I recently had a run in with some anti-Darwin YEC (Young Earth Creationists) I am a card carrying "Grumpy Old Atheist Fart" and as I get older my capacity to put up with the tawdry dribbling of the wilful ignorant gets less and less.
In a perfect proof of Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies i was sent this
This load of advanced gobshitery set me to thinking and I believe I can now reveal that YEC's have adapted the standard Scientific Method the orginal one goes like this
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
And this has evolved (ooops sorry strike that) stayed the same into the YEC METHOD which goes like this
1. Observe the scientists observing Phenomena, look grumpy, pray a bit, blame Darwin for the Holocaust.
2. Start mining "The Sunday Sport" and "The National Enquirer" for phenomena that could be useful later on. "Aircraft buried under 1000 years of ice" is a good one. The startling news that the Piltdown Man was a fake is another. Stop looking grumpy and try looking saintly for a while, grow a Moses-esque beard, pray some more, twiddle thumbs and wait for a scientist to publish something you don't like. Blame Darwin for Columbine, Pol Pot,the third world debt and the disappearance of Orange Smarties.
3. Have a good long pray, fleece some true believers of a few more quid, wonder why scientists bother with all this work since they are wrong all the time ... blame Satan ... Jesus tells you that Darwin IS Satan and he hid his horns using genetic manipulation.
4. Form a "ministry", start a web site, make a documentary about how Darwin IS actually Satan . Prove beyond doubt that Darwin's Beard is a portent of the end of times. Form a hypothesis that affirms that the Man and, consequently, the Earth, is in the centre of the creation, prove hypothesis using bible verses ,repeal Copernican celestial model because Copernicus was a Catholic and very probably a relative of Darwin and therefore the second cousin twice removed of "the beast" .. underline this by showing their beards were VERY similar.
5. Ban Science for being always wrong, co-opt the Orange Order as the NEW Protestant Inquisition, burn Richard Dawkins at the stake even if he does recant.
Oh what a difference an S makes
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 3:24p Steve McDonagh Just comming into my blog and typed this http://doiminoyesmaybe.blogpot.com and ended up a href="http://dominoyesmaybe.blogpot.com/"here/a.. just my luck..I have a german porn star as a doppleganger and a reglious site as a typo link.. hey ho!br /
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New family blog
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 3:24p Steve McDonagh Just a heads up.. I have started a new non-techie blog for the McDonagh Clan over at http://slightlydoolally.com br /
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My mother helps stop MSDS (Memory Stick Disappearnce Syndrome)
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 6:25a Steve McDonagh We have all been there.. we are in a meeting or are called to a colleagues PC and we feel we really really need to share some file with that user. So out comes the memory stick and into the other PC it goes .. and as soon as the file is copied your prized memory stick just disappears... poof ... gone.br /
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Is "a" Sandwich a category error and can mayonasie dribble be accurately measured
Sat, Mar 6th 2010 11:25a Steve McDonagh I was sat in a href="http://www.groundcoffee.net/pages/about.htm"Ground/a Having the usual excellent Chill, chicken, bacon, roast pepper, cheese and onion panini with a white chocolate Moccha no cream (Well i am on a diet) Now it was pointed out to me recently when you buy a panini you are actually doing nothing of the sort! You are noshing down on a PANINO for PANINI is the plural.br /
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Good Music , good company and craic in the nineties @ the Beflast songwriters festival
Fri, Mar 5th 2010 9:24p Steve McDonagh Having spend the last 10 weeks in the purgatory that is the post Christmas anticlimax I decided that a bit of fun was in order. So I booked SWMBO and myself into the a href="http://www.dukesatqueens.com/"Dukes Hotel/a in Belfast for the weekend of the a href="http://www.belfastnashville.com/"6th Annual Guinness Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival/a now that might sound a little bit too country and western for my taste and yes there was some Camp;W but we managed to avoid it :-)br /
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If curling were easy it would be called Hockey
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 6:24p Steve McDonagh span class="goog-spellcheck-word"T'other/span span class="goog-spellcheck-word"nite/span I was chatting to span class="goog-spellcheck-word"Duffbert/span about the fine art of Curlingbr /
Whichnbsp; rests vampire like in the popular consciousness for 4 years andbr /
then explodes on the moonbeam of publicity that the winter Olympics brings.br /
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All of a sudden the media is full of "houses", "Skips" "Stones" and "Ends"br /
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ILUG 10 Preperations gathers pace ... poster ideas
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 6:23p Steve McDonagh The throb of antipication has moved from barely noticable into "shit itis only 9 months away" mode. 9 month's eh? I have time to get pregnant and give birth before the crowds of the faithful descend on Ireland for another round of ILUGy excitment.br /
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Here are a few posters ideas that may or may not be usedbr /
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Access the clipboard in Javascript
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 9:24a Steve McDonagh Now here is a wee something I fell over the other day whislt trying to figure out a way of copy and pasting a text stream from a Turdcopy; document to a text area on a form. It would be really useful to grab the clipboard contents .. do some RegExp replaces on it and then import it into the text area.br /
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....and while I am at it, Ireland WTF?
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 8:23a Steve McDonagh ... ohh and while I am at the keyboard and logged on to the blog ...What the hell were Ireland thinking yesterday? Jeeze I mean to say what is the point of me getting all prepared with loads of beer and crisps and the other accoutrements of 6 Nations watcherdom and then you sent the under 13's instead of the real international team?br /
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Enthusions and Indifferons - The physics of not being arsed
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 8:23a Steve McDonagh It has been a while since I last sat at the keyboard to write a blog post of any kind and to be honest I think I reached the rubicon between "arsed" / "can't be arsed" and Julius Caesar like I marched resolutely in the territory "can't be arsed". Mind you instead of declaiming "ālea iacta est" (The die is cast) or something equally as memorable I think I may have sighed deeply and poured another cup of coffee.br /
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