03.31.07
Evolution Proven
As an update to the previous post, evolution has been proven after all. Life has been discovered in peanut butter jars!
03.27.07
Let Them Eat Peanut Butter and Bananas
Check out this entry over at scienceblogs.
Apparently, the theory of evolution posits that if you open enough jars of peanut butter, you’ll find a new lifeform. I believe that’s somewhere in the end notes.
The funniest part is the beginning though.
“Any theory about the origin of life on the earth… is a fairy tale.” (Does that include creationism?)
Evolution: it’s so obvious… it’s a fairy tale, pure and simple!
Fairy tales and evolution, after all, are ancient folk stories written down at some point and compiled into a volume of moral lessons and parables in the context of pseudo-historical events and read to children too young to know better. Not like religion at all, which is solidly founded on observation, reason and science.
And bananas are perfectly designed by God for humans. That God… he’s so thoughtful. That’s probably also why he makes antifreeze taste so sweet. Just make sure those perfectly-designed fruits aren’t forbidden!
‘Phone Tag’ short
I found this at Olivia Munn’s myspace page while doing some perfectly legitimate research on the net:
03.13.07
Selective Reasoning…
We’ve all been accused of selective hearing. Here’s an interesting case of selective reasoning..
I decided to perform a casual perusal of some of the data out on the web about the Talpiot Tomb (the so-called “Lost Tomb of Jesus”). Whatever you might think of the evidence, here’s a rundown of some technical questions some religion site has raised.
I don’t know jack about archaelogy or prosopography. What I do know, though, is that Christian groups are putting in a lot of effort to dissuade the masses from thinking that the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and family are in the Talpiot Tomb.
I find it very interesting that die-hard Christians are willing to rely on scientific research when it suits their cause. They can arrange all manners of statisticians and archeologists, etc. to say “hold up there, bud, there’s simply not enough evidence that this is our Jesus”. However, they’re real quick to jump on anyone who might suggest that there’s not enough evidence that Jehovah is our god.
You’d think that if someone is capable of believing in the Judeo-Christian God based on a book translated from a Renaissance collation of transcriptions of books written decades (as much as a century) after the events they supposedly document might be as likely to believe in something with a bit more scientific evidence, even if such evidence is ultimately inconclusive.
At any rate, it offers me a unique opportunity to send a message to all Christians out there: Prove that that’s not the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth!
