Category: Open Thread
I'm off to Convergence, which has a steampunk theme: I've got lots of leather for a sorta costume, just to blend in, and my wife looks very hot in a bit of jungle explorer garb. The place will be swarming...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:10 PM • 774 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Now here's a criminal abuse of my youth: the Archie comics were written for a time by a demented fundamentalist. How crazy, you might ask? Read his comic book explanation of the Rapture. That is some insane stuff....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:30 PM • 130 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Y'all remember Michael Voris, the Catholic Dominionist who wants America to make the Pope King of the United States? He's nuts, obviously, but now we get to see him make his sad face. He visited Ireland, at the invitation of...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:09 PM • 189 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
I got a letter from a creationist today, claiming that "Darwinism is falsified," based on an article in Nature. It's kind of amazing; this article was just published today, and the metaphorical digital ink on it is barely metaphorically dry,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:48 AM • 117 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
And a baobab tree! Oh, no, pretty soon I'm going to be gushing over pictures of cute little kittens, aren't I? (via National Geographic)...
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Category: Pointless polls
Georgia is fishing for a new license plate design, and of course the god-botherers want to proclaim their piety on their cars. Vote fast, it expires today, apparently. Should the words "In God We Trust" be included in the new...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:48 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
The Pew Foundation has surveyed evangelical Christians on a variety of topics, and here's an interesting result: only 3% accept evolution. And it's worse than that, since that 3% seems to be just in the bounds of noise and the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:36 PM • 200 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
(via Science-Based Parenting)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:27 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
It's so easy to join!...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:04 PM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Should math be taught in the schools? (Obviously inspired by the Miss USA question.)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:23 AM • 111 Comments • 0 TrackBacks