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Danny Faulkner

Danny Faulkner is a young Earth creationist with actual scientific qualifications (astronomy) but like Jason Lisle he fails to comprehend how physics actually works. He did some actual research in astronomy relating to binary stars. Faulkner was a professor of astronomy and physics at an actual university (University of South Carolina) but he retired to work for the creationist and pseudoscience organization Answers in Genesis. Faulkner was an employee at the Institute for Creation Research where he put on a facade where he thought he was doing real research. He was previously the "Dean" of the Astro/Geophysics department at the ICR Graduate "School" where he was pretending to teach Astronomy and Physics.
==Education==
Faulkner first earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Bob Jones University in 1976. In 1979 he earned a Master of Science in Physics from the accredited and respected Clemson University (which seems to be a popular place for BJU graduates to earn their graduate degrees). Later in 1983, Faulkner earned a Master of Arts in Astronomy and in 1989 a Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy from the legit and accredited Indiana University. Despite having actual astronomy credentials he seemingly has no idea how the scientific method works. Backing this statement, here is a quote from Faulker:
But that is how the scientific method works. A scientist changes a model when new information is discovered. For example, scientists used to think that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, but fossil evidence demonstrating warm-blooded traits such as a fast growth rate, as well as the presence of feathers in some species, caused scientists to update their theories. Also, scientists used to think the Sun revolved around the Earth; when it was confirmed that the Earth revolves around the Sun, scientists back in the day changed their views on astronomy and physics (with the exception of a very fringe minority that believes in geocentrism in this day and age). If science did not allow new information to improve and grow knowledge it would just be another kind of religion.
==Beliefs== 
Faulkner believes the Bible is literal, and the Big Bang as well as evolution to be wrong in every sense. But then again, he did get his Bachelor's degree from Bob Jones University and he works for Answers in Genesis so it would be expected that he would be a creationist following the Bible blindly.
==Pseudoscientist vs. pseudoscientist==
Faulkner has been criticizing the flat earth movement in the pseudojournal Answers in Genesis since 2016 in more than a dozen articles, probably because he saw that flat eartherism was making inroads into the Christian nutter community.Testing a Flat-Earth Prediction: Is the Moon's Light Cooling? by Danny R. Faulkner (January 9, 2019) Answers in Genesis (archived from January 13, 2019).
==External links==
*Danny Faulkner on CreationWiki
*Danny Faulkner on Answers in Genesis
*A list of actual research he has done
*Danny Faulkner at the Encyclopedia of American Loons
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:pseudoscience promoters
Category:christianity
Category:Institute for Creation Research
Danny Wolf

Danny Wolf (born 1986 in Edmond, Oklahoma) is a paleolibertarian political philosopher, alt-right activist, and founder of The Sentinel news website. Wolf is a US-style right-wing libertarian in the Rothbardian tradition. He advocates capitalist control of all sectors of society, cultural conservatism and anti-empiricism. Probably best-known for his disdain of democracy (his articles often focus on the failures of democracy), Wolf frequently mingles with and hosts white supremacists at events and talks due to his dislike for political correctness. Even other libertarians think he is completely just a bit unhinged.
==Immigration==
Wolf is a well-known opponent of open borders, which puts him further at odds with his libertarian contemporaries. With regards to the issues of immigration and open borders he wrote: "No self-respecting libertarian can dispute the need for borders. Sovereign nations have borders for the same reason yards have fences."
==External links==
* Wolf at the Columbian Post
Category:Living people
Danu

