The Orca’s Thumb

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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Hitchens eats another religious figure for lunch.

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A commission from Islamic nations composed a new Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, which they claim to be complementary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights given to us by the UN 60 years ago.
Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske have dissected the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights and it certainly looks like a [...]

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Spiegel Online did an interview with Adnan Oktar/Harun Yahya and he says a number of interesting weird things:

He dislikes Intelligent Design intensely, and sees it as a dishonest form of creationism.
The Islamic terrorists aren’t actually Muslim — they are all foreign-educated Darwinist atheists — including Osama bin Laden.
In the 2009 Darwin year, he plans to [...]

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… apparently are a sign of lunacy. Taste of the wisdom of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef:
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef has describ[ed] the Holocaust as God’s retribution against the reincarnated souls of Jewish sinners. He said Katrina was punishment for godlessness in New Orleans and U.S. support for the Gaza pullout. And he once said that “walking between [...]

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Just when I thought US-Americans could not possibly be more insane, I read that 55% of US-American adults believe a guardian angel protected them from harm.
I think I may be ready to move to the beach and change my name to Wonko the Sane.

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The Vatican has announced that they are having an evolution congress, and that no creationists or intelligent design creationists will be invited.
Yet, they are inviting a swarm of theologians, so their exclusion is all window-dressing, a transparent attempt to sidle medieval peddlers of superstitious nonsense up next to some serious science for a photo op [...]

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Clemens Bittlinger wrote and performed a song that mildly rebuked the Pope. Can you guess what happened?
Correct. Death threats.
Now he needs police protection.

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