Christadelphian Evolution Denialism

By Corky (Our Blog Founder)

Why do anti-evolution people keep bringing up the big bang and the origin of life? Surely they know that has nothing to do with biological evolution. It is a known scientific fact that lifeforms have evolved (changed) over time on this planet. This fact is known by the fossil record left behind of those past lifeforms that no longer exist.The best explanation is that lifeforms changed over time by natural selection, mutation and environmental changes - evolution.

Why do YECs believe silly things? The function of denialism (With new cartoon added)

The Ken-Cat explains
why most people in his
religion believe silly things

By Christadelphian Ken Gilmore

The Earth is around 4500 million years old. That's a fact, and anyone who asserts otherwise simply does not know what he is talking about. The evidence for this as I pointed out yesterday is considerable, and covers a wide range of areas from ice cores to radiometric dating.

The evidence that our Earth is substantially older than 6,000 years

The Ken-Cat

By Christadelphian Ken Gilmore

Editor's Note: This article is not written by the Ken-Cat, except for the first two paragraphs. The rest is a RationalWiki article that Ken has kindly drawn our attention to. Thanks to Ken for finding it for us.

Christian Retard

Click here to see why this guy is an idiot

The "aha" moment - Biblical Scholars Tell Their Stories. Part 2 - John Byron



The Ken-Cat

Editor's Note: The Berea-Portal team's sinking faith has taken on more water with this latest article by Ken Gilmore. This is Liberal Christadelphianism taken to the Max. This is "Pick n' Mix" Christadelphianism where you decide for yourself what is or is not true in the Bible.

Dating Rocks and Fossils Using Geologic Methods

By Daniel J Peppe

Using relative and radiometric dating methods, geologists are able to answer the question: "how old is this fossil?" 

1. 1Introduction
2. 2 Relative dating to determine the age of rocks and fossils
3. 3 Determining the numerical age of rocks and fossils
4. 4 Using paleomagnetism to date rocks and fossils
5. 5 Summary
   1. 5.1 Glossary
6. 6References and Recommended Reading

 

The Origin of Modern Humans: Why the Fossil Evidence rules out a Fundamentalist Reading of Genesis (With new cartoon)

The Ken-Cat

By Christadelphian Ken Gilmore

Since January 2011, evangelical Christian and physical anthropologist James Kidder has been writing an excellent series of posts at BioLogos on the fossil evidence for human evolution. It's the sort of material that Christadelphians desperately need to read on the subject, particularly given that nearly fifty years ago, the then editor of The Christadelphian, LG Sargent acknowledged that:

 

Seen in Melbourne Australia today

 

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Science - Not Fiction

By Credo Quia Absurdum

Christadelphians have sought to portray themselves as "A religion that makes sense" - as the old tract has it. In doing so they reject much of what mainstream Christianity includes, such as belief in the existence of malevolent supernatural forces - which certainly makes sense in the modern scientific world. And they go considerably further than the biblical authors who clearly understood that there were demons amongst the evil supernatural beings that were opposed to god.

The UK bans the teaching of creationism as science in all publicly funded schools

The Ken-Cat

By Christadelphian Ken Gilmore

Excellent news indeed. Via i09

Back in 2012, the UK government banned all future free schools from teaching creationism as science, requiring them to teach natural selection. At the time, however, it didn't extend those requirement to academies, nor did the changes apply to existing free schools. The new verbiage changes this, precluding all public-funded schools — present or future — from teaching creationism as evidence-based theory. 

Denial of Supernatural Elements of Scripture

By Ex-Christadelphian Tim Woodall
Source

 

One key aspect of Christadelphian theology which helps explain it is the denial of many supernatural elements in scripture that most of mainstream Christianity believes.  Man to them is a physical being.  He doesn’t have an immaterial soul or spirit.  Neither does God also for that matter.  Nor is there a devil.  This simply refers to “sin in the flesh”.  Nor are there demons.  This simply refers to mental illness, epilepsy and other disorders.

The Brains and The Brethren (Evolution Cartoons)

Barbie and Ken Cartoon

Barbie and Ken (Gilmore)

Yet another flawed attack on Evolutionary Creationism by David Burges and The Testimony - 4 (A Ken-Cat article)

Barbie and Ken

Editor's Note: I bring you a remarkable piece of Christadelphian history. Christadelphians have debated each other before and on rare occasions one protagonist has outgunned the other to the point that the loser was blown out of the water. But never before have we seen the Christadelphian equivalent of the night-time carpet bombing of Tokyo towards the conclusion of the Second World War, coupled with the two atomic bomb detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which the loser is vaporised out of all existence to the point that even the electrons, protons and neutrons of his very atoms have been broken down into their particle constituents and then shot into the Quantum Void and most likely ended up in a quite different Universe to the one in which we live. :)

Evolution: How we know it happened and why it matters

Fractal Wrongness and why it is not a good idea

Source

Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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There's no such thing as 'atheistic' science. It's just science.

The Ken-Cat (Ken Gilmore)
meets Lawrence Krauss

By Christadelphian Ken Gilmore
(The best Ex-Christadelphian writer we never had)

Physical anthropologist and evangelical Christian James Kidder has commented on former YEC James MacMillan's ongoing series of posts at Panda's Thumb detailing how YECs intellectually wave away the evidence for evolution. Kidder's comment is worth noting, as it mirrors the deeply flawed thinking of the evolution denialists in our community who seem to think that science is intrinsically anti-theistic:

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