As I detailed in Part 1 of “Was Darwin Wrong?”, I somehow found the fortitude to attend a lecture on evolution given by Young Earth Creationist Dr. Harrub last weekend. The first post details his misunderstandings concerning cosmology and Darwin’s The Origin of Species. The following synopsis of his introductory remarks, of course, reveals even more misunderstanding …
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Apr 21
Was Darwin Wrong? (Part 1)
This weekend, while most of the people my age were out getting drunk and having sex, I was doing something completely uncharacteristic of my generation. For even though I too was out getting drunk and having sex, I also attended a lecture given by a Young Earth Creationist on Friday and Saturday night. I’m still unsure …
Apr 16
A Skeptic By Any Other Name…
Like so many others, I possess a strong desire to arbitrarily bestow a name upon things, though I know this is mere formality and hardly important, because I almost believe that doing so will solidify a muddled concept, ending my confusion with the congealing, coagulating effects of semantics. For this reason, I have searched for a …
Apr 14
On the Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny has finally hopped out of town and Easter is over; I can finally relax my tense, rigid muscles and sleep a full eight hours. The Easter Bunny, you see, is the most terrifying creature in the universe. The thing shits chocolate eggs, for christ’s sake, and then entices children into eating them. …
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