Dr Grady S McMurtry

Happy 2011!

So – I’ve been extremely busy actively managing my family’s situation for the last year, so unfortunately blogging has been on the back burner, which is a shame as I have missed out on commenting on so much – the Pope’s visit, the Vatican coverup of its own international paedophile ring, Sarah Palin, and a million and one other stories covered elsewhere – however most made it onto my Twitter feed and Facebook page at least.

Now that the dust has settled and everyone is back in school, we have a wonderful new home in rural Wales and I currently have much more free time thanks to the Coalition Govt’s public spending cuts, which means hopefully I will be able to blog a bit more, as and when something pisses me off.

The other day after dropping my girls to school I settled down over a cup of tea and started channel hopping. In a moment of idle curiosity I flicked to the 15 (yes 15!) 24/7 dedicated religious channels to see what kind of warped pseudo-scientific claptrap was being fed into the living rooms of the 10 million+ Sky subscribers in the UK.

What. The fuck?

I was shocked to see a Creation Science programme hosted by the star of this particular blog, Dr Grady S McMurtry. This one was about how the Earth’s magnetic field was decreasing in strength, how it had been relatively strong when God created the Earth but it has been steadily weakening and it was going to cause the end of all life on Earth, as well as proving the Young Earther’s position (i.e. that the Earth is 6000 ish years old and was created by God in 6 literal days).

I was incensed by his ill informed, and frankly batshit crazy assertions that science proves creationism. I immediately smelled a rat, as he reminded me so much of Kent Hovind, so I recorded the show and reviewed it with my wife who suggested his doctorate was probably purchased, like so many YECs, from a private institution, probably in Theology (in my view a pointless non-subject, as it is the study of make believe – you might as well have a Doctorate in Applied Fairy Studies).

I did a little digging, and found this excellent blog by Gordon, which lays out the pertinent facts and Lo! There was much laughter at the foolish delusion ridden ‘Dr’ McMurtry.

He seems to have studied for his doctorate in a period quite a bit shy of a year, while a normal honest academic has to do 3-6 years novel research to gain the title Dr. He then appears to have returned to his studies for another few months and is magically now a Professor.

Gordon’s blog simply and elegantly lays out the facts for all to see, McMurtry is a fraud using irrelevant qualifications to push his mentally ill perspective on the credulous.

He needs to grow up and join the 21st century, and stop accusing scientists and rational critical thinkers (who base their outlook on hard won facts and evidence) of things he himself is guilty of – specifically of believing in fairy tales for adults, gross delusion and dishonesty.

Young Earth Creationism is a lie. I feel I can say this with some academic authority as I am amongst other things an archaeologist specialising in the evolution of mankind.