Thursday, January 31, 2013

Creationists don't know enough to know they know nothing.

I highly recommend this video from a science teacher who explains why creationists are idiots. The Dunning Kruger Effect suggests that ignorant people not only fail to recognize their own ignorance, they fail to recognize competence in others. Consequently they believe they are highly skilled.



It's impossible to be more retarded than a creationist. Perhaps this is why creationist assholes think they know more about biology than every biologist in the world, from wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1]

From the same person there is another excellent video about the Christian war against science education. The video is 22 minutes and he takes a bit long to get out the point he is trying to make, but your patience will be rewarded if you watch the whole thing. He brilliantly explains why the Christian war against science education is wrong, wrong because their fake science is wrong, and wrong because they think they can force it into science education anyway. And he explains why their methods, going to the politicians instead of doing scientific research, will backfire on them because they are only enraging the scientific community who are becoming fed up with their tactics. Here is the video: Will Intelligent Design Get In Science Class?

"The denial of evolution requires denial of the bedrock of two centuries of biology and geology. That is quite a feat." -- Sean B. Carroll

It's difficult for me to understand how it's still possible to be an evolution denier in the 21st century. The deniers must have had all their curiosity completely sucked out of them. Why else would they have absolutely no desire to find out why every biologist in the world thinks they're idiots? I mean how hard is it to use google to look things up?

They keep complaining about fossils but they never spend the few seconds it would take to type "transitional fossils" in a google search box and hit the enter key. They never google "evidence evolution". They never do anything to understand. Are they insane? Extremely lazy? Their stupidity is just amazing.

Evolution deniers should know they are also Encyclopedia Britannica deniers. Do they think the brilliant scientists who write for the best encyclopedia in the world are liars? If they really think the world's best scientists are dishonest they could study the evidence they explain. Do they do that? Of course not. They are so certain about their magical creationism fantasy being real they would never bother looking anything up that might show they're wrong about everything. They have thrown out two centuries of scientific progress so they don't have to throw out their idiotic bible.

There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms.
-- Encyclopedia Britannica

Sean B. Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution, spoke for all biologists when he wrote about the Christian idiots who prefer magic instead of reality.

For all of those who do see the overwhelming evidence of natural selection and life's descent from ancestors, and the immense span of time over which the story of life unfolded, it is, to put it mildly, baffling how so many still do not. It is absolutely astonishing and often infuriating that some take it so far as to deny the immense foundation of evidence and to slander all the human achievement that foundation represents.
-- Sean B. Carroll


Jerry Coyne wrote about hundreds of evidences for evolution (from thousands of evidences to choose from) in Why Evolution is True. When he wrote about the massive fossil evidence which evolution deniers pretend doesn't exist, he explains why the fossils are not even necessary. The evolution deniers know nothing about the other evidence. How could they know anything about it? They are called willfully ignorant (and a few other things) for a good reason.

Even without fossils, we have evidence of human evolution from comparative anatomy, embryology, our vestigial traits, and even biogeography. We've learned of our fishlike embryos, our dead genes, our transitory fetal coat of hair, and our poor design, all testifying to our origins. The fossil record is really the icing on the cake.
-- Jerry Coyne

Evolution deniers (also known as creationists because they want to replace all of science with their childish magical creation out of nothing fantasy) have repeatedly shown they know absolutely nothing about what they're denying. They don't understand the evidence for evolution and they don't understand evolution. For example they have repeatedly said, thousands of times, evolution is a completely random process. They don't understand why the natural selection of favorable mutations is not random. Why don't they understand this extremely simple scientific concept? Perhaps it's because they are just plain stupid.

It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is they are opposing.
-- Richard Dawkins

"Oh No! Not Mr. Dawkins the atheist!"
-- A typical Christian retard

Here's an important fact for Christian assholes to understand. The reason virtually all biologists are atheists is because your magic god fairy is an anti-science fantasy. If you're going to ignore atheists (also known as normal people) then you're going to have to ignore almost every scientist in the world. Of course even the extremely rare religious biologists completely agree with the atheists about evolution. Nobody is more disgusted with you evolution deniers than the biologists who share your childish god fantasy.

