Piltdown Superman

Secular Humanism is a religion.  Evolution is religious in nature. It looks like the UK is forcing adherence to a state religion, and evolutionism is a cornerstone.  "Stop that, Cowboy Bob! Evolution is about science!"   An evolutionist disagrees:  ‘Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint—and Mr [sic] Gish is but one of many to make it—the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. ‘… Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity.' — Michael Ruse The four biggest bigot groups in the UK are at it again. They already forced the teaching of orig

morgueFile/chamomile This rather short article on the ability of penguins to zip through the water is quite interesting. There are several intricate features that show how they are designed for what they do — and do it quickly. Penguins are fast swimmers, but they shouldn't be. As they rocket themselves through the water and onto overlying ice shelves, the drag of water friction is supposed to be too great. Researchers familiar with recent attempts to use air as a lubricant for ships noticed air bubbles jacketing penguins during their boisterous ascents, and that led them to question if penguins use air to accelerate underwater. National Geographic recently reported on how Bangor University biologist Roger Hughes, inspired by a 2001 BBC documentary that featured emperor penguins leaping out of the water, partnered with an engineer in Denmark and two other researchers to investigate how the penguins could do this. Their results appeared in the journal  Marine Ecology Progr

 The more we learn about real science, the more evolutionary theory suffers for it. To protect their faulty worldview, evolutionary scientists and publicists need to "spin" the data. That is, the make excuses and manufacture transparent explanations that do not fool anyone except fundamentalist evolutionists and the willingly galactically gullible. Library of Congress The spin is extremely noticeable in regards to the newest discoveries in genetics (such as their humiliation about "junk" DNA ) and unique genes. The pusillanimity regarding the raw facts is distressing. You’ve heard of novel genes—genes that are found in only one species, and you’ve heard of alternative splicing—complex genes that are edited in different ways. Now put them together and on steroids, and to top it off, all in a mere unicellar algae. It’s another damage control nightmare as evolutionists again can’t figure out what went wrong. The explosion in molecular biology in the past

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen Here is a "sorta" sequel to this post . It stems from remarks and questions like the one below, which creationists encounter rather often. It has been modified somewhat: You assert that evolutionists take our facts from Wikipedia and other biased sources but don't read what creationists really believe. So what do you guys really believe? I've looked at your FB page but I can't find anything. Are you young earth creationists? I assume you're Christian from the tenor of this Page .  Unfortunately for people who ask questions like this, I have not been appointed as the spokesman for creationists. morgueFile/RoganJosh There are times when atheists will fuss and say, "You don't know anything about atheists! And don't lump us all into one group, there are several kinds!" Sometimes, I think that some of those atheists do not know what atheists think, because they seem to have created (heh!) definitions specific

Have you noticed that paleontologists and anthropologists will find a fragment of something, believe it's conclusive proof of evolution, and then find out later that they were wrong? They try to quietly drop their embarrassment. The process of making something out of nothing reminds me of this: Anyway. The scientists at major creationist organizations seldom have time for small-time bloggers who think that they are the smartest people on the short bus. In this case, they made an exception. "Lucy" at the Creation Museum  Adam Benton took exception to the "Lucy" exhibit at the Creation Museum , and decided to show how stupid and evil creationists really are. Except that he had several things working against his "analysis": He did not actually see the exhibit Ignorance of facts that he tries to present Ignorance of facts that he tries to refute Exceptional bias in his worldview Unwillingness to examine the evidence more completely  He

morgueFile/jak It seems that most people consider ants to be nothing more than an inconvenient bug that finds things you've spilled in your kitchen and brings its friends to celebrate. Then you have to get ant traps. Or perhaps you've just watched them scurrying to and fro, often carrying something awkward. Have you ever seriously considered what they are doing, and how they do it? The spill on your kitchen floor that you thought  you had cleaned up, or planned on getting to later — they found it, and told their friends. How? And when they're carrying some dead thing in their caravan, what's up with that? Ants have taken over the world, it seems, but they didn’t do it alone! One reason they’re so successful is their ability to communicate with each other—where to go, what to watch out for, how to help. The lone ant follows the path marked earlier by her companions. In her ceaseless search for food, she decides to veer off the trail and blaze a new path. Along

CERN-AC-0510028 01 First, a silly side note. This article was scheduled to post on the last repetitive date that we will live to see, at 12.12 PM Eastern Time on 12-12-2012. The hysteria and publicity about the Higgs boson particle seems to have faded. Perhaps now we can give it a calmer examination. Some people rave that it is the particle (field) that was sought, and it is somehow proof of the Big Bang. (There are even people who go as far as to say that it proves there is no God, which is an asinine and unscientific statement.) What does it prove, if anything? Scientists from Europe’s CERN research center presented evidence on July 4, 2012, for a particle that is likely the Higgs boson, the last remaining elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Does this discovery have relevance for the creation-evolution controversy? Particles can generally be classified into two categories, according to the quantum mechanical rules that the