You people exceeded our goal in less than 24 hours!
I guess I’ll be meeting some of the Ada Initiative people at Skepticon this year.
Show offs!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
You people exceeded our goal in less than 24 hours!
I guess I’ll be meeting some of the Ada Initiative people at Skepticon this year.
Allspice, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon — they don’t actually look all that appetizing.
Uh-oh. The Ada Initiative has piece about me, now. With pictures. I should have sent them a collection of George Clooney headshots.
That same bozo who sent me the Hitler quote sent me another image in reply:
Fair enough. Darwin got a lot of things wrong. I’m actually going to be lecturing my intro biology students on where Darwin screwed up in a few weeks, focusing mainly on his bad genetics, but I’ll toss that quote into the mix, too. To be perfectly fair, I’ll also include the more complete quote below the fold…and no, nothing in the larger context excuses it.
My personal Ada Initiative fund drive is now over, and I’ve transferred all the money donated in the last couple of weeks, less the price of taking my wife out to dinner. You good people donated…
We’re off to a good start, because the fund drive at the organization continues for 8 more days, and the Ada Initiative is offering a little reward: if we can bring that total up to $5000, they are going to teach an Ally
Skills Workshop at Skepticon in November!
If you can chip in, do so directly now: click on the little button below, which will flag your donation as part of the Skepticon campaign. I’m actually most interested in running up the number of donors, to demonstrate the breadth of support, so any amount is excellent — go ahead, donate $1. It would make me very happy to see that goal of $5000 reached with 5000 donations (it would also make everyone happy if some billionaire donated $1,000,000 with one click. Wouldn’t complain at all. Really, any donation is good.)
Oh, and look: they’ve just done a profile of Stephanie Zvan, who’s also urging people to help out.
A creationist sent me this charming image to show that Nazis were evolutionary biologists.
Hitler using evolution theory to justify racial supremacy
If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.
Zing! That put me in my place.
I feel like I’ve been asking a lot lately, with our Ada Initiative fundraiser, but here’s another great cause: Jamila Bey wants to launch a podcast called the Sex, Politics, and Religion Hour, and she needs capital to launch it. Help her out if you can, any little bit helps, and you know that she’s a phenomenon who will do a great job at this.
Jessa Duggar, the 21 year old daughter of fundie parents with an obsession with popping out babies, has been touring museums to broaden her mind, I guess…or more likely, to practice a little motivated reasoning and rationalize her existing ignorance. She toured the Holocaust Museum and figured out what caused it: EVOLUTION.
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In an astonishing feat of hypocrisy, a Muslim NFL player has been penalized for kneeling and touching his forehead to the ground after a touchdown. “Unsportsmanlike conduct,” the officials say — were they afraid that he was going to unleash the terrible power of Allah against the other team?
