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January 28, 2014
Prof. Lisa Park Boush on the Creation Museum
The quotation comes from an article that I came across recently, although it was written...
January 16, 2014
Creationist Alternative to Peer Review
From People in White Coats
January 14, 2014
Patheos Posts on the Real Nye-Ham Debate
Today I made a spoof post about the upcoming debate between Ken Ham and Bill...
January 07, 2014
I recently experienced the irony of having someone quote 2 Peter in an attempt to...
January 06, 2014
This demotivational poster about young-earth creationist and Intelligent Design proponent quote-mining was inspired (or perhaps...
January 05, 2014
Geocentrism is Better than Young-Earth Creationism
I recently had a comment left on my blog by what appears to be a...
January 01, 2014
Jerry Coyne shared the picture below, showing how invoking a certain fictional technology from a...
January 01, 2014
Christianity or Young-Earth Creationism? Time to Choose
It is time for conservative Christians to say goodbye to young-earth creationism once and for...
December 2013
December 22, 2013
Young-Earth Creationists Attempt to Hijack Advent
Via Reddit.
December 06, 2013
Tyler Francke has created another meme image. This one highlights the fact that young-earth creationists...
November 2013
November 30, 2013
Fred Clark has offered a characteristically witty post that builds on my recent one about...
November 27, 2013
This image came my way on Facebook. There is more information about the tree on...
November 16, 2013
Maybe this is why young-earth creationism is so disturbing and offensive. Young-earth creationists will pretend...
October 2013
October 30, 2013
Why Young-Earth Creationism is so Implausible, in a Nutshell
Commenter arcseconds put it beautifully: Doesn't it strike you as remotely strange that the world's...
October 04, 2013
Ken Ham agrees with Bill Maher
While Ken Ham expressed surprise a while back that he agrees with atheist Bill Maher,...
August 2013
August 21, 2013
Someone using the zip line, a new attraction at the Creation Museum, was struck by...
August 18, 2013
Creation and Evolution: The True Stories
I had barely posted on the fact that the story of Noah's ark makes at...
August 17, 2013
A Hebrew Grammarian’s Real Answers in Genesis
Robert Holmstedt normally blogs about Hebrew grammar. But the nonsense Answers in Genesis spouts about the...
July 2013
July 13, 2013
Antievolutionism vs. Fundamentalism
This image was shared on the God of Evolution Facebook page: It is only because...
July 11, 2013
The Invisible Preface to Genesis
Young-earth creationist Bibles do not begin with Genesis. At least, that is the impression they...
July 09, 2013
This excerpt from a recent piece in the Christian Post tells us a lot: "One...
July 05, 2013
Two comments on my recent "Mumpsimus" post seemed worth sharing. First, James Snapp shared an...
June 2013
June 29, 2013
I am grateful to Michael Heiser for making me aware of Ben Stanhope's blog, "Remythologized,"...
June 21, 2013
Do Young-Earth Creationists Worship the Devil?
Young-earth creationists claim that the being who made the Earth and humankind is neither trustworthy...
June 13, 2013
Do You Need a PhD to Understand the Bible?
Do you need a PhD to understand the Bible? Short answer: yes. But a longer...
May 2013
May 30, 2013
No, this isn't a post about Star Trek. It is about something that sounds just...
May 29, 2013
I had my attention drawn today to an article by Howard Bess, a retired American...
May 27, 2013
Antievolutionism is a Tool of Satan
Someone drew attention to this image which they spotted on a Facebook page, "Evolution's Family...
May 25, 2013
Worst Conspiracy Ever (Dinosaur Skin and Creationism)
Eye on the ICR has a post about the discovery of some soft material from...
May 07, 2013
Young-Earth Creationism vs. Sodom and Gomorrah
In the Biblical story about Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham pleads with God to spare the...
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