A FrinkTank reader sent along this gem from Tim Kreider’s scabrous political cartoon The Pain–When Will It End?, wherein various scientific theories of the ‘Verse’s creation are compared with those of Norse mythology. Makes these guys look like pussycats.
Also, check out this week’s entry on the future according to various Sciencetists. Actually, check the whole […]

A recent listing of the “Top 87 Bad Predictions About the Future” features a few choice understatements and miscalculations from such science God-heads as Darwin, Einstein, and Lord Kelvin, to namedrop just a few. Darwin, in those halcyon days before publishing The Origin of Species, declares in the foreward:
“I see no good reasons why […]

We at Frinktank can be smarmy, cocky, and downright correct sometimes, but we also know when we’ve been bested by our intellectual superiors. Thus, we bow in humility to This Guy from Somewheresville, South Dakota who weighs in on the ID controversy with an argument that can only be described as inscrutable. Props to the […]

It was only a matter of time.
University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki, who had planned to teach a class called “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies”, noticed two local mongoloids tailgating him on a rural road outside of Lawrence. When he pulled over to confront them, they made […]

The latest loonery from P-Rob, this time in RE the ignominious ejection of ID-advocating members from the Dover school board:
“God is tolerant and loving, but we can’t keep sticking our finger in his eye forever,” Robertson said. “If they have future problems in Dover, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help […]

(Sorry, I just had to vent that because here in New York, the size of your book deal tracks linearly with the size of your manhood. No book deal? Sorry ma’am, but I think you’re in the wrong restroom.)
Annnnnyway, Bobby Henderson–he of the above-mentioned stalled career path–can now tour Vegas for an entirely different […]

We all know alternate worlds are cool - even vital. Hell, pretty much anyone with a functioning frontal lobe probably goes to bed wishing they’d wake up in a splinter timeline where Dubya was D&X’d during Barbara’s third trimester and Chee-Tos grew on trees. (Shut up. It’s science.)
Meanwhile, for those of us without access […]

It was bound to happen sooner or later. There are two things that the overeducated media-elite (and all others who joust amongst themselves to join those ranks) are obsessed with: the Intelligent Design controversy, and the ubiquitous, infallible iPod.
Now a crafty blogger has fused the two subjects into the ultimate–nay, unstoppable–ur-text of productivity-eroding idle […]

Scopes II takes a turn for the dramatic.
Judge John E. Jones III cautioned that the impromptu display of the survival of the fittest, introduced as ‘Exhibit A’, would not affect his opinion on the question of whether intelligent design may be taught as an alternative to evolution in a public school science class.
Ah, that […]