It’s a Submissive Jesus figure — torture him by twisting his crown of thorns, and he’ll promise you anything. At last, a godhead that actually responds!
(via the J-Walk Blog)
Look at this: now the Intelligent Design creationists are branching out into pirate fashion. They’re everywhere!
OK, this is the final straw. The Intelligent Design creationists send out press releases, they peddle textbooks in our classrooms, they publish dishonest books of pseudoscience, and now … and now, they’ve come out with a popular magazine.
I’d complain some more but I’m afraid they’d kick sand in my face and beat me up.
(via ERV)
I may have just used the old 2+2=5 analogy, but I also like this example from the Primate Diaries:
Fundamentalists: believe 2+2 =5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax returns.
“Moderate” believers: live their lives on the basis that 2+2=4. but go regularly to church to be told that 2+2 once made 5, or will one day make 5, or in a very real and spiritual sense should make 5.
“Moderate” atheists: know that 2+2 =4 but think it impolite to say so too loudly as people who think 2+2=5 might be offended.
“Militant” atheists: “Oh for pity’s sake. HERE. Two pebbles. Two more pebbles. FOUR pebbles. What is WRONG with you people?”
(props to Stephen Wells.)
A religious group in England is terribly upset at the lack of respect their beliefs have received lately. In particular, they are indignant at the mockery made of one of their holy sites.
(Careful on clicking through—fortunately, I saw this at a late hour of the night, or my howls of laughter might have disturbed my colleagues.)
I never did trust those astronomers. Now I learn that they have been conspiring to keep us stupid.
Professor Steve Steve, how could you?
He will be going into rehab, and promises never to do it again.
(via Zeno)
Mmmmmm. Squid pie. With sprinkles!
Some of you may noticed that someone on scienceblogs is going out of their way to say untrue things about me … it’s a transparent ploy to get me to link to them, I think, and an attempt to ruin my reputation. It’s not going to work, I tell you. No links! I’m not going to reward them with my attention! Don’t believe a word they say!
I can’t possibly be the only one to have noticed the similarity.
Leave it to the Republicans to consider nominating a thuggish, evil alien to run the country.
