Busy today, so I've just now had a chance to glance through the blog carnivals I mentioned earlier. Via The Skeptics' Circle comes A Creationist FAQ from the Science Creative Quarterly. Too funny:
Q: What about the fossil evidence?
A: The real fossils are university professors writing papers for each other.***
Q: What is a kind?
A: A kind is cards of the same rank. Thus 4 aces and a king are four of a kind, but four spades and a heart are not.
I think this was highlighted somewhere previously (they note it's republished from Aug. 2005), but it's still funny.
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