Some local god-station runs a daily bullshit program called "Beyond Intelligent Design"

[Orrex]

I don't know when it airs, but somehow I manage to catch it a few times each week. It's only a few minutes long, though, so for all I know it might run twice an hour. It's sponsored, I believe, by The Discovery Institute. The guy who narrates it has a really strange diction, by the way.

Each episode I've heard has touted one of the standard Creationist objections to evolution, such as irreducible complexity. Also, they pull the standard trick of conflating biological evolution and cosmology.

The most recent episode I heard involved a citation from some former JPL scientist who allegedly claims that scientists are covering up known weaknesses with the Big Bang theory. According to the narrator, this scientist describes the horizon problem as the fatally irresolvable flaw in modern cosmology.


I confess that wasn't even aware of the horizon problem, and I was a little dismayed at my ignorance, because to hear the narrator describe it, it totally disproves the Big Bang theory and totally validates belief in an intelligent Creator. After all, the narrator said that no answers have even been proposed to account for the problem!

But then I looked into it, and I discovered that the reason I haven't heard of the horizon problem is that it's essentially resolved by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_inflation">the inflationary model, which has been around for almost 30 years.


I remember a pamphlet given to me by a classmate when I was in high school. According to the pamphlet, Piltdown Man was at the forefront of modern evolutionary theory and was only revealed as a hoax through the efforts of Creationists. In fact, the hoax was exposed about 35 years before the pamphlet was printed, and Piltdown was recognized as problematic even decades earlier than that. Hardly cutting-edge science!

Is this all they've got? Are Creationist arguments so weak that they can't do anything but misrepresent actual science?


Incidentally, that high school Creationist wound up being valedictorian...

[realisticphish]

1. not to mention

the few hoaxes that have been unearthed were done so by SCIENTISTS. There's no team of creationists that discovered the hoaxes.