#Creationism in the #classroom: does it matter? #Kitzmiller 20 years on
What we now call #ChristianNationalism has its roots in #RonaldReagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, when #creationists such as #TimLaHaye fused together #political #conservatism, the newly adopted #abortion issue, literalist #Bible-based #religion, and the rejection of #evolution #science as #Humanist, #unAmerican, and as we would now say #Woke.
Young-Earth #Creationists Debunked (Again)
YECs claimed the lack of old #supernova remnants proved a young #universe. Wrong.
New #Radioteleskope surveys in #Australia just found dozens of ancient supernova remnants that were too faint to detect before.
The "missing" remnants weren't missing - they were just hard to see because they fade over time and emit mainly radio waves.
Bottom line: The universe is old. Science wins. đź”
@badastro https://mastodon.social/@badastro/115583124348087819
Charles Darwin’s theory on evolution by natural selection presents the varied links connecting biological facts, and demonstrates the results of these connections, but the theory is a generally misunderstood one in some circles, and in particular amongst fundamentalist believers in the creation story...
#charlesdarwin #EvolutionaryTheory #naturalselection #opinions #creationists #nature #speciesdiversity #writingcommunity #evolution #originofspecies
https://write.as/for-much-deliberation/on-darwin-and-a-theory
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montague
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AshleyMontague #Creationists #Science
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
The Definitive Guide to #Debunking #Creationists
Part 1: #Cosmology/#Planetary #Science
Part 2: #Abiogenesis
Part 3: #Evolutionary #Biology/#Paleontology
Part 4: #Genetics/#Molecular Biology
Part 5: #Philosophy/#Theology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7_HOZHOi1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2JjHDZDdRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQOCybcSnug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfm9q4UoQBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU8H_Fh-TAE
Less than two weeks in, and already the #creationists are stirring - https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/03/less-than-two-weeks-in-and-already-the-creationists-are-stirring/ "they can’t just switch to stuffing creationism into science curricula (yet), so they instead water down and weaken the science, replacing “#evolution” with fuzzy pseudonyms." #trump #antiscience
Good look at a bad problem. The author is a friend from grad schol at the #University of #Colorado, where she was a faculty member when I was a grad student. She’s since gone on to bigger and better things, and I’ve gone on to … well, things.
Anyway. I’ve never been particularly worried about #Cylons, #Skynet, etc. Humans doing stupid human tricks, and using #AI to do them much faster, OTOH, yeah.
The internet community of anti-science #cranks is an example of #model #collapse happening at human speed. #Antivaxers, #creationists, #climate change #deniers et al. prey on people with legitimate questions about some particular aspect of the broad #consensus. Those people often go down an increasingly loony rabbit hole, and end up propagating the absurdity, sometimes adding their own bizarre spin which their new-found colleagues happily add to the ideology.
If this becomes part of the #academic ecosystem, with AI reviewers approving AI-generated #papers and no human checks on the process, the scholarly corpus will become hopelessly contaminated. I have no idea what to do about that.
The only way to become rich as a scientist is to upset the status quo; is to do the very thing that #creationists wish they could do.
—Aron Ra
It’s so cute when #creationists try to sound sciencey. Like little kids misusing big words to try to impress the grown-ups.
This is why scientists shouldn't debate ##FlatEarthers or #creationists, and why I won't debate people who deny basic facts of history, like #Atlantis believers or #HolocaustDeniers -- the people arguing such things are either dishonest or stupid.
Ken Ham & AiG Bizarre Claim Whale Hybrid Officially CONFIRMS the Biblical Flood (and News Feat. Ground.New Checks) • Paulogia
#anti-Intellectual #anti-Science #Christofascists #Creationists #ClimateChangeDenial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVaM3nL9cro
The only way to become rich as a scientist is to upset the status quo; is to do the very thing that #creationists wish they could do.
—Aron Ra
#Creationists:
Pray that your “creator” can show you how to disprove #evolution. Let’s see just how powerful he is.
One common feature of various anti-science ideologies is that their adherents lack a sense of scale. #FlatEarthers don’t understand distance, #creationists don’t understand time, #climate change #denialists don’t understand levels of emissions or rate of temperature change, #antivaxers don’t understand population morbidity and mortality. Probably other types of looniness with which I’m less familiar have the same underlying problem.
In a way I sympathize with this, because the numbers are so far outside normal human experience. But learn the #math and suddenly everything makes a lot more sense. We’re not talking about anything particularly advanced. Just grasp that intution breaks down when measuring something very large or very small.
"Dr." Glenn Beck is an American right-wing "commentator", former rodeo clown, former Fox News clown, and high school graduate who got lucky. He presented his eponymous Glenn Beck Show on the Fox News cartoon channel until it was dropped in 2011 due to low ratings.
He currently has his own radio show and originally appeared on CNN's Headline News until viewers couldn't take it anymore (rumors that they were also mad as hell are slightly exaggerated). Beck now owns the subscription-based internet network The Blaze (formerly GBTV), which his Fox show was transferred to in September 2011. The network somehow made it onto Dish Network; however, it has not been picked up by the many cable providers Beck thought it would have, despite his aggressive campaign to get it on every cable plan in America.
#RationalWiki #glennbeck #libertarians #bigots #creationists #Conspiracy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck
#Creationists Battling Over #Texas #SchoolBooks
https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/creationists-battling-over-texas-school-books/
It’s amusing to note that after a few years of apparently normal behavior, the Texas #BoardofEducation may be back in the news again. We found this at a site called #TexasValues. Their post — it’s actually a press release — is titled Alert! Did You Come From a Monkey?, and it has no author’s by-line.
