Tag: creationism
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Not fit to hold public office
View image | gettyimages.com John Mason, Scottish National Party MSP for Glasgow Shettleston, has (today) tabled the following motion in the Scottish Parliament: That the Parliament notes that South Lanarkshire Council has issued guidance concerning the appointment and input of chaplains and religious organisations in schools; understands that some people believe that God created the […]
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Astrology: the anti-science acceptable to the educated élite?
Imagine if, in the US, a new novel that celebrated creationism was awarded the greatest of all literary prizes, topped the local best seller lists, gained five star reviews in the papers and was recommended to school pupils by their teachers. Typical American idiocy, eh? Then imagine in the rest of the English-speaking world a […]
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Watchmakers for evolution
The sheer complexity of natural organisms is often cited as a “scientific” reason why evolution must be false – as here for instance (though when this fallacy of the argument is pointed out the poster resorts to attacking people for being ‘ungodly’, therefore giving the game away) – it is simply too much to expect […]
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Evolution and the second law of thermodynamics
When I wrote my first piece about Roger Penrose‘s Cycles of Time – one of the links offered to me was to a Christian fundamentalist blogger who claimed that the second law of thermodynamics showed evolution could not have taken place: E. Evolution contradicts the Second law of Thermodynamics In the Theory of Evolution it […]
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