puppet video of the day. [Video] (Hat tips: Midwest Conservative Journal and Age of Hooper.)
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Here’s Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech at Ustream: Ustream.tv - ‘Faith in America’. And here’s an open thread for the lizard army to discuss the speech (it struck me as less than earth-shattering).
MSNBC’s Dan Abrams has strongly criticized Christiane Amanpour’s CNN series “God’s Warriors,” calling it: ...a defense of Islamic fundamentalism and the worst type of moral relativism. CAMERA.org has the video: CAMERA: MSNBC’s Dan Abrams Slams ‘CNN’s Holy War’.
Here’s a thread to discuss tonight’s episode of CNN’s extended exercise in moral equivalence, titled God’s Muslim Warriors.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is inflicting another extended exercise in moral equivalence on the TV viewers of the world, with the series “God’s Warriors.” Man, does that ever set off warning bells. Tonight’s episode, starting at 6 pm Pacific, is titled “God’s Jewish Warriors.” Uh oh. To promote the series, CNN has ...
Now here’s a theological argument you can get your teeth into, as Hitchens reviews Hitchens. Christopher is an atheist. I am a believer. He once said in public: “The real difference between Peter and myself is the belief in the supernatural. “I’m a materialist and he attributes his presence here to a divine ...
Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis doesn’t have a hopeful outlook on Europe: Muslims ‘about to take over Europe’. Unless, of course, you think that sounds hopeful. Islam could soon be the dominant force in a Europe which, in the name of political correctness, has abdicated the battle for cultural and religious control, ...