Ducking Homophobes

Ok, cheap, likely overdone pun aside.  Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty has apparently been suspended indefinitely from the show following anti-gay remarks which A&E deem harmful to them.  Does anyone remember those little posts that used to go before movies/tv shows stating that the opinions depicted in the show don't necessarily reflect the broadcaster's opinion?  Well it still goes.  Sure, homophobic remarks are ignorant and reprehensible, but seriously, everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if it's controversial.  I'm not defending the anti-gay comments, but really do they warrant that response?  I don't think that A&E should remove someone for their opinions no matter how poor or ignorant those opinions are.  Also, you get a bunch of old rednecks and make a show expecting nothing controversial to ever surface?  Get real.  Hell, at least if he's not on the show he's got the duck call business.

Paul Taylor's guide on how to educationally retard yourself

This 'Creation Byte' just came through my youtube feed and it surpasses even creation today's average stupidity.



First thing, if you have a system called 'fuzzy word analysis', you might want to just throw the towel in right there.  Anyway though, on to matters of actual substance.

Fuzzy word analysis is supposed to be useful for reading public release, article-format scientific writing. It helps people who don't know much or anything about the topic they're reading criticize it without all the bother of gaining a proper understanding of it first.

How evidence for a theory can be 'in the use of the words' confuses me, but that's not really important, on to the system itself.

With a yellow highlighter, mark every word or phrase that implies the least bit of uncertainty or implication, <sarcasm>after all, every true scientific statement is absolute and not subject to change.<sarcasm/>

With an orange highlighter, mark any statement that couldn't be directly observed by the individual.
(We can deal with radiometric dating and Paul's infantile understanding of it later.)

With a gray highlighter, mark off every paragraph which includes either yellow or orange marker.  The whole paragraph is null.

You are now qualified to intellectually criticize science that is performed by people who 1) have a working knowledge of it, 2) are trained and educated for it and 3) don't have to take turns with the family brain cell.

If you have the time, read this and do the same thing. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n2/caring-for-the-animals

So, to Paul, Eric and the rest of Creation Today and the YEC/Fundamentalist factions;


Until next time.