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Intelligent Design, or Plagiarism?

By Slugsie, on February 17th, 2010

I was just watching this funny Youtube video when my mind wandered a little and a few random thoughts connected themselves.

Intelligent Design video dissected

By Slugsie, on January 31st, 2010

A few days ago I stumbled upon a web site which linked a video titled “The Scientific Case for Intelligent Design – Darwinism Debunked“. I didn’t have the time to watch it then so I put the link aside. Today I had a quiet afternoon and so I watched it. Below are my notes dissecting [...]

Anthropogenic Global Climate Change

By Slugsie, on December 24th, 2009

I’ve been trying to decide if I should post something about Global Warming (or Anthropogenic Global Climate Change AGCC – my preferred moniker) for a while now. Following a couple of posts by leading sceptic James Randi (see here and here) which cause a little bit of a storm amongst the sceptic community I thought [...]

Creationism in UK education

By Slugsie, on November 2nd, 2009

According to this Poll, 54% of UK Adults support the teaching of Creationism alongside Evolution in science [...]

Breaking the Laws of Physics?

By Slugsie, on September 29th, 2009

It’s quite common for Creotards and IDiots to argue that certain scientific theories break certain laws of physics. It’s an interesting attempt at an argument, using science to disprove science! [...]

Inside Natures Giants

By Slugsie, on July 21st, 2009

I’ve been watching Channel 4’s Inside Natures Giants. It’s a fascinating series where a team of experts dissect some of the largest creatures on the planet. They have tackled a Whale, and Elephant, a Crocodile, and a Giraffe. The dissections were all undertaken primarily to understand why the particular individual animal died, but it also [...]

Evolution Test

By Slugsie, on July 9th, 2009

Over at the Missing Universe Museum website (another Creation/ID website that can provide many many hours of entertainment) they have created an little Evolution Test which they propose students give to teachers to see how they react. As you can probably already imagine, the test is rather silly, and the questions posed are almost entirely rediculous. However I (as a non educator and non scientist) shall attempt to provide at least reasonably accurate [...]

Evolution in 10 years!

By Slugsie, on June 14th, 2009

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – How fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside’s Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in [...]

YouTube – “Discovery” Institute Caught Illegally Censoring Videos

By Slugsie, on June 12th, 2009

What a surprise, the ‘Discovery Institute’ being dishonest, who would have thought [...]

Is Atheism a Religion?

By Slugsie, on June 9th, 2009

It’s an old question, and on the surface would seem easy to answer. As an Atheist, to me Atheism isn’t a religion.

But I also don’t think it is quite that [...]

Macro evolution Vs Micro evolution

By Slugsie, on May 29th, 2009

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 [...]

Top 10 newly discovered species unveiled

By Slugsie, on May 27th, 2009

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. If your [...]

Critical Thinking

By Slugsie, on May 7th, 2009

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

Teach kids both sides of the argument, and let them decide. Present them [...]

Pure concentrated stupidity!

By Slugsie, on April 2nd, 2009

If you find yourself with about a month free, and feel like melting your brain, you could always pop over to http://www.jesus-is-savior.com – but I wouldn’t recommend it.

But when you start reading some of that massive content, that’s when the brain melt will set in. It’s just a constant barrage of idiotic drivel. [...]

Death threats sent to Colorado scientists

By Slugsie, on March 16th, 2009

It appears that some evolutionary biologists at the University of Colorado have been receiving death threats from some religious nutter. Apparently, which ever coward is issuing these threats, is so insecure in their own beliefs that they think that someone unrelated to their every day lives working in a field of science is so absolutely [...]

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