Josh Rosenau at Scienceblogs tackles some criticism leveled at people who don't think all religious politicians (and voters) should be met with scorn and derision, a la the Richard Dawkins way.The topic is, of course, Texas Governor Rick Perry, who plays to the fundamentalist base among Republicans by noting that evolution 'has some gaps', a wink to religious folks who don't believe in it at all...
read more'Creationism' is a confusing term. In science, militant atheists will intentionally call all religious people 'creationists' and then complain creationists are anti-science, even about the religious people who are not anti-science at all. 'Young Earth' creationists think we were created in whole form 6,000 or so years ago and believe paleontology and biology are some test of faith...
read moreOne of the stranger claims of anti-science hippies is that there is not only a difference between 'organic' food (and apparently 'inorganic' food, whatever that could be) in structure - and if you believe that, go read Huffington Post, I won't take it personally - but also in nutrition.read...
read moreThe guys at WGRD.com got bored with silly science experiments like freezing something really fast or the double slit experiment, so they carefully compiled some science data on what happens to boobs on roller coasters. Really, there isn’t much more to it than that. Alton Towers Resort got a group of test-riders to slip on [...]
read moreThe guys at WGRD.com got bored with silly science experiments like freezing something really fast or the double slit experiment, so they carefully compiled some science data on what happens to boobs on roller coasters. Really, there isn’t much more to it than that. Alton Towers Resort got a group of test-riders to slip on [...]
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