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Kansas minister Mark Holick, being interviewed by CNN’s Rick Sanchez about the sign he put up stating “American we have a Muslim President / This is sin against the Lord”:
Well, my goal is to tell people about the truth, uh, that I believe the truth of the Bible states…
Ay, there’s the rub. Again we see, [...]

Well, it seems that making reference to Nancy Reagan holding séances in the White House is insulting, apparently in light of the fact that all she did was consult an astrologer for insight as to which days were “good” or “neutral” or “bad”, and then use the astrologer’s “information” to not only influence, but change, President Reagan’s [...]

Oooh. Did you know the Washington Redskins lost last night? Well, certainly you’re keeping a close eye on Ohio, since that’s the state that picks the winner of the presidential election, right?
Let me ask you this: If I flip a plain old regular quarter ten times in a row and it comes up ‘heads’ each time, what [...]

Why would an omniscient god need to test anyone’s faith?
– anonymous

I’ve been out of town for almost two weeks, returning home only a couple days ago.  My mother, who has been in deteriorating health since taking a fall in February, wound up in the hospital a couple weekends ago, and the initial report from the emergency room doctor was very, very bleak: catastrophic stroke with [...]

I’m not going to detail the situation with the Royal Society and (former) Director of Education, Michael Reiss. You can read about it Pharyngula if you like.
What I want to do is point out that the Royal Society’s position on creationism in the classroom, contained in their statement regarding Professor Michael Reiss, is both [...]

I’m not going to link to it, but I came across the “list of books Palin tried to have banned” at librarian.net last night. Someone, and that someone shall remain nameless (because I’ve searched and searched this morning and can’t find the article, post, or tweet that I read last night), was linking to [...]

Only The Onion could make this kind of juxtaposition work:
Despite the enthusiasm the so-called “Darwin Smudge” has generated among the evolutionary faithful, disagreement remains as to its origin. Some believe the image is actually closer to the visage of Stephen Jay Gould, longtime columnist for Natural History magazine and originator of the theory of punctuated [...]

This is choice: the McCain campaign is spinning, and I’m not talking about a workout on a LifeCycle, either.
The McCain campaign is protesting the treatment of Sarah Palin by the media, claiming that she is the victim of “gender bias in the media”:
“The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough [...]

Mark Perakh, writing in eSkeptic for August 20, 2008, Flagella Myths:
An interesting question arises: Why ID advocates and other creationists, who so eagerly and persistently display pictures like those in Figures 1, 2, and 3, never deign to show much more realistic representations of flagella structure such as those shown in Figures 4, 5, and [...]