Yes, this one diagram pretty much covers all the bases.
The Same-Sex Marriage debate, greatly simplified
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Yes, this one diagram pretty much covers all the bases.
One of the weirdest elements of the Biblical chronology of Genesis is that God waits until Day 4 to create the sun, moon, and stars. I know, it makes no sense at all, but as it turns out,
God had a reason for that. Just ask a creationist!
Why did God wait till Day 4 before He made the sun, moon and stars?
Answer: Perhaps because God knew that some people would worship the sun, moon and stars, and He wanted to show us that they are not so important after all. The sun did not form the earth, and the stars do not control what happens on Earth. God wants us to worship Him, not anything that He has created.
Some people use the stars to make horoscopes. These are charts that supposedly say what is going to happen to people from day to day. God forbids this. He wants us to read His Word, the Bible, and to ask Him for wisdom; not to consult horoscopes, which people make up out of their own imagination.
So, you see, God juggled the whole chronology of creation in this crazy way simply because he hates astrology. And he thought that doing it in that order, when no human beings existed to see what he was up to, would convince the astrologers that the motion of the stars was meaningless.
No matter how hard I try, I’m sorry, I just can’t think like a creationist. That’s really stupid.
An Irish doctor has had to go public with his recommendation: he’s telling Catholic fanatics that they shouldn’t stared directly at the sun to generate optical artifacts.
We clearly need a set of PSAs targeted specifically at religious audiences. Don’t jump off of tall building because you can’t fly, don’t eat poop because it tastes yucky and is full of bacteria, don’t poke yourself in the eye with a fork when you eat, that sort of thing. They clearly need help.
My house is in chaos! The cats are yowling in panic! My fingers are fragile little icicles at the ends of my arms! It may be quiet here for a while. This morning, the contractors showed up to install new doors on my house — wonderful energy-efficient insulating doors to replace the old thin sheets of plywood — that were ordered way back in October. The first step, of course, is removing all those old doors, opening up the interior to the open air. In Minnesota. In December. And it’s snowing, lightly.
Anyway, if you think this is a perfect opportunity to charge in and penetrate the normally tight security in my lair, I should warn you all that the missing doors are currently manned by burly guys with nail guns and drills, and will soon be replaced with steel-framed thick slabs. With wall-mounted computer-targeted lasers, yeah, that’s the ticket, and exploding doorknobs. And I’ll be warm again, I hope.
No worries. Doors installed; house warming up. Urge to kill… fading… fading… fading — rising! Fading… fading… gone.
Michael Moore wrote a friendly letter to Obama before his announcement to expand the war in Afghanistan. It’s worth reading.
Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you’re doing it so you can “end the war”) will do more to set your legacy in stone than any of the great things you’ve said and done in your first year. One more throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful and the hopeless may be gone — and this nation will be back in the hands of the haters quicker than you can shout “tea bag!”
Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning.
It’s Wednesday morning. I don’t see his corporate backers fleeing him just yet, but the people who voted for him are turning away in disappointment.
In what may be the only good use of Ray Comfort’s version of the Origin, a copy is up for sale on ebay, with some added signatures. It’s a fundraiser for Skepticon III, so if you’re a collector of weird memorabilia, here’s your chance.
I had my reservations before the election, but I voted for Obama as the better choice (and I have not changed my opinion on that at all). I had hopes that he’d get in office and stand up for some principles…but no such luck. There are several reasons for my dissatisfaction.
The Stupak amendment to the health care bill seems to be sailing through unopposed.
And now, his expansion of the war in Afghanistan, and his support for a corrupt and failed state.
Looking at his record (which isn’t just his problem: the Democratic Party has failed to promote a Democratic agenda), I see the real problem. Despite all the screamers on the right accusing him of being a socialist, what actually happened here is that we elected another Republican to office. A moderate Republican, to be sure, but not someone who has the kinds of priorities I want in my president.
We’re going to be marking time until the 2012 campaign starts up. I’m hoping their will be some viable, liberal alternative to our crappy incumbent, because I really don’t want to have to choose between Republican Lite and Republican Lunatic in the next election.
I’m interviewed on the latest edition of The Big Podcast by two people on two different continents at the same time, via the magic of technology. Check it out!
And all I take away from it is that Comfort is as sleazy as I thought. You may have heard that he has retracted his banana argument; not true, as you’ll discover, he’s kind of waffled around objections to it, but he still thinks the banana is an argument against evolution. He also denies that he makes a lot of errors when talking about science. Comfort is the fellow who made this claim:
Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through “asexuality” (“without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs”). Each of them split in half (“Asexual organisms reproduce by fission (splitting in half).”
It’s not only historically false, but is a complete misrepresentation of what the science says about the evolution of sex.
It’s good that Hemant got him to say a few things that testify to his dishonesty, but I would have liked to have seen him squirm some more.
