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Creationists Lie, Creationists Distort

Over at Creation Moments, the creationists continue doing what they've always done best; lying and distorting the reality of the world and science. They take the occasion of finding that pygmy hippos and early humans existed together on Cyprus to attack evolution. Creation Moments claims that "evolutionists" once thought that pygmy hippos and dwarf elephants arrived on the island 1.5 million years before humans did. Research (the citation is from a 1990 work) indicates that in fact humans existed there at the same time as the pygmy animals did. If they happened to read the title of the article in Science News that they cite, they will note that it says the research "pushes back colonization date." To put it simply, the dig in Cyprus uncovered that humans arrived on the island earlier than previously thought rather than denying the reality of the date of 1.5 million years.

What do the creationists turn this into?

The spin at Creation Moments is that while we go about clarifying the early history of the earth (regardless of the fact that humans are a late arrival on earth in the grand scheme of geology) "evolutionists are being forced to accept important parts of what creationists have always been saying." Which "important parts"? Noah's Flood, the Garden of Eden, a six-day Creation Week? No, no and no. Pygmy elephants and humans on Cyprus is apparently an important part of creationist thought, though it wasn't until today that I heard about this essential pillar of creationism, despite reading a great deal of creationist literature, perhaps more than is healthy for a sane person. They make this minor correction into a "see, evolution is wrong" moment, even though it means nothing of the sort.

One is forced to conclude that when creationists write that important parts of creationism are being accepted by evolutionists they are lying just as much as when they say there are no transitional forms and that Darwin recanted on his deathbed. In fact, as we clarify Earth's history we see more and more evidence confirming evolution, like the continued absence of human fossils in early strata, continued absence of a global Flood, the steady flow of fossils from China solidifying the link between dinosaurs and birds. We move further and further away from creationist thought every day, not towards it. The "important parts" are just as silly now as they've been for a hundred years.

The anonymous author asserts that "evolutionists now have to stop laughing at creationists long enough to admit that at least this part of our Young Earth position is scientific fact." Duly noted, creationists. Now we can return to laughing at your silly attempts to be scientific.

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  1. Right on, Brady. The mental gymnastics necessary to connect their "biblical" view with the massive amounts of data would be comical if it didn't indicate a far more sinister mindset. To deliberately distort and misrepresent the findings of numerous scientists is a form of intellectual malfeasance of a kind that would ultimately permit the burning of witches and the execution of gays.

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  2. You should parody some of these people's arguments, and twist them into being for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. That, or do a post on flat earth creationism, and treat it no different than the regular breed, just to mock them.

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