talk.origins

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talk.origins (often capitalised to Talk.Origins or abbreviated as t.o.) is a

History

The first post to talk.origins was a starter post by Mark Horton, dated 5 September 1986.^[1]

In the early 1990s, a number of

The group was originally created as the unmoderated newsgroup net.origins as a 'dumping ground' for all the various flame threads 'polluting' other newsgroups, then renamed to talk.origins as part of the

The group is characterized by a long list of in-crowd jokes like the fictitious University of Ediacara,[3] the equally fictitious Evil Atheist Conspiracy^[4] which allegedly hides all the evidence supporting Creationism, a monthly election of the Chez Watt-award for "statements that make you go 'say what', or some such",^[5] pun cascades, a strong predisposition to quoting Monty Python, and a habit of calling penguins "the best birds".^{[citation needed]}

Apart from the humor, the group includes rebuttals to creationist claims. There is an expectation that any claim is to be backed up by actual evidence, preferably in the form of a

• National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
• TalkOrigins Archive

References