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This Week in Creationism

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Often I find that I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of output that the young-earth creationist organizations are capable of producing. I'm only one man, and even when I blogged more frequently I couldn't keep up with it. At most, I can deal with and dispense with a few articles from some of the major creationist organizations. This week I thought that I would take a different tack. Rather than focusing on a single article, I'm going to give a brief overview of some of the most recent articles coming out of Answers in Genesis, Creation Ministries and Creation Moments. Here we go...

Creation Ministries International: (home of the supposed "Unanswerable Questions" for Evolutionists and of the Hovind clan)

--Creation Ministries condemns the "framework hypothesis" as untenable in an article about history and pseudo-history. The framework hypothesis is one way of stating that Genesis 1-11 is literary rather than literal, and CMI won't stand for this. The irony that the link is titled "Pseudo-history" in an article that posits that Genesis is literal history is too rich for further commentary.

--CMI has released their 2012 "Creation Calendar" for purchase. With beautiful photographs, CMI tells you to give it to a friend and buy one for yourself (bulk discounts available) and see how the landscapes "confirm the truth of the Bible," by which they no doubt mean a literal Genesis. I know I can't wait to send them money for my copy!

Answers in Genesis: (home of the Creation Museum and Ken Ham, the missing link between idiots and creationists)

--Elizabeth Mitchell, that paragon of self-righteous ignorance, parrots creationist talking points on the evolution of language, asserts that the burial of a dinosaur nest is evidence for the Flood and mockingly states that Australopithecus sediba isn't a missing link at all, that the only missing links are those that exist in the minds of those who accept evolution in this week's News to Note. She also refers to Genesis as an "eyewitness account". Substitute "creationist" in place of "evolutionist" in Mitchell's statement, and I might just agree with her.

--Answers in Genesis wishes us all a Happy Thanksgiving, imploring us to remember its Christian origins and help spread the Gospel (dinosaurs on the Ark and all) to "unbelievers." I wonder if it would make Ken Ham upset to know that he enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving dinosaur for his meal...

Creation Moments: (home to scientific information gleaned from publications in the 1980's)

--Apparently the fact that the lunch of mastodons was preserved in their stomach is evidence of a young earth after all. Surely, the creationists think, the fact that the contents of a mastodon's lunch was preserved means the world must be quite young? But the fact that the mastodons were preserved by freezing speaks otherwise...this time, they don't even cite where their information came from in the first place.

--The fact that scientists can't agree on how the sun produces energy (news to most of us, certainly) is evidence that creationism is true, in the minds of Creation Ministries. In their mind, scientists want to think the sun is old because for evolution to be true they "need" it to be old. Alas for the creationists, the source for this moment is from 1989. Science, unlike creationism, has moved on since then.

This roundup wouldn't be complete without mention of what Ray Comfort (better known in some circles as "the banana man") is up to:

--the occasion of Thanksgiving is used by Comfort to shamelessly promote his anti-abortion movie and bash atheists who are, he thinks, thankful for nothing because they accept evolution. No real surprise there.

Thanks for staying with me on our whirlwind tour through the Wonderland of creationist news and views for the week. They're endlessly entertaining, aren't they?
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  1. KremerNovember 27, 2011 at 6:56 PM

    I really doubt he spoke to an atheist who "wasn't thankful for anything." Unless he some how twisted that out of "not thankful to god." In which case that statement would be true, but taken out of context. Creationists are retarded.

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