Bear Stearns isn’t the Only Bankrupt Thing These Days
OK, already, I’ll become the millionth blogger to note the delicious irony of PZ Myers being, well, expelled from a screening of the upcoming movie, “EXPELLED!” Ironic not only because of being expelled, but also because, if those that are advancing evolutionary science and tearing down creationism/ID are beetles (as something with which a student of Darwin might identify), they chose the lesser of two weevils — Richard Dawkins was allowed in.
You can’t make this shit up.
Writing about the politics and antiscience of creation—evolution is easy points. There are things going on all the time, and the cdesign proponentsists are just so intellectually and morally bankrupt that fodder for blogging is plentiful, and there really isn’t a shortage of smart people to shoot down all the crap that gets written. (Not that the ID folks have a monopoly on such behavior — it pains me when a science advocate makes arguments in the same vein, when there is such a wealth of evidence to present — but lies, whether repeated knowingly or parroted blindly, are just so widespread in the creationism/ID movement)
The thing is, the arguments are by and large the same as they have been for a long time. Way back in the USENET days, I was active on the talk.origins newsgroup (active enough that I was nicknamed “Chris” and hold a faculty position at the University of Ediacara) and I see things bandied around today in discussions, and it’s the same crap. The same hollow, fallacious arguments, the same lies that keep propagating despite having been debunked long ago. It just makes me tired all over. Facts don’t matter and won’t sway someone not interested in science.
But, if you’re interested, there is a large collection of links about the story.
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“Facts don’t matter and won’t sway someone not interested in science.”
I think half of the problem is that most people don’t hear the facts, only the claims of your cdesign proponentsists. I’ve had people pull the “it violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics!” stunt and be surprised when they learn what the 2nd law says.
The vast majority of people who buy into this junk just read Answers in Genesis or whatever source and believe it, without stopping and looking at TalkOrigins or any other place to see how right it is.