Nerds Make Science Fun!

This isn’t science related, but it was too cool to not write about.

Illustrations of the Bible aren’t anything new. They’ve pretty much been around ever since Christianity was a semi-acceptable religion. However, a recent illustration of the Bible drew my attention. This one is made out of Legos.

The Brick Testament

That’s right, someone illustrated major books of the Bible using Legos. Of those selected books, they illustrated every single verse. Considering that I don’t even the patience to build a simple tower, I have to say I’m really impressed, though I’m not religious.

It’s also really awesome. (I did mention that before right?)

William

Okay, if Christians are God’s chosen people, how can they be this ridiculously stupid?

Don’t let the title fool you. These are some people with some spare time reading off lines posted on Christian forums. The link in the video’s description is to “Fundies Say the Darndest Things,” a website compiling stupid quotes (CSTDT and RSTDT are for conspiracy theorists and racists, respectively).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Christian. But when you see people this stupid, claiming that their messages are divinely inspired and direct from God, is it any wonder that people will extrapolate to even the (relatively) sane Christians, and see them all as idiots?

For anybody wondering why I say relatively sane, we Christians believe in an invisible, omnipotent man in the sky whose divine hand is identical to the results of our own labor. It’s that leap of faith inherent in any belief system (which is slightly less for atheists, as far as I know, but the Big Bang still confuses the crap out of me).

I’m seriously not joking.

So it turns out our pets have quite a bit of control over us by annoying the crap out of us. Way to point out the obvious. Anyways, this is the beginning of a series I plan to do on weird science news. I’m going to shoot for an update every two days, so you will all have something to enjoy.

Actually, I’m doing it so I’ll have to force myself to post here 

William

I got my AP biology exam grades today, and well, it was fairly nerve-wracking. My mom had gotten them while I was volunteering, and she left them on my desk, and the first thing I thought when I saw them was “Oh, shit”. It was followed by  the very slow “trembling while opening the letter”. (Yes, that happens in real life). And then I pulled it out and I got a 5. I was ecstatic. Woo.

Anyways, sorry for the boring story. Just wanted to tell someone.

William

Sorry for the downtime last night. We’re trying to figure out what went wrong and we’ll do our best to prevent it from happening again.

William