Have you ever wondered if creationism was intelligently designed?
Most of my colleagues tend to dismiss creationism as generally nutty and not worth bothering about. But, every now and then, we did get the odd situation with a few students who disagree or state legislatures that get a little confused about the definition of science.
This video lecture is a bit long, but definitely interesting.
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Over at his blog, Jim Lippard has just completed his series of ten posts examining the finances of a number of creationist organizations: Answers in Genes
I wish I coulda been there ... by all accounts it sounds like the Creozerg visit to the Creation Museum went well.
Yesterday, Rick Perry commented "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools, because I figured you're smart enough to figure out which one is right." It got a lot of play, including my ow
Fantastic video presentation, couldn't asked for more as newbie blogger!!..
Thank you for posting this up. It is interesting! Especially since I've just had a rash of dealing with creationists; one who was just completely ignorant of biology, and another who was the brand of "I don't care WHAT the physical evidence says, if it contradicts the Bible it's wrong!" O_o
Glad to help!
Of the major difficulties in understanding creation myths is answering the question "to what degree did the ancients understand them as literal?" If, ten thousand years from now, archeologists unearthed some remains of contemporary American civilization, based only on this evidence, they could easily assume that Americans believed in literal creatures called Santa Clauses, flying reindeer, tooth fairies, and odd white men who wore the label, "Mr. Clean," to name but a few examples. Few persons today in fact believe that the sun rises or sets, the earth has four corners, that rain falls (it is pulled). automobiles are self-movers, (auto self, mobile = move) motion pictures are pictures that move, movement of finger or other bone joints is "cracking one's knuckles" or that cameras "take" a picture (after the picture is taken," the "picture" is obviously still there). These vivid figures of speech we take for granted, and no one except possibly children and retarded adults understands them literally.