Evolution caught in action
New Scientist: A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show [...]
New Video from the National Center for Science Education.
Thomas Paine:
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has [...]
Global climate change denialists and so called Intelligent Design proponents share at least two things in common, aside from their general lack of reasoning capabilities, and that is their willful dismissal of sound science and their intellectual dishonesty. Here’s a couple of articles to piss them both off.
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution determined that over [...]
Fitna by Geert Wilder is a very disturbing film. It is a completely one sided view of Islam. It focuses solely on jihadists and not on the millions of peaceful law abiding Muslims that don’t accept the Wahhabi jihadist movement. By doing so he has produced a hate film, regardless of the sweet Rimsky-Korsakov [...]
You have to ask that question when assholes like John Hagee
via Ed Brayton
make asinine statements about natural disasters, like Katrina, being punishment from God for sinful behavior then what does he think about this:
CNN: Under sunny skies, members of the Church of God in Lady Lake, Florida, held their morning worship service Sunday amid the [...]
Canada rules oh great noodleness
via PZ
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The marvelous Mark Morford has a good column, How to Abandon Your God, today. In there he quotes a census stat and an explanation for it that I’ve always felt (and no doubt you too have felt the same) is bang on.
…78 percent of Americans still identify as Christian overall, no matter if they [...]
Soon, in Colorado God will be a murderer. According to a new law being proposed as soon as a human egg is fertilized it will have the status of, and all the legal protections thereof, a human being (Do You Know Where Your Candidate Stands on this Issue - no surprise that Huckabee supports this). [...]
Watch. The video says it all
hat tip to Sara
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