Well, I just realized that on good ole Internet Explorer, my blog is horribly misaligned. I’ve been using Opera and Firefox, so I haven’t realized until now. So if you’re reading this in a terribly messed up layout, stay tuned as I fix it later today. UPDATE: Well, I’ve been trying, but I simply can’t [...]
READ MORE »Monthly archives for September, 2005
Naturalism is Natural! Faith is Dangerous.
(Update at the end.) Been reading around on blogs about Intelligent Design and evangelical attacks on “natural sciences,” and I can’t help think, what’s so wrong with the natural sciences? Here are some quotes of things I’ve come across: “In my personal journey, I have found that one of my biggest struggles to break free [...]
READ MORE »Choose Your Own Nostalgia
On a wild hair, I did a search for those old “Choose Your Own Adventures” I used to read in grade school in the early 80′s. And I found them on Amazon.com! (All used of course.) But looking through some of the titles really brought back great memories. I was reading Edgar Alan Poe and [...]
READ MORE »Yet Another Fantastic Discredit of Intelligent Design
The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design by “benna” I’ll paste the actual text below as that site is 90% comments. This is a fantastic explanation of what Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity are, and why they completely fail both logically and as science. I seriously doubt that any believer in ID will bother reading this article, [...]
READ MORE »Gravity Caused by Intelligent Faller
Indeed, gravity IS a “scientific theory.” Gravity is not a “fact” as proponents of Creationism and Intelligent Design misunderstand the terms. So, here’s a counter theory to gravity that should get equal time in schools:
READ MORE »The Buck Stops at Bush, Not Brown
Heard a clip of Rep. Christopher Shays grilling former FEMA Chief Michael Brown yesterday. When asked what Brown thought his biggest faults were, he gave a non-commital response and a response of “failing to understand the dysfunction that existed between the offices of the Mayor of New Orleans and Governor of Louissiana.” And Shay told [...]
READ MORE »The New Christian Science Textbook
This is just way too funny! And very scary as I’m afraid it may not be too far from eventual truth! http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ibox/2005/ibox050509.gif
READ MORE »The Continuing Saga of the Un-education of Our Youth
From The Denver Post: The Bible as Museum Guide and CNN: "Intelligent design" debate back in court *sigh* And so the fight to promote ignorance continues. It’s not a matter of questioning science. Believe it or not, science is all about questing and questioning. “How does this work?” Let’s find out. “Why does this work?” [...]
READ MORE »Who IS the Enemy?
Just read this CNN article about the Iraq War “protest mom’s” arrest: Sheehan arrested in front of White House What struck me was the last paragraph: “I would like to say to Cindy Sheehan and her supporters don’t be a group of unthinking lemmings. It’s not pretty,” said Mitzy Kenny of Ridgeley, West Virginia, whose [...]
READ MORE »Ah, The Power of Cheese! er…Music!
So, pretty much every morning for years, I listen to NPR on the way to work. And since getting XM Radio, I’ve been listening to “Air America” (even though I’m not a liberal…but I am extremely anti-Bush,) and so, by the time I get to work each day, I’m depressed about the state of the [...]
READ MORE »Arr! Avast ye scurvy bilge rats!
It be Talk Like a Pirate Day! I nearly forgot! http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/ I really should do something with my http://www.grogmonkey.org site…
READ MORE »This Helps Explain It, Where Bush Gets It
I wouldn’t have believed it, it’s so outlandish, if it hasdn’t been sustantiated. But here’s a couple of quotes Barbara Bush, George W.’s mom, has made: She made these remarks about her interactions with the people quartered in the Astrodome following Hurricane Katrina: Almost everyone I’ve talked to says, ‘We’re going to move to Houston.’ [...]
READ MORE »Bush: Hypocrite Of The Year
Oh he says purty words, and has suckered millions of people in two elections with his great words and plain-talk of values and morals. But examine his ACTS, his DEEDS, and you find a very different man than he puts out there. What now? Well, in addition to giving no-bid contracts to help rebuild the [...]
READ MORE »The Evolutionary Branch, Not Line
Something that always bugged me is the misunderstanding of how evolution works, leading to the erroneous idea that “humans decended from apes.” That’s simply not the case. Humans and apes evolved side-by-side from a common ancestor. And this link helps illustrate that: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookHumEvol.html In addition to a good visual representation of how evolution is a [...]
READ MORE »More Blatant Bush Cronieism
The executive branch, members of the Bush administration, are vowing to investigate potential mismanagement of handing out no-bid contracts to Republican Party connected big businesses: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/national/nationalspecial/14spend.html Isn’t that putting the fox to guard the hen house? Now, I’m one to be VERY skeptical of conspiracy theories, and making connections where there aren’t any, but here’s [...]
READ MORE »Skepticality News and Awareness of Mortality
You may have noticed the “Skepticality” button in the menu to the side. It’s for a “podcast” hosted by Derek and Swoopy, where they discuss issues in news and culture regarding pseudoscience and skepticism. They’ve had some great guests like James Randi and the “Bad Astronomy” guy. It’s an excellent podcast with a great, upbeat [...]
READ MORE »Feds Shift Blame…Again
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/07/katrina.congress/index.html Did we really think this administration and Republican Congress would willingly accept responsibility for anything? Bush’s entire adult life has been colored by shifting blame for all his prosessional failings. Why should it stop? Congress is falling suit and is avoiding hearings to investigate where blame belongs for failures in disaster recovery. Not surprising [...]
READ MORE »Religion is the Crack of the Masses
I only wish religion were the “opiate” of the masses as Karl Marx believed. It would certainly be less dangerous. The Universist organization put out this e-mail and Web page I’ll include below, and a week ago I would have said the statements included must be some fringe preachers who don’t represent the mainstream of [...]
READ MORE »