What's the solution? Can stupid be fixed?

Of course there's nothing that can be done for a creationist who has somehow made it all the way to age 21 without being able to grow up. Fortunately there's some hope for the youngest victims of the child abuse called religious indoctrination. They know how to use google to look things up. If they wanted to study evolution it would not take them very long to figure out their parents are fucking idiots.

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The UK has a religion problem. I recommend this article from www.guardian.co.uk for the links to evolution evidence and for the comments. Example: "If you talk to god, you're religious, but if god talks to you then you're mentally ill."

Of course if you're religious you're a nutjob.

Nessie as evidence against evolution … and five odder things kids are taught. The Accelerated Christian Education curriculum is used in more than 50 UK schools. How can it receive official backing?

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TWO YOUTUBE VIDEOS, MANY THANKS TO JERRY COYNE'S BLOG.


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ANOTHER MUST-SEE YOUTUBE VIDEO.

Lawrence Krauss: Teaching Creationism is Child Abuse

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Why do human apes have larger brains than the other apes?

The answer is interesting. Apparently when our ancient ancestors learned how to cook they made the evolution of larger brains possible.

Please see Q: Why don’t apes (other than us) have bigger brains? A: They can’t eat enough to afford them.

Monday, January 28, 2013

50 reasons why science deniers deny science. (This entire post is a copy and paste job.)

50 Reasons I Reject Evolution (SATIRE)

1.) Because I don't like the idea that we came from apes… despite that humans are categorically defined and classified as apes.

2.) Because I'm too stupid and/or lazy to open a fucking science book or turn on the Discovery Science Channel.

3.) Because if I can't immediately understand how something works, then it must be bullshit.

4.) Because I don't care that literally 99.9% of all biologists accept evolution as the unifying theory of biology.

5.) Because I prefer the idea that a (insert god of choice) went ALLA-KADABRA-ZAM MOTHAH-FUCKAHS!!!

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 with genetic variation, not to abiogenesis, or planet formation, or big bang cosmology, or whether God exists, or where they buried Jimmy Hoffa, or why the sky is blue, or how many licks it takes to get to the center of a fucking Tootsie Pop.

7.) Because the fossil record doesn't comprise the remains of every single living thing that ever existed on this 4.5 billion year old planet, even though fossilization is a rare process that only occurs under very specific circumstances.

8.) Because science has yet to produce any transitional species… except for the magnitudinous numbers of them found in the fossil record which don't count because… I uh, OOH LOOK! A SHINY OBJECT!!! *runs away*

9.) Because I know nothing about Darwin except that he had a funny beard.

10.) Because the theory of evolution (which, according to scientists, perfectly explains the richness and diversity of life on Earth) contradicts biblical literalism… ya know, flat Earth with a firmament that keeps out the water, talking snakes, people rising from the dead, bats are birds, flamey talking bushes, virgin births, food appearing out of nowhere, massive bodies of water turning into blood… etc etc.

11.) Because I think the word "theory" actually means: "random stabs in the dark" when it really means: "an explanation of certain phenomena that is well-supported by a large body of facts and often unifies similarly well-supported hypotheses" i.e. atomic theory, gravitational theory, germ theory, cell theory, some-people-are-dumb-motherfuckers-theory, etc.   

12.) Because the fact that science is self-correcting annoys me. Most of my other beliefs are rigidly fixed and uncorrectable.

13.) Because I am under the severely mistaken impression that evolution implies someone in my very recent ancestry was a chimp.

14.) Because everything appears designed to my mind which was expertly tuned by nature to perceive design, probably as a survival mechanism.

15.) Because some secretly fabulous closet-dwelling televangelist (who unironically preaches hate towards gays) told me that evolution is Satan's way of leading me away from God.

16.) Because that same guy (who was also caught snorting blow off a male hooker's shiny naked ass) told me that God planted those fossils to test my faith.

17.) Because I'm 100% correct about everything 100% of the time and there is 0% chance that some snooty Oxford educated scientist with numerous honorary doctorates could possibly know something that I don't.

18.) Because I don't know that fossils are found in sedimentary strata corresponding to their age as one would expect if evolution were true.

