My old friend (he doesn't seem to use his name) from the Daily Creationism is back! He asks do we see evolution happening? In brief, no. We see changes in living things, but none of them are heading in the right "direction". Wow! He says it all in his first line. We see changes in living things. Thank you. Oh wait "direction"? What direction? Evolution isn't some god thing where everything leads to this creature created in god's image, also known as man....
In August 2003, August 2005 and now apparently in August 2006 an e-mail has made the rounds claiming Mars will be as big as the Moon. What's worse is its basically the same e-mail with just the year changed. It is false, even when it was the right year. Mars was pretty close in August 2003 - even a bit closer than in 1971, however the difference is tiny over the average, the Hubble Space Telescope wouldn't even be able to tell the difference....
How many people do you think died due to the Chernobyl nuclear incident? 25 thousand? 100 thousand? 1 million? 4 million? In Britain a lot of noise is being made by Greenpeace and other organisations campaigning against building more nuclear power stations. They use Chernobyl as an example of thousands or millions of people being killed due to nuclear power stations. They for one ignore the fact that meltdowns in that fashion can no longer happen in modern nuclear power stations....
Just stumbled across a channeler called J.Z. Knight. She claims to channel the spirit of a 35000 year old warrior called Ramtha, who fought against Atlantis. When she goes into her "trance", when she's actually being possessed by this spirit she starts speaking with an Elizabethan (the Queen's English, well the American stereotype of it) English accent. Why would a 35000 year old spirit speak English? Secondly why would it have an Elizabethan accent?...
One thing creationists often trot out is how improbable the universe is. There's really two separate parts to this. One being how improbable it is that the world around us seemingly so perfectly fits human life. Creationists generally use the word "perfectly" but it's clear we're not perfectly suited to the Earth as a whole, a desert isn't a very nice place for a human for example. The Earth doesn’t fit perfectly with life, life just managed to change enough to survive....
Christians are claiming to of discovered Noah's Ark (again). This time it's in Iran. Just how many ships did Noah command? I can find at least four ships. I believe we also have evidence for a 5th ship in Great Britain too. Well we don't have the actual boat, or any evidence of a ship but we've got evidence of the feast that followed! Here we go from a recent BBC News article:...
The BBC recently aired a documentary dealing with the intelligent design issue. It can be found on Google Video. In my opinion it's a good way for people to get up to speed on the whole intelligent design and creationist movement, even if less critical than I would like.
In my opinion, based mainly on history, the security forces in the US were probably aware of some upcoming plot; it wouldn't be too surprising if they did know what the intended targets were and the means of carrying out the attack. But to make the jump from knowing roughly of a plot doesn't mean they were actively involved. Why would the Republicans risk this? If it was true they would be out of office for half a century or more....
I've just heard that the Core, one of the worst films attacks against human intelligence ever is set to return sometime next year. I can just see the tagline now... The Core II - We'll get at least 3% of the science right. The Core is right up there with Armegeddon, in fact it's probably beyond Armegeddon on how dumb it is. I'll just briefly outline why the Core was so stupid:...
This is first hand evidence collected by nobody else but myself this afternoon. I'm pleased to announce MY BRAND NEW DISCOVERY of not only a new form of Rods but the new paranormal rods. Some lesser and inferior ROSWELL ALIEN ROD BELIEVERS. Seem to ponder why nobody has ever found the body of a dead Rod. Of course scientists and anyone with more than 2 brain cells say this is because they are nothing but flies as they past in front of the camera at high speed....