The church sign I saw today at a local church currently ranks as the worst one I’ve ever personally seen. When I read it on the way to work this morning, I almost pulled over right away to write it down (I waited for a stop sign instead). Here’s what it said. Honk if you …
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Human Evolution Bones at Five Below!
Saturday evening, I was at Five Below with my daughter, shopping for a Christmas gift for a gift exchange (we got a lava lamp, in case you’re wondering) and came upon this little gem. I was amazed. I’d never seen any kind of evolution “toy” before other than the great stuff from Charlie’s Playhouse, but …
One of these things is not like the others
One of these things is not like the other… I added Ray Comfort’s edition of Darwin’s book to my collection yesterday. The font of his edition is intolerably small… except for his vacuous introduction, which is in a normal, easy to read font size. I’m pretty sure I have a copy that was from the …
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Some quick notes from Borders
I’m hanging out at Borders this morning while waiting to pick up my daughter after a class she’s taking. I grabbed a copy of The Annotated Origin and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species – A Graphic Adaptation (like a graphic novel version of OTOOS) and am sipping on some coffee while hooked up …
Evolutionary Shenanigans
Here’s another snippet about Palin’s newly-verified creationist beliefs from The Daily Beast. In her new book… …[Palin] finally comes out of the closet as a creationist—or as she puts it, “the C-word.†In doing so, however, she manages to obscure the extent of those creationist beliefs by citing her acceptance of “microevolution.†Oh, microevolution! It’s …
Sarah Palin and the political spotlight
Sarah Palin is the darling of the Republican party, but her cries against the “Washington elite” are contradictory with her own desire to become one… as Christopher Hitchens points out.
One reason McCain lost my vote in 2008
Here’s an excerpt from a review by Michiko Kakutani of Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue. Elsewhere in this volume, she talks about creationism, saying she "didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea" or from "monkeys who …
Ray and Kirk find an appropriate audience
In recognition of the “Origin of Species” giveaway promoted by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron, Atheist Cartoons has put up this little gem so I thought I’d share it. If you get a chance (and can stomach it), read the introduction (pdf) that Ray Comfort has written for the book. It’s got the standard creationist …
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Religious Irrelevance
While watching the riders at a 4-H horse show today (my daughter is a 4-H member), I started considering the role that religion plays in people’s everyday lives. I don’t live in the most religious area of the country (South-Central Pennsylvania), but even so, on my commute to and from work, a total drive time …
Bill O’Reilly revs up his war engine
Bill O’Reilly is playing his "War on Christmas" game again. It seems the Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky decided that the seasonal tree this year would be called a "holiday tree" instead of a "Christmas tree" (he’s since revoked that decision and it’s back to being a "Christmas tree"). This, of course, drew outrage from …