19.) Because I don't understand why, if we share common ancestry with chimps, there are still chimps. And when someone with more than three brain cells in their head inevitably replies: "for the same reason Americans share common ancestry with Brits but there are still Brits, I can't follow the logic. It's just too big a leap. Who am I, Evil Knievel?

20.) Because my mom dropped me on my head when I was a baby.

21.) Multiple times.

22.) On purpose.

23.) Because the idea that life evolved naturally over billions of years is infinitely less believable than the idea that an 800 year old man crammed two of every species into a giant wooden boat when the entire planet flooded, an event for which there is absolutely no geological evidence whatsoever and also makes no fucking sense at all.

24.) Because Jesus totally rode around on a fucking t-rex. He's just that badassed. And also, did you know that t-rexes were vegetarians? Ken Ham says so and I believe it.

25.) Because I don't realize that saying "microevolution is possible but macroevolution isn't" is as stupid as saying "I can pick my nose for one second but I cannot pick it for 10 seconds."

26.) Because the education system failed me miserably.

27.) …and then took a big wet dump on my face.

28.) Because I think that knowing how nature works magically obliterates all of its beauty.

29.) Because I didn't know that evolution has been tested and observed in laboratories.

30.) Because when confronted with that, I refuse to believe it. It's obviously a scientific conspiracy aimed at turning everyone on the planet into atheists... even though evolution says nothing about god's nature nor whether he, she, it, or they exist.

31.) Because I'm too stupid to realize that Social Darwinism has nothing to do with evolution and is actually a pseudo-scientific bastardization that real science largely rejects.

32.) Because the planet and all the life on it was designed for humans… kinda like how the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY was designed specifically for the dust-bunnies that may accumulate on the floors.

33.) Because I don't realize that if we actually found croco-ducks in the fossil record, it would call many evolutionary principles into serious question.

34.) Because plenty of respectable people like Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee (who are not scientists) don't accept evolution, and that somehow validates my opinion.

35.) Because my mother didn't know not to drink while she was pregnant. She also didn't know not to repeatedly throw herself down a flight of stairs in an attempt to undo the accident of screwing someone who voted for Bush both times.

36.) Because I don't know that "irreducible complexity" has been debunked a frazillion times by a frazillion different people and is no more credible an argument than "NEEN-er NEEN-er NEEN-er, I'm right and you're wrong."

37.) Because I have never seen a duck evolve into a cat over night, despite the fact that such a thing would be contrary to all known scientific disciplines.

38.) Because I have no imagination, learning is too much effort, I don't like proven facts, change scares me, and I think deoxyribonucleic acid is something I'm supposed to clean my bathroom floors with.

39.) Because evolution means that I absolutely MUST reject everything else I know, abandon all my beliefs, and start aping around my house like a fucking monkey. OOOh-ooohh-ooohohh -OOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!

40.) Because I haven't put my cave on the market and moved into the 21st century yet. I'm waiting for the cave market to rebound from the recent financial meltdown.

41.) Because I don't know what an atavism is and if you told me, I still wouldn't believe it. Too weird.

42.) Because I don't know that evolution explains methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and also provides the answer in preventing it from turning into a superbug and killing massive numbers of people.

43.) Because I don't know that evolution is routinely used in medicine to diagnose and treat certain illnesses such as genetic ailments, bacterial infections, and viral infections.

44.) Because I believe there is a strong comparison between designed inanimate objects such as buildings, paintings, and watches (which we know were pieced together from identifiable components by human beings) and living organisms (which reproduce with genetic variation under the effects of environmental attrition).

45.) Because I see no significant similarities between humans and apes. *scratches my ass-crack then smells my fingers*

46.) Because I think I'm too special to have been crafted by any natural process. In fact, I'm so fuckin special, the entire planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe were created with me especially in mind, yes, I am THAT hotdamn important.

47.) Because I unquestioningly swallow the ignorant anti-science bullshit spewed directly from the fraudulent stupid asses of people like Ken Ham, Ted Haggard, Fred Phelps, and Kent Hovind.

48.) Because I'm a freethinker and freethinking really means ignoring anything that contradicts what I already believe.

