Monthly Archives: November 2005

Not Such A Good Deal

Posted on November 29, 2005 by arensb

As of this writing, the Ronald Reagan Memorial National Debt stands at eight trillion, ninety-five billion, nine hundred forty-four million, eight hundred ninety-two thousand, three hundred seventy-one dollars and forty-eight cents. That’s a stack of $100 bills 549 miles high … Continue reading →

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The God Who Wasn’t There

Posted on November 28, 2005 by arensb

If you haven’t seen The God Who Wasn’t There yet, you should. The DVD just arrived on my doorstep over Thanksgiving. As the title implies, it’s a documentary that explores the notion that Jesus Christ never existed, and that religion … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Design, Restated

Posted on November 23, 2005 by arensb

The central tenet of Intelligent Design is usually stated as “certain features of living organisms are too complex to be the result of natural processes, therefore they were designed.” But as Michael Behe explained at length on the stand in … Continue reading →

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PZ Makes the Big Time

Posted on November 23, 2005 by arensb

The front-page article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages is about PZ Myers. It answers the burning question that I’ve been wondering about for ages: what does “PZ” stand for? Oh, and it also says what a pharyngula is.

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Category RSS Feeds

Posted on November 23, 2005 by arensb

Good news for those of you who only like some parts of my self-indulgent bloviating: I’ve updated the theme so that a category view (such as this one, for the “Fun” category) also includes a link to the RSS feed … Continue reading →

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Guns for Tots

Posted on November 21, 2005 by arensb

Here’s an idea: let’s give everyone a gun on their thirteenth birthday. After all, if we don’t exercise our second amendment rights, we’ll lose them, right?

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Letter to Pleasant Valley Baptist Pastor

Posted on November 16, 2005 by arensb

This past weekend, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church hosted Kent Hovind’s traveling medicine show, of which I attended the first session. Here’s the email message I sent to Harold Phillips, the church’s senior pastor:

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It’s the Kent Hovind Show!

Posted on November 13, 2005 by arensb

Kent Hovind was in Maryland for the first (and probably last) time in years. I’ve heard his spiel, of course, but I’d never seen his show live, so naturally I had to go.

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Aluminum Foil Hats May Be Government Conspiracy, Study Shows

Posted on November 11, 2005 by arensb

A group of researchers at MIT has investigated the ability of aluminum foil helmets to block radio transmissions, and noticed something startling: some frequencies are actually amplified by the foil chapeau. Go read it and look at the pictures. (Hat … Continue reading →

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Behe Disproves Irreducible Complexity

Posted on November 9, 2005 by arensb

Ed at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has an article ponting out how Behe’s one and only published research article on ID shows that IC isn’t all that improbable at all. I read that testimony, but somehow never connected the … Continue reading →

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