Danu is in Irish mythology a purported mother goddess of the which includes other deities of the same mythos, such as Brigid, and has often -by Victorian writers- been also associated with the land itself, being similar to the Greek goddess "Danu herself probably represented the earth and its fruitfulness, and one might compare her with the Greek Demeter. All the other gods are, at least by title, her children." — Squire (1905)
The etymology of her name is unclear; some her with a pair of Hindu goddesses of the that share with the Irish one a strong link with the waters (rivers, etc.) and to be primordial deities, whose name derive of the Proto-Indo-European word for "to run, to flow", which may also lie behind the ancient name for the river Danuuius – perhaps of Celtic origin, though it is also possible that it is an early loanword in Celtic.
More recent scholarship rejects the traditional etymologies, and proposes instead that *Danu is derived from the same root as Latin bonus (Old Latin: duenos) from Proto-Indo-European *dueno- ("good"), via a Proto-Celtic nominative singular n-stem *Duonū ("aristocrat").
Danu has no surviving texts or legends associated with her in the Irish lore that was compiled in the Middle Ages, and parallels with other deities and characters of the Irish mythos as or from the Welsh mythos have been proposed.
==Today==
Like other Celtic deities such as Cernunnos or the already mentioned Brigid, Danu is often present in modern Neopaganism, and even more than others from the same mythos, with so little being known of her, she has often been compared as a blank slate into which to project whatever one wants, including to combine her with other Celtic goddesses, besides Danu's associations with motherhood, fertility, and waters. Modern legends in such regard include one in which her waters nurtured the sacred oak Bile, from which two acorns sprouted giving birth to the deity and the already mentioned Brigid.Primordial Garden: Great Mother Danu & Bile the Sacred Oak. journeysinotherworlds.wordpress.com. Others have claimed she's just Brigid with another name despite the latter being considered a daughter of Danu.Danu, Great River Goddess. herstory.ie, 19 June 2019.
==In popular culture==
Danu appears in the comic as the goddess of the Sessair, the tribe to which the protagonist belongs. She's described there as a triple goddess whose aspects are Morrigu (the ) and and being like Nature both nurturing, warm, and delightful but also destructive with her druids offering her human sacrifices that include to disembowel the victims, even if that's okay for such goddess as they'll go back to the Circle of Life, and be married to the Horned God.Danu
==External Links==
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==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Folklore
Category:Ireland
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Dark energy

Dark energy is the final chapter of Half-Life 2 the term for a proposed form of energy that is thought to permeate all space. Dark energy has a repulsive effect, much weaker than gravity, but permeating all of space means that falling off is irrelevant. The true nature of dark energy is one of the currently unsolved problems in physics.
The abundance of dark matter is 26.8% of the total mass of the Universe, which is far larger than the 4.9% of mass represented by ordinary (or baryonic) matter, such as interstellar gas. But 68.3% of the mass of the Universe is bound up in the mass-equivalence of dark energy.
== Evidence ==
Not only is the Universe expanding, its rate of expansion is increasing with time. Dark energy is the name given to the mysterious "something" that is fueling this universal inflation. Such energy is necessary only if the universe is flat; an "open" universe (an "anti-de Sitter spacetime", one with hyperbolic geometry--negative scalar curvature universally) experiences an accelerating metric expansion anyway. However, our observations suggest the universe is flat (a "minkowski" spacetime, euclidean geometry, zero scalar curvature universally), and an anti-de Sitter spacetime is unstable and thus cannot be a description of our universe anyway.Moschidis, Georgios (2018-12-11). "A proof of the instability of AdS for the Einstein--massless Vlasov system". arXiv:1812.04268
Dark energy is the successor to such past scientific gap-fillers as caloric, phlogiston, aether and Einstein's "biggest blunder" — the cosmological constant (it's more of a reinterpretation than a successor; dark energy appears in the as a cosmological constant, using the same symbol Einstein did). Whether it stays as it is, becomes modified into a more concrete form, or is replaced by an even stranger space filler remains to be seen.
The (ESA) has launched in July 2023 the mission , which will hopefully improve our knowledge of it.
==The darkest side of dark energy==
Some theorized forms of dark energy as , if they existed or were dark energy to become them, could bring the end of the Universe at least as we know it.
==See also==
*Dark matter
*Dark flow
==External links==
*Largest-Ever Survey of Cosmic History Confirms That Dark Energy Exists, Is Tearing the Universe Apart
*Dark Energy from NASA's Imagine the Universe
*Most Direct Evidence of Dark Energy Detected
==References==
Category:physics
Category:Astronomy
Category:Cosmology
Dark flow

