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Hat tip to Auke, who transcribed the recent creationism seminar: Creationist rubbish: read all about it Posted 2008 March 14 @ 22:54 – filed under Bullshit. On March 05, Dr D. J. Batten (B.Sc., Hons., Ph.D.), who is affiliated with Creation Ministeries International, came to spew nonsense on the campus of the University of Stellenbosch. [...]

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In last week’s Creationism seminar, Donald James Batten, B.Sc.Agr. (Hons 1), Ph.D. ended his talk with a calculation showing how unlikely it is that a particular protein would form via random chance alone. I did not verify all the numbers in his calculation. I see no need to, because his calculation was completely unrelated to [...]

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Creationists believe that, prior to Adam taking a bite out of the forbidden fruit, Lions, and all other predators including Tyrannosaurus Rex, ate plants. They believe this because they believe “there was no death before the fall”. When Adam took a bite of the forbidden fruit, the digestive systems of all predators spontaneously (or gradually?) [...]

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On Wednesday there was another creationism seminar in the Neelsie, presented by a Donald James Batten, B.Sc.Agr. (Hons 1), Ph.D. In my subjective experience, the talk seemed like less of a circus than the seminar presented last year. By that, I mean the nefarious content was a little less obvious to the lay person. A [...]

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While taking a look at pages on quote mining, I came across a rather silly example of how the Bible could be quote mined. In Psalm 14 (NIV) the Bible says, “There is no God”. It does, really! Yea, quote mining can be absolutely ridiculous, not so? Refrain from quote mining. Quote mining is dishonest, [...]

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Ruth sent me the following email about a project to build a BMX track for the children of Kayamandi: Through Elana Meyers foundation, JAG, www.songo.info is raising funds for the construction of a BMX track in the Stellenbosch Township through donors buying virtual kilometers of the 950 kilometers. These are to be ridden by current [...]

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The Neelsie student centre: in the middle of Stellenbosch campus. 33°55’57″S 18°51’55″E The Kayamandi township: barely two kilometres to the north-west. 33°55’10″S 18°50’55″E (Indicated on Google Maps below the fold.) Video by Johan Swarts and Stephan. They say the stats are quite accurate, but are not based on outside research. “It is merely a projection”. [...]

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Much of the high rate of posts on this blog come from a place of wondering what direction to take. I probably contradicted myself often. This weekend, as I was doing a couple of thesis corrections before final publication (highly depressing to make minor corrections to something that seems majorly weak), and as I was [...]

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The last time I really did any real cooking, was in primary school, in “Food Technology” class. (This was in The British School in the Netherlands, a long long time ago.) As a student, I lived in a residence for most of my studies, where we were served three meals a day. One year in [...]

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Pretty simple really. The only people that have the guts to say something and be vocal about it, are those that have enough drive to do so. Typically, those that have been hurt, directly or indirectly. The result is usually strong emotional responses, or those with a really strong opinion. Such responses tend to fall [...]

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