#creationism — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark.~The Guardian
This is 3 months old but I missed it.
“Teachers employed by a large group of Queensland Christian schools were told to teach creationism in science classes, including that vegetarian baby dinosaurs would have been taken aboard Noah’s Ark.”Hilarious but also terrifying.
“The conference featured a presentation by the Answers in Genesis’ director of research, Australian geologist Andrew Snelling.
“Those present say Snelling told them the radiometric dating techniques used by mainstream scientists to show fossils and rocks are millions of years old were flawed. He said the Himalayas were formed by the “great flood”, and that juvenile vegetarian dinosaurs had been on the ark.
#auspol #creationism #noahsArk #Dinosaurs #MiniatureAnimals #Christians #PrivateSchools #Queensland #Snelling #OpenBrethren
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The hammer entombed in rockOriginally published June 7, 2017
A tenet of geology is that rocks are old. Therefore, objects of human origin embedded in rock suggest that the rock formed after the object was created. However, there are several examples of these anomalies, which, upon first appearance, seem to set the geological timescale and assumptions topsy-turvy. One of these items is the London Hammer.
The story of its discovery goes as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Max Hahn found a nodule with the wood handle sticking out near Red Creek in London, Texas in either 1934 or 1936. Later retelling of the story by others say it was lying loose on a rock ledge when found. The nodule was broken open several years later to reveal the entire embedded iron head.
These type of anomalies are known colloquially as OOPARTs (out-of-place artifacts). Such items also include similar embedded objects like iron nails and gold chains but also alleged human footprints in prehistoric rock. Other OOPARTs assumed by some to be ancient objects created by some mysterious culture are actually natural phenomena that resemble cultural products. I hope to include some more interesting OOPARTs descriptions in future posts.
But let’s take this London hammer artifact and try to determine just how strange it is.
The matrix around the hammer head included modern shells.The hammer is of 19th-century origin. We know this because we can find matching hammers used by miners of that time and not before. The wooden handle of the hammer would not preserve much longer intact. Wood would either decompose or mineralize, depending on the conditions. How did it get encased in rock? The clue to this seems to lie in the description of the rock type – “limey”. Calcite precipitates from saturated solutions quickly under the right conditions, weeks to years. Shell beds also accumulate and cement together in a short time. In this case, we can surmise that a miner might have dropped the hammer or it fell into a spot where he was unable to retrieve it, perhaps into some limey clay that eventually hardened around the hammerhead. However, there are some suspicious details about the hammer.
First, it was not found in situ. We have no documentation of exactly where it was found or under what conditions. We just have a story from the Hahns. The strata in this location are Cretaceous in age but do not match the concreted substance. The nodule matrix cannot reliably be associated with a host rock.
But the primary problem is where the artifact is now kept and for what purpose. The item resides in a Creationist museum in Texas and is exhibited as “proof” that a worldwide flood occurred and wiped out most of the earth’s inhabitants, as related in the Biblical tale of Noah. Carl Baugh, the current owner of the artifact, will not allow testing of the wooden handle or the concretion matrix to definitively characterize its origin, though there is an undetailed, uncorroborated report from a supporter of Baugh who claims the handle was dated “from present to 700 years ago”.
Researcher Glen Kuban has an excellent chronology and details of the history of the artifact and its problematic provenance here. He supports the explanation that the hammer is a typical 19th-century miner’s tool that was encased in the limey concretion by natural means. This plausible explanation does not overturn any geological ideas about the age of the earth or of humans’ place in it. The London Hammer is simply the result of unique circumstances that produced a fascinating object.
Unfortunately, those who possess the item now (Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX) have no reason to have it analyzed further to help determine how this anomaly formed because of their use of it to support their anti-science narrative of Biblical creation.
Update 25-June-2024
Here is another example of rapid cementation of a recent item – an engine block left in an intertidal zone became incorporated into the rock along with shells and rock.
