Answering reasonable Creationism

[tavarish]

Excellent work tavarish!

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Duane seems to be making a great deal of the Mt St Helens eruption. Theres an article here debunking that particular bit of creationist bullshit.

An issue that you rightly raise is the sterility of creationism as a research programme, especially when compared to the enormous fertility of evolutionary theory. You might find it useful to look at the work of Imre Lakatos, one of the big cheeses of Philosophy of Science. Lakatos argues that it is the productivity of the research programme that a theory generates that is the hallmark of a good theory. Article by Lakatos here.

Actually your talkorigins article is in the blog, it's the last thing I wrote.

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Duane, the author of the article, is a Young Earth Creationist. He has not made his personal beliefs trapsparent, but YECs typically believe that the Bible is a literal and accurate account of what historically took place, at least as far as Genesis is concerned. The Earth, in their view, is around 6,000 to 10,000 years old, and macroevolution - or evolution on a large scale (speciation), never occurred, as beings were created in their current states. Noah's flood actually happened, people lived with dinosaurs,

IOW, Duane is a fucking lunatic....like the rest of them.

1. I fixed the typo.
2. I didn't think they actually had a YEC among their ranks. It's getting to a point where every dialogue over there is swimming in shit and illogical premises.

Sometimes I come to a point where I'm just in awe and pretend that it's all a dream and people don't actually believe in such nonsense, and then I realize I'm in a country where 1 in 2 people actually do.

I'm in the wrong profession.