Another zine completed: "flying creatures of the fifth day", based on a creationist textbook with the same title.

The most difficult part of making this one was narrowing down the material to include (sadly, the explanation of pterosaurs and how they went extinct after the great flood did not make it in. It'll have to go into a vol. 2).

The textbook really is child abuse. There are plenty of facts about wings and feathers and lift, and other facts about insect anatomy and things like that, but everything discussed in the book is "designed by God for its special purpose" in an "orderly creation" with the beauty of biology acting as evidence of God's great wisdom. Things aren't themselves, they are the means by which the reader is meant to see how wise and powerful God is.

Sadly, a little section of the part about feathers hadn't gotten glued properly across the center fold and I only noticed that it had folded over after making all the 11x17 color copies at $1.43 a piece 😭. I think it's still mostly readable (you can see it in pic 2).

#zines #creationism #art #collage

Spread the word! This is copy of a comment from latest GutsickGibbon livestream on YouTube.

If you’ve ever wanted to flush the “If we come from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” argument down the evolutionary toilet once and for all, this is for you.
July 2nd is International Why Do British People Exist? Day
That’s right. We’re turning one of creationism’s most brainless gotchas into a full-blown satire holiday.
The basic idea:
“If white Americans came from British people, why are there still British people?”
It’s not just a joke (though it is a pretty good joke). it’s a meme-powered push to retire this specific brand of anti-intellectual nonsense from public discourse.

What You Can Do:

* Post your own version on July 2nd to any social media platform, including YouTube

* Optional, use the hashtag #WhyDoBritishPeopleExistDay

* Bonus points for memes, screen caps, videos, or just sarcastic deadpan

We’re not mocking belief, we’re mocking lazy logic. If you’ve ever yelled “That’s not how evolution works!” at your screen, this is your day.
Let’s push this incoherent argument off the public stage, loudly, proudly, and PERMANENTLY.

#WhyDoBritishPeopleExistDay
#July2nd

Example: Today July 2nd, is INTERNATIONAL WHY DO BRITISH PEOPLE EXIST DAY. And on this day I am here to remind you that the "why do monkeys still exist" argument is dumb.
If Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and British People all come from 17th century British People, then why are there still British people?
Evolution gave us thumbs. Let’s use them to type better arguments!
#WhyDoBritishPeopleExistDay
#July2nd

#creationism #science #evolution

#religion #schools #creationism #Australia

"Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark

Teachers who attended ‘compulsory’ creationist conference run by US-based fundamentalist group told radiometric dating techniques were flawed.

Teachers employed by a large group of Queensland Christian schools were told to teach creationism in science classes, including that vegetarian baby dinosaurs would have been taken aboard Noah’s Ark.

Last year, the Open Brethren organisation Christian Community Ministries (CCM) hosted a Christian science conference by the US-based fundamentalist group Answers in Genesis, which once built a replica of Noah’s Ark – with model dinosaurs included.

Some Queensland science and humanities teachers working at CCM – which operates 15 schools around Australia – were told it was compulsory to attend the event."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/25/science-teachers-from-queensland-open-brethren-schools-told-to-teach-students-about-vegetarian-dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark

"Guest Recommends I Watch His #Propaganda"
- #Planet Peterson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZYfrltTCpY

#evolution #creationism #darwin #life #atronomy #biology #bible #science

The #creation accounts can’t be #harmonized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1s3esxR5mM

#genesis #creationism #contradictions #myths #mythology #bible #judaism #christian #atheist #atheism

Originally published June 7, 2017

A tenet of geology is that rocks are old. Therefore, objects of human origin embedded in rock suggest that the rock formed after the object was created. However, there are several examples of these anomalies, which, upon first appearance, seem to set the geological timescale and assumptions topsy-turvy. One of these items is the London Hammer.

The story of its discovery goes as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Max Hahn found a nodule with the wood handle sticking out near Red Creek in London, Texas in either 1934 or 1936. Later retelling of the story by others say it was lying loose on a rock ledge when found. The nodule was broken open several years later to reveal the entire embedded iron head.

These type of anomalies are known colloquially as OOPARTs (out-of-place artifacts). Such items also include similar embedded objects like iron nails and gold chains but also alleged human footprints in prehistoric rock. Other OOPARTs assumed by some to be ancient objects created by some mysterious culture are actually natural phenomena that resemble cultural products. I hope to include some more interesting OOPARTs descriptions in future posts.

But let’s take this London hammer artifact and try to determine just how strange it is.

The hammer is of 19th-century origin. We know this because we can find matching hammers used by miners of that time and not before. The wooden handle of the hammer would not preserve much longer intact. Wood would either decompose or mineralize, depending on the conditions. How did it get encased in rock? The clue to this seems to lie in the description of the rock type – “limey”. Calcite precipitates from saturated solutions quickly under the right conditions, weeks to years. Shell beds also accumulate and cement together in a short time. In this case, we can surmise that a miner might have dropped the hammer or it fell into a spot where he was unable to retrieve it, perhaps into some limey clay that eventually hardened around the hammerhead. However, there are some suspicious details about the hammer.

First, it was not found in situ. We have no documentation of exactly where it was found or under what conditions. We just have a story from the Hahns. The strata in this location are Cretaceous in age but do not match the concreted substance. The nodule matrix cannot reliably be associated with a host rock.

But the primary problem is where the artifact is now kept and for what purpose. The item resides in a Creationist museum in Texas and is exhibited as “proof” that a worldwide flood occurred and wiped out most of the earth’s inhabitants, as related in the Biblical tale of Noah. Carl Baugh, the current owner of the artifact, will not allow testing of the wooden handle or the concretion matrix to definitively characterize its origin, though there is an undetailed, uncorroborated report from a supporter of Baugh who claims the handle was dated “from present to 700 years ago”.

Researcher Glen Kuban has an excellent chronology and details of the history of the artifact and its problematic provenance here. He supports the explanation that the hammer is a typical 19th-century miner’s tool that was encased in the limey concretion by natural means. This plausible explanation does not overturn any geological ideas about the age of the earth or of humans’ place in it. The London Hammer is simply the result of unique circumstances that produced a fascinating object.

Unfortunately, those who possess the item now (Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX) have no reason to have it analyzed further to help determine how this anomaly formed because of their use of it to support their anti-science narrative of Biblical creation.

Update 25-June-2024

Here is another example of rapid cementation of a recent item – an engine block left in an intertidal zone became incorporated into the rock along with shells and rock.

Young-earth creationists will shift position on these artifacts depending upon what might gain them traction in an argument. As noted above, they will claim that the rock indicates that humans were around long ago at the same time as extinct animals, so evolution must somehow be false or that fossils can form very quickly so the earth does not have to be old. Both arguments have mistaken assumptions and are flawed. Some rock does form quickly. But some types of rock are demonstrably ancient – perhaps even a billion years old for some continental bedrock – as are the creatures whose remains were preserved in them. There are multiple lines of evidence that establishes that the earth is over 4 billion years old and that there are billions of animal species that evolved and lineages that went extinct over time. It wasn’t just a few thousand years and a flood that constitutes the history of earth.

UPDATE 5-Jan-2026 (Revised) So a version of this artifact was sold for $330 at auction in January 2026. It was part of a lot of mineral specimens, fossils, casts, and related items owned by Melvin Weaver. While it seemed really strange to some of us who knew what it was that 1. it was being sold and, 2. that it went for such a low price. Jason Colavito contacted the Creationist museum where it was supposedly housed and found that it’s still there. So this version was a replica. I did not imagine there were replicas made, and there was no accessible info on the auction site that showed that. Sorry for the misinformation.