49.) Because I don't know what confirmation bias is.

50.) Because "GOD DID IT" is the answer to anything I don't immediately comprehend and I certainly don't understand evolution.

Ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case. Quod erat demonstrandum, I fucking win. Take that you EVILutionists!

~By Bobbie Jean Pentecost

Texans have thrown out our constitution.

The Christian war against science education is over with in Texas. The Christian assholes won.

Read this and be amazed: Texas Public Schools: Still Teaching Creationism

The problem in Texas is the politicians are retards, the teachers are retards,  the students are retards, and the vast majority of the population is retarded.

You might be from Texas and you might be normal. You are in a minority. Most likely your Texan neighbors are fucking idiots.

In 2007 Texan politicians thought it would be a great idea to let students attend Bible classes in public schools. To prevent the Supreme Court and federal courts from complaining about it, all they had to do was pretend the Christian teachers who infest Texan public schools wouldn't use these Bible classes for religious indoctrination. Of course those asshole teachers totally ignored the law and they taught everything from the resurrection of the magic jeebus man into a zombie to magical creationism.

I don't have time to copy and paste all the bullshit from Texas Public Schools: Still Teaching Creationism so please read it.

Just one more thing. If you're an American Christian, I don't care how moderate you pretend to be, I just want you to know you're a fucking idiot and you disgrace your country. Fuck off and die you fucking asshole.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Stephen Jay Gould explained why the Christian assholes who are trying to destroy science education in America must be defeated.

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologistevolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.[1] Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In the latter years of his life, Gould also taught biology and evolution at New York University near his home in SoHo.
Many years ago I had the good luck to see Stephen Jay Gould give a speech at the University of Chicago. The huge auditorium was packed, every seat taken and many people standing in back. He talked about evolution of course (and baseball). What I remember is he explained why it took many millions of years before life evolved beyond just bacteria, and he talked about why we were only one of several human-like ape species who lived at the same time.

In the United States of Jeebus where I live our Christian scum are constantly trying to get legislation passed to dumb down science education to accommodate the magic jeebus man. They are trying to force biology teachers to teach magical creationism (also known as magical intelligent design, magical creation science, and a few other code words for magic). Of course creationism is bullshit and of course it shouldn't be taught anywhere because child abuse is wrong. 

Here is the quote from Mr. Gould that perfectly explains why Christian assholes must never be allowed to get away with anything. I recommend you read some of his many other famous quotes at Stephen Jay Gould quotes.

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage—good teaching—than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?

99.9% of American biologists accept evolution. In less god-soaked countries the percentage is much higher.

Professional science deniers tell their gullible customers there are biologists who don't accept evolution. That's true if you want to count the idiots who work for Bible colleges and who have never contributed anything important to biology.

From wikipedia: One 1987 estimate found that "700 scientists ... (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) ... give credence to creation-science"

I did the math. 700 out of 480,000 is 0.1%. The other 99.9% of earth and life scientists in America agree evolution is the strongest fact of science.

Science is not a democracy. Scientists don't vote on what's true and what's bullshit. But there must be a reason why every single serious biologist in the world loves evolution. That reason is the evidence, tons of it, powerful undeniable evidence that continues to grow every day. Evolution has been tested repeatedly and it's passed every test. Evolution will never be thrown out for the same reason the idea our planet orbits the sun will never be thrown out. Evolution is a basic scientific fact.

If you're an evolution denier that's fine with me. It's your wasted life, not mine. But you should at least stop pretending there's any real scientists on your side. You should stop pretending there's a debate about the truth of evolution. That debate ended more than a century ago. There is no controversy about the basic facts of evolution.

My point is if you continue your religious war against science education you're never going to accomplish anything. Science always wins because it works.

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Another misconception evolution deniers (also known as creationists because they believe in a god fairy who waves a magic wand to create creatures out of nothing) have about biologists (and everyone else who accepts the established truth of evolution) is they are liberals. That's ridiculous. Evolution is a scientific idea, not a political idea. There is a large percentage of science denying idiots in the Republican Party but there are millions of Republicans who love evolution. I am one of those Republicans. The idiots among us disgrace conservatism. There's nothing conservative about denying reality.

