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It is, therefore, our unequivocal conclusion that creationism, with its accounts of the origin of life by supernatural means, is not science.
["Science and Creationism", National Academy Press, 1984]
Category: Creationism
It's always amusing to see creationists try to explain why Charles Darwin was wrong, especially when they make up lists of reasons "Darwin's theory of evolution does not hold up to scientific scrutiny." These are always people who wouldn't...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:24 AM • 43 Comments •
Category: Creationism
So this past weekend, we had the Midwest Science of Origins conference here in Morris, Minnesota. At precisely the same time, about 190 miles north-north-east of us, in Bemidji, Minnesota, a team of lying clowns from the Institute for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:16 PM • 502 Comments •
Category: Creationism
What do you do on airplanes? I usually devour a book or two, usually something popcorny and light, sometimes something I need to get read for work. On my trip home from Washington DC, I lucked out: I was...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:24 PM • 82 Comments •
Category: Science
Good news! The gorilla genome sequence was published in Nature last week, and adds to our body of knowledge about primate evolution. Here's the abstract: Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable importance for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:57 AM • 29 Comments •
Category: Creationism
That's the title of an academic science book. It sure sounds sciencey, doesn't it? It got accepted by Springer-Verlag for publication. And then inside it claims that one of their conclusions is that "conventional chemical and evolutionary mechanisms seem insufficient...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:58 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Creationism
It has the potential to be fun or a fizzle. The Discovery Institute is leaping to the defense of David Coppedge, a computer technician (don't be fooled, the DI is desperately straining to enhance his credentials) who was demoted...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:01 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Those Australians…they recently ran a segment on their Dateline program featuring their fellow Australian Ken Ham and the Creation "Museum", which includes portions of an interview with me. Actually, I seem to be the only critic to get any airtime...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:17 AM • 29 Comments •
Category: Creationism
AAAAAAAAAARGH! Someone is wrong on the internet, and I don't know whether to scream or to facepalm! (I tried doing both at once, but then it just comes out as a muffled gargle.) Please go look at this creationist...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 AM • 51 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I'd been wondering about the credibility of David L. Abel, an Intelligent Design creationist who claims to work in the Department of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics, Origin of Life Science Foundation, Inc. I tried to track down this foundation with the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 151 Comments •
Category: Bad Science
That sad article on gyres as an explanation for everything has had more fallout: not only has it been removed from Science Daily's site, not only has Case Western retracted the press release, but one of the editors at the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:07 PM • 156 Comments •
