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With the recent hullaballoo over my foray, once again, into showing how ridiculous young-Earth creationism is, and the sheer flood of comments from people who have completely and utterly missed the point of what I wrote, I thought it would be fun to hand out a little more smackdown.

This time, I have help! It’s from Shane Killian, a fellow skeptic who has posted some YouTube videos about various and sundry aspects of twisting reality. He’s done an excellent job of debunking creationism in his series called "Bogosity". In Part 2, he takes on creationism versus real astronomy. Full disclosure: he has some help in this part by someone you may recognize (hint: look at the very upper right part of this blog page).

And I suppose to avoid a bunch of comments from people who still don’t get it: in these posts (and in this video) I am not attacking religion in general or even Christianity specifically. I am attacking creationism, because it’s wrong, and because so many of its propagators are liars, and so many of them are very, very eager to tear down the separation between Church and State.

Got it? Great! Now watch us destroy creationism. Enjoy.

In case you weren’t sure that U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was a pandering lackey, you might want to read this article in the Seattle Times where they say he is giving a talk sponsored by the evil liars at The Discovery Institute, the group that promotes the religion of Intelligent Design. Gonzalez won’t be speaking on religious or scientific matters (he’ll discussing "efforts to protect intellectual property and combat cybercrime", which I find richly ironic given both his history and that of the DI). Still, the DI is a slimy group of liars, and having them sponsor this talk doesn’t move Gonzalez up in my book at all. I’d even say it moves him down a notch, but he’s already so low he could walk under snake’s belly without having to duck.

Tip o’ the mortarboard to DefConBlog.