I was looking at the Feedjit map for this site recently and what visitors are landing on when they arrive here (usually via a Google search) - fully a quarter of them from the majority of the southern states of the US land on two posts - Proof That God does not Exist and You Need More Arguments against Religion?
The first post is still as popular with visitors from Europe, but Billy Conolly’s Take on Religion is nearly as popular - what that tells you about the European sense of humour I’m not sure.
So, what can we deduce from this? Are there a large number of visitors from the US bible-belt who are having doubts about what they have been indoctrinated in?
Tags: christianity, churches & cults, education, faith, fears, religion, TV
Another news item has been un-futurized ( his term not mine. I wish I knew how he does it, I could make a fortune at the bookies…) by Gary the Geek:
From ‘The Arkansas Blessed Light’ newsfeed dated 21st October 2052:
The Arkansas Church Court has found two middle aged women guilty of lewd and abominable criminal behaviour. The two perverts were apparently neighbours who were caught in a disgusting situation (the court has censored the details) by one of their husbands.
They received lenient sentences of 17 and 21 years (one was considered to be under the influence of the other) and the husband of one has shown incredible Christian charity by not taking up the permitted flogging option. The other husband made a statement after sentencing of the satan-infected women saying “You know, I was finding it more disturbing every week that the evil harlot would pretend to have headaches and period pain whenever our weekly conjugal sex was scheduled.”
The local Majestic Blessed Pastor of their church also gave evidence that both women had recently refused to participate in their monthly women’s cleansing and instructional seminars at the Pastor’s home.
Stay tuned for more from the … FUTURE
Tags: america, christianity, churches & cults, humour
A while back I wrote an article on ‘micro-evolution’ and used the commonly quoted ‘Peppered Moth’ studies to illustrate natural selection and evolution. However, a recent commenter pointed out that in fact, the British entomologist Bernard Kettlewell’s experiments that set out to prove the classical story of natural selection have since been found to be largely incorrect.
I should have looked into it more closely and so, I agree with him - I did get it wrong. This is not an accurate illustration of natural selection, there are far better examples to use.
However, the commenter finished his remarks with this: “The main beef that anti-Darwinist people secular and religous have with evolution is the lack of proof for Macro-Evolution, which would be like a fish turning into a frog or intermediary for a frog, for example. This is a big hole that even Darwinists acknowledge.”
Tags: creationism, evolution, genetics, science
What? I hear you say. But, yes it is true. A talented geek (who shall remain nameless but I’ll call him Gary the Geek) has come up with an amazing invention. While looking into the area of future css and xml formats - whatever they are - he intercepted part of a news bulletin/feed which seemed to come from the future.
No, I’m not kidding - the content of the feeds seem to indicate that they are real and while I don’t pretend to have any idea how Gary the Geek is locating (if that’s the right word) this information - I feel that it is my duty as a citizen of the world to release what he finds.
Tags: churches & cults, creationism, evolution, global warming, humour, intelligent design, science
In a recent post, I mentioned the term ‘macro evolution’ and said that I’d get back to that in a later discussion. Creationists like to use the terms micro and macro when discussing evolution and often refer to the former as possible/likely/proven (strike out that which doesn’t apply depending on how ‘fundamentalist your views are), while denouncing the latter as being impossible - read this as ‘I don’t understand it so it’s impossible’.
In reality, scientists hardly ever use the terms as they describe the same process that happens in the same way and for the same reasons. The basic evolutionary mechanisms—mutation, migration, genetic drift, and natural selection—can produce major evolutionary change - or ‘macro’ evolution if given enough time.
Unfortunately for him and the other creationists, crocodiles did not evolve from ducks, ducks did not evolve from crocodiles, and nobody is proposing that they did. Crocodiles and ducks both have known evolutionary lineages. In fact, to find a “crocoduck” would contradict both theories of lineage and it would actually be a huge problem for the theory of evolution. Recently, a fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru’s arid southern coast and has been named a Pelagornithid. Not a crockoduck but yet another example of a transitional fossil. Wait a moment! They don’t exist! Sorry Kirk, wrong again.Tags: education, evolution, fundamentalism, intelligent design, science
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