Stop pretending only liberals have enough common sense to accept the massive evidence for evolution. The word liberal is an insult. Please do not insult the real Republicans who love science.

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You creationists have a few other problems. You don't understand what you're denying. Every time you write or say anything about evolution you are showing off your total ignorance of science. Try looking things up instead of making fools out of yourselves. If you're gullible enough to believe everything your favorite liar for jeebus says without checking the facts, then it's fair to call you an uneducated moron.

I can't imagine being able to deny evolution. I mean how much fucking evidence do you god-soaked idiots need? There's a good reason creationists are called flat-earthers. They are equal to the people who used to think the earth is flat, equally stupid and equally insane.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

America's Christian war against science education

This time the Christian war against reality is in Montana. I wrote a comment at a Montana news website which may or may not be published. Here it is:

Critics says bill allows creationism in schools

"Republican sponsor Clayton Fiscus of Billings says evolution isn't settled science. His bill would allow teachers _ if they want to _ to address weaknesses in evolution studies in the classroom."

As a very conservative Republican I'm a bit fed up with Republicans like Fiscus who disgrace conservatism. It's not conservative to be a science denier. It's not conservative to dumb down science education to accommodate religious fantasies.

Evolution is settled science. It's virtually impossible to find any biologist in the world who doesn't agree evolution is the strongest fact of science and the foundation of biology. It's impossible to properly teach biology without making evolution part of every single lesson.

The reason biologists have accepted evolution as fact for more than a century is the evidence, evidence that has become more powerful than Darwin could have ever imagined possible. Evidence Mr. Fiscus obviously knows nothing about.

Does evolution (the strongest fact of science) have weaknesses? No, of course not, for the same reason our planet's orbit around the sun has no weaknesses.

Mr. Fiscus wants to give incompetent science teachers the right to lie to their students about science. A better idea would be to immediately fire all science teachers who don't know anything about science. Firing all the evolution deniers would be a good place to start. It's not fair to students to get stuck with a know-nothing teacher who should have been fired a long time ago.

People who want to study the massive overwhelming evidence for evolution could try this: Type "darwin killed god" in the google search box then click the I'm Feeling Lucky button.

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My 12 best posts about the evidence for evolution:

Bible thumping retard in Idiot Tennessee is a science denier. What a surprise!

A whole bunch of fucking evidence for evolution

Evidence for evolution you can see with your own eyes

Evolution deniers can't explain why their god fairy would use its magic wand to create the giraffe's laryngeal nerve 15 feet longer than necessary.

Science deniers, how do you explain Dorudon?

The Great Apes: chimps, people, gorillas, orangutans

Endogenous Retroviruses make Jeebus cry.

Some stuff I stole from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True

The ancestor of the Chihuahua is the wolf.

Lanugo makes Jeebus cry.

This is for the Christian assholes who say there are no transitional fossils.

Human chromosome 2 and chimpanzee chromosomes 2p & 2q

Friday, January 25, 2013

Most American biology teachers are incompetent stupid assholes. They should be fired immediately because it's not fair to students to get stuck with an idiot teacher.

Evolution is what makes biology interesting and exciting. Evolution makes students love science instead of being bored by it. Evolution (the foundation of biology) should be a major part of every single biology lesson. But in Idiot America our biology teachers usually don't teach evolution at all. Why aren't these idiot teachers being fired? Because the idiot students never complain. Americans are fucking idiots.

Most of America's biology teachers need to be thrown out the window. A good place to start would be to immediately fire all Christian teachers. Christians are not qualified to teach science because they are just plain stupid.

There's another reason why evolution should be taught. Besides making students love science, after they understand how evolution works they eventually figure out the magic god fairy they were brainwashed to worship doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because it's unnecessary and because it's a childish idiotic Dark Ages fantasy.

Is America better off if the citizens are educated or is America better off if most of the population are uneducated morons who praise the magic jeebus man?

Teach science properly and teach it (especially evolution) starting at a very young age, and we will eventually rid ourselves of the disgusting christian death cult which is good for nothing but making people become idiots.

