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You have to love Tim Minchin – only he could produce something so offensive, yet legitimately immune from criticism; so catchy, yet containing an intelligent message… Warning: The below video contains copious amounts of swearing. Use caution when watching without headphones.
Education, people! IT MATTERS. Replace the movie with a biology test about evolutionary theory, and if the Discovery Institute gets its way, similar problems might occur: “Not phylogenetic analysis! Homology is the work of design, not a natural biological process!” As you might have guessed (if you’re not a feed-reader), Homologous Legs now has some new header images, which are on random rotation (which means that the next time you open a page, a new header image will randomly load – I didn’t want to piss people off with the tacky “every few seconds” kind of rotation, which I find just distracts people). The quotes that form the basis of the images have either been taken from posts on this blog or my Twitter account. Hey, if George Hrab can use his tweets for extra mileage, then so can I! Surely there’s no better role model than Geo. The [...] This’ll be short, because I think this recent post on Uncommon Descent (which as a blog, I might add, is becoming crazier and crazier as more and more posts by Denyse O’Leary are being published) very much speaks for itself: Darwinists, like Islamists, have the Final Revelation, after which there is no other revelation. No-God will punish all infidels. Of course, in practice, with Darwinists as with Islamists, that means that the fanatic must punish the infidel himself. That makes sense. Both God and No-God can be mighty slow in these matters, and the best way to keep up a fanatical faith is quick vengeance now against any [...] As every teacher and parent knows, children and young people will one day take over the world, including the scientific community. Get people while they’re young and ideologically-malleable and they’ll carry assumptions and falsehoods to the grave. It’s this idea of reaching out to the younger generation that no doubt initiated the Discovery Institute’s 2010 Summer Seminars program – eight days of pure intelligent design-related content from some of the “leading lights [of] the intelligent design community” between the 9th and 17th of July, 2010. Aww yeah, they’re down with the kids. Who’s on the line-up? Let me serve you up some dope names you won’t be able to [...] To tide you all over until the return of the Pseudo Scientists podcast, the official podcast of the Young Australian Skeptics, a mini series of short podcasts will be released over the next few weeks, the first one of which is available right now. Episode 1 is the On the Street that Richard Hughes and I recorded at the Global Atheist Convention back in March, featuring PZ Myers, as well as heaps of young people who were attending the convention. So pull out your computer’s media player, and start downloading. My good friend Richard Hughes is hosting the 134th edition of the Skeptics’ Circle blog carnival over on his new-ish blog Divisible By Pi, so go and check it out. I’m sure you’ll find the theme… thrilling. And I’m bloody not a small child who dissects pigeons! Even in a metaphorical sense! I’ll get you, Hughes, I’ll get youuuuu… (Confused? Read the 134th edition of the Circle…) The fantastic resource that is the Skeptical Speakers Bureau, allowing skeptical groups to easily find and organise guest speakers for events, was officially launched a few days ago with the full list of speakers now available. People available include: - Kylie Sturgess, from Podblack Cat – Sean Wright, from Sean the Blogonaut – Desiree Schell, from Skeptically Speaking – Heidi Anderson, from SheThought and heaps of others, including myself. I’m really not thinking that anyone’s ever going to want me to speak about anything, but whatever, you have to be in it to, er, “win” it. Not sure that cliche fits here… If you’re a skeptical group, especially if [...] While I’m not surprised to see yet another opinion article in The Age newspaper here in Melbourne today about religion and atheism, as it seems to be a popular topic in the long-tailed aftermath of the Global Atheist Convention in March, I am surprised at the level of obfuscation and confusion that makes up this bulk of this article. Madeleine Bunting is a Guardian columnist, and her latest article, entitled “Atheists win a battle but may lose the war” takes a stab (shock horror!) at the New Atheist movement, particularly what she sees as the primary thoughts and opinions of its leading voices. While it’s not unique in its overall conclusions, Bunting does… twist some things around a little bit… (The article was also published in the Guardian on the 4th of April, under the title “God is attracting more debate than ever” in a less-edited form, but I’ll only comment on the Australian version.) » Continue reading “Madeleine Bunting – Twisting God-words to make them… fit?” |
Homologous Legs is the blog of Naon Tiotami (aka. Jack Scanlan), an Australian undergraduate biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents the science of evolutionary biology.
 
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