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Perry Marshall put up a quick guide to Intelligent Evolution.
His “proof” that DNA was designed by (a) god is simple:

DNA is not just a molecule – it is a coding system with a language & alphabet, and contains a message
All languages, codes and messages come from a mind
Therefore DNA was designed by a Mind

Three lines, [...]

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Do you have any other explanation, why homophobics always seem to give’em a free pass. Like Asshole Reverend Peter Mullin:
[...] “Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.”
Yes he actually wrote that. And other amazingly stupid [...]

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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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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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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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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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Hitchens eats another religious figure for lunch.

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