Bay of Fundie

[I’m on vacation right now, so here is a quick post I wrote in advance. Feel free to discuss it among yourselves.] This week we’re looking at the laughably-bad anti-science gallery at Conservababes. I found a couple of images that scream “stupid” louder than most. What is one of the most common characteristics of creationists [...]

[I’m on vacation right now, so here is a quick post I wrote in advance. Feel free to discuss it among yourselves.] There’s some sort of conservative web forum called Conservababes. I haven’t spent much time looking at it, but it looks completely unremarkable. However, I did discover that they have an image gallery. The [...]

I’m going to have to jump on this banana boat, too. This video is a bit uneven, but overall it’s pretty funny. (via Happy Jihad and Skepchick) (YouTube page is here)

From today’s The Far Left Side by Mike Stanfill

(From Alun Salt’s Flickr stream) I read the Discovery Institute’s brain-dead blog, Evolution News & Views, every day. You remember those stories of the highly-devout who will self-flagellate? It’s some sort of twisted penance for thinking impure thoughts or something. Well I punish myself every day, too. I read Evolution News & Views. I usually [...]

Which of these statements is false? Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic. John Glenn was the first American in space. Charles Darwin discovered evolution. They’re all false, of course. No scholar claims that any of them are true, yet there are some folks out there who somehow got their facts confused. [...]

Two things that both take a long time. Here are a few things I found on the web this morning that I really like. First up is the one I really believe in (but not in a religious way, ’cuz we don’t worship him): Next is a University of Johannesburg ad (Click to embiggen. Yes, [...]

Here are some highlights of a list posted by Bobbie Jean Pentecost. See the whole list here. 3.) Because if I can’t immediately understand how something works, then it must be bullshit. 6.) Because I can’t get it through my thick logic-proof skull that evolution refers ONLY to the diversity of living organisms which reproduce [...]