Antievolutionist Bingo

Submitted by Wesley R. Elsberry on Fri, 2009-02-20 16:48. Humor

Skeptico and TechSkeptic came up with a great idea, that of "Creationist Bingo". I'm taking that a step further and automating the creation of "antievolutionist bingo" cards. Each time you bring up this page, you will get a new card.

AntiEvolutionist Bingo
CA240. Ockham's Razor says the simplest explanation (creation) is preferred.	CC061. French scientists called Peking Man "monkey-like."	CA320. Scientists are pressured not to challenge established dogma.	CC201.1. Punctuated equilibrium was ad hoc to justify gaps.	CH132. The Bible says that the earth is unsupported.
CB701. Haeckel falsified his embryo pictures.	CC214.1. Archaeopteryx was probably not an ancestor of modern birds.	CJ533. The Qur'an describes human embryology accurately.	CA321.1. Scientists' conclusions are motivated by money.	CA211.1. Karl Popper said Darwinism is not testable.
CA006.2. Stalin's policies were influenced by Darwin.	CH030. God is all-good.	References an antievolutionist as an authority	CH503.1. Anchor stones of Noah's ark have been found.	CC051.1. Neanderthals were humans with rickets.
CA042. Biology can reasonably be taught without evolution.	CD014. Isochron dating gives unreliable results.	CI111. Dembski's filter can detect design.	CI001.4. Intelligent design has been published in peer-reviewed journals.	CE011. Earth's rotation is slowing, indicating a young earth.
CA602.1. Darwin made it easy to become an intellectually fulfilled atheist.	CD211. Mississippi delta could have formed in 5,000 years.	CB361. Vestigial organs are just evidence of decay, not evolution.	CC150. If we are descended from apes, why are there still apes around?	CH541. Aquatic organisms could have survived the Flood.

Each religious antievolutionist claim on the card links to the mainstream science responses collected by Mark Isaak in his excellent "Index to Creationist Claims". Be sure to check those out.

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Antievolutionists Say the Darndest Things

Antievolutionists often express outrage over alleged incivility from those who oppose their efforts to evade the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But they have no difficulty in dishing out the abuse themselves. Here is a sample from the Invidious Comparisons thread that documents egregious behavior on the part of the religious antievolution advocates.

IDC advocate John Calvert:

One thing that Jack Krebs and I agree with is that Pratt can be likened to an outpost under siege in a cultural war.

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My wife and I just returned from a trip to Belgium. We visited Bastogne where a few brave Americans of the 101st Airborne Division were surrounded by the German Army during the battle of the bulge. The German attack was led by a crack SS unit that took no prisoners.

What were we fighting against in Bastogne? We were fighting against a Nazi regime that used the philosophy of Naturalism to justify a eugenics program of terrifying proportions. Naturalism is the belief that all phenomena result only from the laws of chemistry and physics and that teleological or design explanations are not valid. Naturalism is not science. It is a belief system.

In the same manner, the defenders in Pratt are fighting against Naturalism, although they may not realize it. Rather than fighting against science, they are actually fighting for science. They are fighting for science that is driven by logic and critical thinking rather than by a philosophy that teaches to the exclusion of all other teachings that we are the products of only chance and necessity. They are fighting for science that is driven by the scientific method rather than science that is driven by a philosophy of Naturalism.

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Rather than using logic and good science to support its assault on the brave contingent in Pratt, the KCFS is using tactics one would expect from those that besieged Bastogne: scare tactics, misinformation and no substantive discussion of the real issues.

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So, we are back looking at Pratt as the bombs fall. The question is whether the Board and the Community will be supported by the rest of us as they have had the guts that General McAullife and the other brave Americans had that cold winter day in Bastogne 54 years ago. McAullife's reply was very simple when asked to surrender: "Nuts!" McAullife and the 101st were subsequently relieved by elements of Patton's Third Army. In the same way we all need to rise up and put our hands together for the Pratt Board and Pratt Citizens that have just characterized the outrageous censorship by the science establishment as "Nuts!"

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