Dark flow is a perceived anomaly in the gravitation of several galactic clusters, centering between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. While the motions of galaxies are believed to be more or less randomly distributed with respect to the cosmic microwave background, a peculiar force seems to be pulling a particular cluster in the same direction at similar speeds. This anomaly cannot be accounted for by the general expansion of the Universe and it appears as if something outside and beyond our (observable) Universe is pulling these clusters together.
While more recent data from the Planck spacecraft seem to discredit this,https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07178 the authors of this hypothesis claim these same data support its existence. And see the references therein.
==See also==
*Dark energy
*Dark matter
==References==
==External links==
*"Mysterious 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space" on Space.com
Category:Cosmology
Darrell Huff

Darrell Huff was an American author who wrote about a somewhat diverse range of subjects. Most notably, he wrote a book called How to Lie with Statistics, which remains one of the best-selling statistics books of all time. It examines ways in which people, media organizations, and other entities use really bad statistical logic to present falsehoods to people, taking advantage of how most people don't have a strong foundation in statistical logic. As such, it happens to be a good resource for providing the layman with statistical logic skills so they won't be fooled and also aids enrichment of critical thinking."Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of How to Lie with Statistics", J. Michael Steele, Statistical Science. 2005, Vol. 20, No. 3, 205–209. DOI 10.1214/088342305000000205. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2005.11 Ways To Lie With Statistics, Business Insider, Jul. 28, 2011
Unfortunately, Huff was also a denier of the harmful effects of tobacco, going so far as to give (we imagine false) testimony to Congress for good money multiple times.Statistics for Cigarette Sellers, Andrew Gelman, Ethics and Statistics, VOL. 25.3, 2012
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Mathematicians
Darren Naish

Darren Naish (born September 26, 1975) is a British palaeontologist and science writer. He began his career by investigating dinosaurs and Mesozoic marine reptiles from the Early Cretaceous geological formations of the Southern British Isles, including such creatures as Eotyrannus, the discovery of which helped to demonstrate that tyrannosauroids (the superfamily of dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex and its relatives) actually had much in common with early birds. Since 2006, he has been writing on his own blog, known as Tetrapod Zoology. The blog started out on BlogSpot, Tetrapod Zoology on BlogSpot then moved to ScienceBlogs in 2007, and, then, to Scientific American in 2011,Tetrapod Zoology on Scientific American where it is still hosted today. The blog covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from fossil tetrapods to predation by eagles on prey much larger than they are conventionally assumed to be capable of to unconventional theories regarding animal taxonomy, phylogeny, and classification, which Naish sometimes seriously postulates (such as his tentative endorsement of the hypothesis that domestic dogs were not descended from wolves, although he later recanted his support for this), and sometimes satirizes in a plainly tongue-in-cheek manner (as when he discussed the hypothesis of initial bipedalism, stating that most tetrapods descended from hypothetical tiny hominid-like bipedal animals).
The blog occasionally veers off-topic and discusses non-tetrapods, such as fish, as well. Additionally, the topic of cryptozoology and cryptids has been covered on the blog, as well. Naish has tried to make the case that, as cryptozoological data can be parsed and analyzed using rational and skeptical methods of zoological analysis, it is not inherently pseudoscientific, and deserves to be taken more seriously by the mainstream scientific community. However, he also approaches cryptozoological claims from a critical and skeptical perspective. Naish initially voiced tentative support of the Patterson-Gimlin film of an alleged Sasquatch, the existence of sea monsters, and a hypothetical relict saber-toothed cat in South America, but has since disavowed these original interpretations in favor of a more skeptical outlook, apparently having been inspired, at least to some extent, by the skeptical 2013 cryptozoology book Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero.
==References==
Category:British people
Category:Living people
Category:Biologists
Darwin's Deadly Legacy

