"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
"Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, 'On the Origin of Species', shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. In “The Greatest Show on Earth”, Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of ‘Intelligent Design’ and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection. Like a detective arriving on the scene of a crime, he sifts through fascinating layers of scientific facts and disciplines to build a cast-iron case: from the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects; the ‘time clocks’ of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology and genetics. All of this, and much more, bears witness to the truth of evolution. 'The Greatest Show on Earth' comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before, especially in America. In Britain and elsewhere in the world, teachers witness insidious attempts to undermine the status of science in their classrooms. Richard Dawkins provides unequivocal evidence that boldly and comprehensively rebuts such nonsense. At the same time he shares with us his palpable love of the natural world and the essential role that science plays in its interpretation. Written with elegance, wit and passion, it is hard-hitting, absorbing and totally convincing." Hurunui Libraries Weblog
Tone matters, because too many have been insufficiently fierce in their criticism of pious excuses for sloppy thinking. Tone matters because we haven’t been rude enough in the face of special claims of privilege for religious inanity. We need to flip that tone argument around 180°—the problem isn’t that our tone is so harsh, it’s that yours is so inappropriately soft towards people who lie to children, who want to gut our educational system, and who want to taint science with a bias for magic.
-- PZ Myers
Those of us who have for years politely concealed our contempt for the dangerous collective delusion of religion need to stand up and speak out. Things are different after September 11th. Let's stop being so damned respectful!
Here in Idiot America "extremely retarded" is normal. A Christian idiot, looking for an excuse to invoke his fairy's magic wand for everything he is too stupid to understand, copy and pasted this usual bullshit: "If you found a precision timepiece, would you conclude that it was formed by a chance blowing together of some dust particles? Obviously, someone with intelligence made it." I wrote this reply which was a complete waste of time because burning stupid can't be fixed: Only uneducated morons believe in your childish ridiculous anti-science magical creation fantasy.
We know things these days. You know nothing.
"If you found a precision timepiece, would you conclude that it was formed by a chance blowing together of some dust particles? Obviously, someone with intelligence made it."
No shit Sherlock. However natural processes don't need your fairy's magic wand.
DId you ever consider the advantages of growing up, educating yourself, and facing facts, instead of being a cowardly superstitious uneducated moron?
What you’re seeing—in practically every point or smear of light—is an individual galaxy. The result gave us the information that a very large number of galaxies exist in a minuscule region of the sky: around 10,000 in the tiny volume surveyed by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.
"Evolution: Designed by Jeebus!" is from a Christian website an atheist wimp invoked to convince Christian scum they can accept the established truth of evolution and still praise their dead preacher man. The problem with being a wimpy dishonest atheist is everyone knows the wimp is a liar. The Magic Jeebus Man most certainly was a creationist. He didn't know anything about biology including natural selection and genetic drift. Jeebus was an uneducated moron. To pretend this worthless preacher designed a natural process is way beyond insane. Natural processes don't need magical inventors. Everyone needs to stop pretending evolution doesn't kill religion. Religion has been dead since 1859. Christian fucktards, if you can't accept evolution as a completely natural process (your fairy's magic wand had nothing to do with it) then you're not accepting evolution. It's either science or religion (reality or fantasy). Choose one because you can't have both. You wimpy dishonest atheists who think polluting evolution with magic is better than completely denying the whole thing, you have my contempt. You are part of the religious insanity problem. Bible thumpers and terrorists love you wimpy liars for Jeebus and Mohammed.
Does your magical being use a magic wand? Does it live with the Easter Bunny? Why do you live in the Dark Ages? Are you ever going to grow up? Are you a fucking coward? Would you have a nervous breakdown if you realized your ridiculous magical heaven fantasy is bullshit? Do you brainwash innocent children? Did you know this is child abuse? Did you know this is the 21st century? We know things these days. Did you know that? Why do you harass and threaten biology teachers? Evolution is the foundation of biology. Does biology make you cry? Did you know normal people are called atheists? Did you know normal people laugh at you fucktards? Your cowardly childish magical heaven fantasy makes terrorism possible. Does that bother you? Assholes fly airplanes into buildings because they believe in the exact same heaven fantasy you believe in. And that's why 3,000 Americans were murdered on September 11, 2001. Does that bother you? Or maybe you fucking assholes don't care. You don't care about the daily suicide bombings because you fucktards are too cowardly to grow up and throw out the fantasy that makes those atrocities possible. Is that your problem you fucking assholes? Do you fucktards believe in bullshit because bullshit makes you feel good? One last question. Is there any bullshit you fucking morons don't believe?
