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December 2012

December 18, 2012

Have an Intelligently-Designed Creationmas

Here's a spoof version of a classic Christmas carol that I wrote some years ago,...

December 17, 2012

The Mousetrap Argument and Intelligent Design

The "mousetrap argument" is popular among proponents of Intelligent Design. A mousetrap is supposedly irreducibly...

December 11, 2012

The U.S. Constitution’s Intelligent Design (Lecture by Judge John E. Jones)

Judge John E. Jones, who presided over the Dover Intelligent Design trial, gives a lecture...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Why Some Students Prefer Creationism

The classes depicted below are shorter and simpler than ones that involve actual scientific information...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Prometheus

At long last I got around to watching the movie Prometheus - aka Intelligent Design:...

September 2012

September 08, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Believe That Creation Was Finished in Six Days

I have been having an interesting conversation on Facebook with someone who describes himself as...

August 2012

August 14, 2012

Differentiating Between Debate and Denial

IO9 (in an article entitled "How to distinguish crap denialism from legitimate scientific debate") linked to...

May 2012

May 01, 2012

Teach the Other Controversy

This is not poking fun at beliefs about creation - we all get to a...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Teach the Controversy

HT Stephen Savage on Facebook

April 16, 2012

Scientists, Steves and Evolution

David Bailey posted about project Steve, which seeks to illustrate the overwhelming consensus among scientists...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Message in the Genome?

Click through to read the rest of the comic at Scenes from a Multiverse.

February 2012

February 18, 2012

Creationists, Mythicists, and the Schroedinger’s Scholar Fallacy

One feature that young-earth creationists, mythicists, and other proponents of pseudoscholarly ideas have in common...

January 2012

January 08, 2012

Where are the Transitional Fossils?

A useful video from the BioLogos foundation. Please share it with any young-earth creationists or...

January 03, 2012

Intelligently-Designed Snowflakes?

The blog Irtiqa got to a topic that I was hoping to mention. It already...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

More Evidence that Creationists are Charlatans

Cdbren has been a persistent commenter on some threads about creationism here, insisting that creationists...

December 08, 2011

Intelligent Design is Counter-Evidence to Intelligent Design

This XKCD cartoon is not new, but seeing it again after a commenter shared a...

December 07, 2011

Why We Still Have To Take Creationism Seriously

Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education gives a talk on why, even...

December 01, 2011

The Difference Between Creationism and Science is Like the Difference Between Chicken and…

December 01, 2011

The Sheer Number of Young-Earth Creationists and Intelligent Design Proponents

It is difficult to work out the precise number of anti-evolutionists there are in the...

November 2011

November 17, 2011

Quote of the Day (Pete Enns)

"Particularly in the age of the Internet, it is not hard at all to find...

November 10, 2011

Creationists: Postmodernists of Convenience

Although proponents of both young-earth creationism and intelligent design typically show signs of great (and...

November 10, 2011

Judgment Day

This is the PBS NOVA documentary about the Dover trial related to Intelligent Design. HT...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

Bye Bye, Google Reader Sidebar (Hello Free Bible Versions and The Center for Unintelligent Design)

Google Reader has changed, and since one can no longer share items from Google Reader...

October 22, 2011

Can Creationism Be Disproven?

The ideal in science is to come up with testable hypotheses that can be confirmed...

October 20, 2011

Hume, Giraffes, and the Argument for Incompetent Design

One of the classic philosophical texts that we discuss in my freshman class "Faith, Doubt...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Evolution and Creationism around the Blogosphere

Several posts related to the bogus claims of proponents of young earth creationism and intelligent...

September 21, 2011

Antievolutionism in the Classroom and around the Blogosphere

My freshman "Faith, Doubt and Reason" class yesterday took an unexpected turn, as a discussion...

August 2011

August 23, 2011

Skepticism Around the Blogosphere

I began this post wanting to share the news that the forger of the lead...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

Can An Evangelical Christian Accept Evolution?

The blog Questioning Answers in Genesis posted about the fact that there is a need...

July 25, 2011

Intelligent Design Criminology

Since the issue of science and naturalism was brought up in connection with a recent...

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