This is a very tentative list of Creationist failures. Not how they’ve failed ‘science’, nor their failures in general, but instead the people themselves.
This list is comprised of the dumbest, most idiotic, and stupidest people that happen to align themselves with creationism. It’s very tentative, because like in science, we’ll never complete it, simply because there is so much we won’t know. So many people, in this case, that we’ll never meet who are numbskulls in every sense of the word!
Enjoy!
- Kirk Cameron (Lying for Jesus: Kirk Cameron Edition)
- Dr. Jason Lisle (Reading Answers in Genesis: Probably easier when high.)
- Lee Strobel (Lee Strobel: Ex-Atheist or just ignorant?)
- Ray Comfort (Banana: Proof of creationism., Ray Comfort has a blog, Ray Comfort: What the fuck, man?)
- Rhonda Storms (Fuck Rhonda Storms)
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (DO SOMETHING IN LOUISIANA! QUICK!, Now the Candle Burns at both Ends)
- Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh)
- Bill Donohue (It Gets Me!, It Gets Me! (Part II))
- Michael Edmondson (Beware the Believers, Beware the Believers: Expelled Viral Video)
- Dr. Terry Mortenson (Evolution does not work that way!)
- Randall Niles (Ex-Atheists and evolution)
Fin.
What criteria did you use to come up with this list?
My methods are less than scientific. You have to be a creationist and fail in order to make it.
Creationism: EPOCH FAIL! (with apologies to xkcd).
“My methods are less than scientific. You have to be a creationist and fail in order to make it.”
Shouldn’t your list include, well, all creationists then?
Theoretically, yes. However, I like pointing them out one by one and destroying them. It’s quite the thrill, really.
Candidates:
Ken Ham
Michael Behe
Andy Schafly
Kent Hovind
“My methods are less than scientific. You have to be a creationist and fail in order to make it.”
Isn’t that redundant and repetitive?
6/DaveG: Eventually. All things in time.
7/Blaidd Drwg: Yes.
There are some really stupid people out there trying to play games with people’s minds. Some of the people on your list among them.
Both the creationist and evolutionary theories have impossibilities that require a lot of faith to overcome.
As a creationist, you have to believe in an all-powerful being outside of time and space. As an evolutionist you have to believe that at some point in history a non-living thing randomly became a living thing.
You can’t point at bones and convince me one way or the other. Both theories use the fossil-record as proof, but since everyone already thinks they know what they are seeing, both sides see what they want to see.
I’m not religious. I think religion really messes people up. I am, however, a creationist. Not because of what I was told, but because of what I’ve seen myself. Life does not come from non-life. It never has, and probably never will.
I too am a seeker, but you don’t seem to be one at all. How can you call yourself a seeker and claim that you’ve got it all figured out?
9/Josiah: creationism is not a theory. It’s mythology. A belief for those who follow it.
I’ve been a creationist. I searched for truth, and I’m still finding it.
Besides, evolution does not say where life comes from. That’s abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution is the process by which life changes over time.
How can you claim to be a seeker if you have no solid ground to stand on? Maybe this maybe that doesn’t always work.
Evolution only proclaims that life on Earth could have arisen through natural happenings. That’s what the goal of science is. Proving everything in nature through natural causation, thus no spirit force, god, what have you, is allowed in science.
There are people of all religions who are evolutionary biologists. There are people of no faith who are against evolution.
Josiah:
I understand there have been some interesting developments in the field of abiogenesis just within the last decade or so that provide some possible mechanisms by which life could have arisen from inanimate matter. If self-organization in a thermodynamically “open” system, such as the early earth, is a property that is actually inherent in matter, then the development of living organisms becomes a virtual inevitability.
Check out the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis.
Of course non of this excludes the possibility of some sort of supreme Intelligence behind it all, but unfortunately we just have no concrete proof of that. Frankly, I wish we did.
Are you taking nominations? I would like to nominate Geoffrey Simmons of the Discovery Institute. His book “Billions of missing links” is simply ridiculous.