The Hard Evidence Against A Literal Adam And Eve

Jerry Coyne explains why the proposed idea of a single pair of original human ancestors is refuted by what we know of our evolutionary ancestry: Over at the Templeton-funded BioLogos website there has been a lot of discussion about the historicity of Adam and Eve. This is a problem because scripture claims these two were […]

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Noah’s Ark: God, Giraffes, & Genocide

Thanks to Gordon for the video. Your Thoughts?

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Russian Orthodox Church Wants Creationism In Schools

Sigh. The Russian Orthodox Church called recently for creationism to be taught along with evolution in Russian schools, according to Reuters. Senior Russian Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion said, “The time has come for the monopoly of Darwinism and the deceptive idea that science in general contradicts religion. These ideas should be left in the past,” Reuters […]

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What Do Wheaton Students Learn About Evolution?

Jason Rosenhouse reads from the  Jeffery Sheler’s 2006 book about Wheaton College, Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America: “We do believe that God created the universe, and that Adam and Eve were the first humans,” [Dorothy Chappell, dean of natural and social sciences] said. “But we are agnostic as to how God did it.” In practical terms, […]

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Do Atheists Believe In Fairy Tales?

Brett Palmer patiently distinguishes the difference between a hypothesis and a fairy tale: Your Thoughts?

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Biblical Scientific Inaccuracy

Some of these biblical scientific inaccuracies are really eye opening, not merely things which can be chalked up to “metaphors” but portions of the text which plainly mean to be taken literally which are absurdly wrong.  Oh, and the opening is hilarious: Thanks to Victoria for the great find! Your Thoughts?

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Odds Are We’re All Related

And by “all” I mean every single living thing that ever existed, insofar as we all most likely go back to the same single cell organism: Using computer models and statistical methods, biochemist Douglas Theobald calculated the odds that all species from the three main groups, or “domains,” of life evolved from a common ancestor—versus, say, […]

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A Creationist Science Teacher Explains His Approach

From a BBC1 documentary from the mid-90s: Thanks to Timothy for the find. Your Thoughts?

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Creationism Propaganda For Children

Some footage of wholly expected and routine, but nonetheless wince-inducing, brainwashing: Your Thoughts?

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Creationists’ Listening Problems

One of CamelsWithHammers’ favorite YouTube video makers is back with another excellent video.  Here’s NonStampCollector’s funny and incisive representation of what it’s like to argue with creationists: Your Thoughts?

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Intelligent Design In A Nusthell

One of the most prominent proponents of Intelligent Design, William Dembski, sums up the theory in one minutes worth of clips from one of his speeches: The idea comes from a terrific speech on complexity by PZ Myers (which you should really watch in its entirety) from the Atheist Alliance International meeting last month: Your […]

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“The Collapse Of Intelligent Design”

Ken Miller with a long, thorough refutation of Intelligent Design Here’s an amazing bit of evidence: Here is the entire lecture:

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A Message From Creation Museum’s Mark Looy

Mark Looy of the Creation Museum visited our comments section to dispute another of our commentators’ accounts of the theories on display at the museum: Just about every claim Paul has made about our science in the Creation Museum is untrue, i.e., we don’t say what he says we say. And with some points, Paul […]

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Crazy Theories In The Creation Museum

Paul visits Ken Ham’s creation museum and shares with us the top 7 baseless theories for which the museum did not even pretend to adduce evidence: Just visited with the family. Tickets for one day were more than an annual family pass to a real science museum. And we had to pay extra for the […]

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Debunking Kirk Cameron And Ray Comfort

Really nicely done, particularly of note is that there is some great information about Hitler, religion, and Darwin: Your Thoughts?

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Sundaily Hilarity: Why The King James Bible Is Superior To Science Books

This guy is off the charts unintentionally hilarious in so many ways.  He’s a must-see for fans of religulousness: Your Thoughts?

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Scientists Pwn Those Lying About Their Work For Creationist Agendas

PZ Myers points us to two great letters from scientists to creationists distorting the meaning of their work.  The idea that non-biologists commenting on the internet can feel entitled to go around calling legitimate biologists frauds is so stupefying to me.  Do these people have no humility, no appreciation for the rigors of specialized scientific […]

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The Simpsons Take On Creationism

Unreasonable Faith has a 12+ minute clip of a few year old episode. Your Thoughts?

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Bill Nye The Non-Creationist Guy

via Unreasonable Faith, comes this tidbit about a speech Bill Nye The Science Guy gave in Waco, Texas in 2006: The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and […]

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Daily Hilarity: Fundies Say The Darndest Things

Below is an extremely funny video based on actual comments from fundamentalists found on internet forums and catalogued at the indispensable Fundies Say The Darnedest Things. I tried posting this last night but the post went up without the video and then WordPress was doing maintenance and locked me out of being able to fix anything or even […]

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Richard Dawkins’s Address To The Atheist Alliance International Convention 2009

From a week ago tomorrow, Richard Dawkins addresses the    Athiest Alliance International.  He reads the final chapter of his newest book, The Greatest Show on Earth which is an exegesis of the last chapter of The Origin of Species.  There are 5 parts so keep watching after the first video below! Your Thoughts?

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Ardipithecus

To get the straight skinny on our newly discovered relative from millions of years gone by, PZ Myers directs us to this article: This introduction has been a long time coming. Some 4.4 million years ago, a hominid now known as Ardipithecus ramidus lived in what were then forests in Ethiopia. Fifteen years ago, Tim White of […]

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Daily Hilarity: Ricky Gervais Reads Genesis

Just hilarious stuff from Ricky Gervais back in 2003: Remember to go out and support a rarely honest and explicitly atheistic Hollywood film next weekend, Ricky Gervais’s The Invention Of Lying. And, finally, this audio of Gervais features him riffing on Wittgenstein a bit.  It’s not terribly funny but it’s rare you get a comedian […]

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Blaghag Gives Presentation On Her Creation Museum Trip

Last month we covered PZ Myers’ and the Secular Student Alliance’s tirp to Ken Ham’s Creation Museum quite extensively.  Now comes this video of Jennifer McCreight (aka the blogger “Blag Hag”, senior biology major at Purdue, and president of Purdue’s Society For Non-Theists) with a presentation she gave at Purdue giving the lowdown on her […]

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Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error

djarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?

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