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 [...]

God, Science, And Sanity: A Panel On Religion And Psychology

A panel of Richard Dawkins, Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio, Professor Patrick McGorry, Steve Fielding, and Julie Bishop discusses psychology and religion.  The reaction to the creationism of the Australian parliamentarian from the audience is heartening. Your Thoughts?

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, [...]

Creationism Propaganda For Children

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

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?

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 [...]

“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:

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

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?

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 [...]

The Simpsons Take On Creationism

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

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]

A Knock Out Argument For Intelligent Design

Your Thoughts?

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?

On The Symbolism Of Book Destruction

Over the past few days we’ve been discussing creationists Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron’s plan to freely disseminate 50,000 copies of a new version of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species which they are putting out and which contains a deceptive, creationist introduction filled with bad science and false history.  RichardDawkins.net and Pharyngula have encouraged people not only to [...]

Kirk Cameron Announces Plan To Disseminate Lies

The plan is to distribute specially written copies of The Origin of Species which include a creationist introduction that slanders of Darwin (including attempts to blame Nazism on him) and creationist “refutations” of the theory to 50,000 college students on the upcoming 150th anniversary of the book’s first publication.  In protest I will be burning [...]

God’s Cool Designs

An older Edward Current piece, brilliant as all of them: Your Thoughts?

Extra Bonus Daily Hilarity: High Stakes Intelligent Designing

A terrific video about the irrationality of our “design” as counter-proof that the functions we evolved evidence a perfect “designer.”  The video comes via Friendly Atheist: Your Thoughts?

The Responsibility Of Religious Leaders For The Ignorance Of Religious Laypeople

A teaser excerpt from Richard Dawkins’s upcoming defense of evolution is up online. His boldest claim—evolution deniers are as bad as Holocaust deniers. This book is necessary. I shall be using the name “historydeniers” for those people who deny evolution: who believe the world’s age is measured in thousands of years rather than thousands of [...]

Digital Intelligent Design?

In reply to this new video arguing for Intelligent Design: Mark Chu-Carroll writes: They claim that DNA is “digital information”. What does that mean?Three possible definitions of digital information: Information consisting of a collection of numbers. Information encoded in any discrete form which can be represented by a sequence of symbols. Information which can be [...]

Same Facts Different Views?

Is the difference between a creationist and an evolutionist just a choice of interpretive frameworks to apply to the same facts?  Is the problem only their disagreement in “presuppositions?”  PZ Myers explains why this isn’t so as part of his report on his trip to the Creation “Museum” which discusses the sign pictured below with Blaghag:  This is their [...]