OUR AMERICAN READERS may not be aware that, outside the US, the other great bastion of creationidiocy in the world is that wonderful and mysterious land Down Under. We here at Darwin Central are nothing if not sympathetic to our Australian cousins and soul-brothers, those political conservatives who are watching their conservatism slowly and stealthily being subverted by scientific illiterates and others who figure that if they can’t reconcile philosophy with reality, reality must be in error. Therefore, let us silently pay our respects to those beleaguered conservatives, while we witness village idiot John Mackay as he cracks a fat in public:

Noah, Mackay says, did take dinosaurs on the Ark (“probably baby ones”), but the dinosaurs did not survive long afterwards or at least never recovered their giant dimensions. “After the flood, there was a long winter,” he says. “In that competition, the sad thing is that we won and they lost.”