Scientists call evolution a unifying theory, a weight-bearing wall that frames our understanding of the natural world.
But at the Institute for Creation Research in northwest Dallas, a group of nine Ph.D.s from places like Harvard and Los Alamos National Laboratory say all that molecules-to-man stuff is nonsense. And they’re out to prove it.
The biblical story of Genesis is literally true, they say. God created the heavens, earth and life in six sequential days lasting about 24 hours each.
The universe is not 13.8 billion years old (as astrophysicists calculate by measuring the rate of cosmic expansion), the earth is not 4.5 billion years old (as geologists conclude by using radioisotope dating on ancient rocks), and humans did not split from chimpanzees and gorillas about 4 million to 7 million years ago (as suggested by genetics and the fossil record).
Young-earth creationists like those at ICR argue that everything in the known universe began 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, a numeric range they calculate using the genealogy of the Bible — Adam lived 930 years and begat a son named Seth, who lived 105 years and begat Enos, and so on.
“Our attempt is to demonstrate that the Bible is accurate, not just religiously authoritative,” said Henry Morris III, CEO of the nonprofit with a 49-person payroll and an annual budget in the $7 million range.
I have not been this excited since the day Sarah Palin resigned as governor back in 2009.
The idea that these "scientists" are willing to subject their findings to peer review from other scientists, makes my intellectual nipples erect.
For a while now the Fundamentalists have been trying to prove that the belief in evolution is essentially the same as faith in religion, but if they are willing to try and prove their hypothesis on the playing fields of science, the possibility for embarrassment and outright ridicule is off the charts.
Simply put there is NOTHING that they can introduce that conventional science has not already discovered, debated, and decided on.
All they can do is question the findings, by relying on words printed in a 4000 year old book which has no scientific value.
Oh yeah, this should be fun.
Imagine how maximized our own positives would be if instead of pointing out and gossiping about the flaws in others, and spreading lies, we focused on minimizing our own negatives instead. And getting a job and life might help most of you here ;)
ReplyDeleteHave a life -- check.
DeleteHave a job -- check.
Have a loving family -- check.
Have wonderful friends -- check.
Have a great education -- check.
Donate time and money to my community -- check.
Hey, you have just made great points for the entire Palin clan to glom onto. Good work. Now, I'm off to the first of three jobs today. How,about you?
Delete"Have a life -- check.
DeleteHave a job -- check.
Have a loving family -- check.
Have wonderful friends -- check.
Have a great education -- check.
Donate time and money to my community -- check."
DITTO!
Seems to me, 4:15, that a lot of us don't actually fall into the category you THINK we do.
Now you're what I call a good Christian, 4:15... Judgmental, hypocritical, ignorant, and smug.
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DeleteGet a job? What, and put someone from India out of work? I could never do that to someone I don't know because they may have more mouths to feed than I do.
And how is it that you have time to come here and criticize anyone? Are you doing it on your employer's time instead of working, as you are theoretically paid to do? I don't have that problem because my time is my own -- all of it.
As for gossiping about the flaws of others, let me tell you that the flaws of others are far more interesting than anything on television these days. That is especially true of a certain family of sleazebags from Alaska.
In fact, we need a modern-day John Steinbeck to do an updated version of Tobacco Road, to be named West Parks Highway. The cast of characters is already there, just flesh out the plot line a bit and the book writes itself.
Spreading lies? What lies? Like evolution? Forget about "getting a job and a life", how about you getting an education, troll.
DeleteLet's see, observable, nope; measurable, nope; repeatable, nope. Until they pull a dude out of the mud or turn one of some dude's ribs into a woman, I don't foresee anything but pathetic desperation and high comedy coming from the Creation Lab.
ReplyDeleteThat whole Lazarus thing is really going to shake things up. To think, all this time we've been writing dead people off as dead.
DeleteI hear Lazarus was endorsed by Palin and now sells used cars in Paramus, New Jesey. After he repented and was shaved, of course!
Delete"shaved?!" LOL @ Anita Winecooler !
DeleteI think they should first delve into the genealogy, and explain why Adam lived 930 years, and why successive generations lived fewer and fewer years. Hmmm? Explain that, why doncha?!
ReplyDeleteThese so-called PhD types show us that there is a difference between genuine intelligence and "book-learnin'". Reminds me of Carnival Cruz, who sailed through Harvard with his photographic memory, but whose behaviour and speeches while a Senator have shown him to be downright stupid (not to mention mean).
Adam ate only organic while his descendants were devoted to junk food from the local equivalent of Wal-Mart.
DeleteGryphen, on behalf of the last few deadenders still visiting your defunct blog, I offer the following clarifications:
ReplyDelete1) According to Wikipedia, the book of Genesis was written approximately 2500 years ago - not 4000 - and was quickly followed by the album of Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway in 1974, also, too.
2) The latest survey of IM visitors reveals that less than 3% want to read about your intellectual nipples, erect or otherwise. With a margin of error of 5% it is therefore statistically possible that as few as -2% actually want to read about your nipples, so just stop it.
3) Isn't creation scientist in the same vocational legitimacy category as alchemist, ghost hunter, and unicorn breeder?
Hey dude, back off the unicorn breeders. That is an honorable profession that unfortunately does not have a success rate.
DeleteSo true, BJC. Genesis was and always will be a classic rock group. I wonder what the Creationist's answer is to "Why do men have nipples"?
DeleteLook at these poor schmucks, trying to curry favor with their imaginary god. Good luck with that, fellas. Despite your fancy educations, you're still afraid to think for yourselves.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant cartoon that really sums 'em up.
"Intellectual Nipples!"
ReplyDeleteYou know, if these creationist "scientists" would simply throw in the towel and re-focus all that energy on practicing the very christianity they're scrambling to defend, if they would take action and become passionate about people and principles that actually matter, then maybe people like myself wouldn't be abandoning the church in droves.
C'mon-- who the hell ever converted to christianity because of creationism? "Whoa-- a diplodocus fossil was found on a mountaintop in Argentina? Eureka-- I have seen the light! Baptize me! Baptize the shit out of me! I rebuke the demons of knowledge and logic-- no longer shall you intellectualize my saintly nipples!!"
lol
ReplyDeleteKnock themselves out!
Scientists are setting out to prove it? Is that how the scientific method even works?
ReplyDeleteNo it is not.
DeleteExactly. As I've read it [creationism] put elsewhere, "the equivalent of shooting an arrow into the wall, then drawing a bullseye around it."
ReplyDelete$7 million budget, 49 people. It's a money grab. They saw schmucks donated $78 million to build the creationist "museum" and want to get their own pot of gold. "Please donate to us to show those elitist liberal scientists that we're right and they're wrong. We accept cash, checks, VISA and PayPal."
ReplyDeleteThe usual ghostwriitten imaginings we all expect from the Palin septic tank of dishonesty. The shrew is just makin' stuff up ... as usual.
ReplyDeleteI want a ringside seat. I'll put my wager on science, anyday. The Adam/dirt Eve/woman proves what? God makes mistakes? Who wants to live over 900 years?
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