Life In Cold Blood

” …asked why he did not give “credit” to God, Attenborough added: “They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”

– Sir David Attenborough

Ebert pwns Stein

“Once you understand the concept of selection, and how it applies to evolution, you realize that what was thought to be vanishingly unlikely actually becomes virtually inevitable.”

Ben Stein’s factless “Documentary” on creationist science in the classroom gets it’s day in Roger Ebert’s court…

Win Ben Stein’s Mind

“If someone believes in the Tooth Fairy, can they complain about not being taken seriously at dental school?”

Rational Thought Wins

“A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.

Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of free expression, U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles said UC’s review committees cited legitimate reasons for rejecting the texts – not because they contained religious viewpoints, but because they omitted important topics in science and history and failed to teach critical thinking.”

Full story here

“because we’re animals with golden rules
who can’t be moved by rational views”

– New Dark Ages, Bad Religion