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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Falsifiability is very important in science; scientific theories and hypotheses can not be scientific unless they are falsifiable. When creationist finally learn this they attempt to use it to discredit the theory of evolution. Before I tear apart the argument I should explain what falsification is and its relevance in science. If something is unfalsifiable [...]

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The odds of a single protein forming are *insert really big number here* to 1 Creationists in an attempt to discredit abiogenises or any other scientific field will spout really big numbers in an attempt to make "it" look impossible. Less dishonest creationists will use real statistics but will misrepresent those statistics, others will just [...]

In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose [...]