Top Ten Creationist Arguments
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on Jun 20th, 2010 | Viewed 503 times
These videos may be a few months old, but they are quite good. They run through some of the many ridiculous arguments creationists often use.
Does God Get Diarrhea?
Posted in Books, Religion on Mar 21st, 2010 | Viewed 1008 times
I came across this book on a forum and since it was available for download at the time, I decided to have a look at it. As expected this book is not for the weak, and especially not the weak religious type. It is deliberately written to provoke the religious, but that said, it is [...]
The tension between science and religion
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 6th, 2009 | Viewed 1168 times
A talk by physicist Steven Weinberg. It is well worth the listen. “Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group and holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow [...]
The Creationist “Museum”
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on Aug 19th, 2009 | Viewed 536 times
The Secular Student Alliance and the biology professor PZ Myers went to visit the creationist “museum” in Kentucky. Myers wrote a blog post about it and some of the students put together a video series. It is well worth reading and watching for the pure entertainment value of it. Blogpost: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/the_creation_museum_1.php Videos: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/the_whole_experience.php
Pigheaded Creationists
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on May 24th, 2009 | Viewed 975 times
So, Michael Behe is still at it, 13 years after his book, Darwin’s Black Box, which has been a complete failure in proving Intelligent Design. Apparently a recent article in Science (or read the blog article) has caused Behe to write a letter in response, which Science did not wish to publish, naturally. Instead Behe [...]