All posts tagged "Creationists"

On September 3rd, 2023, right-wing conspiracy theorist Allie Beth Stuckey interviewed creationist Ken Ham on her Relatable podcast about dinosaurs a year after she claimed that the extinct creatures never existed.

Ham is the founder of Answers in Genesis and the brains behind Kentucky's Creation Museum, which depicts humans riding dinosaurs and asserts that Earth is only six thousand years old.

Hemant Mehta notes in his Friendly Atheist newsletter, "Dinosaurs are real. We know they’re real. We have good ideas about what they looked like because their fossils sometimes include soft tissues that tell us, for example, if they were covered in feathers. We know how muscular they were and where their eyes may have pointed. Sure, some of our recreations involve filling in the blanks as best we can, but educated guesses aren’t the same as stabs in the dark. Yet even when scientists suggest we need to update our understanding of dinosaurs, Stuckey treats it as a giant game." ...

[rebelmouse-image 24748627 original_size="500x375" expand=1]As the prophet of a new but well-attended (in spirit, though not in body) church---the Church of the Mouse and the Discoball---I find the language of my fellows in other religions that have preposterous origin stories to be mystifying when it comes to an insistence that one must "teach the controversy" about that most uncontroversial of claims, that the world as we know it is very old and that life as we know it evolved painstakingly through time. How is there a conflict? Yes, I understand that many Christians believe an origin story about how god made man and then made woman to be his slave and made a bunch of animals to be tasty for man and that anything that's bad that happened is woman's fault. But I believe something equally preposterous, that the world was coughed up in a hairball ejected from the Great Cat, as he was trying to distract the Goddess from making love to her new amour, the Roller Disco King. My story is even less preposterous than the Christian fairy tale, because at least we know that cats do that sort of thing. And the "blame women for everything" has the distinct stench of complete bullshit, emanating as it does from a culture that is suspicious of granting women the power that would allow them to fuck up anything, much less everything. And yet, I'm the one who gets that whatever fool thing I believe shouldn't be competing for classroom time with the actual scientific theories that are evidence-based.