I tried to write a post about this before but it turned into a post about how we are gods. When talking about GM food, cloning, stem cell research, etc some one will inevitably use a tired old cliché argument "your/they're playing god". They say these while they use computers made or metals that have [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

When many people hear about things like genetic modification, geoengineering, etc, many scream "Your playing god!" Well in a sense we are gods. Look at us, look at what we have done, look at what we can do. We can communicate with people on the other side of the world with small devices we hold [...]

Found at Geekologie

An industrial chemical developed to help separate heavy metals from polluted soil and mining drainage is being sold as a dietary supplement by a luminary in the world of alternative autism treatments. Called OSR#1, the supplement is described on its Web site as an antioxidant not meant to treat any disease. But the site lists [...]

Some times this argument would be fallowed by examples of things we know have been created. The central stupidity of this argument is the assumption that the universe and everything in it has been created. This is a snow flake. It looks designed, everything about it looks like some one made it but no one [...]

A funny comic by xkcg. Movie science montage vs real science montage Found at ERV