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Date: January 20, 2011 03:44PM
PZ Myers has a post up on his "Pharyngula" blog that carries on a running argument with creationist Terry Hurlbut.
Hurlbut [great name!] created a Creationist Hall of Fame, and he did no without the aid of logic.
In his rebuttal, PZ mentions mormons as evincing a like lack of logic. Excerpt below:
"Creationism is a belief born of ignorance. It depends on a lack of awareness of biological realities and knowledge of the experiments and observations in the discipline (or, alternatively, awareness of this work coupled to a malignant denial). Terry Hurlbut can go ahead and mine the human population a thousand generations back and find plenty of smart and accomplished human beings, and draft them posthumously to be part of his "creationist movement", but it doesn't change the fact that the chief criterion for membership in that movement is simply ignorance. Isaac Newton was ignorant of the facts of evolutionary biology, and so was Aristotle, and so was Thog, son of Thag, caveman. Go ahead, sign them all up, they're as much an intellectual contributor to creationism as they are spiritual members of the Mormon church…but that won't stop the Mormons from baptizing them anyway."
To read the entire post, go here:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/creationist_kook_defends_his_c.php