Sunday, September 7, 2014

Creation Moment 9/8/2014 - Giberson Deception

For without are dogs,...
and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Revelation 22:15
"Dr. Giberson, physicist and advocate of theistic evolution, has now said he is sorry for twice employing a Photoshopped image in public arguments. The image is of a tailed human infant, and he unwittingly used it in making his case for our common descent from a tailed ancestor. Saying you're sorry and that you'll strive not to do it again is normally a gracious thing to do. In Giberson's case, the admission is accompanied by a spray of insults and untruths.

In the same article, Giberson linked to the image as he found it at the website
Cracked.com, the online survival of an old humor magazine, originally a knock-off from Mad. The photo would have been supportive of Karl's argument, if it were real.

Interestingly, Giberson's co-agitator Nick Matzke takes a different tack. At Twitter, Dr. Matzke points out an X-ray image taken from a 1980 journal article. In addition, the article includes one photo, as distinct from an X-ray, which looks like a birth defect, not so much like the computer-generated pig tail in Giberson's image. For Matzke, the fact that the growth is not well or perfectly formed actually counts for its relevance:


Nick Matzke @NickJMatzk     Follow
@d_klinghoffer And, it's silly to pretend that atavisms are supposed to be fully grown. The expectation is the opposite. Duh! More #IDerrors