Quicky addendum to Bishops and Biology…
inversesquare.wordpress.com     Jul 26, 2008          

This is why the kind of rhetorical shenanigans discussed below matter. PZ Myers links to the latest follies from the Texas State Board of Education. For a report from the front lines about the damage done by asserting false equivalences between challenges to religious and scientific claims, read this. Image: Charles Darwin as an ape in Hornet Magazine, 1871. Source: Wikimedia... [read full story]                    


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What year is it, anyway? [Pharyngula]

scienceblogs.com     18 hrs ago   1 related          

In the reality based community, when you've got a problem, you call an expert with some skills and training to deal with it. In the rest of the world, you call a priest to blame evil spirits and do nothing for a small pile of...                    

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Spiritual Warfare, Part 3

ncregister.com     yesterday          

The apostle to the Gentiles proclaimed the Gospel to a multicultural and embattled world very much like ours. On numerous occasions, he made use of what he knew of the political and social situations in order to advance the...                    

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Another significant poll that will change the universe

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Right now, this one's a tough choice: Who would win in a free-for-all, anything-goes cage match?. The top two contenders are PZ "The Violator" Myers and Christopher "Drunken Monkey" Hitchens, with me in the lead…probably...                    

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Tropical breakfast

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Somebody shoot me. Yesterday was a full 24 hours of travel with nothing but intermittent naps, and of course I wake up this morning at my usual time of 6am after only 3 hours of sleep. And I seem to have acquired a chest cold....                    

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