Anyone with any training or education in the hard sciences cringes when Hollywood tries to be “sciency.” Movies like “The Core” and “The Day After Tomorrow” present truly urk-worthy scientific gibberish that may well sound good to the scientifically illiterate. However, this is Hollywood, and one hopes that the people paying their money to see the movies understand that they are just entertainment, and don’t try to base their lives or political policies on the gibberish they’re fed.
Sadly, Hollywood isn’t the only group of people in the business of making stuff up who have decided to incorporate a gibberishized version of science into their fiction for the purposes of fooling the masses. Example:
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
Note… that’s not saying that Creationism is creeping into mainstream geology by way of doing actual science and presenting well-reasoned analysis for peer review. No, they show up at geology conferences and lead “tours” for the faithful (or laymen interested ina geology tour and unaware of who the Creationists actually are) of areas of geological interest, and spout sciency-sounding falsehoods in support of their claims.
Read the article. It’s not only interesting reading, it’s also instructive in the use of deception and propaganda. If the Creationists involved actually believed the science backed up their claims, they wouldn’t resort to sneaky and underhanded tactics to try to deceive people. Or then… maybe they would anyway. At this stage in human history, to believe that the Earth was *poofed* into existence 4,000 years after Göbekli Tepe was built requires either a complete rejection of every branch of modern hard science, or a belief that whatever god was responsible was some kind of jackass trickster. It is of course a possibility that the creations of certain religions were the greatest pranks Loki ever pulled.
10,000 years my shiny metal ass…
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I have had at least some success arguing with creationists that, if they truly cared about their religion, they would not want their kids to learn about from the teacher’s union and the public school system.
I’ve noticed the creationists become apoplectic when I refuse to debate with them. I regard that as a success in itself.
I’ve noticed the creationists become apoplectic when I refuse to debate with them. I regard that as a success in itself.
That’s a neat photo of the rippled sandstone formation, where did you take it?
Where else? Utah. Along the roadside. Not some hoity-toity park or nuthin’, just a cut in the road.
Ever been to this place?
http://www.u-digfossils.com/
Sounds like fun way to spend an afternoon.
This is why I am against all this voucher nonsense myself. I want Fed gov’t ‘intrusion’. If it were left up to the home schoolers here, their kids would think the world was flat.
> I want Fed gov’t ‘intrusion’.
Sure, because the cause of educating our kids has progressed *so* well since the Department of Education was created.
Sigh.
> If it were left up to the home schoolers here, their kids would think the world was flat.
As opposed to public school kids?
If a family wants to homeschool because the schools suck, great. If a family wants to home school because public schools might introduce concepts of science and critical thinking to their kids… well, that’s great too. We’ll need ditch diggers in the future just as we’ve always done, and I’d rather we had American citizens self-select themselves and their own to be useful for this role, than importing illegal aliens to do the job.