Futile rage department!

I must confess that the antics of the ineffectual morons over at the Question Evolution blog amuse me. Only slightly, I should add. They present all the bluster and dynamism of a wet paper bag. Then again, what else would you expect from a project run by the multiple socks of Ken Demyer – Conservapedia’s resident man-child and butcher of the English language?

The site is a vague mishmash of vague promises to launch a campaign “any day now” which will flush evolution away, not to mention a veritable link farm back to Ken’s awful, awful collection of “essays” on Conservapedia – because he thinks that’s how Google’s SEO works.

A prime example of this is their reaction to Richard Dawkins’ victory over English schools that teach creationism as science. Basically, the UK government has revised its funding model and will withdraw cash from schools that fail to meet strict criteria relating to what they teach. Under the new agreement, funding will be withdrawn for any free school that teaches what it claims are “evidence-based views or theories” that run “contrary to established scientific and/or historical evidence and explanations”.

Needless to say, you can imagine how this stick in their craw. So just how do they respond to this?

Like a bunch of 6-year-olds, of course:

Creation Ministries recently published an article entitled Dawkins gloats over boost to evolutionary dogma in schools. Of course, the force feeding of Darwinian pseudoscience comes with a price and the price is the inevitable backlash.

In the first quarter of 2012 (perhaps as early as January of 2012), our Question evolution! campaign group expects to officially launch our efforts in the UK. Given the highhanded strategies and tactics of British atheists/Darwinists, there certainly appears to be a lot of backlash to tap into in the United Kingdom. In February of 2009, the Guardian reported that half of Britons do not believe in evolution.

Ooh, I bet he’s quaking in his shoes. At some unspecified point in the future, an utterly ineffective group is going to launch a project that has already sunk into obscurity in the rest of the world. of course, what they actually mean, is Ken is going to start another blog at http://questionevolutionuk.blogspot.com, which will merely act as another link farm for his drivel.

Undaunted by this, they go on to indulge in a little intellectual dishonesty. Apparently Jonathan Sarfarti – a man singularly unqualified to write about biology – has written a book, refuting Dawkins’ “Greatest Show on Earth.” Ken goes on to quote on Dr. John Sanford (and you have to Google Dr. John Sanford, that’s how obscure he is) who says “In my opinion Sarfati’s book beats Dawkins’ book, point by point, on all issues.”

That’s telling stuff, until you realise that Sanford is just another crank churning out mindless drivel for Creation Ministries. Hardly an unbiased review there.

On the subject of intellectual dishonesty, I’d like to share this little gem with you. Remember the video made by the entirely fictitious “13 year old young man”? Of teddy bear Dawkins being confronted by teddy bear Archangel Gabriel?

Well, Ken has added that to the garbage heap that is the Dawkins article on Conservapedia, citing the second video – which, please remember is an ANIMATION liekly made by Ken, which does not feature a single word by Dawkins – as fact of Dawkins’ “Inability to address the 15 questions of the Question evolution! campaign.”

That’s how deluded and deceitful these idiots are. A religion worth lying for is not a religion worth following.

This is what they’ve been reduced to…

So the idiots over at the Question Evolution! blog are claiming victory over Richard Dawkins.

No, seriously.

Of course, the truth of the matter is that they’re simply lying through their teeth.

You see, their “13 year old Christian young man” – mangled language once again courtesy of resident man-child Ken Demyer – has purportedly created videos showing Richard Dawkins being stumped by the 15 questions.

Ok, firstly – THERE IS NO 13 YEAR OLD CHRISTIAN YOUNG MAN (sic). He is a figment of Ken Demyer’s imagination (and possibly fantasies, but let’s not go there). This is fairly evident by the fact that they are pretty awful, about on par with Demyer’s grip of the language.Given that Demyer still hasn’t learned to use a preview button on a wiki, it’s not surprising he can’t even add transitions in a very, VERY basic video presentation.

Secondly, they spout exactly the same clap-trap that Demyer spouts all the time. So unless Demyer is nurturing this poor child, which is highly unlikely, the “child” is Demyer himself.

