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It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulites in explaining the origin of man, in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
[Pope John Paul II, April 16, 1986]
March 31, 2009
Category: Religion
One of the Vatican's "solutions" for their perennial sex scandals is to start testing and screening candidates for the priesthood. Australia is even considering doing it: unfortunately, the targets are all wrong. Melbourne's Catholic Church has embraced a Vatican suggestion...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:30 PM • 272 Comments •
Category: Humor
I must echo Huxley and say, "How stupid of me not to have thought of that!" in response to the discovery of a new mode of evolution. This changes everything! In an entirely relevant mode of logic, I have noticed...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:55 PM • 93 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
I must thank io9 for taking the spirit of the pointless poll to the next level. They have an article on the term "nerd" and are asking whether it's a useful label or not. Here are the results so far....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:34 PM • 119 Comments •
Category: Communicating science
The criticisms must have stung, because Matt Nisbet has put up short replies on Russell Blackford's and Jerry Coyne's blogs. Unfortunately, in response to the substantial criticisms of the idea of compatibility between faith and science, Nisbet only offers a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:54 AM • 143 Comments •
Category: Books
The Bible I want on my bookshelf is the Robert Crumb Version. He's got one chapter done: Crumb is about to publish his version of Genesis, which will be a "scandalous satire" which "presents a complex, even subversive, narrative that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:41 AM • 211 Comments •
March 30, 2009
Category: Communicating science
It's heartwarming to see Dr Dr Russel Blackford rise to the occasion and pen a laudatory essay praising Matt Nisbet. Praise the lord! Wait…is sarcasm ethical?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:55 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: Kooks
…Houston Friend, a student at ASU who got a bad grade on a paper and wrote in to blame the whole culture for it. Last week, I got back a graded essay, which happened to be worth a significant portion...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:36 PM • 170 Comments •
Category: Media
This is insane: YouTube has become an overzealous nanny, protecting kooks from offense, now banning the eminently respectable JREF. There's only one way to respond to this, in addition to writing letters of protest: I'm going to have to stop...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:10 PM • 253 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Legislators in the fine state of Oklahoma continue to gnash their grim and yellowed Christian tusks in frustration that Richard Dawkins was ever allowed to speak. He not only spoke openly, but was allowed to leave the state unscathed —...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:37 PM • 87 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
Administrators at Boston Latin prep school issued a notice that there were no — I repeat, no — vampires attending the school. Read the article, and apparently there was also a rumor of at least one werewolf running around. They...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:59 PM • 102 Comments •
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