And if you don't, for God's sake fucking tell everyone involved.

AND I AM NOT AN ASSHOLE FOR BELIEVING IN PROTECTED SEX AND SEXUAL HONESTY AND FRANKNESS. FUCK YOU.

EDIT: Unprotected* this post and the last one.

* Hah.

Oh my god y'all, wrap it up. Please please please please please. This is super important.

Okay?

So I just added Uncommon Descent, "the Intelligent Design weblog of William Dembski, Denyse O'Leary, and friends", to my Google Reader. I figure, everyone needs their daily allotment of. . . whatever it is that blog provides.

I notice that the following disclaimer is appended to the bottom of each entry in the RSS feed:Copyright © 2008 Uncommon ( Read more... )

Richard Leakey:We're closer to chimps than a horse is to an ass. Horses and asses put together produce offspring. "Wow," says everybody. "Are you--?" Yeah. I am.

(EDIT: I'd like to note that I once had dinner with this man's daughter.)

Star Parker thinks Rick Warren is politicising religion.

Why? Because he didn't establish a political test for who gets to speak at his church.

The answers to the vaccine quiz are:

1. All of the above.
2. All of the above. Nectarines contain sorbitol and methanol, Chex mix and some potato chips contain MSG, baking soda contains aluminum sulfate, and ice cream contains polysorbate. Aluminum sulfate and phenoxyethanol are contained in most antiperspirants. Aluminum hydroxide is the main ( Read more... )

Poll

Answers to follow.

HINT: On the first two questions, there's a reason I used checkboxes instead of radio buttons.

Intelligent design folks often appeal to machines in analogy. A machine, or a bit of computer code, exhibits the same sort of interlocking complexity as life does. The machine is clearly intelligently designed, ergo life is intelligently designed ( Read more... )

Oh damn, it looks like y'all are getting nothing but my old junk from now on.

Click to view

So if intelligent design is a research program, isn't one of the things you'd want to investigate the properties of the designer? In order to scientifically talk about causation, correlation does not suffice--you must also propose a mechanism by which the causation is supposed to have happened. In the ID case, a complete model would amount to an ( Read more... )