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They have successfully spawned . Say hello to Huxley Laden! Read the comments on this post...
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The thread continues . Since we were last debating the merits of pie, I give you…evil pie. Probably rhubarb.
I have no idea what those subtitles say, but it's probably something horrific. Read the comments on this post...
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I know, it's Thanksgiving in America, and I've already been curmudgeonly enough for you—but I have to do you the favor now of ruining your appetite with this tale of institutionalized child abuse in Ireland . It involves the Catholic Church, of course (and isn't that unsurprising ennui ...
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By way of the endless thread , I have discovered this marvelous quote from Andy Schlafly .
There's a broader point here. Why the big push for black holes by liberals, and big protests against any objection to them? If it turned out empirically that promoting black holes tends to cause people ...
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Sorry, I don't believe in Thanksgiving Day.
This whole notion that one should have vague and aimless feelings of gratitude for the nature of one's existence is just too weird, and the bow-your-head-at-the-table and radiate-blessings-at-the-cosmos tradition is pointless and silly. Don't get ...
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I've met him a few times, and that's the impression I get in person and in his writings, and I certainly can't object to that. I haven't yet read his new book, Good Without God , but I'm pretty sure I'll come away from it as I would from a heaping plate of marzipan and sugar cookies and ...
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Want another reason to avoid debating creationists? It's like giving a mangy, limping, scab-encrusted starving fleabait cat a saucer of milk — you'll never be rid of the whimpering dependent. Ross Olson of the Twin Cities Creation Science Association has taken to pestering me and Mark ...
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And wouldn't you know it, right there in the title it announces that I'm mild-mannered . Next time, I swear, I'm gonna…I'm gonna…I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Maybe I'll take off my glasses . Maybe I'll cuss, darn it.
I've got to do something to shed this teddy bear ...
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Yet more skeptics have spoken out: Randi , Orac , and Novella , on the case of the Belgian man who is claimed to have awakened from a persistent vegetative state, and is even, supposedly, writing a book about his 23 years trapped in an unresponsive body.
It's possible that he has recovered ...
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There is a Seventh Day Adventist college, La Sierra University, which has horrified church leaders because their biology department is infested with evolutionists . It just goes to show: educate an intelligent person in biology, and they can't help but accept evolutionary theory as the idea ...
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Don't miss it next year: Rebecca Watson reviews Skepticon II , both the talks and the social scene.
And if that's not enough, Carl Sagan's Dance Party recorded a podcast with several of us while we were there. Read the comments on this post...
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We've had an infestation of insane trolls today who have babbled incoherently about who knows what…I think Keith Knight has captured them perfectly .
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The media can't let today pass by without doing something stupid, so here are a few unfortunate faux pas from our news outlets.
Newsweek has published a dozen reasons to celebrate Darwin . The first? Darwin wasn't an atheist! Huzzah! He also wasn't a Jew, let's celebrate that!
The second ...
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species , and a few sites have taken notice.
A new science blog, The Whirlpool of Life , opens today.
CNN has published a brief retrospective from Richard Dawkins . It focuses entirely on "militant atheism", ...
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So Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort showed up at UCLA to hand out their vandalized editions of the Origin , and Kirk got caught on video (with horrible sound and video quality, unfortunately) getting rhetorically bitch-slapped in an argument with a UCLA student. Be proud, California universities, ...
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You may have heard the recent news about a Belgian man who was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state after an accident , but who now has been miraculously discovered to have actually been conscious for the last 23 years, trapped in a partially paralyzed body. How horrific, and how ...
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This excellent article in the Chicago Tribune documents the abuses of science by quacks. Legitimate researchers identify certain properties of autism — markers for inflammation in the brain, for instance, or correlations with testosterone — and write up papers that even go out of ...
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Uh-oh. This episode of Mr Deity will fire up some denunciations. Take a deep breath, and remember, he's satirizing religious attitudes.
Listen through to the end, though — he has an excellent suggestion. This weekend is Thanksgiving, and instead of sitting through another ...
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Ross Olson of the Twin Cities Creation Science Association has sent me the results of the survey that was given at the debate . He is trying to spin it as supporting the claim that this kind of debate was "useful" — but I'm unimpressed.
About 500 people attended, 290 returned the ...
