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Egregious comma abuse

By pharyngula on July 31, 2010.

We're about to leave lovely Vancouver to return to Kent, Washington, so must leave you with something awful to chew on for a while. This is is a beautiful example of why creationists can be so stupid: spelling and grammar errors throughout, misrepresentations of the actual science, and non-stop idiocy. For instance, it is not true that squid, octopus, and cuttlefish have all been found in the Cambrian; the coleoids diverged from a common ancestor in the late Cambrian or early Ordovician. This does not mean that modern coleoids were present in the Cambrian. We've got a pretty good idea of what the cephalopod ancestor would have looked like.

It's Saturday morning. That can't possibly damage your brain any more than my late night of wild partying with Vancouver skeptics could have possibly done, it's merely put us on an equal footing now.

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