Religious nuts lead Creationist tour in Denver museum. - YouTube

Although this video is a few years old - 2008(?), it highlights what is so wrong with the religionists's view of science, evolution in particular. Ignoring the idiocy of "Jesus" being our creator and designer bit in the beginning, what struck me was the inability to answer this simple question (1:12): "Why are human and dinosaur bones not found in the same sedimentary layers?"

Answer, "There's several problems for the creationist, there's no doubt about that. And one would be that."

Reminds me of the Ham v Nye debate where Ham blatantly states, "No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true." And that is a very dangerous viewpoint to have. Evolution is the only way that biology makes sense, a point embraced by Kirk Johnson.

Evolution is a central tenet of biology without it, we have no means to study, understand or combat how bacteria come to resist antibiotics, for example; we have no means to improve food production. It lends to the lack of critical thinking skills necessary to discern between pseudo- science and accepted science theory and I think we all know where that can lead.

In Jenny McCarthy’s own words

Sometimes, in order to appreciate just how wrong antivaccinationist are, it’s best to let them speak in their own words. Nowhere recently have I seen a better example of this than in an interview with Jenny McCarthy published on the TIME Magazine website. In it, along with the usual invocation of the “toxins gambit” and appeals to anecdotal evidence over science, Jenny reveals that she clearly thinks it’s regrettable but acceptable that infectious diseases will return because of the efforts of her and her fellow antivaccine activists:

I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it’s their fucking fault that the diseases are coming back. They’re making a product that’s shit. If you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism.

Eating Yoga Mats

Hari the food babe has created a classic piece of pseudoscientific scaremongering, worthy of dihydrogen monoxide. She has collected a group of factoids that superficially appear scary, but do not relate to the risk of ADA as used in bread. They are designed to mislead and to stoke fears based upon scientific misunderstanding.

She also pulls the common scam of linking to references to support her claims, but not fairly representing what those references actually say.

Microwaves and Nutrition

Hari warns her readers to throw out their microwaves, writing:

Live, healthy, and nutritious foods can become dead in a matter of seconds when you use a microwave. We are the only species on the planet that destroys the nutrient content of our food before eating it. A study published in the November 2003 issue of the Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture found that broccoli cooked in the microwave lost up to 97 percent of its antioxidant content.

The first claim above is that food is supposed to be alive, and that cooking it “kills” the food. This is pure naturalistic nonsense. By the time certain foods, like meat, hit your table, even if it is raw, any cells in the food are dead. The cells in fruits and vegetables start dying after they are picked. Anything frozen will also be dead. Some things alive in the food, you probably don’t want there, such as bacteria that cause spoilage.The more important point, however, is that having living cells is irrelevant to nutrient content.

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That’s right – microwaving is among the best methods of cooking in terms of preserving nutrients. Hari’s conclusion, therefore, is the exact opposite of what the science says.

Religious nuts lead Creationist tour in Denver museum. - YouTube