I’ve also always wondered if those creationists who deny the power of chance think that victory or defeat in the church bingo games are predestined.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’ve also always wondered if those creationists who deny the power of chance think that victory or defeat in the church bingo games are predestined.
The Modulator informs me that there are 20 blogging commandments. Then I discover how to create your own religion in 10 easy steps. It figures that it’s twice as easy to create a religion as it is to create a successful blog.
So if I’d pursued that other avocation, I’d be pope by now? Or at least the leader of a globe-spanning cult? But I repeat myself.
Poor Kent seems to be popular today.
The giant squid and I have so much in common.
Sorry, Rev. BigDumbChimp: you asked if Faith Converter 1.1 for Mac was any good. It’s a gimmick program that will take a chunk of text or a web page and supposedly convert it to be compatible with a specific religion. It’s a nice use of the Mac Webkit and so forth, but otherwise, it’s just a program to do an automated global search and replace of certain terms. It’s marginally amusing, not something I’ll every use again, and you can get the full joke just from the promotional web page.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a poll right now — pick your favorite cartoon about the politicization of science. You’ve got 12 to choose from.
Some people were annoyed that I included a link yesterday that led to a silly story that used strippers as an example of good marketing, that also included a photo of a woman in lingerie. It was very mild stuff, and I’m not going to apologize for that; the worst thing at the link was the sexism, and I will say that I do not endorse that at all. Sometimes I will talk about sex here, and although I’m not going to start sprinkling the articles with coarse and exploitive porn, I’m also not going to be shy about the frank talk.
Then Cocktail Party Physics had to ruin my self-image as an unabashed libertine by mentioning this site that you can run your blog through and get a rating. I’m afraid Pharyngula is …
Mingle2 – Online Dating
I feel so Disneyesque now.
Get ready for it: the next battle will be over Stupid Design.
All the little details are perfect, like the mangled “facts” they’ll use to support it, the arguments from consequences, and the scientists conceding legitimacy in some domain to it.
Hmmm. Maybe I should try some of these techniques.
