creationists still sucking at paleobiology

Sherry Konkus's Latest Post

Sherry has posted this article on some more stupid Creationist claims on her site Stupid Dinosaur Lies



Well done as always Sherry. Your debunking efforts continue to be appreciated.

A moment of Science Awesome

Scientific and Religious Worldviews Collide

The CMI travesty happening here in Cold Lake today has got my feathers ruffled, I admit.

Making Light of the Buffoons

I found this post by PZ Meyers on Pharyngula amusing and weirdly appropriate.

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The wrong thing to take away from this is that females are more irrational than males (females being more irrational than males would be an unsubstantiated claim in addition to being an insult to females). The correct things to take away from this are that Creationism and by extension Religion are irrational.

If you need your Revealed Truth to get up in the morning, good for you. I choose to be rational and prefer the Empirical Evidence (and coffee), even if I don't like the evidence or it clashes with my expectations.

Kent Hovind Raps

CMI Plays their Con Today

At 7:00 pm MST CMI's Calvin Smith will stand in front of a crowd and preach CMI's doctrine of Creationism to the gulli-believers.

To "celebrate" let's watch one of the Creationist movements more infamous speakers give us his rap on Creationism. Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Kent Hovind!



Yes, Kent Hovind is an idiot, but the people who fall for this crap...I'm at a loss for words.

Updates

I had accidentally pointed the video URI to the wrong clip. They're very similar, but I wanted the original video not the modified one advertising the The Fish of Time Show.

The Creatards are Coming!

CMI Lia-A-Thon

CMI (Creation Ministries International) is coming to my town on the 24 November 2011. Prepare for misrepresentation of scientists' papers and findings, outright lying, dubious cryptozoology claims and basic shoehorning of half-baked claims into The Bible.

Radio Ad

A local radio station, K-Rock 95.3 ran a spot to interview the people sponsoring the event, Military Christian Fellowship. The organizers had the affrontry to claim that there was evidence for a young earth, raise the T-Rex blood canard and state that creationist scientistsidiots simply filter the paleontological evidence differently than those crazy liberal, satan-worshiping, NWO, "evolutionist" scientists! It ticked me off so badly that I had to shut off the radio for the duration.

I have a day off on the day of the seminar. So, should I attend?

Mr. Bonking vs. Murdoch: Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Better Than Ultimate Fighting

Well, I never watch UFC fights, but I find this more interesting anyhow.

The Challenge

Murdoch, tired of Mr. Bonking's constant spamming and sniping in the James Randi explains homeopathy channel forum has issued a formal challenge to Mr. Bonking.

drchristoaa:

@murdocha YOU , JUST A BORN IDIOT , Dont have
the ability to think and answer, i feel pity
for you..

The TRUTH is your IQ is very LOW, AND you have
proved it with more and more evidence by your
posts here, and still going on proving it...
ass hole

murdocha:

@drchristoaa Actually, I believe I have shown,
in post after post, a logical, well thought out
argument. You, on the other hand, have resorted
to name calling, mass spamming, voting a number
of posts as spam when they are not, and fake
accounts to prop up your beliefs, while providing
no robust evidence for homeopathy.

drchristoaa:

@murdocha TOTALLY WRONG COMMENT

murdocha:

@drchristoaa I issue you a formal challenge.
Please present your most logical and cogent case
for homeopathy from the posts on this video. No
trolling, no all-caps, no marking spam, just your
best argument from those you have made to date. I
will reply to that with the most logical and
scientifically based of those I have posted on
this video.

If you don't (or can't), then I will consider the
argument closed.

Murdoch challenging Mr. Bonking

Mr. Bonking's Current Response

Mr. Bonking's response thus far has been to ignore the challenge and continues his spamming program.

drchristoaa:

HOMEOPATHY IS THE MOST ADVANCED SCIENCE OF
HEALING...SCIENCE HAS ALREADY PROVED HOW HOMEOPATHY
WORKS...DEAR FRIENDS PLEASE UP DATE YOUR SCIENCE
KNOWLEDGE....HOMEOPATHY IS THE MEDICNE OF FUTURE,
EVEN THE FATHER OF MODERN MEDICNE SUPPORTED
HOMEOPATHY.

This video is published by antihomeopaths, because
many poeple are tuning to homeopathy for better health,
SO IGNORE THIS FOOLSIH VIDEO.

HOMEOPATHY WORKS...EXPERIENCE IT.

Blech! Spam!

Where Now?

Until Mr. Bonking actually takes up Murdoch's challenge he will not be able to prove his case. However, I believe I can predict how this will go:

1. Mr. Bonking will yet again present the IIT Bombay study as evidence for efficacy of Homepathy.
2. Murdoch will refute IIT Bombay study yet again.
3. Mr. Bonking will claim, "Nuh huh!" and proceed to spam the forum.
4. The rest of us will document and publish the idiocy of Mr. Bonking's arguments and behaviour.

Bear in mind, I've been wrong before. Mr. Bonking may rise to the challenge. Although the science is settled,there's always that small chance that scientists got things wrong, however improbable that may be.

There's also the small chance that Mr. Bonking, should he fail at providing verifiable, peer-reviewed evidence for his claims, will bow out graciously. Small, but possible.

HTML Cleanup

Blogger's Compose Barfs div Tags

When I first started using Blogger I tried using the "Edit HTML" option, but I made the mistake of trying to use proper HTML syntax. In frustration I began using "Compose" until I learned the rules of editing HTML in Blogger. I've since learned what those rules are and will be editing the raw HTML in future posts.

Current Todo

1. Clean up HTML in old posts.
2. Make posts more accessible.
3. Make post Web Pages load faster (Point's 1) and 2) should mostly cover this).
4. Use HTML5 semantics as appropriate.

So, if you notice any errors in my old posts that may be a direct result of my clean up attempts please let me know.

John Benneth's Childish Fantasies of Persecution

Wow, The Guy Just Gets Nuttier

So, our friend John Benneth has been lying low ever since I announced that I was going to expose his dishonesty. While he was lying low Mr. Benneth composed the following video:

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Frankly, I'm not too sure what Mr. Benneth is getting at here. I imagine that it may be one of several things.

Mr. Benneth:

• is feeling persecuted by other Netizens for his bizarre beliefs and claims and is expressing his desire to strike back.
• is angry at the success of Modern Medicine, frustrated with the ineffectiveness of Homeopathy and is expressing his desire for reality to conform to his views.
• has watched or listened to Dara O'Brian mock Homeopathy and woo in general and believes himself to be equally witty and sufficiently intelligent to counter O'Brian's humour.
• has a deep-seated hatred and fear of children and is expressing his wish to shoot them. (least likely, but still possible)

Mr. Benneth, though I laughed when I watched your video HOMEOPATH BRUTALLY BEATEN, it wasn't because I found you witty and intelligent. I was laughing, Mr. Benneth, because you are transparent, immature and a bad actor to boot.

If there was a reward for idiocy, I'd nominate you. In it's place I offer the "G' in th' fuck'n sack!" Award, dedicated to the personage who's humour you try to counter by emulating (while failing to do either), Mr. Dara O'Brian.