I had this problem more than once as a teacher of history with university students and there is one thing I found extremely effective: I ask them to contact the creationist author they admire the most, usually an expert who claims that he started as... Read More | Share it now!
The seven allegations of the Tom Phillips vs. Thomas S. Monson case
The following lines will exploit the interview Tom Phillips gave to people from Infants on Thrones – The Philosophies of Men, Mingled with Humor (a website whose very title betrays a complex interest Mormon creeds). The interview appeared only... Read More | Share it now!
The case of Tom Phillips vs. Thomas S. Monson, President of the Mormon Church – religion as fraud?
I jump (from here) to another religion which will allow us to focus on one of the side aspects we have been discussing thus far rather indirectly. The British Telegraph has been reporting on the legal procedures against Thomas S. Monson, president of... Read More | Share it now!
meta level (1)
last | creationism | conspiracy theories | next Olaf Simons 06/02/2014 17:55: At the end of last month I had felt that I should step into this debate creationism vs. evolution in order to see what I would say and with the aim to get beyond it. But I... Read More | Share it now!
The Ken Ham — Bill Nye debate, media feedback
last | creationism | next 2014-02-12: Ken Ham on Facebook: Ken Ham / Bill Nye Word Clouds. 2014-02-09: atheistrepublic.com: Debapriya Chatterjee: Despite Creationism Claiming Votes, Evolution Emerges as Winner. By the end of the Nye-Ham Debate,... Read More | Share it now!
The Historian’s Outcry | On the Bill Nye versus Ken Ham Debate of Creationism
The debate was – as could be expected (see my posting before the debate) – neither apt to widen our knowledge about evolution nor, and that is far more precarious, nor did it shed much more light on Ken Ham’s creationism. Nye gave his view on why... Read More | Share it now!
The Bill Nye versus Ken Ham Debate on Youtube
Watch it as long as it is available – and give us your opinions! ... Read More | Share it now!
How to Deal with Creationism in Schools
back | creationism | forth Not having watched the debate yet, some more thoughts on the strategy question. This may take on a quite European view on the subject, and it does so knowingly. I am not part of the Northern American discourse, some points... Read More | Share it now!
The Bill Nye—Ken Ham Debate on Creationism (2) | by Sören Koopmann
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The conspiracist and essentially postmodern construct to discuss
Whoever claims that he is giving the Bible a literal reading is either a modern historian who is interested in concepts quite different from his own, or intellectually insincere. The text of Genesis 1 is straight. God created the earth, he separated... Read More | Share it now!
Early modern creationism was at least scientific
Modern creationists tend to insinuate that they do basically share the beliefs with medieval and early modern authors. That is easier said than done. The very word creationism would not have crossed a Newton’s or a Locke’s mind – though Newton... Read More | Share it now!
Statistics. Discuss creationism with the propagandists…
US statistics 2012: 46% support creationism. Source Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx Discussing creationism with pupils and students is usually difficult. US teachers are, as far as I can see, all too... Read More | Share it now!
Evolution a thing thing one can only discredit in a debate?
The fact that someone from richarddawkins.net should speak against such interviews has of course an ironic twist. The titular saint of that site Dawkins himself has, as far as I can see, never resisted the temptation to venture such a... Read More | Share it now!
The Bill Nye—Ken Ham Debate on Creationism (1)
this thread | next Bill Nye talks about the debate here: As soon as the debate has been announced, the question concerning the sense of debates with creationists arose. I will park some of these here. Benjamin Radford discusses at news.discovery.com... Read More | Share it now!