Approximately 20% of students are taught neither creationism nor evolution in their high school biology courses (Moore, 2007). Another “cautious 60%” of biology teachers want to avoid controversy, and neither advocate evolution nor explicitly endorse nonscientific alternatives (Berkman and Plutzer, 2011). Even when teachers do teach evolution, they often cover the topic in a trivial or disparaging way (Bandoli, 2008, and references therein), thereby perpetuating a cycle of ignorance reinforced by popular opinion (Berkman and Plutzer, 2011). When these students arrive on college campuses, they are predisposed to remain skeptical of evolution, for their perceptions and prior knowledge strongly influence their learning. This is especially important for evolution, for many students view evolution as negative and undesirable (Brem, Ranney, and Schindel, 2003) and sense an “overlap of some ideas that the theory [of evolution] advocates with other social, epistemological, and religious beliefs” (Hakoyem and BouJaode, 2008).

Evolution and Creationism in America’s Biology Classrooms

Fortunately some American biology teachers are extremely competent. Unfortunately they still have to deal with harassment and threats from Christian scum. These cowardly Christian assholes harassed, threatened, and yelled at an elderly female biology teacher.

Melbourne, Australia


Some day I would like to visit Melbourne, Australia.

http://www.visitmelbourne.com/

Edvard Grieg 1843 – 1907


There are few pieces of music that are more instantly recognisable than 'Morning Mood' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. But everything in the two complete orchestral suites from which they derive is equally stunning and in this all new recording by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sebastian Lang-Lessing they are coupled with the equally-popular Holberg Suite and the beautiful
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen -- composed in honour of the Norwegian composer's jubilee wedding anniversary. For the novice there is no better introduction to classical music, and for the old hand these dynamic performances reveal new insights into this timeless music.

A REAL WOMAN

Sergeant Pearsall deployed to Iraq twice.
As Sergeant Pearsall tells the story, her vehicle came under intense fire that day in 2007, near the city of Baquba. The male soldiers in her carrier had already dashed out to join the fight, so she jumped onto the machine gun and began returning fire.

Outside a soldier lay unconscious. Sergeant Pearsall opened the rear door and crawled to the man, who was 6-foot-2 and more than 200 pounds, twice her weight. From behind him, she clasped him in a bear hug and dragged him toward the vehicle. She fell once, then again. Somehow, she hauled him into the armored safety of the carrier.

After tearing off his protective vest, she realized his carotid artery had been torn by shrapnel. As blood spurted all over, she closed her eyes, stuck her fingers into his neck and squeezed. He screamed, and she thanked the heavens. He was still kicking.

What happened next seemed almost cinematic. Emerging from a purplish haze outside, a medic jumped into the carrier and set his kit beside her. “Are you a medic?” he asked.

Heck no, Sergeant Pearsall replied. “I’m the photographer.”

When the Bullets Flew, ‘They Didn’t Care That I Was a Woman’

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Monday, January 14, 2013

Some definitions

evolution: Genetic change in populations, often producing changes in observable traits of organisms over time.

speciation: The evolution of new populations that are reproductively isolated from other populations.

magical bible creationism: A god fairy waving a magic wand to create stuff out of nothing.

magical intelligent design creationism (previously known as magical creation science): A god fairy waving a magic wand to create stuff out of nothing.

magical theistic evolution: Evolution polluted with supernatural magic, as if magic could be a mechanism of a natural process. 

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Many thanks to Jerry Coyne, the first two definitions are from his masterpiece Why Evolution is True, a book which everyone should buy and read. There's nothing tedious to read in Why Evolution is True like some books about science. Countless evidences for evolution are explained and it's all very interesting. I used to think it would be impossible for an evolution denier to still deny evolution after reading this book, but I underestimated the stupidity of Christian tards.

The last three definitions are the religious fantasies most Americans prefer instead of science. In normal countries these idiots can only be found in insane asylums. Unfortunately there's nothing normal about Idiot America. 

You will notice the first two fantasies have identical meanings. They are exactly the same thing. Dishonest Christian assholes like to pretend calling magic "design" makes it less childish but it's still magic and it's still insane.