Young-earth creationists will shift position on these artifacts depending upon what might gain them traction in an argument. As noted above, they will claim that the rock indicates that humans were around long ago at the same time as extinct animals, so evolution must somehow be false or that fossils can form very quickly so the earth does not have to be old. Both arguments have mistaken assumptions and are flawed. Some rock does form quickly. But some types of rock are demonstrably ancient – perhaps even a billion years old for some continental bedrock – as are the creatures whose remains were preserved in them. There are multiple lines of evidence that establishes that the earth is over 4 billion years old and that there are billions of animal species that evolved and lineages that went extinct over time. It wasn’t just a few thousand years and a flood that constitutes the history of earth.
UPDATE 5-Jan-2026 (Revised) So a version of this artifact was sold for $330 at auction in January 2026. It was part of a lot of mineral specimens, fossils, casts, and related items owned by Melvin Weaver. While it seemed really strange to some of us who knew what it was that 1. it was being sold and, 2. that it went for such a low price. Jason Colavito contacted the Creationist museum where it was supposedly housed and found that it’s still there. So this version was a replica. I did not imagine there were replicas made, and there was no accessible info on the auction site that showed that. Sorry for the misinformation.
#Anomalies #artifact #concretion #creationism #creationist #LondonHammer #NoahSFlood #OOPARTs https://sharonahill.com/?p=435 -
The hammer entombed in rockOriginally published June 7, 2017
A tenet of geology is that rocks are old. Therefore, objects of human origin embedded in rock suggest that the rock formed after the object was created. However, there are several examples of these anomalies, which, upon first appearance, seem to set the geological timescale and assumptions topsy-turvy. One of these items is the London Hammer.
The story of its discovery goes as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Max Hahn found a nodule with the wood handle sticking out near Red Creek in London, Texas in either 1934 or 1936. Later retelling of the story by others say it was lying loose on a rock ledge when found. The nodule was broken open several years later to reveal the entire embedded iron head.
These type of anomalies are known colloquially as OOPARTs (out-of-place artifacts). Such items also include similar embedded objects like iron nails and gold chains but also alleged human footprints in prehistoric rock. Other OOPARTs assumed by some to be ancient objects created by some mysterious culture are actually natural phenomena that resemble cultural products. I hope to include some more interesting OOPARTs descriptions in future posts.
But let’s take this London hammer artifact and try to determine just how strange it is.
The matrix around the hammer head included modern shells.The hammer is of 19th-century origin. We know this because we can find matching hammers used by miners of that time and not before. The wooden handle of the hammer would not preserve much longer intact. Wood would either decompose or mineralize, depending on the conditions. How did it get encased in rock? The clue to this seems to lie in the description of the rock type – “limey”. Calcite precipitates from saturated solutions quickly under the right conditions, weeks to years. Shell beds also accumulate and cement together in a short time. In this case, we can surmise that a miner might have dropped the hammer or it fell into a spot where he was unable to retrieve it, perhaps into some limey clay that eventually hardened around the hammerhead. However, there are some suspicious details about the hammer.
First, it was not found in situ. We have no documentation of exactly where it was found or under what conditions. We just have a story from the Hahns. The strata in this location are Cretaceous in age but do not match the concreted substance. The nodule matrix cannot reliably be associated with a host rock.
But the primary problem is where the artifact is now kept and for what purpose. The item resides in a Creationist museum in Texas and is exhibited as “proof” that a worldwide flood occurred and wiped out most of the earth’s inhabitants, as related in the Biblical tale of Noah. Carl Baugh, the current owner of the artifact, will not allow testing of the wooden handle or the concretion matrix to definitively characterize its origin, though there is an undetailed, uncorroborated report from a supporter of Baugh who claims the handle was dated “from present to 700 years ago”.
Researcher Glen Kuban has an excellent chronology and details of the history of the artifact and its problematic provenance here. He supports the explanation that the hammer is a typical 19th-century miner’s tool that was encased in the limey concretion by natural means. This plausible explanation does not overturn any geological ideas about the age of the earth or of humans’ place in it. The London Hammer is simply the result of unique circumstances that produced a fascinating object.
