Did I Mention That The Boston Globe Was a Joke?:
[Via Mike the Mad Biologist]
A while ago, I argued that The Boston Globe is basically useless, and should go out of business. Some people took exception to that, including readers I know from the ‘meat world.’ And then The Globe published an op-ed by a creationist.
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An amazingly bad op-ed. Somehow, Jefferson anticipated Watson and Crick, or something. And somehow separation of church and state means that there is an intelligent designer.
Crud like this is why so many scientists no longer have any patience for creationists There is nothing new here, no new data and nothing to indicate that there is any science in the argument at all.
This is a lawyerly argument, one used by debate teams that have no actual facts to base their argument on. It gets very tiresome to be expected to respond logically, for if our response is passionate we are accused of being mean.
They disrespect our science, our work. They continually use old arguments, debunked attacks and simple lies. They apparently uphold the creationist version of the old legal adage: When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, attack the plaintiff.
With both science and the facts against them, they have little to do but attack scientists.
Yet they continue to get a place on the podium.
I guess we just need to recognize that they are just not rational. They are obviously not idiots. Just not rational.
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