Hey America, how do you know whether or not your public education system is failing? How about the fact almost half of your adult population is convinced the Earth is about as old as the Agrarian Revolution (when we went from hunters to farmers). Nice, huh? If you're wondering what other Western country has such abysmally ignorant people, the answer is Turkey, a similarly religious country that also has a s ...

Man, credit to QualiaSoup for really dishing out the pain. I can't imagine a more brutal and decisive strike against creationism and their junk science. Good way to wake up, am I right? ...

I like Ken, and I appreciate the hard work he does to fight creationism, despite sharing many of their beliefs. The saddest thing about him, however, is he still tries to reconcile his ludicrous superstitious beliefs with science. By the end of his book, Finding Darwin's God, I had to shake my head in disbelief as he tried to use quantum indeterminacy as a mechanism with which God influences evolution. Fuck ...

The creation museum is apparently only the tip of the iceberg for Answers in Genesis, which is partnering with Ark Encounters LLC to create a gargantuan 500 foot "replica" of Noah's Ark which will contain live animals, as well as a Tower of Babel, and a Middle Eastern village. The for-profit company wants to receive a tax incentive from the state, and it sounds to me like they have good changes of getting i ...

I'm so sick and tired of the argument that because Earth sits in a "Goldilocks" zone, this must somehow mean something significant. What are the odds, some like to speculate, all of this could be the product of chance? The answer, I would argue, is the same as every single hand you've ever been dealt in poker. If you try and work backwards to calculate the odds of whatever arbitrary hand you have being deal ...

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Ah, creationism; no matter how you dress it up, it's still a steaming pile of horse shit. Every year it's the same thing: a group of ignorant and highly religious parents become upset their children are actually receiving an education as to how life adapts and changes over time, and their reaction is to try and insert their creationist materials (which they hilariously call "intelligent design") into classr ...

Here's a clip from a BBC documentary "Science Friction" which aired back in '96. As you can see, very little has changed or improved since then. Ignorant jackasses like Joe Wilkey still think they have some sort of powerful insight about creationism that justifies their literal interpretation of mythology. Never mind the fact he's totally violating the law by teaching his creationist nonsense in school; he' ...

What's wrong with this particular story: a GOP candidate gets "accused" of supporting the teaching of evolution in classrooms, and of saying the Bible is not the infallible word of God, and his reaction to the ad is to re-affirm his commitment to the idea the Earth is only 6000 years old. As a Christian and as a public servant, I have never wavered in my belief that this world and everything in it is a mast ...

A fan of the site (they exist apparently) sent me a link to this webcomic, Calamities of Nature,  and I thought some of them had some pretty genuinely funny and interesting points to make about religion, the Pope, and creationism. I feel as though the character of Aaron has a lot in common with little old me. I just have to ask one question though: where the fuck are his eyes? ...