Tiktaalik, a transitional fish, was originally thought to have only one pair of sturdy, limb-like fins. But new specimens show that the hind fins also functioned like limbs, helping the fish crawl in shallow water and on land.
Based on fossils found a decade ago, scientists had assumed that the earliest known species of fish to make the momentous transition to four-legged animals, capable of living and moving about on dry land, had developed a kind of front-wheel drive. They used enhanced forward fins to crawl out of shallow waters, and only later adapted their rear fins into limbs.
But that was before subsequent discoveries turned up well-preserved hindquarters of Tiktaalik roseae, a transitional species that lived 375 million years ago. New findings, reported Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge the theory that vertebrates did not gain four-limbed mobility until well after they had settled the land.
Five new specimens of Tiktaalik (pronounced tic-TAH-lick) fossils found in the Canadian Arctic reveal that the modification of fins into four limbs actually began as adaptations for life in shallow water, according to a research team led by Neil H. Shubin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. The change may have enabled the fish to walk on a lake floor, paddle about and even make brief forays on land, the scientists said.
Fins to Feet
Tiktaalik, a transitional fish, was originally thought to have only one pair of sturdy, limb-like fins. But new specimens show that the hind fins also functioned like limbs, helping the fish crawl in shallow water and on land.
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In an interview, Dr. Shubin said that comparisons of the upper and lower anatomy of a single Tiktaalik fossil showed the hind appendage to be at least as long and complex as the forward appendage. The pelvic girdle, though still fishlike, appeared to be larger and more robust to support strong rear limbs, and the hip joint made a wide range of movements possible.
“It’s clear that the emphasis on hind appendages and pelvic-propelled locomotion is a trend that began in fish,” he said, adding that the trend was “later exaggerated” during the origin of four-legged animals known astetrapods in the Late Devonian period, 395 million to 362 million years ago.
Another author of the journal article, Edward B. Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said the pelvis, particularly the hip socket, was “very different from anything that we knew of in the lineage leading up to limbed vertebrates.”
Tiktaalik, which grew as long as nine feet, looked like a cross between a fish and a crocodile. Dr. Shubin, Dr. Daeschler and Farish A. Jenkins Jr. of Harvard, who died in 2012, discovered the first fossil specimens in 2004 in blocks of stone on Ellesmere Island, part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
After the discovery was published two years later, Jennifer A. Clack of Cambridge University, a specialist on tetrapod evolution, said Tiktaalik was “one of those things you can point to and say, ‘I told you this would exist,’ and there it is.”
Other scientists were struck by the anatomical changes already evident in the fossils.
The transition was more complex than fins’ evolving into sturdy limbs. The head and braincase were changing, a mobile neck was emerging, and a bone associated with underwater feeding and gill respiration was diminishing in size — the beginning of the bone’s adaptation for an eventual role in hearing for land animals.
In addition to gills, Tiktaalik had primitive lungs. It also had a robust rib cage, and its large forefin had shoulders, elbows and partial wrists that allowed it to support itself on the ground.
The scientists wrote in the new report that Tiktaalik “was likely a denizen of a continuum of channel, shallow water and mud flat habitats where appendage-based support, locomotion and head mobility would have been at a premium.”
All this was happening, they said, while the fish was still a fish but changing in many ways for its emerging role as a predecessor of amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs, mammals, and eventually humans.
Because of a trivial disagreement about prophets several centuries ago, you sunnis and shiites are killing each other every day. Way to fuck up an economy you fucking morons. Over here in south Florida it's different. We don't blow ourselves up. We don't cut off heads. Our ladies have human rights just like everyone else. We don't bury women up to their necks and then stone them to death like you cowardly Muslim scum like to do. We don't throw acid into the eyes of little girls just because they're walking to school. We don't kill people because they belong to the wrong branch of an idiot religion. Sunnis and Shiites"The major split in Islam is that between the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiites. The split goes back to events in the 7th century." You fucking idiots are killing each other because of what happened 1,400 fucking years ago. How fucking stupid can you get? Fuck off Muslim Fucktards.
