Primate's Progress

Johnson has effusively praised Ark Encounter as “a strategic and really creative … way to bring people to this recognition of the truth that what we read in the Bible are actual historical ev...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/12/13/before-he-was-house-speaker-mike-johnson-represented-a-creationist-museum-in-court-heres-what-that-episode-reveals-about-his-politics/

Reading Darwin causes mass shootings. Mike Johnson says so. I have the transcript

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/reading-darwin-causes-mass-shootings-mike-johnson-says-so-i-have-the-transcript/

Update 25 October 2023: Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana) was today elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Johnson, who is heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry, is an occasi...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/creationism-in-the-service-of-climate-change-denial/

In 1954, at the height of the McCarthyite Red Scare, the anti-evolution preacher John R. Rice asked his audience to whom Marx had dedicated The Communist Manifesto. The answer, he shouted out, wa...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/darwin-marx-satan-and-a-mythical-dedication/

The kindest explanation is that the authors simply do not understand the science that they are presenting, seeing a hierarchical structure where none exists, and imposing on their biology a persp...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/pandas-kitzmiller-and-the-frozen-frog-fallacy/

Posted on Monday, Jun 12, 2023 1:10AM by Paul Braterman by Paul Braterman One month ago today, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis appointed Martyn Iles, formerly director of the Australian Question Lo...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/leading-creationist-organisation-appoints-conspiracy-theorist-to-key-position/

Iles is an extreme religious conservative, defines reality itself in religious terms, argues from Genesis that God approves of population growth, preaches that Christians must dismiss the finding...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/newly-appointed-chief-ministry-officer-of-answers-in-genesis-is-cause-for-concern/

The Heartland Institute tells us that there is not, and cannot be, a climate crisis

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/heartland-institute-says-there-isnt-any-warming/

Abused women should submit to their husbands. Also, it is ungodly to be concerned about the climate, because rainbows. Such, at least, is the advice of the leader-in-waiting of the world's larges...

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/answers-to-everything-according-to-god-according-to-answers-in-genesischief-ministry-officer/

Canada burns. Deniers deny. The Colorado shrinks. Atlantic currents weaken. And UK's PM gives out new fossil fuel licences.

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2023/08/07/6353/