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Joe the Plumber Found Noah’s Ark!

Okay, not really. But I just found this and had to laugh. On good ol’ Joe’s website there’s a posting from December by a guy named Mark Martineau breathlessly proclaiming that Noah’s Ark has been found...

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The Scopes Trial Still Fascinates

Rachel Maddux has an interesting article about the annual celebration of the Scopes trial in the town where it took place, Dayton, Tennessee. One of the things that most people don’t understand about...

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Oh Boy, Another Creation Museum

Ken Ham’s creation museum in Northern Kentucky is the most expensive and fanciest of its kind, but there are lots of smaller creation museums all over the country. Now there’s a new one coming to...

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Clams in Kansas Prove Creationism!

David Rives is one of the c-team creationists and the Worldnetdaily shows his videos every week. In his latest video he declares that clams in Kansas prove that there was a global flood because Kansas...

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WTF, Atlanta Public Schools?

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has a disturbing article about a science teacher at Grady High School in Atlanta using that infamous “creationism vs evolution” cartoon from the Institute for Creation...

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MN Republican Candidate A Young Earther

Remember Bob Frey, Michele Bachmann’s buddy who is running for Congress from Minnesota and thinks that AIDS is caused by an enzyme in sperm? I’m sure you’ll be shocked to find out that he’s also a...

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Ken Ham’s Idiotic Bleatings About SETI

It seems that there is nothing that Ken Ham’s cartoonishly simplistic ideas about what his enemies believe can’t explain. Charles Darwin has invaded everything, according to Ham, even forcing us to...

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SC Education Committee Votes to Weaken Evolution

Remember Mike Fair, the South Carolina state senator who tried to prevent the mammoth from being named the state fossil unless it had Biblical language in the proclamation? Well he’s back and still...

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Ken Ham Makes SETI Comments Even Worse

If you thought Ken Ham’s previous statement about how we shouldn’t look for life elsewhere in the universe because Jesus couldn’t save them were dumb, he just made them even dumber in an interview with...

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Matthew Hagee is a Bit of an Idiot

Matthew Hagee, or Hagee the Lesser (his father, the vile John Hagee, is Hagee the Greater), preached a sermon at his daddy’s church in which he blamed evolution for abortion and 55 million “dead...

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Carson Totally Clueless About Evolution

Ben Carson is a brilliant man. You don’t become one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons being dumb. But like a lot of brilliant people who specialize in one thing, when they talk about something other...

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Ridiculous Creationist Lawsuit Dismissed

Earlier this year, a crackpot in West Virginia filed a federal lawsuit against the Jefferson County Board of Education, the state government and the federal government, claiming that the teaching of...

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Holy Jesus, Ben Carson on Evolution

Someone dug up a video of Ben Carson addressing a conference called Celebration of Creation, put on by the Adventist News Network, and the claims and arguments he made were so bad that they really...

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More Ignorant Blather from Ben Carson About Evolution

Now that Ben Carson is a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination, reporters are digging in to some of his past writings and speeches and finding some really terrible stuff,...

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Even More Carson Ignorance About Evolution

So I looked up the full interview that Ben Carson did with the Adventist Review a few years ago and found even more creationist ignorance in it. Carson repeats pretty much every debunked argument the...

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They Found Noah’s Ark! Yes, Again. (Not Really)

Right-wing rag the Conservative Post wants their readers to know that Noah’s Ark has been found! No, really. I know you’ve heard this 50 times before and it’s always nonsense, but this time it’s for...

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Ken Ham Loves Him Some Donald Trump

Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis says that Christians can learn something from Donald Trump. Before even looking at the article, I knew what that something would be. It would be a bunch of nonsense about...

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Carson Still Blathering About Evolution

Ben Carson is still saying ignorant things about evolution. Over the weekend, he appeared at a big church in Tennessee to deliver a combo sermon/stump speech and he addressed the criticism of his young...

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YEC, Chemtrail Believer to Head AZ Education Committee

The Arizona Senate is apparently hell bent on matching the Texas state legislature for sheer muddleheadedness. The Republican president of that body has decided it would be a good idea to name a woman...

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Bryan Fischer Explains Dinosaurs

There are few things funnier than listening to an ignorant young earth creationist try to explain things they don’t understand (and let’s face it, if they understood anything, they wouldn’t be young...

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