Okay, so I’m a geek. When I saw a story in the
Washington Post Maryland
RSS feed with the headline
“Chesapeake Beach Can’t Raise Taxon Bingo Machines”
I wondered what
Taxon
Bingo would look like, and had to whip this up:
(The headline has been fixed in
the full article,
but remains in the RSS feed.
Original image from
Wikimedia Commons.)
The latest new project by the Disco Tute’s Center for
the Renewal of Science and Culture is
faithandevolution.org.
Evidently the new creationists are feeling threatened not only by their
traditional enemy, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers,
but by people like Ken Miller and Francis Collins, who are not only
outspoken devout theists, but are also respected biologists who [...]
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the California Supreme Court
upheld
Proposition 8, which took away gays’ right to get married in that
state. This sucks, which obviously means that it constitutes judicial
activism. (Update, May 27: Yup: BillDo
describes
the suit as “homosexual radicals sought to do an end-run around the
democratic process and have unelected judges overrule the express [...]
Back in the stone age, when I was a student, there was this thing
called Usenet, which had a newsgroup called talk.origins, where
creationists and evolution proponents argued.
I saw a pattern emerge: the evolution side had a number of people who
produced data to back up their claims, like experimental results,
pictures of fossils, and so forth. The creationism [...]
While in Israel, pope Benny
said:
“Those deeply moving encounters brought back memories of my visit three years ago to the death camp at Auschwitz, where so many Jews – mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, friends – were brutally exterminated under a godless regime.”
Yeah, “godless”.
Now, I’m no historian, and my knowledge of religion in Nazi Germany
comes [...]
The English language desperately needs the word “Backpfeifengesicht“,
meaning “a face badly in need of a fist”.
(from Cracked.com, item #7.)
PS: Yeah, I know UD says “slapped” instead of “fist”, but what the hell do they know?