Unfortunately, those who possess the item now (Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX) have no reason to have it analyzed further to help determine how this anomaly formed because of their use of it to support their anti-science narrative of Biblical creation.
Update 25-June-2024
Here is another example of rapid cementation of a recent item – an engine block left in an intertidal zone became incorporated into the rock along with shells and rock.
Young-earth creationists will shift position on these artifacts depending upon what might gain them traction in an argument. As noted above, they will claim that the rock indicates that humans were around long ago at the same time as extinct animals, so evolution must somehow be false or that fossils can form very quickly so the earth does not have to be old. Both arguments have mistaken assumptions and are flawed. Some rock does form quickly. But some types of rock are demonstrably ancient – perhaps even a billion years old for some continental bedrock – as are the creatures whose remains were preserved in them. There are multiple lines of evidence that establishes that the earth is over 4 billion years old and that there are billions of animal species that evolved and lineages that went extinct over time. It wasn’t just a few thousand years and a flood that constitutes the history of earth.
UPDATE 5-Jan-2026 (Revised) So a version of this artifact was sold for $330 at auction in January 2026. It was part of a lot of mineral specimens, fossils, casts, and related items owned by Melvin Weaver. While it seemed really strange to some of us who knew what it was that 1. it was being sold and, 2. that it went for such a low price. Jason Colavito contacted the Creationist museum where it was supposedly housed and found that it’s still there. So this version was a replica. I did not imagine there were replicas made, and there was no accessible info on the auction site that showed that. Sorry for the misinformation.
#Anomalies #artifact #concretion #creationism #creationist #LondonHammer #NoahSFlood #OOPARTs https://sharonahill.com/?p=435 -
The hammer entombed in rockOriginally published June 7, 2017
A tenet of geology is that rocks are old. Therefore, objects of human origin embedded in rock suggest that the rock formed after the object was created. However, there are several examples of these anomalies, which, upon first appearance, seem to set the geological timescale and assumptions topsy-turvy. One of these items is the London Hammer.
The story of its discovery goes as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Max Hahn found a nodule with the wood handle sticking out near Red Creek in London, Texas in either 1934 or 1936. Later retelling of the story by others say it was lying loose on a rock ledge when found. The nodule was broken open several years later to reveal the entire embedded iron head.
These type of anomalies are known colloquially as OOPARTs (out-of-place artifacts). Such items also include similar embedded objects like iron nails and gold chains but also alleged human footprints in prehistoric rock. Other OOPARTs assumed by some to be ancient objects created by some mysterious culture are actually natural phenomena that resemble cultural products. I hope to include some more interesting OOPARTs descriptions in future posts.
But let’s take this London hammer artifact and try to determine just how strange it is.
The matrix around the hammer head included modern shells.The hammer is of 19th-century origin. We know this because we can find matching hammers used by miners of that time and not before. The wooden handle of the hammer would not preserve much longer intact. Wood would either decompose or mineralize, depending on the conditions. How did it get encased in rock? The clue to this seems to lie in the description of the rock type – “limey”. Calcite precipitates from saturated solutions quickly under the right conditions, weeks to years. Shell beds also accumulate and cement together in a short time. In this case, we can surmise that a miner might have dropped the hammer or it fell into a spot where he was unable to retrieve it, perhaps into some limey clay that eventually hardened around the hammerhead. However, there are some suspicious details about the hammer.
First, it was not found in situ. We have no documentation of exactly where it was found or under what conditions. We just have a story from the Hahns. The strata in this location are Cretaceous in age but do not match the concreted substance. The nodule matrix cannot reliably be associated with a host rock.
But the primary problem is where the artifact is now kept and for what purpose. The item resides in a Creationist museum in Texas and is exhibited as “proof” that a worldwide flood occurred and wiped out most of the earth’s inhabitants, as related in the Biblical tale of Noah. Carl Baugh, the current owner of the artifact, will not allow testing of the wooden handle or the concretion matrix to definitively characterize its origin, though there is an undetailed, uncorroborated report from a supporter of Baugh who claims the handle was dated “from present to 700 years ago”.
