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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Meet William Torres and his slippers. William was arrested while driving in Allentown (Pa) on two counts of homicide and was known to be dealing coke and heroin from his home. More interestingly, William was pulled over while wearing...
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I’ve seen the light, had an epiphany even. Tom Cruise tells us: Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, its not like anyone else. As you drive past you know you have to do something about because you...
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In the comments to a previous post, "rebel scientist" Louis Savain made the following statements: I have made a falsifiable prediction about the human cerebellum based on my interpretation of certain Biblical metaphors. If you can falsify it, do...
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An English backpacker who stabbed a Scottish traveller to death during a row about creationism and evolution was sent to jail for five years by a judge in Australia. Alexander York, 33, from Essex, had become involved in a...
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They "get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them." They, in this case, are not worthless socialites and Hollywood starlets, but elephants in northeastern India, and the speaker is...
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First we were "slime-snake-monkey-people". Now we’re "mutant randomites," and Johnson accuses us of name-calling! Mr Mote, meet Mr Eye. This just keeps getting better and better....
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Category: Weirdness
This is almost too funny to be true. From the mind of Michael Westfall: Today the use of personal computers is one of the fastest growing areas of mass communication. This technology can be used for the good of humanity...
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Category: Bits and Pieces
Birdwatchers rushed excitedly to see a swallow that hasn't been seen in Britain for 20 years - then got a nasty surprise when eaten by a hawk in front of their eyes. The twitchers had been watching the red-rumped...
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Category: Pseudoscience
Over at the Panda's Thumb, Nick highlights the following quote from Wiker and Witt's, A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature: Strange though it may seem to neo-Darwinists, Darwin's assumption that the terms species...
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Category: Weirdness
I just have to share this comment from this thread: Actually, it is atheism that is the problem...more specifically, the attempt to make man (or at least some men through the power of the state) God. Then, when the idea...
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