Showing posts with label Gaffes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaffes. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

When Idiots Collide...

Hovind Junior's blog is attracting some real intellectuals. Check out the comment left by this geological genius:

The continents move an estimated 0.75 inches (19 millimeters) annually. When India "collided" with Asian, would the impact really have been hard enough to cause the formation of a mountain range?

John "Wrong"

At least the guy chose an accurate username.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sounds Like A Fun Theory

It's just a typo, but it's a good one:

They are starting to piss me off, the earth is not billions or millions of years old. They have no proof that the big band theory is true, but they teach it like it really happened.

I found it here, on the blog A-Deistic.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

The Vatican Embarassment Continues...

Just days after the Pope warned against "superstitious religions" (!!!), Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno describes creationism as:

a "kind of paganism" because it harks back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events.

He's wrong, most creationists don't claim that God is responsible for natural events. Rather, they claim that events like the creation of man are entirely God's work, with no natural explanation at all.

And is the Vatican now admitting that God isn't responsible for natural events? Sounds like deism to me...

Finally, about the Pope, he says:

It's not like he has a magic power, that God whispers the truth in his ear.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Bill Jack's Freudian Slip

That Washington Post article that I posted about a few days ago has a brilliant Freudian slip that I somehow missed the first time I read it. It's from Bill Jack, a Christian leadership instructor who works for a company called Biblically Correct Tours:

Why should we be afraid to test our worldview against reality?

Bill Jack

Friday, March 13, 2009

The Four Components of Creation Science

Pharyngula's PZ Myers just posted another classic gaffe from a creationist blog, and this one made me laugh out loud:

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I break down creationist biology into four main components: design, natural evil, systematics, speciation, and biogeography.

Todd Wood

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Knitted From Embryos

More fun courtesy of Creation on the Web. This time it's a letter responding to a poll about stem cell research:

I cannot believe that so many visitors of your web-site would be in favor of this research. They must know that this process kills the embryos. God knit us in our mother’s womb — from embryos.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Remarkable Precision

Heaven and earth, centre and circumference, were created together, in the same instant, and clouds full of water. . . . this work took place and man was created by the Trinity on the twenty-third of October, 4004 B.C., at nine o'clock in the morning.

John Lightfoot (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge), 1859

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Slow Evolution and Slow Mindedness

It must be impossible to distill creationist stupidity into a more concise form than the following statement, made by North Carolina resident Joel Fanti:
If evolution is so slow, why don't we see anything evolving now?

Joel Fanti

Via PZ.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Ken Ham: Man is a Sinner


Sinner

BM: Scientists line up overwhelmingly on one side of this issue. It would have to be an enormous conspiracy going on between scientists of all different disciplines, in all different countries, to have such a consensus. That doesn’t move you?

KH: No, not at all, because from a biblical perspective I understand why the majority would not agree with the truth. Man is a sinner, man is rebelling against his creator.

BM: All these scientists are sinners?

KH: Well… (shrugs)

Ken Ham, discussing creationism with Bill Maher in the documentary Religulous.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Circumnavigating the Intellect

Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort, from creationist propaganda video "The Evolution Zone":

Cameron: “When you learn how to speak to a person’s conscience and circumnavigate the intellect, the subject of evolution seems to disappear.”

Comfort: “... this is real good news for people like me. It means that I don’t have to become an expert on the fossil record and learn big words like Rhinorhondothackasaurus...”

Cameron: “Now are we trying to be anti-intellectual or avoid talking about the subject of evolution? Of course not...”

Here's the full video:

Thursday, October 9, 2008

"cdesign proponentsists"

A short video about one of the creationism movement's biggest blunders:

Friday, August 29, 2008

Sarah Palin: Creationist

Asked for her personal views on evolution, Palin said, "I believe we have a creator."

She would not say whether her belief also allowed her to accept the theory of evolution as fact.

"I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be," she said.

An excerpt from this article.

UPDATE: Just John posted this excellent comment in a thread on Pharyngula:

If she's a Young Earth creationist (and I haven't heard confirmation of the YE part yet,) then, given the importance of oil to her state, I'd like to hear her answer to: What is petroleum, and how do the big oil companies know where to look for it?

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Dubya on Evolution vs. Creation

The verdict is still out on how God created the earth.

George W Bush