December 31, 2007
Category: Personal
I'm saying it a few hours early because when the clock ticks over to midnight I expect you all to be snogging or otherwise partying away, unless you're one of those sensible types who doesn't think having to get a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:12 PM • 55 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Yikes. More Florida school boards — in St Lucie, Palm Beach, and Martin counties — are infested with creationists. Florida Citizens for Science is maintaining a watch list. So…have you checked your local school board? Do you have creationists biding...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:14 PM • 46 Comments •
Category: Humor
It's those poor creation scientists....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:38 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Humor
I've been slacking off on Pharyngula lately — I've had a week to relax and get caught up on a few other things. Here, though, are a few links to ridiculous religiosity that have been piling up in the mailbox....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:51 PM • 66 Comments •
Category: Humor
I must confess: I've always identified with Gomez....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:12 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: Evolution
That friend to the Discovery Institute and creationist advisor to the Vatican, Cardinal Schönborn, has a new book out, titled Chance or Purpose?. I haven't read it, but Michael Behe has, and Zeno finds a particularly delicious Behe blurb: Science...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:31 AM • 164 Comments •
December 30, 2007
Category: Religion
Elle Jacobson is a high school student who is skipping school because she's afraid of atheists. Some parents are joining in the fear, all because of one little incident: "This boy got up and his visual aid was a Bible...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:34 PM • 321 Comments •
Category: Humor
One of my Christmas presents was something just for fun: Superman: The Dailies 1939-1942(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). It's a collection of the newspaper strips by Schuster and Siegel that were published in the earliest years of the superhero, and they're both funny and...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:21 PM • 83 Comments •
December 29, 2007
Category: Politics
OK, 'fess up — some of you know that I thoroughly detest libertarianism, that reactionary political movement that seeks to elevate greed and selfishness as a ruling principle, and I suspect one of you got me a subscription to Reason...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:20 PM • 548 Comments •
Category: Politics
One little post about waterboarding seems to have stirred up the mob, but at least the majority seem to agree that it is torture. How could it not be? It's a process for causing pain and suffering, nothing more....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:09 AM • 575 Comments •