Keith du Cros.com

NewScientist has covered a survey/study on how evolution is taught in the classroom (or, sometimes, how its not). Of the 2000 teachers polled, 16% followed creationism, believing that the earth had been created by god within the past 10,000 years. Whats probably more significant is the effects…

[..] about 12.5% of the total survey – said they taught it as a “valid, scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species”

[..] Teachers who subscribed to these young-Earth creationist views, perhaps not surprisingly, spent 35% fewer hours teaching evolution than other teachers

Not entirely suprising how America gets statistics like this, now, is it.

This is the best thing I’ve seen the internet produce in weeks. Stuff God Hates. Written by no other than the almighty himself. The most notable items of the list being Africa, Hillary Clinton, Science, Dancing, Cats, and Asia… Just don’t try and correct his spelling. For the lord is infallible…

He’s even made contact with PZ Myers!

The classic, Russell’s Teapot…

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

It seems as though it has been found! Further plans are currently underway…

Yes, thats right. 18 children. The Duggar family are supposedly followers of the Quiverfull movement, which is basically just against all sorts of birth control, as well as even “Natural Family Planning“.

The Pharyngula article I picked this up from has some interesting (and some, youtube-ish) comments. The main theme in the discussion, apart from a few nuts is generally just feeling sorry for the kids in the family…