Thirdly, it’s back to Ken’s old bugbear – Richard Dawkins. It’s a common fact that Demyer has had a hard-on for Dawkins (and possibly 13-year-old boys) for a long, long time – going back to before his utterly bizarre “Richard Dawkins lacks machismo” gibberish. I’m willing to bet good money that soon we’ll see PZ Myers and Penn Jillette receiving similarly challenging videos.

Needless to say, the videos have nothing to do with the real Richard Dawkins… surprise, surprise. The first of the 2 part video, shows a badly animate bear (supposedly the Archangel Michael) going up to another badly animated bear and telling Dawkins that all his evolutionary beliefs are wrong, because he can’t answer the 15 questions. I’ll save you from watching it, here’s screenshots below.

In the second video, Teddy-bear Dawkins admits he can’t answer the questions, begs for more time and thus becomes a Christian and admits that evolution is wrong, meaning that QE wins again.

If this is what the QE! campaign has been reduced to, then we can safely say that it’s dead before it even left the starting gate. It would be interesting to see them tackle some real flesh and blood scientists with their questions, but we know that’s not going to happen. What’s really sad are the sad messages of support (and ONLY support – all critics are banned, remember) that are being posted. Well, I say messages, there’s 2 – and one of those is from somebody involved in the site.

First up we have FishNips (a member of Blogger since Sep 2011, and probably Ken Demyer)

This is just fabulous! and what thin skins these professed intellectuals have by the way they comment on such an endearing, and clear cut, simple, video. My word! They are bowled over by simple FACTS. No wonder they throw lies around – facts to evolutionists are like water to the wicked witch …

What?? You just watched a video starring an animated bear? Nobody had a thin skin, nobody was bowled over by ANYTHING.

Then we get much fawning from site owner KippyssoMature

Hilarious. He can’t even answer one of the questions. You would think that being wrong so often would make him realise something. Also when confronted by an actual archangel a little more humility might be in order – but not from Dawkins of course. I love hoe he squeals for more time. Dawkins, you’re truly pathetic.

Once again… Dear Kippy… you do realise that was an animated BEAR and not Dawkins right? Actually if it was Dawkins, you’d probably be bleeding to death from the new arsehole he tore you… Then again, having a look a Kippy’s other blog, one gets the feeling he’s not the sanest guy around.

 

 

 

Asked and answered

I guess now is the time to have a look at these 15 questions that are going to bring the theory of evolution to its knees and convert all right-thinking folk into gibbering idiots… I mean Christians.

It’s also interesting to note that this whole “15 questions” campaign is nothing new. Back in 2002, Scientific American ran an article entitled “15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense,” which just goes to show that these idiots don’t give up. As SA put it:

Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy.

Even more embarrassingly, these idiots won’t go away. Nothing happened after their last campaign, so here they are again. However, they might have a sneaky new weapon in their arsenal… the word “adequately.” You see, they’ve now put forward 15 questions that they say evolutionists cannot adequately answer… which in the words of RationalSkepticism.org, means that “no evidence/answer can convince them otherwise.” The problem with this, is the deceitful bastards could then go to various State legislators which, since the advent of the Tea Party, seem to be stuffed with morons these days, and cry “See! No scientist could answer these questions! Evolution is flawed! The Bible is right! Teach the Bible! Teach the Bible!”

Hyperbole much?

The funniest thing about the Question Evolution campaign is that no matter how much resident fuck-wit Ken Demyer claims the Question Evolution is going to “sweep across the country” or “smash the bows of the SS Atheism” or “grind up atheism in a meat grinder, or even “squash atheism like a tin can”… it’s done nothing.

Absolutely nothing. The updates we have are along the lines of “somebody has volunteered some time to do something unknown at some unspecified point in the future.” For all Ken’s posturing that ‘atheism will soon become “half a squeak” in America’ (yes, I know, that’s the mental agility of the man), their much-vaunted campaign has done… nothing. I’m sure the fact that it’s being run by a bunch of morons is purely coincidental.

