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Why don't we teach astrology in the schools? Astrology holds that the course of each human life is determined to a considerable degree by the position of the stars in the sky at the exact moment of the individual's birth. Belief in it, in one variant or another, has probably been held by most of the people on earth. Even today, some universities in India offer degrees in the subject. Yet American believers do not pressure boards of education to add their subject to the curriculum. If belivers in astrology became as well organized as the creationists, it is hard to see how their demands could be withstood.
Garrett Hardin, "Marketing Deception as Truth" Science and Creationism, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 162.
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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: July 18, 2008 9:52 AM, by PZ Myers
This is a long streaming video, so you might want to save it for something to watch over lunch. Mark Norman takes a giant squid apart at the Melbourne Museum.
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Tagged for when I get back from class. :-)
Posted by: Uncephalized | July 18, 2008 10:09 AM
Ooooo the suspense! Will it be filled with an explosion of candy pieces or a creamy nougat center??
Posted by: Dan | July 18, 2008 10:18 AM
Can't wait until lunch. I'm eating a "raw calamari omelet" (whatever that is), so I'll watch it now. thankx.
Posted by: MicroZealous | July 18, 2008 11:10 AM
Haha. I had just run out of lunchtime dissection videos -- thanks PZ!
Posted by: Breakfast | July 18, 2008 11:11 AM
Hah, maybe chili dogs were not the best things for me to have for lunch today.
Posted by: mr_p | July 18, 2008 11:23 AM
See, this is where you go to get noticed. A squid dissection post with few comments.
Posted by: Darwin's Dagger | July 18, 2008 11:49 AM
Squid dissection? Over lunch? Interesting concept though I usually listen to MPR and sometimes even that makes me queasy. :\
Posted by: spaceoops | July 18, 2008 11:59 AM
Currently downloading for later viewing... it's taking even longer than the "Starcraft 2" preview. I hope I can finish the download before I zip down to work. I'll watch it while eating some ceviche.
I am still amazed that the guy who wrote those "Gor" books is a marine biologist...
Posted by: Longtime Lurker | July 18, 2008 1:05 PM
This here bureaucrat does NOT watch dissection videos during lunch (90s era Eddie Vedder videos, yes).
Posted by: ildi | July 18, 2008 1:43 PM
They showed a small segment of it on TV. I was really surprised but then I realised it was SBS.
Posted by: Pandora Neurospora | July 18, 2008 7:41 PM