Dan Stern Cardinale offered an opportunity to creationists: come to his channel and present their affirmative evidence for their theory of origins. It was an open invitation to anyone to show up and explain their perspective. I could have guessed that no one would show up, because participation would require 1) a theory, and 2) evidence, and they don’t have either.
I was right. No creationists even tried.
Dan expected this to happen, too. He prepared a brief discussion of a creationist paper: Donny Budinsky of Standing For Truth, a used car salesman and a creationist propaganda site, titled “From Kanto to Cambrian,” which uses Pokemon to explain the ordering of fossils by the great flood.
You can’t make this stuff up. Budinsky says,
This idea is not presented as a final word, but as the beginning of an ongoing research project. Just as Pokémon captivates younger generations, this analogy may provide a creative, accessible, and scientifically robust way to engage new audiences in the creation-evolution debate.
I have never before heard Pokemon described as scientifically robust
.
Go ahead, read the ‘paper’ for yourself, but Dr Dan has already torn it apart.
This bit of “writing” by Donnie Deals is so exquisitely beyond parody that I can’t figure out how to end this sentence.
As bad as that one creationist site I visited several times in the past that uses old, inaccurate, outdated dinosaur paleoart, along with ancient art depicting mythical animals made up of amalgamated body parts of extant animals and humans, to make false comparisons between dinosaurs and mythical monsters resembling snakes, lizards, lions, and other extant animals.
This idea is not presented as a final word, but as the beginning of an ongoing research project…
Once again, the standard position every pig-ignorant troll falls back on as soon as they’re called out for their obvious lies and bullshit: “I’m just trying to start a conversation!”
Pokemon is completely irrelevant and for the argument they are making penguins vs. kangaroos would make a lot more sense and be more robust. (The idea being that rabbits and dinosaurs simple lived in different places and humans …. well humans had strict cultural taboos not to bury their dead in places where the dinos roam…. I guess.) It seems to ignore that the basis of the argument was that fossils were not localized in the first place….
Just like R.J. Reynolds using Joe Camel, Ken Ham using dinosaur theme parks, now this Budinsky is butting in to the crowd of scammers by using Pokemon to appeal to children (or childish minds) to buy their harmful nonsense.
“scientifically robust way to engage new audiences in the creation-evolution debate.”
Not even close to science or robust.
There is no debate.