Ken Ham Denounces [Rational Thinking. What Did You Expect? He’s A Proponent Of] Creationism
It’s possible that Answer in Genesis might not always be as honest as they possibly could be. Check out the headling for item 3 of their latest edition of News to Note:
Scientists have found [indirect evidence of liquid water, which can be spun through evolutionary interpretations as indirect evidence of] life on one of Saturn’s moons!
Well hell. Dem saahntiss sho is dum! The clear implication here is that scientists are claiming to have find life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus based solely on the presence of water. Naturally, I had serious doubts that the article they linked to said anything like that. Here’s the actual headline:
‘Misty caverns’ on Enceladus moon: Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained strong evidence that Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus retains liquid water.
Well, nothing about life there. Perhaps if I read on, I’ll see where the article says that this find means we’ve found life on Enceladus.
It means the Saturnian satellite may be one of the most promising places in the Solar System to search for signs of extraterrestrial life.
Oh, well, that’s not really the same thing…no, not even close. Maybe some foolhardy scientist is quoted as saying that this find means we’ve found life on Enceladus?
“We need three ingredients for life, as far as we know - liquid water, energy and the basic chemical building blocks - and we seem to have all three at Enceladus, including some fairly complex organic molecules,” commented John Spencer, a Cassini scientist from the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
“That’s not to say there is life on Enceladus but certainly the ‘feedstock’ is there for life to use if it does exist,” he told BBC News.
Well, hmmm…no…this person goes out of his way to point out that we haven’t found life on Enceladus. I guess that leaves one option, really.
ANSWERS IN GENESIS MAKES SHIT UP.
Stumble it!
June 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
ANSWERS IN GENESIS HAS POOR READING COMPREHENSION.
ANSWERS IN GENESIS HAS NO CONNECTION TO PHIL COLLINS.
WOULD NOT BUY FROM AGAIN !!!!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I do not like rehashed Ken Ham, I do not like it Sam I Am.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Great post, but it mentioned Ken Ham. One Star.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Scientists toss around the “signs of life” for publicity, as much as they always make clear that their findings with Enceladus recently and Europa in the last few years don’t mean that there’s life there, most of them don’t really entertain the possibility as much as they let on. Public interest is good for getting funding, though, and most people don’t get excited about stable short chain organic molecules like they do about OMG EXTRA TERRESTRIAL LIFE.