CrAzY CrEaTiOnIsT NeWs!!!! June 21

This is the bit where I discuss Answers in Genesis failure to understand basic, popular science.

Let's begin, eh?

1. The Advocate/WBRZ: “Senate Sends Jindal bill on Evolution”

Louisiana is poised to be the bane of evolutionists everywhere by promoting “critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories.”

This one is sort of pathetic and it's going to be struck down real fucking fast because the precedent is so clearly overwhelming. Jindal is, like Ham, wackaloony. Yeah, I said it. Jindal had an exorcism in college.

The important thing to realize hear that the science content of high school curricula should never be decided by politicians and the high school classroom is not the appropriate place for debate about the fundamentals. You see, neither the students, nor likely the teachers have the depth of knowledge to make proclamations about the fundamental basics of science. Some may, but the ones who would teach the bizarre idea that evolution has somehow been inadequate, they certainly aren't qualified to lead a discussion.

2. BBC News: “Trio of ‘Super-Earths’ Discovered”

None of them have been named Krypton, but astronomers have identified three “Super-Earths” in a star system 42 light-years from Earth.

One important thing to keep in mind is that astronomers aren’t actually observing these planets directly. Instead, the Harps spectograph measures the subtle gravitational pull a planet exerts on its star during its orbit—which appears to be a tiny “wobble” around the star’s center of mass. Astronomers can then mathematically infer information about orbiting planets.

For many astronomers, the fuel for finding extrasolar planets (also called “exoplanets”) is the by-faith belief that where there’s an earth-like planet (with water, that is) surrounding a sun-like star, life will soon follow if it hasn’t already.

It's funny how you didn't pick up on the UTTER FUCKING BOMBSHELL this week that Mars absolutely has water. It's not a smoking gun--it's a steaming water pistol! Yay!

3. ScienceNOW: “Life Cooked Up in Outer Space?”

“The odds are improving that life exists beyond Earth,” begins a ScienceNOW article, crediting the change to a study of a “billions-of-years-old” meteorite.

The article reviews other “tantalizing but inconclusive” evidence of life beyond our planet, though we would label the evidence “tantalizing” only when laden with evolutionary interpretation. Among the evidence mentioned is the possibility that water once flowed on Mars as well as the discovery of “organic molecules” on or around other planetary bodies.

As for the new evidence—“not a slam dunk,” ScienceNOW cautions—it’s a meteorite found in Australia in 1969 that is now claimed to harbor components of RNA and DNA. Hence the evolutionary hullabaloo, since a popular God-free model of origins is that life literally hit earth from outer space.

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Here’s the leap: evolutionists cling to the hope that the most basic non-reproducing, unorganized molecular compounds, if placed together long enough in the right conditions, will eventually—by chance interactions (since there are no reproductive cycles to allow natural selection) create life. Even if this were true, it would only be a competing model—not a disproof—of the Bible’s creation account. But science has never shown how these congregating molecules could associate in just the right positions to spontaneously form meaningful RNA or DNA strands—nonetheless how those strands would have meaning without a pre-existing code.

Scientists are doing the responsible thing--building a case carefully, bit by bit, to show that life as we know it need not be farted out by breaking divine wind. You know, not saying "Sky Fairy did it. Lalala! I can't hear you!"

Eh. Bored. AiG sucks: That's all there is to know, and all ye need to know.

HJ