Someone has posted a photo gallery here of a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. It's, uh, interesting. One theme that seems to be common there is, "The evidence is in the present, but what happened in the past?" In other words, it's an appeal to ignorance: it's hard to use evidence to learn about the past, so we should turn away from evidence ( Read more... )

This is not the comment I was planning to post. That one would've been:

"I went to a lecture today by rock-star biologist Richard Dawkins, who coined the word 'meme,' and ended up first in line to get an autographed copy of his new book The God DelusionThat part is true. But in looking up more about him, I saw he's affiliated with -- in fact, is a ( Read more... )