What a bunch of fucking idiots. The terrorists must talk to themselves for Allah, five times a day, every fucking day. It's no wonder you fucking assholes blow yourselves up all the time. The life you have is ridiculous. Do Muslims ever grow up and throw out Islam? Actually they do this all the time but they have to be quiet about it because that's really breaking the rules. The penalty is death. If you're a Muslim get the fuck off my planet you stupid piece of shit.
Science is not a belief. Science is all about discovering evidence for what really happened. Science is the search for truth, the real truth, not something imagined to be true, not something people wish for, not something people believe, but something that is real whether we like it or not.
It's strange to live in a country infested with millions of god-soaked idiots. These people believe in the most ridiculous fantasies imaginable. Even worse, when scientific facts conflict with their bullshit beliefs they throw out the science. I know they're completely wrong about everything and everyone else who isn't insane knows they're completely wrong about everything. America's fucktards think scientists are extremely dishonest and shouldn't be trusted. Again they're completely wrong. Even though scientists are very honest (because they have moral values and because their careers and reputations would be ruined if they lied about anything) it is not necessary to trust anyone, because what scientist have for their ideas is something called "evidence". If the evidence is very strong then it's likely the idea is correct. If the evidence is weak then more research and testing is required before the idea can be accepted. So it's not necessary to trust scientists. Nothing could be more simple but America's fucktards don't understand. The Bible thumper's fantasies of course have zero evidence and that's why their bullshit requires faith. Faith is the process of believing in ridiculous impossible magical events that couldn't possibly be true. And they think faith is a virtue as if being a drooling moron is a good thing. "You must have faith" is a big part of religious indoctrination, also known as child abuse. One of the most disgusting fantasies of the Christian Death Cult is their most important belief, the magical resurrection of the Magic Jeebus Man into a zombie. Of course this never happened. The fantasy which all Christians must believe is bullshit. Dead people stay dead. This is a basic fact of reality. In any case imagine the smell. Of course for every Christian problem there is a magical solution. While Jeebus was dead for three days the corpse did not decompose at all. Apparently the magical master of the entire universe waved its magic wand to keep the internal organs of Jeebus in perfect condition. Then more magic and Jeebus is alive again. Christian assholes refuse to call all this magic stuff "magic". They prefer the word "miracle" even though calling magic by another name doesn't make it less childish. The magical resurrection of Jeebus requires faith (also known as the process of not thinking) but Christians like to pretend their most important fantasy has evidence so they invoke 500 dead witnesses who were either invented or insane. Christians, imaginary witnesses (even if they are real) are not evidence for anything. Fantastic ideas require fantastic evidence and you have nothing. America's Idiots-For-Jeebus are causing great harm to this country. For example they frequently harass and threaten biology teachers who teach evolution. If the teacher dumbs down science education to accommodate Christian assholes the students are cheated. They learn how to hate science instead of learning how to love science. An interesting story about a biology teacher who successfully defeated the assholes who threatened her is at These cowardly Christian assholes harassed, threatened, and yelled at an elderly female biology teacher.
“Humans (and other placental mammals) have a defective gene for making egg yolk in the exact spot in our genomes where chickens have the functional version of this gene, and that humans and chimpanzees share a large number of mutations in common in our two inactivated copies."
Islam's Latest Contributions to Peace "Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are harsh to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:29
2014.01.10 (Hama, Syria) - Sunni terrorists detonate a car bomb outside a school, wiping out eighteen innocents.
2014.01.09 (Baghdad, Iraq) - A suicide bomber murders over twenty young police recruits waiting to register.
2014.01.08 (Kano, Nigeria) - Boko Haram is suspected of spraying a rival mosque with bullets, killing three worshippers.
2014.01.07 (Jurf al-Sakhar, Iraq) - A child is among four people killed when al-Qaeda set off a bomb at a house.
