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Whatever it is, it's very kinky.
(via Phil)
I never get stalkers like this. What is the secret of Phil's animal magnetism?
(via Depleted Cranium)
At last, word of Phil's secret media project has leaked out: he's got a Discovery Channel show about how the universe is out to get him, called Bad Universe. It's got debunkings of astronomical myths and bad movie tropes, and most importantly, it's got explosions.
I'll watch that.
(via Skepchick)
Hmmm…this video of an octopus attacking a man looks as phony as the battle between Bela Lugosi and the rubber octopus in Bride of the Monster to me. It makes for an entertaining break in the grading slog I'm in right now, but it would have been much improved if the octopus had won.
(via Phil)
What is it with you and evolution/Beatles crossover t-shirts?
> What is it with you and evolution/Beatles crossover t-shirts?
It has to do with being born in the 1950s.
A shame it requires the more american pronunciation of the word, otherwise it'd be TEH ACES!!11!one
A couple of nitpicks:
1) I'm not sure I like the Minister spot being occupied by the more modern being. There's got be a way to make him the lower ape.
2) There need to be some dead bodies on the sides to illustrate the bush of evolution, so we can get this guided one-unbroken-line image of evolution out of people's minds.
I would buy this in a heartbeat. As well, @Magpie, I'm rather young, fascination with the Beatles is a cross-cultural thing. I'd put a good bet on the phenomena being the subject of research grant applications by anthropologists in the near future.
Do you really want to perpetuate the misconceptions of the whole "ascent of Man" meme? Chimps have done more evolvin' than our species while crossing Abbey Road.
Awfully linear, yes. Good intention anyway, yes.
i wasnt born in the 50's, but this still made me laugh! thats great!
@BJN
http://img341.imageshack.us/my.php?image=odarwinismorintelligentgx0.jpg
You might just be right!
I'm 27, but my dad is a big Beatles fan. Maybe we can consider this a kind of good indoctrination.
The other, Catholic indoctrination, wasn't applied much and didn't take.
Would be nice to see a female human at the end of the line. After all, they are the ones who give birth.
Teleology- the study of perfection- needs a wordform for The Assumption of Perfection "given" that invades discussion. DI/Creos are full of it and can't imigine themselves "intermediate forms" like the rest of us. Gimme that ole time polemic!
Yeah, Chris, it would be nice; but none of the Beatles were female, were they? (Yes, Yoko tried to nudge in, but that doesn't really count.)
Not to nitpick, but in the song 'Revolution', one line goes, "You say you want a revolution..." and another, "You tell me that it's evolution..."
I think a parallel line showing chimpanzees branching off would be cool.
Must - Have - T-shirt.
While doing some due diligence on the web, I discovered that the IDEA Club of Poway High School in California is hosting a free showing this Thursday May 24 of the horseshit fundie crack film called "Privileged Planet."
http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1434
My curiosity heightened, I browsed the Poway IDEA Club webpage and discovered that their "staff sponsor" is a Mr. Perry Minamide, who teaches science at Poway High.
Golly, I wondered, what are the chances that are Mr. Minamide is a fundie moron? A quick web search pulled up this page
http://fm2.forministry.com/qryArticlePrint.asp?Record=3187
where we learn that Perry and his wife Elaine "pray about everything."
Elaine has a whole bunch of crap on the web. Perhaps the most insane chestnut is this:
Abortion rights come neatly packaged with two lies: Abortion is a woman's issue only, and the death of the unborn is not a real death. By accepting both lies, men who have lost children to abortion already have two strikes against them when they are confronted with their loss. Strike three is called when men neglect their own healing to console the woman, rather than express their own feelings of anger, hurt or betrayal.
LOL! Anyway ... it seems highly likely that Mr. Minamide is peddling his anti-science religious crap to kids in his own high school "after hours." Where's Casey Luskin to lie to us once again about IDEA Clubs and their "scientific" goals?
I like the T-shirt too, even though it makes George the monkey. ;)
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/1_multipart_xF8FF_3_CT%20-%20Abbey%20Road%202.jpg
How do you know that's not a woman with short hair on the end? The drawing looks pretty gender-ambiguous to me.
I think that shirt is pathetic. Can we stop drawing atoms like tiny planets around a big clump of similarly sized clumps and can we stop drawing several partially erect hominids in rows.
Oh. You meant that George.
Bob
I was born in the fifties and think that the Beatles are the most overrated band in the history of popular music but I still find the T-shirt cool.
RE comment 21
Hey, whichever George you prefer ..
A better T-Shirt might be the 'Help' album cover showing four erect hominids with progressively more human features since we all know that knuckle walking and erect posture are ecological adaptations to two differing 'life-styles.' Brains-go-in-last. Hominids were erect walkers and still small brained. Not to be confused with fundies who are erect walkers and small minded.