Category Archives: Creationism

Trump Has His Creationist Moment

Posted on September 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

When I write things like “Nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism”*, I’m not doing so because I think that’s an especially SICK BURN (I used to be a hardcore hockey fan–trust me, I can … Continue reading →

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Creationism and Fascism: Two Instances When Words Have No Meaning

Posted on July 23, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or as some asshole with a blog intermitently puts it, nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism. Creationists have always used words as weapons by ingoring their straightforward meanings. It’s what they do. A recent … Continue reading →

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To Defeat Gish Gallopers, You Must Attack the Galloper

Posted on September 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve said this so many times on this blog, but to defeat the torrent of bullshit spewed by Gish Gallopers, you must attack the person doing said spewing, not their remarks. This, of course, is a post about Donald Trump. … Continue reading →

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The NY Times Goes Full Troll on the Origins of COVID

Posted on June 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, the New York Times published a very lengthy op-ed by lab-leak hypothesis advocate Alina Chan. If you want rebuttals of the lab leak hypothesis, I’ll point you to this (more details here) and this. It’s clear this piece … Continue reading →

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Nothing in Movement Conservatism Makes Sense, Except in the Light of Creationism: The Speaker Johnson Edition

Posted on October 31, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

With apologies to Theodosius Dobzhansky. If you hadn’t heard, the House Republicans, after punching themselves in the nuts for over two weeks, finally managed to elect a Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Even by Republican standards, he’s out there, … Continue reading →

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Inchoate Conspiracies

Posted on September 10, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

We really need to understand that the most individual conspiracies aren’t coherent on their own, but allow conspiracists to plug in their own ‘facts’ (boldface mine): Instead, conspiracy theories are most effectively spread by a scattershot approach of supposition, question-begging, … Continue reading →

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The Lynchpin

Posted on September 9, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

It has been darkly amusing watching many pundits and others being forced to finally confront anti-vaccinationism. For those of us who have been aware and opposed to this and other idiocies (e.g., creationism, global warming denialism), what we’re seeing is … Continue reading →

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Nothing in Movement Conservatism Makes Sense Except in the Light of Creationism

Posted on October 17, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

With apologies to Theodosius Dobzhansky. Over the last few weeks, I’ve come across a number of stories, tweets, threads and the like which ask two related questions: How can conservatives make so many false and/or hypocritical statements? When conservatives engage … Continue reading →

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The Strange Silence Of Education Reformers

Posted on September 25, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Despite the ‘education reform’ movement’s fetishization of the Common Core curriculum*, they never seem to defend the integrity of school curricula. Today’s episode in non-reaction comes from Arizona (boldface mine): Arizona Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped a young-earth creationist to serve … Continue reading →

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Good And Bad News About D.C.’s Charter Schools and Creationism

Posted on February 24, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

First, the good news (boldface mine): A D.C. public charter school network scrapped plans to award Liberty University a contract to offer online courses to high school students, including a class that would have taught them how to “apply a … Continue reading →

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