Catholic Church Talks Science

A series of conferences are being set up by the Catholic Church to discuss Darwin and Galileo. Seems like they are trying to remove the stigma of being "anti-science", or something like that.

Of course it's hard to forget that this is the same entity that jailed Galileo for spreading the word that the Earth revolves around the Sun. I don't expect much progress to come from this.

A Smart Creationist?

This is a recent video of a discussion between Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society and Georgia Purdom. Purdom has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics, is the director of the Creation Museum, and truly honestly believes in creationism. I can understand uneducated people being duped into believing something as far fetched as the world is only 4,000 years old or evolution doesn't exist, but when a Ph.D. steadfastly defends these claims, we have a problem. But of course she seems very foolish, to me at least, in this conversation. It's hard to fathom that she doesn't understand how absurd many of her claims are, especially in the face of science.

Somewhat of a long video, cut to 14:00 for the really good stuff. Purdom says that there "would be no point" to testing certain things because we already "know God did that". Wow.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science and Religion

Some excellent points here by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is a fascinating person to listen to.