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    Creationist Contradictions

    A. A. afarensis' well built and load bearing wrists means it must have used them to walk. B. Just because Tiktaalik had well built and load bearing wrists doesn't mean it could use them to walk. A. White hole cosmology means the universe is billions of years old. B. Spiral galaxies losing...
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    Darwin's chance

    If you'd read 'Origin of Species' you would know Darwin didn't have anything to say on the cell. 'Origin of Species' concentrated almost entirely on the evolution of modern animals. He also specifically stated his theory had nothing to do with the origin of life. He might have been, but it's...
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    Evolutionary PRATTS

    That's pretty much what I mean. Light from distant stars are still evidence of an old Universe, but the newcomers that use it don't tend to be prepared for the large amount of creationist responses to it.
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    Evolutionary PRATTS

    The speed of light arguement. It's principles are correct, but just about every creationist has heard it many times and already has an answer for it.
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    genetic information

    Mutations can also modify traits, in both harmful and benificial ways. Combined with duplication of traits then the overall effect is an addition of traits.
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    genetic information

    Do you mean specifically the DNA, or the organism the DNA codes for? No organism's DNA is better than any other organism's beyond the number of coding bases. We've observed increased and decreased numbers and percentage of coding bases...
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    My Police/Legal Challenge with Poll

    The subject is just an anallogy. I don't think anyone's making a point that God committed a crime by creating the universe. If someone commits a murder, leaves plenty of evidence that they did, leaves fingerprints, DNA and even leaves their wallet at the scene, could they get away with it by...
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    Creationism and Holocaust denial

    There is little difference between the tactics and methods of creationists and those of conspiracy theorists. 1. They both claim bigotry and censorship against their views, and use this as their excuse to why they have so little support among scholars in the relevant fields. 2. They both...
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    Institute for Creation research may be able to grant degrees in Science Education

    Honestly, I'm sure it would be something like this: 1. Teach numerous PRATTs supporting their position. 2. Evangelise about Jesus, invoking all the usual appeals to emotion, while claiming you can't be saved if you're not a YEC. 3. Teach them about interpretting the evidence with the...
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    Galaxy Collision Disproves Young Earth Creationism

    A little credit would be nice *cough* *cough* http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Knrxc4bm28c I haven't had many responses from creationists. The closest thing to an answer I've had is embedded age. I'm suprised no one claimed that dark matter doesn't exist. I wouldn't expect many creationists to...
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    Define "transition fossil"

    This was asked over at the origin's theology forum a while back. Essentially the only answers were "well they haven't been found, so I don't know, but they should be obvious once we've found them". They've made it pretty clear that anything with features of two ancestral taxonomic groups don't...
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    Who are the ten biggest liars for creationism?

    I'd put Werner Gitt and Bill Dembski up there for not providing a definition of "information". Also the editors of CreationWiki for their parade of hand waving and red herrings they attempt to pass off as a response to Talk Origins. Some of that might just be delusioned, not outright lying...
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    "Mosaic" Forms

    It seems creationist organisations have tried to avoid admitting the existence of transitional forms by dubbing them "mosaic forms". Essentially they admit that fossils have been found with features of two taxonomic groups, but somehow these just aren't what they mean by transitional. So I have...
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    There are no transitional forms

    Some creationists claim that a transitional is only a transitional if we can prove it's a descendant of one kind and predecessor of another. On one hand it nullifies the claim that their are transitional fossils. On the other hand it nullifies the claim that there should be any transitional...
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    Another NASA lie; or worse?

    So we should just reject all scientific observations in favour of "the devil's tricking us"? Doesn't exactly follow Occam's Razor does it? And I'm kind of confused as to what a university in England is doing with American tax dollars.
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