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Why Do People Laugh @ Creationists Part 30 Following Casey Luskins flapping on the video Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover, Luskin has earned himself the honor of being the subject of Why do people laugh at creationists Part 30. The Discovery Institute has all but abandoned intelligent design (the rebranding of creationism- see video) as a lost cause, they even go on record saying they dont think it should be taught in schools! They initially set up a peer review journal of their own (Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design) but abandoned it after they got called out on the lineage of intelligent design to creationism. Luskin helped set up intelligent design and evolution awareness clubs, but stated that the management believed the designer was the God of the Bible, and then happily goes on camera and states that intelligent design has nothing to do with religion, despite all the diagrams he has connecting the two on the IDEA webpage. What really astounds me about these guys is they have utterly lost, and yet they dont have the dignity to accept that they were wrong graciously. Instead all you get is a bunch of bitter misfits doing their best to sow disinformation and throw as much mud as possible but for what gain? All I see is a bunch of jerks committing spiteful intellectual vandalism for their personal gratification. Really what do these people hope to gain by pretending there is controversy where none exists? User: spam_vigilante May 30, 2009 9:35 AM

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Why Do People Laugh At Creationists (26) This video is copyright free for educational purposes. Feel free to mirror these videos with or without accreditation. Part of a series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. This episode is significantly different from previous episodes in that it has a political background. The vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party this year is the creationist Sarah Palin. The presidential candidate himself is 72 years old, and if he dies, that means that there will be a dangerously ignorant, hard core religious nut running the United States. Given that Palin doesnt know what the Bush Doctrine is (the source of one of the biggest US foreign policy blunders in recent history), and thinks that praying for soldier will protect them, I thought this worthy of a rather unusual episode of WPDLAC. User: luclonde Sep 27, 2008 9:36 PM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? (Part 24) Part of a series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. In this episode Ben Stein is again taken to task over his mindless spin doctoring (not dissimilar to his 'universities are fortresses of nonsense' line), most annoyingly his statement that 'science leads to killing people'. What I find most disturbing is that the Christian audience and host were seemly un-phased by this opinion. Have they no sense of perspective? Add this to steins scaremongering/warmongering where he is arguing that the US military which constitutes about 50% of the military spending of the world is grossly inadequate and 'worn down to the nub'. Apr 29, 2008 11:47 PM

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Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 14) This video is copyright free for educational purposes. Feel free to mirror these videos with or without accreditation. Part of a superb series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. In this episode it is shown the creationist organization The Discovery Institute and other creationists such as Kent Hovind (the convicted fraudster 'Dr Dino') share a common feature of willful dishonesty in that they are happy to misquote famous people to make it sound like they support creationism (quote mining). This dishonesty was particularly obvious in the dover vs kitzmiller trial where it was found that the ID proponents and creationists Bill Buckingham and Alan Bonsell put simply lied their asses off in court to attempt to disguise their true intent of teaching creationism in school. Some clips taken from Nova program about Dover trial. User: cheezsteak Mar 26, 2008 8:05 PM

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Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 13) This video is copyright free for educational purposes. Feel free to mirror these videos with or without accreditation. Part of a superb series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. In this episode it is shown the creationist organization The Discovery Institute use their willful ignorance of DNA as 'evidence' that DNA is designed. The callow argument is simple to counter in that take an object such as a beach, ignore everything you know about beach formation, make some bogus calculation to show that it can't happen 'by chance', then conclude the Neptune, Lord of the sea did it. It is also highlighted that the creationist organization, The Discovery Institute seems to have an irrational fear of sworn testimony. An interesting phobia given that meant that even though they are the chief proponents of intelligent design, and that they were enlisted in professional witnesses in the Dover vs Kitzmiller trial, they all withdrew at short notice (presumably sensing the inevitable humiliating rout of creationist/ intelligent design), and then started grousing that the ruling was all the fault of the judge. User: cheezsteak Mar 26, 2008 8:05 PM

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Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 12) This video is copyright free for educational purposes. Feel free to mirror these videos with or without accreditation. Part of a superb series of videos exposing the funny stupidity of creationists and why they deserve to be laughed at. In each case the creationist statements are shown to be outrageously stupid by even the most rudimentary knowledge of science. In this episode it is shown how one of the icons of the creationist movement 'Dr Dino' or Kent Hovind confuses even basic biological terms and processes such as base pair, chromosome, gene, genome, molecules and processes such as reproduction. The crazy thing is these are all taught at in highschool biology. Hovind would have certainly failed the class he claims to have taught for 15 yrs. Not only that but it shows how absurd Hovinds claim is that when people say he 'doesn't have a real degree or any qualification for him to stand in the academic arena' that they are just trying to divert the subject because they are 'losing the argument'. User: cheezsteak Mar 26, 2008 8:04 PM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep.11 Episode 11. The author looks at the claim of a Creationist that Noah took all the critters with nostrils on the Ark and that the sea at the time of the Flood (4,400 years ago) was fresh and not salt. Finally, he attempts to make sense of a claim that one must repent to counteract the dead soul inherited from Adam and Eve due to eating the forbidden fruit, lest one remain separated from God forever. User: BoogeBoogieston Dec 8, 2007 10:49 AM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep.10 Episode 10. The author evaluates Creationist claims that the universe is "finely tuned" for life to exist. Does it follow that because so very little life exists in the universe, the purpose of the entire universe is just for life? User: BoogeBoogieston Dec 6, 2007 4:28 PM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep. 9 Episode 9. The author exposes quote mining (using other people's words out of context) by Creationists. He then goes into the flaws in comparing man-made inanimate objects with living creatures that can reproduce with variation in response to environmental stressors. User: BoogeBoogieston Dec 5, 2007 7:59 PM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep. 8 Episode 8. An examination of the misleading use of probability by Creationists and a very brief introduction to statistical thermodynamics, the field of chemistry that looks at the forces at play in the arrangements of atoms and molecules. User: BoogeBoogieston Dec 4, 2007 8:08 PM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep. 7 Episode 7. Kent Hovind talks about animals growing larger in pre-Flood conditions and contradicts himself several times. He also mentions the making of tools by hunter-gatherer civilizations. User: BoogeBoogieston Dec 3, 2007 8:30 PM

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Why do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep. 6 In this episode it is shown why Kent Hovind (the convicted frauster and young earth creationist who is currently serving 10 years in jail for tax fraud) deserves the title "King of Morons" for his crass lack of knowledge of x-rays. User: BoogeBoogieston Dec 2, 2007 6:49 PM

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Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? Ep 4 In episode 4, Kent Hovind claims the Earth could be covered in one drop of water and is consequently shown to not be able to calculate so well. User: BoogeBoogieston Nov 29, 2007 10:46 PM