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 [...]

You are improbable.

| February 12th, 2011

A thousand years ago a little boy is a hairs width away from dieing from a disease but manages to survive, grow up and have children, a thousand miles away a woman is about to marry a man but something happens and the marriage is called off later goes on to merry another man and [...]

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 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 [...]

Skinks Evolving Live Birth

| August 29th, 2010

Zoologger: Live birth, evolving before our eyes Travel abroad and you are bound to see people doing things a bit differently. If the yellow-bellied three-toed skink were to go wandering, though, it would find members of its own species giving birth in a completely different way. Skinks from the northern highlands of New South Wales [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 44: Evolution is Unfalsifiable

| August 18th, 2010

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 [...]

Youtube – Stand Up For Fact-Based Education

| August 18th, 2010

Video page, comments page, FFreeThinker.

Stupid Creationist Arguments 43: Lies, damned lies, and statistics

| August 10th, 2010

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 [...]

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