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We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.
[Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"]
May 30, 2007
Category: Media
Salon has just published their report on Ken Ham's creation "museum", by author Gordy Slack, who has just released a book on the Dover trial. I haven't read the book, although it was on my list to pick up this...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:30 PM • 142 Comments •
Category: Religion
Arrrr, curse ye, jpf. How dare you reveal this abomination to me? What's this crazy born-again doing reviewing a pirate movie as a justification for his dogma? But back to Jack for a second — sorry, Captain Jack. I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:08 PM • 66 Comments •
Category: Kooks
Minuscule, even. Flea-sized. How else am I to interpret Dinesh D'Souza's challenge that he should pick on someone his own size, meaning D'Souza? I've heard D'Souza. He's a babbling pipsqueak. But now he thinks he is a worthy opponent to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:39 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: Creationism
We're seeing a lot of news about Ken Ham's creationist lie, this so-called "museum" he has built out in Kentucky. What we're not seeing from our media is any scrutiny of the finances behind the construction, or behind the evangelical...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:05 PM • 23 Comments •
Category: Politics
Orac has the latest news on the Tripoli Six, the health care workers who were falsely accused of spreading AIDS in a Libyan hospital and were sentenced to death. The good news is that they aren't dead yet, the Libyan...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:22 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Humor
Dinosaurs wore polyester leisure suits! This discovery pegs the Cretaceous at about 1970, so we're going to have to readjust the timescale everywhere. (via Zeno)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Science
The Newsweek cover story is on recent efforts to create life in the laboratory, and of course they call this "playing God". Haven't they got the message yet? "Playing God" is where you do absolutely nothing, take credit for other...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:06 PM • 93 Comments •
Category: Weblogs
I can almost understand plagiarizing Glenn Greenwald, but what is beyond comprehension is building a blog that seems to be entirely a mass of unattributed, plagiarized content. He's got sections in the sidebar for "Recent Posts" and "The Latest from...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:43 PM • 27 Comments •
Category: Humor
Especially poems that talk about origami thoracotomies—they're like a shortcut to my heart....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:52 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Science
There is a must-read article at Edge by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg—it's an attempt to explain why people resist scientific knowledge that takes a psychological view of the phenomenon. The premise is that our brains have in-built simplifications...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:18 AM • 51 Comments •
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