July 31, 2009
Category: Creationism
Various bits of red tape have been cleared, and the feds are about to seize the bulk of Dino Adventure Land in Pensacola, Florida, so that it can be sold off to cover the Hovind's pending debts and penalties. You...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:51 PM • 58 Comments •
Category: Environment
That crank pseudoscience site, Watt's Up With That, got thoroughly reamed out with the video below (just the fact that the chief crackpot, Anthony Watts, would show up on Glenn Beck's show is indictment enough, though). Watt was not too...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:29 PM • 126 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
Dosidicus gigas, left, Homo sapiens, right Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:02 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
We are often told that religion is a different way of knowing, that it can provide us with a different perspective and different information. I have not believed this at all, because no one has ever been able to give...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:22 PM • 222 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
A much-abused study showed that in poor neighborhoods with low academic opportunities, better scholastic performance was correlated with church attendance. This slim thread has been seized upon by religious apologists to justify claims that church attendance improves kids' grades, and...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:36 AM • 169 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Here is a piece of text from a textbook used by fundamentalist Christians in a biology class. Have you heard of the 'Loch Ness Monster' in Scotland? 'Nessie,' for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:50 AM • 117 Comments •
Category: Science
Edge hosted an amazing session that described the looming future of biology — this is for the real futurists. It featured George Church and Craig Venter talking about synthetic genomics — how we're building new organisms right now and with...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Cobb County, Georgia is infamous for its efforts a few years ago to slap a warning sticker on biology textbooks, which might have given the impression that it's full of southern yahoos. However, intelligent people and godless people are everywhere,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:48 AM • 88 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
Jesus in a pita, Madonna in bird poop, gods speaking through the arrangement of viscera…we're used to ridiculous religious pattern seeking. A reader, Mike Barnes, wrote in to tell me about a scientist who has been playing the same...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:33 AM • 92 Comments •
July 30, 2009
Category: Administrative
When all the site problems were at their worst, one of the things I did to try and lighten the server's load was to remove the random quotes feature here. It didn't seem to help, and boy, did I get...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 48 Comments •