The campaign has been going since at least June 2011, and yet as far as I can tell, all the atheists are still here, evolution is firmly entrenched in science. I haven’t seen a single billboard, advert, news insert, nothing. Even on the creation.com website, there are only 15 testimonials supporting the cause. Of those, I know 4 are fake, but CMI is quite happy to accept totally unbelievable, over the top  stories, if it aids their cause.

There also been a number of replies to the 15 questions, all of which have been handily rejected. Not, let me state right now, because they are incorrect, or that evolutionists are indeed stumped, but because of:

1. The handy catch-all phrase “adequately explain.” This gives them a handy escape clause, as they can say, “No, sorry, you didn’t adequately explain it, next!”
2. These people have a pre-set agenda – science is badf, Bible is good; anything that contradicts the Bible can be rejected. Or, as Answers in Genesis put it: “In a biblical worldview, scientific observations are interpreted in light of the truth that is found in the Bible. If conclusions contradict the truth revealed in Scripture, the conclusions are rejected.” In other words, if your defense of evolution contradicts the Bible, it’s wrong.

Still’ given the general amount of fuck-all that’s going on with the campaign, it’s no wonder that they go apeshit when somebody actually does something. In this case. a supposedly “13 year old young man” (yes, that’s Ken again) has created a video, extolling the campaign.

Enter Terry Hurlbut – he of the amusing name, batshit insane YEC beliefs (seriously, this is the man who believes that water from the flood cratered the Moon, and that during the flood, the Earth turned into a giant nuclear reactor… but a little wooden boat survived unharmed) and another member of Schlafly’s white supremist hate blog… I wonder if there’s a common thread developing here.

Now Hurlbut, who as a qualified doctor, but now works as a gofer of an ambulance chaser (maybe the power of prayer wasn’t working in the operating theatre) might be more intelligent than Ken Demyer, but he’s just as revolting a person. He regularly deletes comments and blocks users from his own blog, so he’s right at home, both on Conservapedia and with the Question crowd. The fact that Hurlbut was also a member of the Digg Patriots, which actively buried stories they didn’t like, also speaks volumes. So when a scumbag like this speaks up for you, it might be best to back away slowly.

Anyway, Hurlbut is crowing on his blog about how amazing this video is. To quote the man: “Remarkably, his video shows production values that easily rival those of any professional advertising agency.  The music alone is worth the viewer’s time.”

Wow. Maybe we should have a look at this work of art.

Don’t worry, I’ve saved you the trouble. here’s a blow by blow description of the video that “shows production values that easily rival those of any professional advertising agency.” Don’t worry, I didn’t give him the pleasure of a visit on YouTube, I simply downloaded it via the link.

Music: Some generic, dramatic, quasi-orchestral piece, probably downloaded from the web. No credit, or source given for the music.

Total length: 1:08

From 0:00 to 0:06 – Question’s logo, the “Darwin with his finger to his lips” picture

From 0:07 to 0:13  – Cut to picture of train tracks with the words “Would you like to stop atheism in its tracks” crammed into the top of the frame. Wait… a cut to the next picture? No fade, or wipe… where are these production values I keep hearing about?

0:14 to 0:22 – cut (again no effects) to a green screen, with a brown stripe at the bottom, and the words “We have 15 questions which stop evolutionists in their tracks”

0:23 to 0:33 – cut (WHAT fucking production values??!!) to blue screen with yellow stripe and the words “This is all part of the Question Evolution campaign.”

0:34 to 0:42  – cut to dark blue screen with white stripe and the words “The Question Evolution campaign ask evolutionist 15 questions. The questions are stumping evolutionists.” I’m starting to get the impression that either this kid is being groomed by Ken Demyer (a thought too horrible to contemplate) or her doesn’t exist and it’s Ken putting this togther.

0:43 to 0:52 – Cut to white screen with black writing “Thanks for watching our video. Please volunteer for this campaign. Merry Christmas  from the Question Evolution campaign.

