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December 31, 2006
Category: Creationism • Stupidity
Maybe it's a bad, bad idea for a community to have an open-access electronic bulletin board, because it sure is a great tool for exposing the ugly underbelly of the group. Kearny, NJ has had its moment of fame, with...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:50 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Kooks
I am not going to praise John Derbyshire; some people seem to be impressed because he has penned a dismissal of the ID creationists, but jebus, that ought to be the absolute rock bottom minimum we should expect from...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:38 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I don't believe in New Year's resolutions—they're always so narrow and boring. I'd rather advance some bigger goals. When I was a young fellow, and my father was teaching me how to swing a bat, he'd tell me I shouldn't...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:03 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Read the account of Saddam Hussein's last moments—it's a strange thing. Hussein was an evil man, but still, he carried himself at the end with strength and courage and a good amount of anger. The whole scene sounds like it...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:50 PM • 61 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Reproduction
The daughter has put up a post with her thoughts on abortion—I swear I have not given her any instruction or even talked about the subject with her, but somehow she has developed roughly the same opinion on it that...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:12 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals • Organisms
It's the 16th Circus of the Spineless. And they've got my cookies!...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
You can now read Richard Dawkins official statement on the controversial petition over at the Panda's Thumb....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:11 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2006
Category: Creationism
It's hard to believe, but there is more information on the absurd board game designed by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. Cameron said, “We are very excited about this game because it presents both sides of the creation evolution argument,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:01 PM • 89 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
I don't think I showed this video in the flurry of Architeuthis posts a while back, but if so, it's worth seeing again. It is rather sad how limp and exhausted the poor animal looks as they drag it in....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:19 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Jason pitches into that twit, Peter Hitchens—you may recall that I dealt with the same column a while back, but that level of stupid does support double-teaming to counter it, I think....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:27 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness • Kooks
Ed Brayton and Mike Gene have gone over the top in accusing Richard Dawkins of wanting to coerce the religious into giving up their beliefs; as is usual for Ed, he has no problem immediately comparing an atheist to R.J....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:12 AM • 162 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Saddam Hussein has been killed. He was a venal little monster, but I don't see that we've gained anything by stooping to the level of a third-world thug, and the unseemly haste with which an irreversible act was committed makes...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:28 AM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Politics
At this point, it's safe to say the National Park Service is stonewalling. There is a book called The Grand Canyon: A Different View, written from a young earth creationist perspective, which the NPS has approved for sale in its...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:01 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Quacks have no shame, but once reputable science and engineering magazines should have some vestiges of it. Popular Science magazine will take money from anyone for the ad revenue, as Cyde Weys demonstrates with a scan of an ad for...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:33 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2006
Category: Creationism
Crap. Lippard misread the report: it was a 6 month form. There has been no net decline in revenues to that creationist junk organization, and I was wrong. There have been no promising developments in a decline in grassroots support...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:27 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Hey, everyone, you're being asked for some help. A certain someone is going to be giving a talk to Hugh Ross's group, Reasons to Believe, and he wants a list of common creations fallacies and good rebuttals. Remember, RtB is...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:14 PM • 108 Comments • 0 TrackBacks