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No doubt a sizeable majority of Americans believe in the concept of a Creator or, at least, are not opposed to the concept and see nothing wrong with teaching school children about the idea. The application and content of First Amendment principles are not determined by public opinion polls or by a majority vote. Whether the proponents of Act 590 constitute the majority or the minority is quite irrelevant under a constitutional system of government. No group, no matter how large or small, may use the organs of government, of which the public schools are the most conspicuous and influential, to foist its religious beliefs on others.
[U.S. District Court Judge William R. Overton, overturning Arkansas Act 590, requiring public schools to teach Creation Science]
Category: Bad science
The last mission of the space shuttle will contain a student-initiated experiment: a collection of bobtail squid embryos will be launched into space. Which is cool, I suppose. I like squid, I like space, I like science, I like student...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:43 AM • 51 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
Well, it is, but I don't recommend voting on it. It's on WingNutDaily, and the only way to vote is to register with them…which is not recommended. Them folks is craaaaazy! They were asked their opinion of Obama's birth...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:04 AM • 115 Comments •
April 27, 2011
Category: Pointless polls
No more, no more, please. We're already taking off our shoes, getting our junk scanned, waiting in line, dangling our goo in plastic bags, and basically suffering through ludicrous post hoc measures that do nothing to improve our security. And...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:58 PM • 128 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Yeaah…I'm pretty sure this video isn't safe for work. Ladies and gay men, I give you Hunky Jesus. (Last edition of TET; Current totals: 12,272 entries with 1,353,192 comments.)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 PM • 787 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:21 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Science
I've been giving talks at scientific meetings on educational outreach — I've been telling the attendees that they ought to start blogs or in other ways make more of an effort to educate the public. I mentioned one successful...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:02 PM • 103 Comments •
Category: Politics
The president has announced that he has an American birth certificate, like this was really an issue. If he thought this would end the yammering inanity, he was mistaken. Donald Trump is preening. He should have done it a long...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:47 AM • 200 Comments •
Category: Creationism
The existence of Ken Ham proves that creationism changes, therefore proving that it is not absolute, inerrant truth as he claims, therefore Ken Ham disproves creationism. QED. We can all go home now. By the way, that's not a bad...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:24 AM • 34 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
Oh, look what's on the pharmacy shelves! It's "medicine" for cute little babies! Everyone loves babies, and we want them to gurgle and coo and be happy, so when their widdle tummies make them cranky, we give them a little...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:54 AM • 107 Comments •
April 26, 2011
That open letter to the NCSE by Jerry Coyne really seems to have set the cat among the pigeons — it's an amazing flurry of ruffled feathers. I don't see how there's any hope of reconciliation, either, as long as...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:29 PM • 198 Comments •
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