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Why do I keep putting the reburttal off?

Either way this is the kind of creationism I can get behind.

In case you’re wondering, the original Pickle Inspector drank CANDY CORN LIQUOR, granting him a high IMAGINATION stat, which gave him superpowers in the IMAGINARY REALM, accessible through FORTS or WINDOWS. Pickle Inspector then used LVL 8 PICKLE REPLISCIMILE, splitting himself into eight copies, one of which ascended to godhood, another of which returned into the real world. A third used TEMPORAL REPLISCIMILE, projecting Past Pickle Inspector (green) into the past, and Future Pickle Inspector (red) into the future.

Later, FPI again cast TEMPORAL REPLISCIMILE, creating Past-Future Pickle Inspector (blue) and Future-Future Pickle Inspector (yellow), who later valiantly sacrificed themselves using a makeshift particle collider.

All four Pickle Inspectors caught up in the afterlife, and were used as hippos in a game involving large mammals with voracious appetites. They were beckoned by GPI to help him create the universe and everything in it, including the original Pickle Inspector himself.

If only the Bible were this self-evident.

-T

Yeah, I know I said that I’d be posting a rebuttal to Kent Hovind, but I’m putting that off until tomorrow.

To be honest, I’m not all that comfortable talking about religion, especially on the internet where one misstep can result in a flame war of epic proportions.

And now, for a link. You know all those people out there who say that God hates gays, when they clearly cannot speak for God, and Ghandi (note: not the Bible) said to hate the sin and love the sinner? I’m not sure whether God dislikes gay sex, since a lot of the book of the law has to be sorted through to separate customs, health concerns, and actual moral issues. However, I’m sure that God loves homosexuals as much as he loves anyone else. God is love incarnate and all that.

That hasn’t stopped the internet crap-storm, however. Here’s God Hates Shrimp, the rebuttal to “God Hates Gays.”

-T

So, for my church, I’m supposed to blog about my faith every day for 40 days as a sort of reverse Lent.

By which I mean, I’ll post things that are mostly science and only tangentially related to religion.

I was supposed to start yesterday, but nobody’s counting.

Anyway, if you don’t know already, Kent Hovind runs drdino.com, is in jail for tax evasion, and is known as a total moron and, to me, the guy who makes Christians everywhere look stupid.

Here’s his $250,000 offer for evidence of evolution, which people have since ignored because he would change the requirements when they are fulfilled or throw a red herring out there.

Here’s his ridiculously long list of questions for evolutionists. Come tomorrow, I’ll answer them here on this blog. I won’t send the answers to them directly, since they have a tendency to stop responding when the argument stops going their way.

And finally, here’s an article I ran across. Notice the title of the booklet, “Are you being brainwashed?”
Funny how they’re accusing evolution of being brainwashing when they encourage isolation through Christian or home schooling. Looks like the American mind is not sophisticated enough to handle opposing viewpoints.

I’m also pretty sure it’s not a coincidence that Creationism has the largest foothold in America, which “just happens” to be lagging behind in terms of science. I’m sure it must be because of the evolutionists, even though they have an abnormally small concentration here.

Here’s the tangentially religious part of the day. When I first became Christian, my mom regarded religion as brainwashing, and still does, to a degree. She’s a Christian, but she’s not about to go onto the streets with “The End is Nigh” signs. Granted, she came from China, where religion plays a smaller role, but she was not really an atheist or an “evolutionist” (she didn’t really care).

-T

Certainly worth watching.

My personal favorites are the Aurora Borealis and the Lunar Eclipse.

William

Can’t get it embedded, so here’s a link.

Funny the lengths people might go to. There’s quite a bit of other hilarity around, too.

Yes, I know it’s not really science, but I found it while posting something else.

I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one wondering how much money is in the Geico “Kash” commercials, so I went and did some maths to try and approximate it. Now, looking at a few other commercials for points of reference, it seems like the pile of cash is about an inch thick. This converts into 25.4 millimeters (this makes the measurement easier). Considering a dollar bill is 1/10th of a millimetre thick, 25.4 millimeters translates into 254 bills.  It’s beens shown that five dollar bills are used, so 254*5 gives you 1,270. (This is the minimum amount of money, there is probably  more money in the stack because of compression).

Interestingly enough, I heard GEICO saves a maximum of around 300 dollars.

William

Edit by T:
sure, it may be false advertising, but if the stack were any thinner, the
googly eyes would just look silly.  That is, more than they already do

In every man’s life when he must ask himself…

What the hell were they thinking?

This website hasn’t been updated in two months (it seems), but it still has 200+ puzzles in the archives.

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The 200 puzzles contain classics and some originals, spanning all sorts of areas, from logic, to infinity, to… just go and see for yourself. They can be found in the archives. Start there or the numbering and previous/next buttons will be confusing.

-T

Found this website, with a list of molecules TECHNICALLY COMPOUNDS no, dangit, they’re molecules with silly or unusual names.

Among the gems:

Arsole (umm…)
Apatite (accompanied by a picture of Mr. Creosote from Monty Python. It’s in your teeth)
Draculin (Unsurprisingly, an anti-clot agent used by vampire bats)
Sonic Hedgehog (A gene in fruitflies. Its inhibitor is named Robotnikin)

Even if you know squat about chemistry, you can have a good laugh at some of these.

Shoulda saved this for another month, but I’d forget.

Also, a glimpse into the future.