Michael Shermer, publisher of the Skeptic Society magazine, wrote an excellent article on this question in Scientific American. He eloquently addresses this question and the silly comment Oprah made when she was interviewing Diana Nyad about her epic 110 mile swim from Cuba. Good reading.
The Baloney Detection Kit video at www.skeptic.com (on home page, about half way down) is also great.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Pigs Do Fly I Guess
Pat Roberson, he of the conservative Christian 500 Club show, amazed and surprised me by criticizing the young earth creationists who say the earth is 6000 years old.
Robertson said science and specifically, geology, clearly show the early is much much older. I'm still shaking my head - hard to believe the guy who repeatedly has said that natural disasters are God's wrath about gays - would come down on the side of science. Wow.
And now the uber fundamentalists are accusing Robertson of all things, blasphemy.
What goes around comes around I guess. Or, perhaps the bible should be quoted.
Robertson said science and specifically, geology, clearly show the early is much much older. I'm still shaking my head - hard to believe the guy who repeatedly has said that natural disasters are God's wrath about gays - would come down on the side of science. Wow.
And now the uber fundamentalists are accusing Robertson of all things, blasphemy.
What goes around comes around I guess. Or, perhaps the bible should be quoted.
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