Creationism Article in The Seoul Times Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Posted by h3nry in Christianity, Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Turkey, UK, United Kingdom, anti-evolution, biology, creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, intelligent design, religion, science.add a comment
I came across this creationist article the other day and didn’t really pay too much attention to it, as it is yet another typical creationist fundie mumbo-jumbo. Then again on a second thought, this article seems just a little bit different to the other ones out there. You will note that the publisher is The Seoul Times - a South Korean based newspaper.
You’d thought that creationism is a peculiar US phenomenon? Well, it is not true anymore. For example, the recent creationism movement in Turkey is making great inroads in the Islamic world and has captured the attention of the media in the West. The recent Intelligent Design Movement is also making some noise under the ironic name of Truth in Science in the UK. And now, this article published in a Korean newspaper shows just perhaps creationism is also making progress in South Korea.
A while ago I posted an entry showing how the theory of evolution seems not very well accepted worldwide, however there is no data regarding South Korea, a country with a history of producing Christianity cults, so perhaps we must not be all that surprised by it.
This is what the article has to say:
The Out Campaign - I am All For It Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Posted by h3nry in OUT campaign, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, atheism.2 comments
There is a new atheist meme on the block, and this time we have the OUT Campaign designed to make the atheists come out and make themselves known!
It is created by the atheism vanguard Richard Dawkins Foundation for us atheists to basically come out. This makes a good sense, and I think it is a good move in the current overall atheism movment, riding on the successes of a string of atheism books. So I am all for it. You will note that I have put the big A on the side of this blog too.
The only complain I have is that the big red letter A looks rather boring and as the Friendly Atheist has pointed out, how would the Average Joe know what it means - which kind of defeats the purpose. And I believe there are better and more creative designs out there. What is the rationale behind the design of the big A? How is the campaign going to be implemented? Is this part of the so-called New Atheism Movement? What is next in the big scheme of things?
OK, perhaps I shall stop being so hard-to-please and critical (just like your damn typical atheist mentality…) 
Here is the code for the big A if you like it:
<div style=”text-align:center”><a href=”http://outcampaign.org/”><img src=”http://pharyngula.org/images/scarlet_A.png” border=”0″ alt=”image” width=”143″ height=”122″ /></a></div>
I shamelessly stole the big A image from PZ, and copied the idea of Shalini of having the big A on the side of the blog.
