Why, all you have to do is browse the high quality research proposals submitted to the Institute of Applied Creation Science to see what a promising program they’ve got.

Somehow, this reminds me of my meetup with Phil.

It’s an exercise for the reader to decide whether Phil was the meteor or the cat.

Who would win? I think this is he definitive answer.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before! Here is the setup:

Police say the 58-year-old Tester was wearing a denim miniskirt and offered to have sex with arresting officers.

Investigators say they found a half-empty bottle of vodka and an empty vial that had held prescription painkillers in Tester’s car.

And here’s the punchline.

Tester served as pastor of a Bristol area church and had worked for a local Christian radio station.

Yeah, I know, it’s getting so predictable it’s not even funny anymore.

Earlier, I mentioned this Templeton Foundation ad that showed some people claiming the universe has a purpose, and others validating the silly question by saying maybe it has a purpose. I noted at the time that no one seemed very interested in saying what that particular purpose might be, or more importantly, how they knew what it was, but now someone has provided the answer.

Tristero has used the power of mathematics to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything, all in one simple, easy-to-remember formula that also proves the Christians are right about everything. It’s a little scary, actually — I may have to go in hiding to escape the plague of boils or locusts or frogs or whatever it is that Jehovah will be sending down on me soon.

It would be a terrible slander of decent Neandertals…but otherwise, we probably wouldn’t notice much difference.

…I would use a machine gun rather than a pistol.

But of course! When a group of people express a similar behavior pattern, such as defending racist conclusions or making ev-psych style explanations, there can only be one possible explanation: there must be a genetic basis for the behavior. I can’t imagine any other reason.