Take five, everyone…

March 30th, 2007 Black Ops

DUE TO SOME NECESSARY MAINTENANCE, down here in the bowels of Darwin Central’s communications wing, our crack army of one million typing monkeys will be given this weekend off, while our server (and hence blog, forum, and so forth) are offline. Downtime will begin today, Friday March 30′th, at midnight ET, and continue on until the worker bees have completed their appointed tasks. Monkeys are to report back to work on Monday, 9 AM sharp.

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Thoughts on … well … thought

March 27th, 2007 Central Archivist

VIEWING WHAT PASSES FOR “GREAT” ART RECENTLY, I was reminded of Sturgeon’s Law: “90 percent of everything is crap.”    This got me thinking about another pet theory of mine:

90 percent of the human race is non-sapient.

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In Memory of Cathy Seipp, Rationalist.

March 24th, 2007 RWA

Like the rest of the blogosphere, we here at Darwin Central mourned the loss of the lovely and brilliant Cathy Seipp at the far too young age of 49. Not only will we miss her witty and elegant prose, but she had a refreshing no-nonsense attitude that frequently put her at odds with the religious right as well as the cultural left (she was pro-choice on abortion but opposed to gay marriage. I’m the exact opposite on the two issues, and also consider myself a conservative. Go figure). When she did write about science, her attitude was that of the informed layperson which we don’t see enough of these days, someone who is aware of her limitations in discussing expert knowledge, but smart enough to try to learn the basic facts and more importantly, to try to understand what the scientific method is really all about.
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Even Creationists Know Evolution’s True

March 22nd, 2007 Central Archivist

CONFESSION TIME.  I STARTED LIFE AS A CREATIONIST.  Both my parents were creationists (though I suspect my father was changing his attitude on this subject toward the end of his life).  I lived most of my life in the South, where religion is a given and most folks are what I call “passive creationists” (they don’t really give the matter much thought, but they’re sure the Bible’s account is pretty much correct).

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What Would Jesus Wiki?

March 1st, 2007 Central Archivist

YEAH, I STOLE THE HEADLINE from another article, but it just seemed so appropriate.

A group disillusioned with a perceived liberal bias at Wikipedia have decided to create their own, “conservative” online encyclopedia: Conservapedia. 

Please note the quotes around “conservative.”

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