Magical intelligent design creationism was called magical creation science until 1987 when the Supreme Court threw it out of public schools because it's religious bullshit and not science. In 2005 a federal court made the exact same decision about magical intelligent design creationism. Christian scum keep renaming their bullshit fantasies because they think calling magic by another name will let them get away with dumbing down science education to accommodate their magic jeebus man.

The third religious fantasy, magical theistic evolution, is not evolution. It's magical creationism, not much different from the other creationism fantasies. People who believe in the theistic evolution fantasy think they are a bit more intelligent than the Bible thumping tards, but they're still uneducated morons. Please see Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True, wrote "Theistic evolutionists are creationists."

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If I had to choose the one best post in this blog it would be the 2nd post which I wrote on December 4, 2010. It has a radio speech which you can listen to and/or read. You can read it because I wrote the whole thing down. It's a very eloquent speech about evolution. The speaker is Ken Miller, a Brown University biologist. He is America's most effective defender of science education and for that I can forgive his one character defect. He says he's a Christian (or he pretends to be a Christian to sell books).

Today I discovered the link to the speech was obsolete but I fixed it. Here it is. Please listen to it and read it.

If there's anything that might make Christians understand why denying evolution is a waste of a life, it is this speech by Ken Miller.

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The stupid burns out of control at Creation Ministries. I wrote a comment for the wackos which of course will never be published.

"Atheists typically assume that they are open-minded, but they usually exclude even the possibility of a Creator."

You're right. I'm so close-minded I have completely ruled out any possibility of supernatural magic in the universe. I also refuse to believe in Easter Bunnies.

One of the dishonest assholes of the Christian Creationist Discovery Institute believes in the resurrection of the magic jeebus man into a zombie. What a surprise!

As everyone knows the Discovery Institute is an anti-science Christian organization which denies it's religious. I was not surprised when I noticed one of the fucktards who works there also belongs to a ministry that sells jeebus bullshit.

The asshole lied about his religious intelligent design fantasy at CROSSEXAMINED BLOG (a christian ministry). The same asshole lied about the same thing at a Discovery Institute website.

My censored comments:

"The god-of-the-gaps objection to intelligent design is one that we have addressed numerous times at ENV and elsewhere."

You mean you lied about it numerous times.

"Intelligent design"  are code words dishonest Christians use when they really mean "magically created out of nothing". You invoke magic for science you don't understand. You are sticking your god of the gaps where it doesn't belong. You're a crackpot science denier.

Look it mister, if your magical intelligent design creationism fantasy was anything more than an excuse for the existence of your god fairy, you wouldn't  have to keep denying what everyone already knows it is.

I noticed biologists don't have to defend evolution from accusations it's a god-did-it idea. But you are constantly having to lie about your ID fantasy. You're pathetic. Grow up, educate yourself, and face facts. Science has eliminated any need for your magical designer and its magic wand. Stop living in the Dark Ages.

I noticed in his comment Ryan F. wrote "god bless". Biologists don't do that. The problem with you wackos is you're religious. And to defend your goofball religion you invent code words like intelligent design, hoping that somehow you can disguise your childish magical fantasies. You people disgrace your country.

Before you censor this comment maybe you should consider the possibility that I'm right. Maybe you should consider the fact that every biologist in the world completely agrees with what I wrote.

Jonathan, you work for the Christian Creationist Discovery Institute which exists to attack and destroy science education to accommodate the magic jeebus man. That explains everything. You are not just a crackpot. You belong to Crackpot Central.

Of course you will censor my comments. Your anti-science Discovery Institute which has never discovered anything doesn't even allow comments. Of course they don't allow comments because biologists would be complaining about their constant lying.

Fuck off asshole. Your kind belong in prison for treason. That's what your war against America's science education is. It's treason. You fucking retard.

This is interesting.

[We] believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
[We] believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead.[We] believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy [universal] church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. AMEN.

And you belong to the Christian Creationist Discovery Institute. What perfect proof for the fact your institute is a religious organization. You fucktards don't even bother to hide this fact anymore.

Hey asshole, you got any evidence for the resurrection of your magic jeebus man into a zombie? Let's have that evidence moron.

The stupid, it burns.