Seems fair.
Just so you know, the King James Version of the Bible really does refer to unicorns in Job 39:9-12. Modern translations have changed that to “wild ox.”
It’s a common complaint critics make about fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible: if you take some of it literally, you have to take it all.
Some of […]
I don’t even know if I can stay awake long enough to type this, but I’ll see what I can do. I am so exhausted, but thoroughly happy with this fantasy writer day. It was so way better than I even expected.
It’s about 10:30, and I just got back to the room from […]
Because I’m going to New York, baby! This week. And it’s a little ritual of mine to buy the Sunday Times before I go so I can pretend to myself that I’m even halfway in the know.
Not that I’m going to have any extra time AT ALL on this trip to go see […]
Just when you wonder whether the whole evolution vs. God debate might be cooling down, you get a guy like this.
I’ll be setting aside a few extra copies of Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature for him to give his grandkids. And I might have to do a home visit.
Sheesh.
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Dang. I said I wasn’t going to post anything new until at least eight more lurkers stepped forward and said hi, but this is just too juicy to keep to myself.
I don’t know where to start. Is it the fact that once again a school district has bowed to pressure like […]
As you may know, the novel I have coming out next year deals with the fight over teaching evolution in a high school.
Some people have asked me if the kind of discussions that go on in the classroom in my book really happen still in the real world.
As of this week, yes. Read […]
Finally, we got to the important stuff in sign language class last night–a short list of the most useful swear words. Now I can go on Howard Stern.
Do any of you remember that movie Children of a Lesser God? Remember when Marlee Matlin cussed out William Hurt, her hands flying and gesticulating? […]
Last night I attended a lecture on science and theology (because I know how to party), and one of the presenters handed out this great list of quotations from famous scientists.
The one that struck me most was by Blaise Pascal, the French physicist:
We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover […]
Apparently while I was gone, evolutionary biology was eliminated by the federal government as an acceptable field of study.
Read the whole article for all the spine-tingling intrigue, but here’s a taste:
Nassirian said people at the Education Department had described the omission as “a clerical mistake.” But it is “odd,” he said, because applying […]
I’m heading into the wild today for an overnight backpack up to Yule Lakes with my husband and young dog to scatter the old dog’s ashes. We decided on Yule Lakes because that was where our mild-mannered yellow Lab Red scared off a black bear and sent it running away at an alarming speed […]