2014.01.07 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Muslim fundamentalists shoot a dozen sinners to death at a brothel.
2014.01.07 (Karachi, Pakistan) - Sunni fundamentalists cut the throats of six Sufis for visiting a shrine.
Christians are greedy. They're lucky to be alive at all but for them that's not good enough. They want a 2nd life, a magical life that never ends, which has the disadvantage of being ridiculous, childish, impossible, cowardly, and it makes terrorism possible. Christian scum have a few other problems besides being cowards. They all liars, they have zero moral values, and their stupidity is breathtaking. This blog has 217 posts about assholes for Jeebus at darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/assholes for Jeebus.
All Christian assholes believe in a god of the gaps and always they deny it. After Christian liars (they're all liars) say they don't believe in a god of the gaps, they immediately in the next sentence invoke their fairy's magic wand for some real or imagined gap in human knowledge. Their idea is "I'm too fucking stupid to understand anything therefore god did it." I never met a Christian who wasn't a drooling moron. This blog has 464 posts about Christian retards at darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/Christian%20retards.
In this 26 minute video Mr. Krauss chases the god of the gaps out of its last hiding place. It's rare when it's worth watching a long video. This video is the exception. Everyone should watch it, especially the god-soaked idiots who fear science.
"The Creation Museum has been lauded by supporters and prodded by scientists for exhibits that assert the Earth was created in a few days about 6,000 years ago. It also has displays with dinosaurs and humans living alongside each other, in contradiction to scientific findings that the two species were separated by more than 60 million years."
The newspaper article is about a debate there's going to be between Bill Nye and Ken Fucktard Ham.
From wikipedia: William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, and scientist who began his career as a mechanical engineer at Boeing. He is best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.
From The Encyclopedia of American Loons: Ken Ham: Diagnosis: A clod, crackpot and (unintentional) con artist; seriously deluded and influential in the manner of Kent Hovind; Ken Ham is perhaps the leading advocate of traditional creationism and naïve biblical literalism. A threat to reason, sanity, intelligence and rationality everywhere.
The debate will be about whether not evolution (the strongest fact of science) is true, and whether or not magical creationism (the most ridiculous religious fantasy ever invented) is true.
This would be like debating a drooling moron who believed the Earth is flat. There is no debate about evolution. There is nothing to debate. Facts are facts. Period.
Also from the Encyclopedia of Americans Loons: Ken Ham: His favorite debate technique is a version of theGish gallopknown as the “Ham Hightail” which consists of jumping from point to point, ignoring all contrary evidence, and quoting the Bible whenever proof is required. Since the purpose is to retain the hold of those who already believe creationism is backed by science, if all else fails the hightail prescribes the “different worldviews” (i.e. atheist vs. moral)gambit.
This ridiculous bullshit would be impossible in a civilized country, but nobody ever accused Idiot America of being civilized.
Ken Fucktard Ham (that's his real name) has an interesting career. He teaches young children how to be extremely stupid. He teaches children to believe all scientists are liars and all scientific facts are wrong. In other words Ken Fucktard Ham is a child abuser. He ruins their lives. This is the worst possible crime imaginable. Ken Fucktard Ham belongs in prison.
More than a year ago Bill Nye made an excellent video called "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children" which I highly recommend. You can see the video at this post: Fuck off and die Christian scum.
What if everyone in the world totally accepted the facts of evolution? If everyone would read the best book ever written for non-scientists about evolution which is Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution Is True there would be no more evolution deniers (I am pretending everyone has a brain) and this would make the world a much better place. There would be a lot less god-soaked assholes because Darwin killed every ridiculous religious fantasy. In a world of just normal people (aka atheists) there would be much less violence and much less stupidity. There would be more respect for the environment and other creatures if people realized we are part of nature instead of being magically created to be separate from nature. I bought and read Why Evolution Is True when it was published in 2009 and now I'm reading the entire book again in 2014. Every paragraph is interesting. Every explanation of the evidence is easy to understand. There is nothing tedious to read in this perfect book. I have tons of books but Why Evolution Is True is the most interesting and most important book I have ever read. You can read the 185 Amazon customer five star reviews at Amazon customer reviews. I stole several quotes from Mr. Coyne's book and from his blog which can be found at Some stuff I stole from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True. You still need to buy and read the entire book if you want to call yourself educated. Some more posts about Jerry Coyne which I highly recommend: Charles Darwin killed the magic god fairy. Jerry Coyne and Neil deGrasse Tyson cremated it. Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution is True" could have been called "Why Evolution Deniers are Fucking Idiots". Jerry Coyne criticizes atheist wimps who suck up to religious retards. This blog has 54 posts about Jerry Coyne at darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/Jerry%20Coyne.