Researcher Glen Kuban has an excellent chronology and details of the history of the artifact and its problematic provenance here. He supports the explanation that the hammer is a typical 19th-century miner’s tool that was encased in the limey concretion by natural means. This plausible explanation does not overturn any geological ideas about the age of the earth or of humans’ place in it. The London Hammer is simply the result of unique circumstances that produced a fascinating object.
Unfortunately, those who possess the item now (Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX) have no reason to have it analyzed further to help determine how this anomaly formed because of their use of it to support their anti-science narrative of Biblical creation.
Update 25-June-2024
Here is another example of rapid cementation of a recent item – an engine block left in an intertidal zone became incorporated into the rock along with shells and rock.
Young-earth creationists will shift position on these artifacts depending upon what might gain them traction in an argument. As noted above, they will claim that the rock indicates that humans were around long ago at the same time as extinct animals, so evolution must somehow be false or that fossils can form very quickly so the earth does not have to be old. Both arguments have mistaken assumptions and are flawed. Some rock does form quickly. But some types of rock are demonstrably ancient – perhaps even a billion years old for some continental bedrock – as are the creatures whose remains were preserved in them. There are multiple lines of evidence that establishes that the earth is over 4 billion years old and that there are billions of animal species that evolved and lineages that went extinct over time. It wasn’t just a few thousand years and a flood that constitutes the history of earth.
UPDATE 5-Jan-2026 (Revised) So a version of this artifact was sold for $330 at auction in January 2026. It was part of a lot of mineral specimens, fossils, casts, and related items owned by Melvin Weaver. While it seemed really strange to some of us who knew what it was that 1. it was being sold and, 2. that it went for such a low price. Jason Colavito contacted the Creationist museum where it was supposedly housed and found that it’s still there. So this version was a replica. I did not imagine there were replicas made, and there was no accessible info on the auction site that showed that. Sorry for the misinformation.
#Anomalies #artifact #concretion #creationism #creationist #LondonHammer #NoahSFlood #OOPARTs https://sharonahill.com/?p=435 -
#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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Cum au scăzut apele Potopului lui Noe de pe continente? Cum au acoperit vârful muntelui EVEREST? Mulți oameni întreabă: „Dacă apele Potopului lui Noe au acoperit pământul cu adevărat, unde s-au dus toate acele ape?” 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/yfg6m 👈 #apelorpotopului #Arca #catastrofei #continente #Creaţionism #Geneza #Geologii #Geomorfologul #mișcaretectonică #munții #munțilorvulcanicisubmarini #MunteleEverest #Noe #Panteleabisale #Potopul #PotopuldinGeneza #Scoa...
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#Kibitzing a bad #creationist #debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUDWzOJCkM
PZ MyersThe Twin Cities #CreationScience Association sponsored a debate between #BrianLauer, creationist, and #MarkReid, sensible normal human being. Reid was fine, but Lauer's arguments, or lack thereof, compelled me to criticize him.
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Debunking #Creationism with #Science ft. Dave Farina (Professor Dave Explains) | #FFRF’s Ask An #Atheist
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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/#Theologyhttps://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
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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/#Theologyhttps://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 -
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/#Theologyhttps://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 -
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/#Theologyhttps://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 -
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/#Theologyhttps://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
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#NathanLents - #Philosophy of #Evolution and #Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_SpIbCdbkI
#PhilosophyOfEvolution #PhilosophyOfReligion #Creation #Creationism #Belief #Design #Teleology #IntelligentDesign #IrreducibleComplexity #Theism #TheisticEvolution #Deism #DeisticEvolution #Truth #TruthClaim #TruthClaims #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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The Creation "Museum" is a $27 million amusement park located in Petersburg, Kentucky, USA just a few miles from Cincinnati, near the Kentucky-Indiana-Ohio tripoint, which should tell you all you need to know. Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis (AIG) founded it and it is devoted to the young earth creationist idea that "The Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation!" — that is, in complete opposition to the scientific consensus and basic logic.
