Alas, my mandate for today also includes traveling to St. Cloud State University to give two talks, one to the biology department in the afternoon and another to the philosophy department this evening. It looks like I get to be driving through the tail end of a snowstorm today, too.
It may be a little quiet here today. I haven’t forgotten everyone, I’m just going to be excessively busy.
Through the miracle of animation, Charles Darwin tells the creationists to “kiss my ass”.
It doesn’t seem very true-to-life, but he has had over a century to work up a bit of crankiness.
We’re going to have to rethink all monotheistic religions, actually, since a study now proves the universe was created by a committee.
The most extensive analysis yet undertaken of the structure and contents of the universe conclusively proves the universe was created not by a single entity, as has been widely suggested, but by “a fractious and disorganized committee or committees given to groupthink and petty infighting”, according to Drs. Karl Pootle and Yumble Frick, co-authors of the study. The analysis is expected to have profound implications on the theoretical underpinnings of many popular religions.
All I can say is…OOOOODDIIIIIIIIIIN!!!
Never mind me, I’m running around with classes and meetings today…here are a few quick links.
In my talk on Tuesday, I suggested that if we really want to teach the controversy, we ought to put the Norse creation myth in our classes. I had no idea the plan would be so popular.
Garry Trudeau has been on a roll lately—the BD story line has been affecting and sympathetic, and now and then, he comes out and slams unreason. There have been long stretches where it feels like he’s phoning it in, but not so much recently.
Maybe I shouldn’t bring this up, since the last couple of lectures in my physiology class have been a swift overview of brain organization and function, and my students probably think I have sounded exactly like Pinky and the Brain singing about neuroanatomy. Only less entertaining. And at a ridiculous hour of the morning.
(via Mind Hacks)
You wouldn’t believe how much hate mail I got from posting a little link to Mel Gibson’s Passion with a different soundtrack…but maybe Chris Clarke can take some of the heat now.
