Archive for the 'Evolution and Creationism'

I’ve noted before how amusing the Conservapedia article about me is. Previously, pretty much the only thing it said about me was that I was overweight. Now they’ve added a bit more detail to that, including the fact that I have often made fun of Chuck Norris: Read more

It’s been many years since I’d heard anything about Joseph Mastropaolo, an annoying young earth creationist troll who shows up on blogs promoting science, demands that you debate him and then declares you a “debate dodger” (he used to keep a list online) if you don’t. I can’t imagine why the Guardian decided to give him this attention. Read more

During the oral argument on the Prop 8 case, Justice Scalia trotted out the tired old “gosh, this same-sex marriage stuff is so new that we have no idea what effect it will have” argument and he claimed that this was a matter of some controversy among sociologists. Read more

Ray Comfort is now writing a weekly column for the Worldnutdaily and, after a couple months of it, I’m struck by just how entirely vapid they are. The columns are supposed to be responses to statements from atheists, but he doesn’t even attempt to make an actual argument. Like this one, in response to a question about fossils: Read more

There’s a Darwin museum in Moscow (opened before the communist revolution, actually) and a group of Russian Orthodox creationists protested outside of it recently, handing out fliers that were every bit as ridiculous as the ones the creationists hand out in this country. Read more