Darwin's Deadly Legacy is a creationist film starring D. James Kennedy, asserting that Adolf Hitler grounded his genocidal actions on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The film was produced by Coral Ridge Ministries (CRM). The film aired August 26-27, 2006 during Coral Ridge Ministries' the "Coral Ridge Hour," accompanied by a book titled Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions. A prebroadcast CRM blurb boasted that "the program features 14 scholars, scientists and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens." CRM spokesman John Aman contended that "Darwinism is a philosophy, it's a worldview, and one of the key things in it is that evolution advances by death, so death is a good thing. Hitler thought he was doing civilization a favor by eliminating lives that were not worth living. We, of course, think that is an egregious moral tragedy and a consequence of the worldview that was initiated by Darwin and popularized by his followers."
The film stars James Kennedy, Ann Coulter, Lee Strobel, Richard Weikart, Jonathan Wells, Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, Ken Ham, Ian Taylor, Earl Tilford, and (very briefly) Francis Collins. Yes, Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. However, after viewing the film, he was "absolutely appalled" at how his comments were used in the film. "I had no knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory."http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/22/d-james-kennedy-busted/ 
An ad funded by the CRM states that millions of Americans are being lied to, a lie hiding as scientific fact. The film then presents a short book titled Evidence for Creation: Intelligent Answers for Open Minds by Tom DeRosa, foreword by James Kennedy.
The Anti-Defamation League "blasted" the film: "Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis."http://archive.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4877_52.htm
==See also==
*Social Darwinism
*Godwin's Law
*Appeal to consequences
*Evolution and morality
==External links==
* Darwin's Deadly Legacy on IMDb
==References==
Category:Creationism
Category:Schlockumentaries
Category:Propaganda
Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong

Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong is a theistic evolution book written by Conor Cunningham, a philosopher and theologian from the University of Nottingham, and was published by the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in 2010.
==Overview==
The book claims that the debate between religion and evolution has been hijacked by extremists, on one side religious fundamentalists who reject evolution outright and on the opposing side "fundamentalist atheists" who claim that Darwin’s theory rules out the possibility of God, which the author calls "Ultra Darwinism". Cunningham, a Christian who accepts evolution, rejects both of these sides and advocates a middle position, a version of theistic evolution.Guardian article Most of the book is an attack on "Ultra-Darwinists" such as Richard Dawkins and criticism of the selfish gene.Symposium on Darwin's Pious Idea By Phil Dowe
==Reception==
It is a religious book written for a Christian audience and in many places is critical of science.Richard Dawkins the Neanderthal, and Darwin's pious idea By Conor Cunningham It has received mixed but generally negative reviews from the scientific community.
==References==
Category:Theistic evolution
Category:Christianity
Category:Religious books
Darwin's Predictions

Darwin's Predictions (aka darwinspredictions.com) is a website written and maintained by Cornelius Hunter, a fellow at the Discovery Institute. In it he argues several points that show that evolution, as theorized by Charles Darwin, has been falsified. These are oftentimes rehashed (and often debunked) creationist arguments without substance.
==The arguments, by section==
===Part 1: Introduction===
==References==
Category:Discovery Institute
Category:Refutations
Category:Side-by-side articles
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Darwin, Then and Now, The Most Amazing Story in the History of Science

