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March 31, 2008

Nooooo! Not Paris Hilton!

Category: Carnivals

The latest edition of Encephalon, the carnival of neuroscience, is using Paris Hilton as a theme, I think because the contrast is so great. It still hurts to read it. I did find Jennifer Ouellette's pocket biography of Ramon y...

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Ruining Christian holidays, one billboard at a time

Category: Godlessness

Hey, I said that in an interview last spring, which is getting a little wider circulation now: religions are fairy tales. Somebody slapped it on a billboard over Easter, though, and businesses around it reported a two-thirds decline. It...

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Oops

Category: Kooks

Watch out, if you signed up for one of the Expelled showings, you might find your email address shared with more people than you expected. I think John ought to sell his newfound mailing list — it's jam-packed with the...

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Facebook is a Mecca for sin

Category: Religion

What an awful story: a young woman is murdered by her own father for online chatting. A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. The...

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Daniel Dennett is coming to town

Category: Local

Hey, look at this: Dan Dennett is coming to Minnesota State University in Mankato this week. I hope he shows up wearing that pimpin' hat. Dennett, one of the nation's most original and influential philosophers, will talk about "Religion as...

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Would you send a pesticide ad to a cockroach?

Category: Humor

OK, enough. Everyone is sending me a link to this comic, but your efforts are misplaced. You need to send it to Ben Stein or Mark Mathis or Walt Ruloff — I'm not in the market....

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March 30, 2008

The hopeless inanity of Egnor

Category: GodlessnessKooks

Michael Egnor, that neurosurgeon whose tenuous grip on rationality makes him so popular with the creationists, thinks he has a gotcha moment with some notorious atheist. That rude godless fellow, who is me, said this, which is accurate: …greater science...

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Airplanes make me cranky

Category: Personal

I'm home. It's been a very long day with horrible flight delays, and I'm grouchy. I must frog blast the vent core. I was stuck on an airplane for far too many hours, and I wanted to get some work...

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Uh-oh

Category: Humor

You know that if I encourage this sort of thing, there will be a rising chorus of voices on the web screaming at me to shut up, don't you?...

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Radio reminder

Category: Godlessness

Don't forget: Atheists Talk radio at 9am Central time!...

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March 29, 2008

I generally favor the idea of teaching comparative religion…

Category: Religion

…but there is a good argument against it: many religions are sickening. Wow, that set you guys on fire. Just to clarify: I think Wilders is a flaming nutcase; I deplore his racist angle and his desire to exclude and...

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Point and laugh

Category: Creationism

Sometimes, people wonder if criticizing creationists brings more attention to them than they deserve — it's a weird dynamic on the web, where we measure popularity by traffic (unfortunately), so referencing the bad guys sends them traffic, which seems to...

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Carnivalia and an open thread

Category: CarnivalsOpen Thread

The next Tangled Bank will be at Further Thoughts on 2 April — it's time to send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net. Meanwhile, get inspired to write some Tangled Bank-worthy posts by reading these fine carnivals. The...

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Major breakthrough in Christian genetics

Category: Humor

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March 28, 2008

If you heard my voice, you know I wouldn't be the backup singer

Category: Humor

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The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Category: Creationism

I have to make this really, really simple for the "Hitler was an evolutionist" dimwits. There is a central, incredibly obvious fact in Darwin's insight. If members of a population die or are killed off, they will leave no...

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