False Sense of Maturity

Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 25)

Damn. That antispore.com website I was talking about turned out to be fake, or to put it in proper Internet speak, a Rickroll. Wikipedia even has its own section on this, at least for the moment. This should serve as a reminder to always be skeptical and never believe anything without the proper truth. I have to give credit to the antispore creator, who did a great job pretending to be an anti-science Christian mother. If they reveal their identity or talk about their motivation, as I hope they do, I’ll let you all know.

(Thanks to Ryan G. for pointing this out to me)

I had been wondering when the video game Spore, which accepts that evolution is real, would be protested. While I haven’t found any mainstream group with any sway that objects to the game, I found the next best thing: a person with a website.

The site antispore.com launched this Monday, and states that Spore must be stopped because the “entire game is propaganda aimed directly at our children to teach them evolution instead of creationism, or ‘intelligent design’ if you go for stupid PC terms.” The anonymous author sees other evils in the game, like how it shows “offensive” images, like creatures mating. Then he/she/it displays the said image on the site for everyone to see. I guess that means it’s okay for me to show it too.

This is a great video series from tunderf00t on Youtube. I highly recommend watching this.

The only people so stupid as to not understand the answer are the creationists themselves.

Evaluating intelligent design creation science and their opposition to material science or methodological naturalism.

On The Huffington Post, psychology professor Gary Marcus points out an obvious criticism of intelligent design that is too often ignored, namely that humans are not designed very efficiently:

When you get right down to it, from an engineering perspective, the design of the human mind (and for the matter the human body) is a bit of mess.

Take, for instance, human memory, and the trouble we often have in remembering even the most basic facts — where did we put our keys? Where did we park our car? Because our brains so often blur our memories together. Human eyewitness testimony is often no match for even a low-rent surveillance camera, and memory can fail even in life-or-death circumstances. (6% of all skydiving fatalities, for instance, are from divers that forgot to pull their ripcords).

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Imperfections riddle the body as well; the human spine supports 70% of our body weight with a single column, where four might have distributed the load better (greatly reducing the incidence of debilitating back pain), and the human retina is effectively installed backwards, with its array of outgoing neural fibers coming out of the front rather than the back, saddling us with an entirely needless blindspot.

If people were literally made in the image of God, then God wouldn’t be all that great.

From AronRa: a Geoscience major at the University of Texas, a student of Paleontology.

Exposing the lies of creationists trying to deny whether we’ve ever observed the evolution of new species.

Here’s the script.
http://darwinwasright.homestead.com/1…

Here is the Rest of the Series.

Sorry everyone, I’ve been slacking. But actually so the record is straight (and so I can use the slacking excuse again), I’ve had family in town and some of you may know, my sister and her triplets are staying here, so you can imagine it’s been a zoo. Add to that, I’ve been trying to shake a cold and you can see my reasons are legit. I’d like to recommend that if you have time you watch DonExodus’s video series, it is on going and the new ones will be added to the playlist. I have been doing some reading that you might be interested in. It’s a few months old and I’ve been meaning to read it. I’ve just begun and have nothing intelligent to add, except that at the bottom are the links to the different articles. Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions Peace