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Continue reading →: Correcting Creationists Redux…Was Lucy’s Pelvis Reconstruction A Fraud?
Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) continues to be a thorn in the side of the creationist paradigm. Creationists go to great lengths to discredit the discovery and its implications, which is not a problem as far as it goes, but the total lack of any kind of intellectual honesty used in doing…
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Continue reading →: The Next Time I Try To Correct Creationists I’ll Need This
Hat tip to Pharyngula.
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Continue reading →: The Peasants Have Always Been Revolting….Now They’re Rebelling!
As usual, Sam Harris has posted another thought-provoking essay, this one admonishing the wealthy in this country to quit thinking about themselves and consider helping the country. More importantly, he points out that we are a country deluded by fantasies about the wealthy, the manner in which their wealth was…
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What Scholarship, Learning and Understanding Are All About
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Continue reading →: What Scholarship, Learning and Understanding Are All AboutCreationists, Intelligent Design activists, and “Biblical” archaeologists, please pay attention: James McGrath posts a wonderful essay on Illustrating Differences Between Scholarly Research and Mythicist Blog Conversations that all of us who have any interest in what understanding and scholarship should be all about. Unfortunately, the culture in this country is…
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Continue reading →: Correcting Creationists Is Always Infuriating
I always struggle with trying to correct creationist information when I see it on various websites. It’s not that I find the information compelling (it never is); it’s that I know the proponents are not interested in serious examination of the evidence for evolution. Until they can at least show…
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Continue reading →: If Humans Evolved from Apes, Then Why Are There Still Apes?
Via Afarensis I connected to an article by William Meikle and Eugenie Scott addressing a very typical creationist question: if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes (or monkeys…variation on the same theme)? Meikle and Scott of course get right to the heart of the matter. Such…
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Continue reading →: Clergy Fleecing the American Taxpayer: I Would Have NEVER Imagined That!
Clergy and their churches need to start paying their share of the taxes in this country…or they need to shut up! I saw this a lot when I attended the Catholic church: bishops wearing gold rings while asking the rest of us to tighten our belt and give till it…
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Continue reading →: Palin/Bachmann in 2012
Greg Laden seems somewhat worried that the future of America could sit with a Palin/Bachmann ticket in 2012…but commenter Uncle Bob reveals the awful truth: I don’t remember who said it, but it was in reference to Palin running for president in 2012. “About 20% of republicans support the idea…
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Continue reading →: The Church’s Deeper Problems
From Andrew Sullivan, a reader writes regarding his recent experience with the Catholic Church: My grandfather, a devout Catholic who attended Mass every morning at 7 am, died late in the afternoon on Easter Sunday after a brief, unexpected illness. While he was truly at peace with the coming end,…
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Continue reading →: A Tea Bagger By Any Other Name…
A very funny video instructing you how to speak “Teabag” has prompted death threats from the “enlightened” populist Tea Party movement. Interestingly, I was listening to an NPR political talk program just a day or two ago and I heard a conservative caller berate the panel for use of the…