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No One Lives is a crap slasher that tries to be Nietzschan horror about psychopaths but is, for all intents and purposes, a remake of a Friday the 13th sequel without the hockey mask. It should be shown to all kids who dream of growing up to be a serial killer, though, since it's a brilliant...

Thanks, Polly.

Funny how that quote is a) taken out of context and b) shows up on a bunch of creationist web sites as if it were holy scripture. (I'm not the only one to notice that either.) But OK: you found one quote that says... not what you claimed that "evolutionists" say, but rather that it's impossible...

I stumbled across a page from the infancy of the web and thought I'd better c&p it here just for the record. As we all know, Earth is actually a giant computer built to come up with the question to the answer "42". As such, it makes sense that "42" turns up a lot in Earth's code, especially in...

Actually, only creationists will use the word "evolutionists", as it's just as nonsensical as calling aerospace engineers "gravitationists"; and no, they won't say that (feel free to give an example if you still maintain that they do). The "just a theory" meme rests on more or less wilful...

Ah yes, him. Not to mention his idea that several powerful people in the world, including the Bush family, the British royal family, The International Conspiracy of Jewish Bankers(TM)*, and for some reason Kris Kristofferson, are secretly giant lizards from another dimension. * See, he's not...

Zadie Smith, NW This was actually really good. And by "good" I mean that it's a messy, fragmented novel that switches protagonists several times, boils over and burns, occasionally gets lost in its own attempts to fuse The Kinks and M.I.A., and nevertheless grips me in a way the polished...

It's just happened to be the "theory of the moment" for the last 150 years, is all, despite a lot of people trying to disprove it. Whoever told you the quicky talking points you repeated above was, quite simply, lying to you. Or bearing false witness, if you prefer. But that's not really the...

Not necessarily. 1) DNA doesn't get preserved in fossils. Fossilised remains are, by definition, not the original tissue but rather a mineralised mould of it. 2) While we've found huge amounts of fossilised remains of animals and plants covering just about the entire process of the evolution of...

I might have to jump in on this one too. It's a fun prompt, I just need to figure out which scene to use...

I like the way you put that, thanks. And now I'm wondering if I should read Gargantua & Pantagruel... it's a pretty thick volume. Maybe we could have this thread merged with the other thread on the book?

In my experience, actually, a lot of them do. Very few fundamentalists, be they elected public officials (who presumably got a lot of non-fundamentalists to vote for them) or terrorists hiding in caves, stand up and say "I REPRESENT A TINY, IRRELEVANT FRINGE ELEMENT!" They either claim to...

Honest opinion, since I started the thread and all: I agree, the vast majority of religious people I've met are perfectly sensible and not at all like the nutcases that get all the press. But I can't help but feel they'd get less attention if more non-fundamentalists stood up to them and told...

Good thing that doesn't happen in Max Brooks' books, then.

Heh. Or in the same vein:

In my council flat in London. Some woman I went to school with just burst through my door in hysterics, and now we're dealing with it the only way Brits know how: we're having tea.

Good interview with Brooks: Max Brooks is not kidding about the zombie apocalypse

I would assume that that's the point.

Felicitas Hoppe, Hoppe. A hilarious take on the autobiography; she doesn't write about the life she's actually had, but the life she might have had... if she'd been kidnapped by her dad at a young age and adopted by Wayne Gretzky's family. She writes it like a dry (and very German) critical...