I really shouldn’t be surprised; Pat Robertson is kind of a dinosaur himself, and this literalist creationism pushed by Answers in Genesis is actually a relatively new development, but Robertson did come out and plainly reject the notion that the earth is only 6000 years old, or that dinosaurs and humans lived together. That’s sort …
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Nov 28 2012
Wasn’t Ron Lindsay just pinin’ for the days of the Accommodation Wars?
Yes, he was. We could happily bring them back, though, because Nicholas Wade is still writing for the NY Times, as Jerry Coyne mentions today. Wade’s column is practically an exercise in nostalgia, harking all the way back to 2005. He’s very concerned that people are bashing poor Marco Rubio for not understanding that there …
Nov 28 2012
Catholic priests: SHUT UP!
The Irish Catholic bishops have issued a statement on medical care given to Savita Halappanavar… Wait. What the fuck does anyone care what a mob of ignorant assholes say about reasonable, ethical medical care? I can’t even imagine the degree of arrogance involved for these self-righteous, unqualified old men to be so seriously offering advice …
Nov 28 2012
What I really want to see is the DNA sequence of an alien Grey
Dr Melba S. Ketchum has made press release of an astonishing discovery: she has sequenced Bigfoot DNA, she claims. “Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, …
Nov 28 2012
Holy Mohler
Did you know that Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has an almost daily round-up of of issues of concern for good conservative Christians called The Briefing? It’s on his website, under the category Urgent, because it’s all very, very important stuff, you know. I browse it occasionally to see what’s making …
Nov 27 2012
My staff has been doing nothing, I’m going to have to fire them!
Wait, what? Over on that Reddit thread about the benefits of douching, petzl20 has made this announcement: Myers has a staff of assistants that research and do a large part of the writing for his blogs and tweets. Gawdamn, I wish I’d known about this before. I’m going to put them to work grading papers …
Nov 27 2012
Scary, scary radio waves
When I started cob-logging here a couple months ago I made a stray reference to conflicts I’ve experienced in having been a skeptically oriented person in the environmental activist sphere. A few of you suggested you’d like to hear more about that. I found an example today, one of probably several hundred of this particular …
Nov 27 2012
This weekend, in Ottawa
It’s my last conference of the year: I’ve got a break of over a month after this, in which I get to stay home and write and relax and get prepped for the Spring semester. But before all that, it’s Eschaton 2012, where just to go out with a surge, I’m giving two talks, so …
Nov 27 2012
Decline of a great nation
The German magazine Spiegel has made a damning assessment of the United States. The United States is frittering away its role as a model for the rest of the world. The political system is plagued by an absurd level of hatred, the economy is stagnating and the infrastructure is falling into a miserable state of …
Nov 27 2012
Douche defends douching
There is a small group of obsessives who really hate Atheism+ — they hate it so much that they pick over every thread on the Atheism+ forum, looking for nits. And then, unfortunately, they write to me in email and twitter and tell me how stupid they are. The latest example: an atheism+ mod writes …
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