For part I, see here.
The Edinburgh Creation Group is a group of "pseudo-scientists": see, e.g., the naive, silly, uninformed, statements by Prof. Andy C. McIntosh and Dr. Marc Surtees on Thermodynamics and Feedback Control, respectively.
They seek to inject religious fundamentalist ideas to people. But they do so by abusing science!
At the surface, they may appear to be associated with "charities", such as the Edinburgh City Mission. I was informed that these charities have nothing to do with helping people in need.
Creationism appears with other names also, such as "intelligent design". Whatever their name may be, two things certain:
(1) they have nothing to do with science.
(2) they have nothing to do with humanitarianism or benevolence.
I see they are having a big conference in Edinburgh in October:
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Gordon,
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know. I'll probably write about it on this blog, some time soon. By the way, I agree with most of your reasons in this posting of yours.