The unaccredited museum promotes the idea that "the Bible is the history book of the universe". This is somehow supposed to be in line with their idea that "facts don't speak for themselves" and that the Bible contains the "correct" way to interpret any and all evidence available in the physical world. …
#RationalWIki #creationism #creationmuseum #kenham
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#BernardCarr - #Philosophy of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGthYQ_RA3U
#PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Constants #ConstantsOfNature #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Multiverse #AnthropicPrinciple #StrongAnthropicPrinciple #God #Creationism #Theism #Theology #Teleology #Metaphysics #FinalTheory #MTheory #StringTheory #Observer #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#BernardCarr - #Philosophy of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGthYQ_RA3U
#PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Constants #ConstantsOfNature #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Multiverse #AnthropicPrinciple #StrongAnthropicPrinciple #God #Creationism #Theism #Theology #Teleology #Metaphysics #FinalTheory #MTheory #StringTheory #Observer #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#BernardCarr - #Philosophy of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGthYQ_RA3U
#PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Constants #ConstantsOfNature #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Multiverse #AnthropicPrinciple #StrongAnthropicPrinciple #God #Creationism #Theism #Theology #Teleology #Metaphysics #FinalTheory #MTheory #StringTheory #Observer #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#BernardCarr - #Philosophy of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGthYQ_RA3U
#PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Constants #ConstantsOfNature #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Multiverse #AnthropicPrinciple #StrongAnthropicPrinciple #God #Creationism #Theism #Theology #Teleology #Metaphysics #FinalTheory #MTheory #StringTheory #Observer #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#BernardCarr - #Philosophy of #FineTuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGthYQ_RA3U
#PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Constants #ConstantsOfNature #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Multiverse #AnthropicPrinciple #StrongAnthropicPrinciple #God #Creationism #Theism #Theology #Teleology #Metaphysics #FinalTheory #MTheory #StringTheory #Observer #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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-- The Mud Problem Precludes Young Earth Creationism --
(from Gutsick Gibbon)
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There are limits to how much #creationists can deny
#science #biology #creationism #evolution #bigbang #physics #religion #myths #christianity #atheism
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There are limits to how much #creationists can deny
#science #biology #creationism #evolution #bigbang #physics #religion #myths #christianity #atheism
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There are limits to how much #creationists can deny
#science #biology #creationism #evolution #bigbang #physics #religion #myths #christianity #atheism
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There are limits to how much #creationists can deny
#science #biology #creationism #evolution #bigbang #physics #religion #myths #christianity #atheism
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There are limits to how much #creationists can deny
#science #biology #creationism #evolution #bigbang #physics #religion #myths #christianity #atheism
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-- Darwin vs Irreducible Complexity: Why evolution by natural selection remains unshaken --
(from Jon Perry - Genetics & Evolution Stated Casually)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuinBlXGVw8#evolution #IrreducibleComplexity #MountImprobable #creationism #IntelligentDesign #apologetics
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In biology, #cladistics is a taxonomical technique for arranging organisms according to how they branch in the evolutionary tree of life.
A group of organisms is analysed and classified into a tree-like diagram called a cladogram, showing hypothesised lines of descent. The analysis may use morphological similarity, but most often DNA differences and biochemical data.
Cladistics has all but taken over from the older Linnaean taxonomy, which originated before the theories of #evolution and common descent.
Cladistic techniques do not assume any particular theory of evolution, only the concept of descent with modification. As such, cladistic methods are usefully applied to non-biological systems, including historical linguistics and textual criticism. Even #creationism had to create its own version of cladistics, called baraminology.
