Multicellular Yeast

| June 24th, 2011

I wasn't going to do any posting tod- ... tonight except for one but when I saw this story I had to post about. Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity IN JUST a few weeks single-celled yeast have evolved into a multicellular organism, complete with division of labour between cells. This suggests that the [...]

Rights to Expelled up for auction

| June 21st, 2011

Expelled on the block? Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the 2008 creationist propaganda movie fronted by Ben Stein — is scheduled to be auctioned, lock, stock, and barrel, pursuant to the bankruptcy proceeding of Premise Media Holdings LP. According to a document (PDF) filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 50: There’s no !#(&!^& carbon in it!

| February 11th, 2011

This is so something I should have covered in part 23.2 but neglected too. mt etna, and mt kilauea both were carbon dated a few years after the lava cooled and were dated to be several thousands of years old Take a rock to a lab to be carbon dated and they'll say: "Oi! We [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 49: No new species have evolved

| October 3rd, 2010

One of the many creationist lies. First an explanation of speciation: speciation is not an animal giving birth to another species and it is not one animal transforming into another species. If such things were observed they would falsify evolution not prove it. Speciation occurs when a single population splits into two (or more) populations, [...]

The Problem of Evil and ID Creationism

| September 18th, 2010

Video page, comments page, C0nc0rdance channel

Stupid Creationist Arguments 48: Science is naturalistic and naturalism rules out the possibility of a god

| September 17th, 2010

Science is naturalistic but it is a form of naturalism called methodological naturalism. Methodological naturalism does not assume the universe is strictly naturalistic, what it does do is seek to understand the natural world using the scientific method. The super natural (by definition) would be beyond the natural world thus could not be understood by [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 47: Pasteur proved that life can’t come from non-life

| September 14th, 2010

Spontaneous generation is the (now defunct) idea that living organisms can spontaneously form from nonliving material. This idea was based on several observations; maggots on rotting meat, frogs appearing after the regular Nile floods, mice and rats appearing where food is stored, etc. To a casual observer before the modern understanding of biology it would [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 46: “One of these days, Alice!”

| September 6th, 2010

The Moon is big, it's sometimes bright and it's old. Creationists don't like that last one so they use bad "evidence" to try and disprove it. If the Moon is billions of years old there should have been so much dust on the moon that Apollo 11 should have sunk in it. Even Answers in [...]

The Supernatural Does Not Exist. Rewritten

| September 5th, 2010

"Supernatural" means "above" or "beyond" nature. The supernatural is not limited to the laws of the universe. For example: The law of conservation of energy says that energy can not be created or destroyed only changed from one form to another, something that is supernatural may not be limited by this, something that is supernatural [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 45: “Those aren’t real!”

| September 5th, 2010

If the fossil record goes against your evidence, deny they exist. If some one points the fossil record out, claim they or are not what they actually are. This is what creationists do. The fossil record is strong evidence for evolution and it large. Piltdown man: It was a hoax, this is true. This was [...]

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