Comments on: Creationism at YVR

By: Meat Robot

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:05:31 +0000

Wow, how awkward and potentially frightening! I’d be petrified this guy might now decide to find a reason why I’m a problem. His actions were very inappropriate. Have you considered complaining to the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority?

http://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/english/

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By: leftdog

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:08:10 +0000

This is a GREAT post and I am glad that you brought your experience forward.

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By: Brian D

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:10:35 +0000

I hereby nominate “you tend not to want to argue with people with guns who have the ability to order full cavity searches on anyone randomly” for whatever Win Award such statements compete for.

Regarding the “similarity to cats” line, it could be construed as an argument for creation if the reader ignores two other observations (i.e. that other apes are even closer to us, and that the similarities diverge the further away from Mammalia you go). For him to deny the first observation would likely require a piece of deliberate misrepresentation (in the same vein as “we haven’t seen one transitional fossil”, a lie repeated often enough from a position of authority to be taken as truth). In other words, if you don’t understand modern biology, a single factoid out of context combined with a lie actually contributes more to disinformation than the lie itself – or, more eloquently, (only) a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:10:34 +0000

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By: deBeauxOs

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:41:17 +0000

One would hope that the number of anti-science, creationist types has not increased since the Harper government came into power. If one is not paranoid, that is.

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