Creationists are still trying to disprove science, while SA looks forward to a battery

The Australian’s Caroline Overington reports on the latest effort to overturn science yesterday:

An Australian geologist who believes­ the Bible is the literal word of God has claimed a historic­ legal victory in the US, following the settlement of his lawsuit against the administrat­ors of the Grand Canyon, who had refused to allow him to ­conduct research aimed at proving the story of the Great Flood. Andrew Snelling, a Christian who has a PhD in geology from the University of Sydney, told The Australian he had been trying since 2013 to get a permit to collect­ rock samples for a peer-­reviewed, scientific research project­ within the Grand Canyon that would challenge the idea that the rock layers are millions of years old.

That rings a 20-year-old bell; The Australian, June 3, 1997:

Ian Plimer is a crusader for science. He is so consumed by his pursuit of creationists and their literal interpretation of the Bible that he was prepared to lose everything — except his scientific integrity and his job as head of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne … Plimer had sued Allen Roberts, a creationist who believed he might have found the final resting place of Noah’s Ark, for allegedly misleading and deceptive conduct under the Trade Practices Act.

Headlined “God gets last word in fight with science” The Australian reported on the verdict, June 3, 1997:

Justice Ronald Sackville found Dr Roberts had made false representations in his lectures by claiming rocky outcrops near Mount Ararat in Turkey could be remains of Noah’s Ark. But he rejected Professor Plimer’s argument that Dr Roberts had acted in trade or commerce under provisions of the Trade Practices Act

The Climate Council put out a press statement yesterday on how South Australia was to have the world’s largest lithium ion battery:

South Australia a step closer to unveiling the largest lithium ion battery storage facility in the world, after awarding the tender to Tesla and French renewable energy company Neoen. Climate Council chief councillor, Professor Tim Flannery … said:

“South Australia is tackling climate change head-on and should be congratulated for its innovation and leadership as it transforms our energy system into one that’s clean, affordable, efficient and secure.”

Expatriate author Clive James tackles climate alarmists in The Weekend Australian, June 3, 2017:

Australian climate star Tim Flannery will probably not, of his own free will, shrink back to the position conferred by his original metier, as an expert on the extinction of the giant wombat. He is far more likely to go on being, and wishing to be, one of the mass media’s mobile oracles about climate. While that possibility continues, it will go on being danger­ous to stand between him and a television camera. If the giant wombat could have moved at that speed, it would still be with us. The mere fact that few of Flannery’s predictions have ever come true need not be enough to discredit him, just as American professor Paul Ehrlich has been left untouched since he predicted that the world would soon run out of copper.

A headline on The Washington Post website yesterday:

Murder of Kim’s (Jong-un) half brother sheds light on North Korea’s formidable arsenal of deadly toxins and poisons.

USA Today published a list of facts about North Korea, May 17, 2017:

Between 150,000 and 200,000 North Koreans live in prison camps ... The worst camps are for those who commit political crimes, and offenders can have their entire extended family imprisoned with them. The border between North Korea and South Korea is one of the most militarised in the world … Pyongyang has about 1.2 million military personnel.