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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

Its, safe, natural and side effect free. That's because it is just water. Homeopathy is based on the "law of similars" which is "like cures like". So if you're sick, you take what would cause those symptoms and it cures it? Not quite; you have to dilute it. You take a glass of water and [...]

Climate change sceptic's U-turn The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is ''undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today'' and ''a challenge humanity must confront'', in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby. Bjorn Lomborg, the self-styled ''sceptical environmentalist'' [...]

Federal Circuit Rules No Link between Autism and Vaccine The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld lower court findings that reject a causal connection between childhood vaccines and the onset of autism. The ruling came in Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, which was the first of a [...]

Alien abduction is a phenomenon that many have claimed to have experienced. People who claim to have experienced this phenomenon described the aliens as short with grays skin, frail bodies, large heads with large black eyes, no fur or hair and no visible genitalia. They say that they aliens take them into their crafts, experiment [...]

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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