Comments on: answers in genesis takes on black holes http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/10/12/answers-in-genesis-takes-on-black-holes/ exploring science, the strange and the unknown Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:09:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: IVAN3MAN AT LARGE http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/10/12/answers-in-genesis-takes-on-black-holes/#comment-7072 IVAN3MAN AT LARGE Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:13:12 +0000 http://worldofweirdthings.com/?p=8114#comment-7072 Answers in Genesis is akin to an unscrupulous, shoddy furniture manufacturer who uses real wood veneer over low-cost chipboard, and then markets them at a high price as made of 'real' wood. Answers in Genesis is akin to an unscrupulous, shoddy furniture manufacturer who uses real wood veneer over low-cost chipboard, and then markets them at a high price as made of ‘real’ wood.

]]> By: New creationist tactic: telling the truth? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/10/12/answers-in-genesis-takes-on-black-holes/#comment-7069 New creationist tactic: telling the truth? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:00:10 +0000 http://worldofweirdthings.com/?p=8114#comment-7069 [...] Fish of the blog World of Weird Things clued me in to a post on the execrable Answers In Genesis website talking about black holes. In [...] [...] Fish of the blog World of Weird Things clued me in to a post on the execrable Answers In Genesis website talking about black holes. In [...]

]]> By: gfish http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/10/12/answers-in-genesis-takes-on-black-holes/#comment-7043 gfish Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:19:46 +0000 http://worldofweirdthings.com/?p=8114#comment-7043 <i>"What kind of institution would now accept Jason Lisle on its letterhead or payroll?"</i> Scientific institutions don't require you to sign any oaths or statements of faith unlike AiG so I'm sure that if Dr. Lisle just starts doing real research with serious merit, pretty much any college or university interested in his work would be willing to give him a chance. Besides, at least one other AiG staffer, Andrew Snelling, <a href="http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/02/05/crashing-darwins-birthday/" target="_self" rel="nofollow">has been publishing real scientific work</a> while he concocts the fairy tales his boss requires of him... “What kind of institution would now accept Jason Lisle on its letterhead or payroll?”

Scientific institutions don’t require you to sign any oaths or statements of faith unlike AiG so I’m sure that if Dr. Lisle just starts doing real research with serious merit, pretty much any college or university interested in his work would be willing to give him a chance.

Besides, at least one other AiG staffer, Andrew Snelling, has been publishing real scientific work while he concocts the fairy tales his boss requires of him…

]]> By: reggie http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/10/12/answers-in-genesis-takes-on-black-holes/#comment-7024 reggie Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:28:29 +0000 http://worldofweirdthings.com/?p=8114#comment-7024 There's always a Templeton Prize for Lisle. There’s always a Templeton Prize for Lisle.

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/10/12/answers-in-genesis-takes-on-black-holes/#comment-7023 Pierce R. Butler Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:29:13 +0000 http://worldofweirdthings.com/?p=8114#comment-7023 What kind of institution would now accept Jason Lisle on its letterhead or payroll? Hasn't he reduced his marketability to the Liberty/Oral Roberts/Regent/Bob Jones university circuit? His die is cast, his bridges are ash; from where he stands now, all roads lead to Jesus - and nowhere else. What kind of institution would now accept Jason Lisle on its letterhead or payroll?

Hasn’t he reduced his marketability to the Liberty/Oral Roberts/Regent/Bob Jones university circuit? His die is cast, his bridges are ash; from where he stands now, all roads lead to Jesus – and nowhere else.

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