The Orca’s Thumb

Interesting. You hear and/or read that every now and then, especially around the Bible Belt. But, let’s take a closer look, shall we?
The first three are on how to treat god. No application to our law.

#4 honor father and mother
Nope, not in the laws.
#5 don’t kill
Hey, there’s one! Um, but that’s a blanket statement that [...]

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The Bible predicted that the anti-christ would be a muslim in his 40s, therefor Barack Obama is the antichrist.
Err… ’scuse me. What?
There is so much wrong in this sentence — one, Islam didn’t exist when the bible was written; two, Obama ain’t no muslim — but that didn’t stop the mayor of Fort Mill, South Carolina [...]

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Adnan Oktar, a.k.a Harun Yahya,
[...] said that he has “issued a call to all evolutionists” that he will give “10 trillion Turkish lira to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution” - a sum roughly equal to £4.4trn.
In real money, that is about $8,010,890,000,000.
I’ll take him on a visit to the Smithsonian and [...]

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33 ministers across the country were planning to take to their pulpits last Sunday and publicly endorse a candidate for president in defiance of the restrictions imposed on them by their tax-exempt status.
Cities might enjoy the sudden filling of the voids in their municipal tax base, and after the financial crisis is resolved, we’d be [...]

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Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.

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Evidently, John McCain has put out an ad saying he won the debate this weekend … before the debate was held! Clearly, he’s invented time travel (as well as the BlackBerry).
And I thought he was antiscience…

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I don’t want to say it, but… I knew it.

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Massimo Pigliucci pretty much sums it up quite nicely:
By comparison, imagine how foolish you would feel if a thousand car mechanics tell you that you need to change the carburetor in your car and you keep insisting that they don’t know what they are talking about, elitist auto-experts that they are, because carburetors obviously don’t [...]

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