User:Darth Tiktaalik

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Evolution walker.svg This user thinks evolution explains the origin of species.
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This user is a proud supporter of the Homosexual Agenda



social media[edit]

Friendica: https://nerdica.net/profile/darth_tiktaalik

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religious nonsense[edit]

Creationists' assertions that religion is the cure for bigotry and evolution is the root cause are well, less than accurate:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/User:Darth_Tiktaalik/notes_on_racism_and_evolution


Paul Price of Creation Ministries International[note 1] responded to a redditor on /r/debateevolution who pointed out the evidence is against the creationist position:

To accept Creationism, you have to reject just about everything that science tells us is true.


To which paul responds:

"Science" as we know it was pioneered almost exclusively by a bunch of creationists. it's sad to see that people like yourself have been so thoroughly brainwashed as to present this kind of pig-headed, North Korean-style dogma and actually believe it like the good Darwinist comradesr that you are. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but your view is utterly twisted and your black-and-white thinking on the topic means you are not open to seeing the evidence right in front of your face.[1]

In his rush to defend creationism as science he reveals the entirely unscientific attitude of modern creationists. Science owes it's success in large part to the fact that it can accept that a past belief set of the community is false and throw it out but Paul is arguing for current legitimacy based on past belief sets.

It's a concept of infallibility that's completely in opposition to the scientific process


chick tracts[edit]

In "Big Daddy?" We get this exchange between an "atheist" professor and a creationist student: https://www.chick.com/images/tracts/0055/0055_14.gif

But earlier the professor brings up carbon-14 dating and in another panel he holds holds up a skullcap saying that modern dating methods(note the plural) place man as being older than darwin could have imagined


Yet he responds to a question about how remains are dated by saying they just compare the fossils to the age of the layer of rock they were found in and determine the age of the rocks by the age of the fossil. But clearly this professors is aware of radiometric dating techniques that are used to determine ages. Carbon 14 being just one[2] method used. Creationists have to set up strawmen to argue against and they fail even at that!

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Notes[edit]

  1. or at least, someone claiming to be him, user has since deleted their profile.