0:53 to end: “For more information please visit: The link is down below.” Ironically the last part is placed under the URL!

Simply put, even for a supposed 13-year-old, it’s awful. And for somebody like Hurlbut to claim it rivals advertising companies… well… the man is either delusional, or lying through his teeth. Knowing him as I do, I’m inclined to go with the latter.

Question Evolution! What a load of crap!

So, the monkeys over at Creation Ministries International have seen fit to pose 15 questions that evolutionists cannot adequately answer. By their logic, the fact that people can’t answer these questions, will therefore mean that evolution is false and you’re supposed to fall down on your knees and become a Christian straight away. However, before we we get to the questions and their answers, I think it’s time to look at some of the people pushing this insane agenda.

First up and leading the charge, we have Ken Demyer, probably better known as user:Conservative on racist bigot Andrew Schlafly’s little rightring hate blog, Conservapedia. A master of disguise, he cunningly poses as user:Question on the “official” Question Evolution blog, where he merely copy/pastes his inane and insane drivel from the pages of Conservapedia.

This is a man who thinks that a fire destroying a house is a good analogy of Christianity, whilst the fireman standing helplessly by, is a lazy atheist. This is the same man who thinks that an encyclopaedia (although I use the term in its broadest possible context where Conservapedia is concerned) needs articles comparing atheists to ponies and bears and god knows what else.

Then again, we are dealing with a mentally disturbed 40-year-old man-child, dwelling in his mother’s basement and with all the social skills of a reticent doorknob. This is a man too cowardly to come out from behind the powers of a Conservapedia sysop and face his critics directly – mostly because he hasn’t got the brainpower to face up to them. This is man who issues bizarre challenges for people to debate him… provided a monetary fee is paid… and then dfoesn’t have the imagination to make up an excuse when his demands are met.

Time and time again he has suddenly become “too busy for an unspecified period” to entertain further discussion and has left websites, such as A Storehouse of Knowledge, where he can’t hide behind the banhammer.

If you’d like to know Ken’s opinion about debate, here’s an excerpt for his most recent blog post on the Question Evolution blog:

The solution to quarrelsome, socially challenged atheists and evolutionists

1. Bring down the banhammer early and often at Christian/creationist forums and wikis when it comes to these types of atheists/evolutionists. It’s fun and entertaining!  Mr. Militant, Rude and Ignorant Atheist/Evolutionists, don’t get sassy with me!  Bam! You’re out of here!
2. If you have a Christian or creationist YouTube channel read this article at Creationwiki: YouTube participant advice.
3. Require pre-approval of comments at Christian blogs and YouTube channels
4. Never read more than a few words or sentences of inane and socially challenged atheist/evolutionist comments before deleting them. One Christian, who pre-approves the comments at this blog and who has a great sense of humor, told me he gets a big kick out of out of removing combative, vacuous, rambling, and long atheists’ comments at his blog. The longer the comments of senseless and belligerent atheists at his blog, the more he enjoys deleting them! No doubt these type of comments are full of sound and fury, but they signify nothing and they are summarily deleted.

There you have it, in a nutshell – these people have no interest in debating the facts. Ken – who is ironically VERY socially challenged, throws out cheap insults and actively advocates blocking, reverting and ignoring all those who disagree with him. It’s just the kind of behaviour we expect from somebody used to hanging on the coattails of a bigot, who is appalled that a black man is in the White House.

Then again, you’re dealing with a mindset for whom the following is quite logical:

In a biblical worldview, scientific observations are interpreted in light of the truth that is found in the Bible. If conclusions contradict the truth revealed in Scripture, the conclusions are rejected.

Yes, there’s nothing like exploring science, with the preconceived notion that you’re going to reject everything that doesn’t agree with the garbled writings from a bronze-age myth.

Of course, the irony is is that I could insinuate that Ken fucks his mother, to save paying rent for his basement, and he’ll be too much of a coward to appear here to refute the allegation. The talk page is open, come on over Ken.