Survival of the fittest is tautological?

In my last post, I mentioned one of McLeroy’s bad arguments against evolution: “It is a tautology … The survivors survive.” I wanted to drop a link in there pointing to a good rebuttal, but when I did a google search, I didn’t immediately come up with any good, succinct rebuttals. Which is [...]

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Don McLeroy: Creationist, Head the Texas State Board of Education

[via The Bad Astronomer] Texas governor Rick Perry has appointed a Don McLeroy (creationist) to head the Texas State Board of Education. If you want to read some of Dr. McLeroy’s opinion’s on creationism, he has put his ideas on the web (put out in 2003) – showing that not only is he a [...]

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Anti-Atheist Christian TV Commerical

[Via Pharyngula] Christian groups must be getting more and more aware of the rise of atheism and agnosticism. Now, they’re mounting television commercials to attack those beliefs.
New Commercial Refutes Atheism!
American Vision is launching a relentless and systematic response to militant atheism. We’ve produced a brilliant 2-minute commercial that we plan to broadcast globally via [...]

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US voter shifts

I thought this was an interesting graph from the NYTimes. (Link to the article.)

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College Republicans for the Iraq war

A great video of College Republicans at that College Republican National Convention Tour speaking out in favor of the war in Iraq, but declining to actually serve – offering “I’ve thought about it” (…and?), “I have health problems”, “I’m more career oriented”, etc. I couldn’t help laughing at the kid explaining that he’s though [...]

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It’s God’s World!

When I was younger and attending Christian school, we would sometimes read a kids newspaper called, “It’s God’s World” (now called God’s World News – hmm, I wonder if it has anything in common with the Weekly World News). It’s essentially a newsy kid’s booklet teaching kids to read while teaching Christian conservative values.
I [...]

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The Bible you haven’t read – Part 4

Lots of Right-wing Christians like to claim that the Ten Commandments are the basis for the US government, saying things like:
The Ten Commandments have been the foundation upon which much of America’s legal system has been built. To deny this fact, one would have to rewrite American history.
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When our nation forsakes the moral basis provided [...]

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Galaxies and the tiny world of YECs

Slashdot has a new post (Identify Galaxies Using Spare Wetware Cycles), about using people (“wetware”=brains) to classify galaxies by their type. There are billions of stars in a galaxy, and it’s estimated that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies. For the YECs (young earth creationists), these are just neat things to look [...]

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Tom Tomorrow on Dick Cheney

Does Tom Tomorrow watch the Daily Show?
(Click here for the full comic)
It reminded me a lot of the Daily Show segment I linked to a while back.

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Christian Activists disrupt Hindu prayer

(Via Pharyngula, via Election Central) I had to shake my head at this. Christians like to complain about non-religious people being intolerant of Christianity/religion. Yet, what do they do when the religion isn’t their own? Christian prayers? You’re intolerant if you don’t let us. Non-Christian prayers? An “abomination”. [...]

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