New Skeptics Circle up

The new Skeptics Circle of skeptical blogging is up and numerating at The Second Sight. As usual, lots of good critical stuff all collected in one spot for your reading pleasure.

March 1st, 2007 9:11 AM by Phil Plait in Antiscience, Astronomy, Cool stuff, Debunking, Piece of mind, Science, Skepticism | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “New Skeptics Circle up”

1. blf Says:
March 1st, 2007 at 9:34 am

Apologies if this is not the right place (or has previously been pointed out), but don’t read the follownig whilst drinking coffee or other hot liquids:

http://creationwiki.org/Our_Created_Solar_System

Oh!
My!
Thor!
2. Grand Lunar Says:
March 1st, 2007 at 12:05 pm

I’ll put off the video when I have more time to waste.

Certainly a good one for skeptics (and others) to debunk. That, or to have a good laugh.
3. Buzz Parsec Says:
March 1st, 2007 at 9:21 pm

I couldn’t stand to listen to the whole thing, but he seems to be arguing from personal incredulity and “the god of the gaps”. For example, it is statistically unlikely that a large planetesimal would hit the earth just right to form the moon, so it couldn’t have happened. Or, we don’t really understand planetary magnetic fields, so they must have been created recently. He also mis-uses term “evolution” several hundred times, probably because to his audience, it is a loaed word. He spent a lot of time on total irrelevencies, like the pre-Apollo theories of the origin of the moon, which were known at the time to have serious problems, so there is nothing there that proves his point.

Could anyone else with more endurance listen to the 2nd half of it and see if he actually has any valid points? (I stopped listening about 1/2 way, just when he was starting to talk about Mars.)
4. blf Says:
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:01 am

It would appear I (or the site I’m using?) has been banned from the loonygook site:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at creationwiki.org Port 80

Rather amazing since the only thing I’ve done (besides reading a number of the articles there and getting quite sick) is post the link here! Oh, and I managed to miss lunch whilst doing so, which (ought to be) a crime here in France.
5. Gary Ansorge Says:
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:59 am

Blf: France! Cool! LAst time I visited there was in Oct., 1990, for the Dead concert.
I have many fond memories of France, including surprising myself with how much high school French I was able to recall. My high school was the American Community School, in Beirut, Lebanon. My French teacher was a graduate of the Sorbonne.

I was nearly overwhelmed by the Skeptics Circle. So much to read. So little time.

Gary 7

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