creationism

Podblack Finds For 18th May 2010

by podblack on May 18, 2010

Breaking News Alert!! You near UWA this Thursday?  The UWA Atheist and Agnostic Society presents a talk on alien abductions and UFO’s by club president Madge Carew-Hopkins! Alien Abductions – A look at Barney and Betty Hill’s Story Thursday, May 20, 2010 – 3:00pm – 3:30pm Location: Blakers Lecture Theatre, Maths, UWA You know, I [...]

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Darwin’s Bulldogs On Skeptic Zone Podcast

by podblack on October 31, 2009

The episode out today on the Skeptic Zone podcast features a panel discussion from the Science Track at Dragon*Con — called “Darwin’s Bulldogs, Teachers on the Front Lines”. This panel was proposed by the moderator Matt Lowry, who is a high school physics teacher and a part-time Physics and Astronomy college professor. Joining him was [...]

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Darwin Survey Shows International Consensus On Acceptance Of Evolution

by podblack on July 20, 2009

Oooh, yes I Iove new data, yes I love new data, dah dah dah dah *boom* dah dah dah dah *boom* – thanks to Skeptical Teacher for this one! British Council Press Release: A British Council poll into awareness of Charles Darwin and attitudes towards evolution has found that there is a broad international consensus [...]

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Little Kitten – Potholer54 On The Grand Canyon Design – Debunked!

by podblack on July 20, 2009

Love this guy. Since I’m going over some older Skeptic Zone episodes, you might like to hear him being interviewed on: Potholder54 interviewed — The Skeptic Zone #9 — 19.Dec.2008. He’s Australian! Yay! Potholer54debunks- The Grand Canyon is such an icon of the Earth’s geological history, of slow and steady uplift, erosion, submergence and deposition, [...]

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Ooops… Parents Vs Venomfangx: One, Nil.

by podblack on May 7, 2009

An example of Venomfangx‘s opinions: God, never changing, always existing, created everything. There is no ‘before’ God, for God is the very Creator of the fabric of existence. Their YouTube account is closed. This one is for Jack, because I think it’ll amuse him. Back to work, Jack!

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Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote

by podblack on March 30, 2009

From Slashdot – The Texas Board of Education — as discussed here last week — has voted on the guidelines for textbooks in that state, which represents a large enough market to have influence nationwide. The good news is that the board dropped a 20-year-old requirement that both “strengths and weaknesses” of all scientific theories [...]

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Science Succeeding In Texas – NCSE

by podblack on March 28, 2009

Thanks to Skeptical Teacher for the overview in their blog earlier – here’s a few news links from today and there seems to be less ‘oh noes!’ and more ‘this is actually working out!‘. Yet to see any evidence of ‘footholds’ for the creationist opposition, so I’m keeping an eye on the NCSE site as [...]

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Skeptoid’s Argue With Creationists As Argued By Discovery Institute

by podblack on February 23, 2009

From Brian Dunning, of the podcast Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena: Someone just sent me this. Apparently, recently on AM 980 KKMS Christian radio, they had on Dr. Jonathan Wells, senior fellow from the Discovery Institute, and had him pick apart my Skeptoid episode #65, “How to Argue with a Creationist”, point by point. [...]

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