Category Archives: antiscience

The Earth is flat, you fools!

no, really.
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Categories: antiscience, bloggery

Ye gods…

There’s geovandalism – and then there’s sheer f***ing insanity. Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world’s premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251 … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience, fossils, geology

Creation geologists: going forward to the past

This NY Times account of the “First Conference in Creation Geology” should ring a few bells, because I blogged about it way back at the beginning of September. Take that, mainstream media. As I said at the time, the idea … Continue reading

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Is ‘I don’t have an opinion on AGW’ a valid scientific position?

In amongst the sound and fury which accompanied last week’s fight to the death between Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy and Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit in the 2007 Weblog Awards (which was eventually declared a draw), I noticed an interesting attitude … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience, climate science

South African creationists: out, proud and part of the teaching staff

A few weeks ago, I was wondering about the attitudes to the teaching of evolution here in South Africa – it’s now in the curriculum, but in a form which sounds disturbingly familiar to those of us who have encountered … Continue reading

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