Stalactite experiment 'proves' "Creation Wins!!!"

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Stalactite experiment 'proves' "Creation Wins!!!"

Stalactite experiment 'proves' "Creation Wins!!!"

"Brian Benson, ... who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project "Creation Wins!!!," says he disproved part of the theory of evolution."
"Scientists say it takes millions of years to form stalactites," Benson said. "However, in only a couple of hours, I have formed stalactites just by using paper towel and Epsom Salts."

scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/another_christian_science_fair.php
Enjoy ...

P.S. Jon - your forum software is truncating long links so I've had to leave this as a cut and paste job


Geologists like a nappe between thrusts

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That is very funny and very

That is very funny and very sad.

(I'll see what I can do about the long link truncation - it's actually in the HTML filters somewhere...)


Geologists are gneiss!!

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I'm not sure whether to

I'm not sure whether to laugh, or lose all faith in humanity, move to a cave and become a hermit (prefereably in a cave made of limestone, rather than epsom salts).

Did anyone see the one a while back, the gist of which was "abiogenesis hasn't happened in my jar of sterile water in the last week, ergo cannot happen anywhere, ever." ?

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I haven't seen that one, but

I haven't seen that one, but there is a funny one on youtube about a fundamentalist preacher talking about peanut butter in a jar as proof against abiogenesis.  Lots of funny stuff (especially the recent videos about Bananas being designed to fit in your hand)

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haha

canadarocks wrote:

Lots of funny stuff (especially the recent videos about Bananas being designed to fit in your hand)

Haha I love how wrong they've got that one. Clearly it's because we are evolved from ape-like ancestors that our hands are so perfectly suited to the shape of the banana.

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It got even funnier when

It got even funnier when someone pointed out what wild bananas look like (nothing like the supermarket and no ridges), such that the shape of the current banana is due to cultivation by man.  What will they delude themselves with next?

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