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-- The net effect of ignoring, or downplaying, priors and only working in two-hypothesis problems is to sweep these sorts of complexities under the rug. --
(from @bblais)
https://bblais.github.io/posts/2024/Jan/22/a-poor-introduction-to-bayesian-reasoning/#BayesTheorem #reasoning #IntelligentDesign #creationism #apologetics
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-- Is Homology REALLY Evidence for Evolution? (yes) | Reacteria --
(from Forrest Valkai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDo3a8Z55lw#homology #evolution #science #creationism #biology #commonDescent
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-- Another Young Earther --
(from Godless Granny)
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The argument from design, also known as the teleological argument, is an argument for the existence of #God (or life-engineering aliens) that may be summarized as follows: When I see a complex object such as a watch, I know it has been designed: therefore, when I see a complex object such as a tiger, I should infer that it has been designed. This act of comparing two objects and drawing similar conclusions based on similarities (while ignoring important differences) is a prime example of a false analogy.
#RationalWiki #argumentfromdesign #creationism
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CW: Transphobic EHRC
Seriously, is nobody concerned that the head of the EHRC is a creationist?
It's the 21st Century - how can you be in charge of a non-governmental body and believe that human bodies were 'designed', for sex or anything else?!?
#ehrc #transphobia #Falkner #equalities #whatisawoman #queerphobia #evolution #science #creationism #flatearth
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https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/06/01/my-evolution-evolution/
Reminiscing about my shock when I had to fully accept the reality of human evolution. I've been evolving my whole life. As we all should.
#Religion, #Science, #australopithecus, #Baptist, #biology, #Budos Band, #Christianity, #CinematicOrchestra, #creationism, #Devo, #evolution, #fundamentalism, #paleoanthropology, #paleontology, #Simpsons -
Is there something fishy about radiocarbon dating? https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/05/is-there-something-fishy-about-radiocarbon-dating.html #Creationism #RadiocarbonDating #ChickTracts #BigDaddy #AlfredTheGreat
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The banana argument is a specific teleological argument (argument from design) for #theism based on the form and function of natural objects — specifically in this case the #banana. According to Ray Comfort, the banana is "the atheist's nightmare", as he considers its ease of use, nutritional value, and "colour-coding" to be irrefutable proof of intelligent design. In its usual presentation, it is humorously foolish, so much so that Comfort has since taken to using it as a joke himself (and claiming that it always had been a joke or "stand up routine"), in contrast with the quite serious tactic he originally intended it as.
#RationalWIki #raycomfort #argumentfromdesign #atheism #intelligentdesign #creationism
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Here's a great interview with Hebrew scholar and Near Eastern expert Ben Stanhope on how the Creation Museum fundamentally misunderstands and misrepresents the #Bible. Great stuff about Leviathan, Behemoth's penis, unicorns, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuyZFO3N6U
#creationism #history #fundamentalism #CreationMuseum #Genesis
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I suppose I need to acknowledge that one of the coauthors has gotten into a bit of hot water lately, but I still regard this particular book as one of the more important anti-YEC books out there, written as it is from the perspective of people who themselves were once #YoungEarth #creationists. It's definitely worth your time if you expect to encounter #creationism at all, yourself.
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Die föderierte Timeline von #Mastodon wird steigend von missionierenden Hardcore-Christen entdeckt. Für mich als Entflohene einer freikirchlichen Familienvergangenheit, die äußerst unschön war, immer ein harter #Trigger ...
🇬🇧 The federal timeline is discovered more and more by missionary hardcore Christians. For me as an escapee from a free-church family past that was extremely unpleasant, always a hard trigger ...
#Freikirche #Kreationismus #Missionierung #atheismus #creationism #atheism
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#creationism
#creationistlies
#climatechange
#IceAgesNo; the Ice Age(s) were not the result of Noah's Flood (they really do say that). And why do they say it? To pretend that climate scinence can be ignored, just like evolution science, so we don't need to worry about the warming #climate: Creationism and climate - birth of a new pseudoscience https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2022/10/creationclimate.html and Creationism in the service of climate change denial
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/10/creationism-in-the-service-of-climate-change-denial.html
