It’s quite common whilst reading creationist material for them to state that they have no problem with the idea of Microevolution. They’re quite happy with the idea that any given species will have small variations over time – i.e. Darwin’s Finches. But creationists have a major problem with accepting that Micro evolution, plus lots (and lots) of time leads to Macroevolution. They state that it’s impossible for one species to evolve into another species, no matter how many small variations you come up with. [...]
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 May 29th, 2009 |  Tags: biology, change, Macro evolution, Micro evolution |  Category: Evolution |  56 comments | My response to the Atheist Challenge as posed by Brett Keane. [...] May 28th, 2009 | Tags: Atheist Challenge, Brett Keane | Category: Atheism, Superstition | Leave a comment | Top 10 newly discovered species unveiled – Telegraph. Interesting list of new species that have now been examined, catalogued, and filed. It includes seahorses, snakes, fish, and a white slug. But the one that really caught my attention – Microbacterium hatanonis. A species of bacteria that lives on … Hairspray! OK creationists, explain that. [...] On my usual Stumbling round the inter-webs I came across a link to the Vatican’s own YouTube channel. With nothing better to do I thought I’d quickly pop over and have a little look-see – yup, I can be a glutton for punishment. (Via Friendly Atheist) Randal Rauser analyses why he thinks us atheists have chosen to be such, and predictably gets it very very wrong. Lets analyse his story paragraph by paragraph shall we? (Via both Pharyngula and Friendly Atheist) Oh boy, this is fun. The Spiritual Science Research Foundation appears to be a bunch of nits who attempt to put a scientific face on spirituality and the like. Now sure, the website looks slick and well presented, but don’t let that fool you. Dig just slightly under the surface and you’ll unearth a veritable cornucopia of pseudoscience quackery. May 14th, 2009 | Tags: Prayer, Quackery, Research | Category: Religion, Science, Superstition | One comment | This Jesus and Mo comic made me giggle (as always), and spurred me into writing… One of the big calls from the US Creationist and ID movements (although we all know they’re basically one and the same) is the idea that with Evolution you need to
Now, on the surface of it that would seem a perfectly reasonable thing to do, which is precisely why CrIDiots™ use it. It does of course fall down in a couple of highly important respects. May 7th, 2009 | Tags: Critical Thinking | Category: Evolution, Religion, Science | Leave a comment | My apologies to anyone who may have commented in the past, but had the comment disappear down the plug-hole. I was using the Akismet plugin to capture comment spam, and seeing as none got through I figured it was working just fine. But then I started to look closely at the stats, and things [...] |
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