I found a U.S. and World Population Clock at www.census.gov/popclock/. It shows that after subtracting the human apes who drop dead there is still one more ape being added every half second. It's very nice to have a family. That's a good thing. But unfortunately we are crowding out the other species. The problem is a large percentage of the world's human ape population are fucking assholes who go out of their way to destroy habitat and/or murder creatures who are threatened with extinction. Some interesting facts:
China is a big problem. It's not a democracy so the government can do what it wants or not do what it should do. And so what we have in China is the worst pollution in the world. This is the country that wiped out a species of dolphins that lived in a river in China. Fortunately they are trying to save the Pandas. They execute anyone who harms a panda, and I think that's a good thing. I would like to be the executioner. The population of the world (as of right now as I write this) is 7,138,693,140. Maybe that's enough but if I did the math correctly the world gets 172,800 more hairless apes every 24 hours. 60 seconds a minute times 60 minutes an hour times 24 hours in a day equals 86,400 seconds every 24 hours. Since about every second the world adds two more apes, I multiply 86,400 seconds times 2 to get 172,800 more apes every day. In America our population is increasing because we have more births than deaths, and for some strange reason other people want to live here so our population increases by one person every 17 seconds. Fortunately most of the world's apes live in cities where they are less likely to harm other creatures, but still they need to be fed and that means habitats are being destroyed to make room for more crops. Priceless species are getting wiped out. A possible solution: Kill all the assholes. This blog has 17 posts about the environment at darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/environment.
To believe the Christian fantasies an idiot would have to throw out all of science. Some people pretend it's possible to be an intelligent Christian. That's bullshit because would a person with a brain believe a decomposing preacher man was able to become a zombie and then fly up to the clouds? All Christians are fucking morons. Nothing could be more obvious. From wikipedia: The Ascension of Jesus is the Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to Heaven in his resurrected body, in the presence of eleven of his apostles, occurring 40 days after the resurrection. In the biblical narrative, an angel tells the watching disciples that Jesus' second coming will take place in the same manner as his ascension. These fucking idiots believe in angels. The dead Jeebus is coming back? Christians believe it. There is no bullshit they won't believe. This is why Christian scum must be kept away from children. Christian teachers must be fired. Christian schools must be destroyed. And if there was room for more than 200 million Americans, I would suggest locking them up in psychiatric hospitals.
Evolution by natural selection, more than any other scientific fact, kills the god fantasy and all the bullshit that comes with it. And this is why in god-soaked countries (Idiot America and the Muslim theocracies) most of the population denies the established truth of evolution or even worse they think their god fairy's magic wand is one of the mechanisms of evolution. "I don't accept evolution because the evidence is flimsy." This is what happens when Christian fucktards are allowed to teach science. The students learn how to hate science because the incompetent biology teacher doesn't teach evolution which is the most interesting fact of science. The evidence is flimsy? This is typical in Idiot America. Our fucktards learn nothing in school and they go out of their way to know nothing their entire worthless pathetic lives. "Evolution does not exist without the hands and willingness of our Almighty God." Their fairy is almighty. Right there you know this person's brain damage is incurable. The Christian fucktards who accept the established truth of evolution always stick their fairy into it. They understand the religious implications of evolution so to save their ridiculous religion they make biology part of their death cult. As if natural selection would not work without a magical being inventing or guiding it. Stupid can't be fixed. The only solution is to prevent the stupidity from getting a foothold in the brains of children. We got to start firing the Christian teachers and we have to make competent science education mandatory for all students starting in the First Grade, age 6. Job interview for First Grade teacher: Are you a Christian? Yes. Then get out of here. We don't hire fucking idiots.