Darwin, Then and Now, The Most Amazing Story in the History of Science () is an anti-evolution book written by young earth creationist Richard William Nelson and published by iUniverse in 2009.
==Overview==
The book is intentionally deceptive, and contains over one thousand quotations from scientists about evolution. However, Nelson has been very dishonest and moved words around and misrepresented the quotes on purpose. Nelson confuses "Darwinism" with evolution deliberately in an attempt to pretend evolution is falling apart. All of the scientists he quoted accepted the biological fact of evolution and were only debating the mechanisms which brought it about. The book is filled with dishonest quote mining and has received very negative reviews. Nelson says that he opposes evolution because it contradicts the Genesis account in the Bible.
==Controversy==
Nelson is an internet troll and has posted positive reviews of his book on internet forums. He created a fake user called "Kam" and pretended to be a female to give his book extra support, but it was later revealed that this user was his own sockpuppet.Nelson exposed as using a fake account
==See also==
*Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism 
*The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold 
==References==
Category:Religious books
Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards are a series of hoaxes and urban legends mixed in with a few actual stories which are then claimed to be spun into an annual collection of people who kill themselves in really stupid ways. There are also at-risk survivors who receive an honorable mention. The awards have an overall pro-social darwinism and borderline eugenicist tone, promoting the deaths of "stupid" people as something that improves the human race.
The awards allegedly began in 1993 as a Stanford student's newsletter to friends with stories culled from newspapers. Since then the purported awards have grown to become an international institution. There is little attempt to distinguish between "urban legend," "rumor" and "confirmed" occurrences as many of the stories have been met with incredulity. 
There are only two categories of listings: "Nominees" and "At-Risk Survivors," the latter of whom are people who survived (or otherwise were not injured beyond procreative capability) but may still not have learned their lesson and may yet repeat their actions. There are no Darwin Award "winners," because... well, really, if any of them were real life winners, they wouldn't be on the site. A "Double Darwin" nominee is a story of two people who off/handicap each other due to mutual stupidity.
==Hoaxes== 
A large number of the "awards" are in respect of hoaxes and urban legends. Mythbusting site Snopes maintains that there is no group of people assiduously assessing candidates and that they are just lists created by anonymous people on the Internet.
For instance, the award entry for officers from the Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) who have been claimed to have unwittingly offed themselves by smoking inside a warehouse chock-full of explosives cites articles from CNN and the Philippine Star, both of which make no mention of cigarettes as the cause of the blast, thereby undermining the award's veracity.Senate panel rules NBI explosion was accidentStored evidence may have caused Philippine crime bureau blast
==In popular culture==
The Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die seems to be heavily inspired by the Darwin Awards, save that it sorts out interesting deaths rather than stupid ones, although there's naturally quite a bit of overlap. It has essentially the same concept, but adds that many of the alleged deaths occurred to people who deserved it as an act of karma.
A film called was released in 2006. Watch at your own risk.
==External links==
*Darwin Awards website
*Snopes on 2003 awards
*Snopes on 2004 awards
*Snopes on 2005 awards
*Snopes on 2006 awards
==References==
Category:Evolution
Darwin fish

::For the fundamentalist minister, see Darwin Fish.
The Darwin fish is clearly an evil liberal/satanist plot to undermine Jesus, fish, and America, in that order.
The ichthys or ΙΧΘΥΣ symbol (or "Jesus fish" or "Christian fish") is typically used to proclaim an affiliation with or affinity for Christianity (stemming from the ancient acronym "Ιησους Χριστος Θεου Υιος Σωτηρ", or "Jesus Christ, God, Son, the Savior"), is frequently a subject of satire, especially when adorning the bumpers or trunks of automobiles. Most such ornaments are adhesive badges made of chrome-colored plastic. These people, in an attempt to increase the stakes, have taken to attaching to their SUVs a large "Truth" fish gobbling up the Darwin fish in an unconscious admission of the truth of natural selection. 
Like evolution, the Darwin fish is not against religion or even against Christianity; it specifically mocks a particular interpretation of the Bible made by Young-Earth Creationism.
The next phase has been reached, and you can now buy Darwin fish depicted humping the "Truth" fish.
File:Ephesus IchthysCrop.jpg|An early edition
File:Ichthys C-Class.jpg|The standard issue Jesus fish
File:Darwin fish.png|The challenge
File:Truth fish.jpg|The battle begins
File:Cthulhu-fish.png|Cthulhu fish
File:Anniegirltank.jpg|Flirty fishing, anyone?
File:Gefiltefish.JPG|Oy vey!
File:Gulpo.png|SMBC's take
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