The Knoxville Metro Pulse Online has a nice guest opinion piece by Rikki Hall that uses Zeno's paradox as an analogy for creationists and evidence.
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I must say that I never expected to see our local alt-news weekly or Ms. Hall at Science Blogs. If you want to follow up this article, I suggest checking back next Thursday to read the LttE from our creationist neighbors. If nothing else, there should be at least one good-for-a-laugh creationist diatribe.