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Category: Carnivals • Open Thread
Posted on: April 15, 2007 11:03 PM, by PZ Myers
You've got your choices: you wicked heathens can shake your fists at the heavens by reading Carnival of the Godless #64, or you granola-gobbling eco-freaks can savor Oekologie #4. Some of us can do both!
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Hi All,
Check out the latest study, this one commissioned by the gubment back in 1997, to show that, surprise, surprise, abstinence only education does didly.
Moneyquote:
"Findings indicate that youth in the program group were no more likely than control group youth to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having had sex, they had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated sex at the same mean age. Contrary to concerns raised by some critics of the Title V, Section 510 abstinence funding,
however, program group youth were no more likely to have engaged in unprotected sex than control group youth."
p. xvii
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/impactabstinence.pdf
Posted by: Matt | April 16, 2007 1:55 AM
InterestingLink / VMartin:
If you are a creationist, then why do you act like a monkey? Isn't your own behavior enough to convince you we are all descended from a common ancestor?
Or do you not own a mirror?
I can buy you a mirror if you like. Maybe PZ and I can get together and start a collection to buy you a really nice mirror.
On second thought, since the operation of a mirror hinges on the fact that the reflection of light happens at 186,000 miles per second and thus does not "reflect" an accurate representation of your current self (it can only show how you looked just moments ago) then this "demonic" device must therefore be the work of "evil" scientists trying to trick you and cannot be considered worthy to hang on the wall of someone like yourself. Yes, since a mirror alone can prove the universe is billions and billions of years old (telescopes also use mirrors, by the way) then a mirror hanging in your home would only "out" you to your creationist friends as being a closeted rational thinker.
Maybe we can just send you a broken mirror. You can decide how best to use the shards. Hint - they go in your eye sockets. PZ and I require fresh blood. Daily.
Posted by: Dan Harlow | April 16, 2007 2:36 AM
Since this is an open thread, what do you think of the following silly article on feminist science:
http://myopinionsareimportant.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/science-liberated-by-feminism-%e2%80%93-finally/
You may lose brain cells reading it.
Posted by: Markk | April 16, 2007 3:38 AM
I have no idea what InterestingLink is on about, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Posted by: Markk | April 16, 2007 3:40 AM
In Behe's book, Darwin's black box, what does the black box refer to?
Posted by: Mobius loops breakfast cereal | April 16, 2007 5:23 AM
Don Feder brings The Stupid
USA Today runs his Op/Ed piece in defence of religion. See if you can count all the factual and historical errors.
Posted by: quork | April 16, 2007 9:56 AM
This just made my day.
Please take a cursory glance to these Wikipedia articles on famous battles . Waterloo or Thermopylae, for example.
And now read the article on the arguably most important battle ever.
Posted by: JJ | April 16, 2007 11:37 AM
Since PZ posted that picture of the Creationist car, and that reminded me of the idiotic theory of abiotic oil, I found that free-energy "news" website where they have a long article on abiotic oil.
Take a look at the article on using a pendulum to generate electricity...
http://pesn.com/2007/03/24/9500464_BillMahess_pendulum_clock_generator/
I just loved the way the claims were independently verified: By telephone. Brilliant...
Posted by: MikeM | April 16, 2007 12:02 PM
Putin cozies up to the pope
Posted by: quork | April 16, 2007 12:08 PM
Take a look at yesterday's Doonesbury.
Posted by: khan | April 16, 2007 12:57 PM