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'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny.
[William Archer (1667-1735)]
January 31, 2011
Category: Skepticism
This time, for real. I keep promising to tell you how it works, and somehow the explanations always look ridiculous, but finally I found an authoritative video that gives you the specific molecular details. See? Is everything clear now?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:26 PM • 122 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
I know, that's a rather vague descriptor: that's what so many polls do. This is a poll about the anti-vaccination movement, though, which is like creationism in that it's hard to believe people can be quite that thick about something...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:11 PM • 87 Comments •
Category: Kooks
I must be a magnet for madness. The latest treasure to manifest itself in my mail is a book by Stefano Polidori called The Chaos Riders. It may be a rare artifact; it's not listed on Amazon, but it's expensively...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:48 AM • 228 Comments •
Category: Religion
A trite phenomenon is taking place in a church in Bakersfield: According to Tom Dorlis, the vice president of the parish council for St. George Greek Orthodox Church, back in 2007, around the time of the financial crisis, a portrait...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:34 AM • 94 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
If there are any grad students reading the procrastinative thread…GET BACK TO WORK. Don't watch this video. (Current totals: 11,788 entries with 1,262,152 comments.)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:43 AM • 686 Comments •
Category: Religion
Lots of people are sending me this news story about Stephen Green, the British evangelical Christian fanatic. In case you've never heard of him: Green, 60, is founder and director of Christian Voice, a fundamentalist group he set up in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:09 AM • 126 Comments •
January 30, 2011
Category: Godlessness
After a brief career as one of Richard Dawkins' fleas, author of some book or another complaining about atheism, Alister McGrath faded away into irrelevance again. Not that he was missed; he always reminded me of the Impressive Clergyman played...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:00 PM • 99 Comments •
Category: Kooks
There's another reason not to go to prison: they'll confiscate your Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks! The courts have ruled that fantasy role playing games are a threat to security because… Well, in a 2009 case, a prison gang leader "established...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:10 AM • 98 Comments •
Category: Humor
Follow this link to the amusingly bizarre webcomic about homeopathy behind it. I'll just share with you the story behind the artwork: So this might seem to make very little sense at all. Fair enough, it's sort of supposed to....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:46 AM • 83 Comments •
January 29, 2011
Category: Local
The University of Minnesota Morris has a special guest coming to town: Roger Nygard, the filmmaker best known for making the movie Trekkies, about the Star Trek culture. He's here as a guest of our philosophy department, though, because his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:01 PM • 99 Comments •
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