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Are you aware of how racist and ignorant you have become? How can you possibly predict the future when you don't even understand the present? I won't answer your question because it is a false dichotomy and strawman.

Including the 1,000,000,000 or so people who live on the proverbial "dollar a day"? These people don't even have electricity and you are claiming they will be integrated into a global monetary system. But why let a few little facts get in the way of a paranoid conspiracy.

Spoken like a true conspiracy nut. When faced with lack of evidence just invent unfalsifiable claims about unevidenced government programs.

I signed up to the mailing list of Expelled-No Intelligence Allowed just to see what they are up to. Straight from my spam trap is their latest press release - a positive review written by a non-scientist right-wing commentator Jack "TWA-800 was shot down" Cashill...

Do you have an argument or is insulting fiction all you are bringing to the table?

For those coming late to class, Expelled is that latest piece of propaganda to come out of the ID movement; hosted by somewhat famous personality, Ben Stein. Anyhow, I'm surfing around the Expelled website and I find a political ad "Draft Ben Stein for President" embedded into site. I click...

This one bugs me: humans have grown taller in the last century therefore evolution is happening. The increase in average height is due to nutrition not any change in genetics.

Random thoughts Machines have been physically stronger, faster, more accurate than humans for decades (if not centuries) but there are still physical jobs available. Intelligent machines may supplant human labor in some tasks but will probably struggle in others. Only a select few nations...

Yeah, but it's still a digital organism. :P

I'm curious to know why you think "this doesn't even matter".

If you need to divide science into the bits you agree with and the bits you don't agree with - you aren't doing science.

It is my opinion the association of YEC beliefs with many other "odd" beliefs is because of a lack of critical thinking skills. We can use the analogy of critical thinking skills as an immune system and silly ideas as diseases. Without an immune system diseases accumulate in the body...

Why do you think that video was an accurate representation of reality?

There have been civil wars with less internal conflict that the Creationist movement. Flat Earthers Geocentrists Young Earth Creationists (Omphalos) Old Earth Creationists (Gap Creationism) (Day-Age Creationism) (Progressive Creationism) (Intelligent Design Creationism) Evolutionary...

What we have here is not a common event but common storytelling methods. It wouldn't be a good story if it wasn't the Mother of all Floods The family unit is the most important element of most cultures so a surviving unit is key to reestablishment There needs to be a way of singling one family...

In my defense I was not trying to say that. I confess to cruelty to the English language but my argument was Henry Morris (who is a Biblical Literalist) was using very non-literal defense of the term "heart" to try to avoid the literal intention of the original authors (who had an inaccurate...

Except Darwin isn't doing much lately - death can really cramp a person's style. ICR is very much alive including trying to get the State of Texas to recognize them as a provider of science degrees. How ICR funds those activities, I think, is very interesting. You would have a valid point if...

Are you suggesting there is no connection between Biblical Literalism, the writings of the Insitute for Creation Research and the overall Creation/Evolution debate? :P

Many a sleazy evangelist has used the fund raising tactic of "give me money and Jesus will make you rich". And guess who has resorted to this tactic. ICR's latest "pass the plate around" has some interesting claims. And here comes the sales pitch Kaching!!

[Edited: This post is about the selective use of Biblical Literalism by a prominent Young Earth Creationist. Recall that Biblical Literalism is the main reason there is even a Creation/Evolution debate] Throughout the time of the writing and compilation of the Bible the prominent view of the...