I have been slowly working through the utter creationist bullshit, AKA Cretocrap, written by pediatrician Ross S. Olson and published by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
I have done 3 posts so far constrained by the newspaper's 4125 character limit on critical comments. I have not gotten through half of Olson's lies and fabrications. None of the remaining creatocrap presents anything novel. It is the same bullshit we have shoveled for over a decade. I will keep posting my replies here at Stones and Bones, since it is obvious the "Minnesota Star Tribune" has refused to run them, and is a tool of creationism. I will try to link to this post from the StarTribune, and update the links if I add comments.
I really think we are screwed. Ignorance is easier than knowledge.
Updated Aug. 9, 2012
The Star Tribune has not posted any of my comments, or submitted debunking. This can only mean they are active creationism supporters. I mentioned the other day that none of the remaining creatocrap spewed by Ross Olson was at all new, or original. Topics like "polystrate" trees, and "C14 in diamonds" have been well covered by the TalkOrigin Archive for years. Just click on the links.
Olson makes reference to Carl Baugh's faked human and dinosaur footprints which I have debunked several times. Glen J. Kuban has an excellent website devoted to the dinos and humans together nonsense.
As a final note, I have debunked the creationist distortions of Prof. Mary Schweitzer's work on biomolecules, and other related dinosaur research several times over the last 10 years. These are available on-line;
"Dino-blood and the Young Earth"
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dinosaur/blood.html
"Dino Blood Redux"
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dinosaur/flesh.html
"Ancient Molecules and Modern Myths"
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dinosaur/osteocalcin.html
The short form message is that creationists cannot tell the truth about these discoveries, and refuse to honestly deal with the evidence for billions of years of biological evolution.
Ross S. Olson, I
Ross S. Olson, II
Ross S. Olson, III
I really think we are screwed. Ignorance is easier than knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree. In my most optimistic moments I think maybe there will be an enclave somewhere that rationality can survive. But those moments are getting less and less frequent lately.
Yeah. It is one thing for a stupid physician to write an editorial. But, the worse problem is that the Star Tribune blocks rebuttals.
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