It's hard to quantify exactly how stupid Elisabeth Hasselbeck is. Let's spend 2 seconds talking about the eye, and why it isn't perfect. For starters, how many people have to wear glasses because of oblong or misshapen eyeballs? How about the fact we see upside down, and our brain literally has to flip it 180 degrees? Now the Octopus has an eye we should all be jealous of: A unique characteristic of the cep ...

I like Ken, and I appreciate the hard work he does to fight creationism, despite sharing many of their beliefs. The saddest thing about him, however, is he still tries to reconcile his ludicrous superstitious beliefs with science. By the end of his book, Finding Darwin's God, I had to shake my head in disbelief as he tried to use quantum indeterminacy as a mechanism with which God influences evolution. Fuck ...

I'm so sick and tired of the argument that because Earth sits in a "Goldilocks" zone, this must somehow mean something significant. What are the odds, some like to speculate, all of this could be the product of chance? The answer, I would argue, is the same as every single hand you've ever been dealt in poker. If you try and work backwards to calculate the odds of whatever arbitrary hand you have being deal ...

Ah, creationism; no matter how you dress it up, it's still a steaming pile of horse shit. Every year it's the same thing: a group of ignorant and highly religious parents become upset their children are actually receiving an education as to how life adapts and changes over time, and their reaction is to try and insert their creationist materials (which they hilariously call "intelligent design") into classr ...

I got this email from Joel who has been listening for a while and felt "inspired" by some of my "be a dick" rants. Jake, I've been a loyal listener for a few months now and I'm proud to say I seized a perfect opportunity to "be a dick" today. As I was boarding my subway, headed home from an afternoon in Manhattan, I saw three guys in suits carrying Bibles and pictures of a crucified Jesus. I thought, "here ...

France has a problem; it seems as though Muslims are not integrating well in their country, and many are making unrealistic demands of secular schools, including adding halal to the cafeteria menus, sizing down courses that teach about other world religions, and an opt-out option for classes about the evolution, the Holocaust, or France's war in Algeria. In other words, they want an education that matches t ...

While dummies are still trying to refute evolution (they may as well try to disprove gravity at this point), science marches on. The latest evidence of evolution at work isn't exactly welcoming news for us humans, however: A strain of African mosquito that carries the deadly malaria parasite is splitting into two species faster than expected, according to a new study. The finding helps explain why the insec ...

I don't consider myself an expert on evolution; however, I've devoted a considerable amount of time studying the matter, if for no other reason than to try and understand humanity. The answers to some of our most puzzling questions become obvious once you realize we are nothing more than apes that have evolved over millions of years from a common ancestor to other primates. While our chimpanzee cousin's "ev ...

In just a few minutes, not only does she fail to properly answer the question of whether or not she believes in evolution (were you too afraid to say no, baby?), but she accuses her opponent of being a Marxist because he wants to raise taxes (and because of a tongue-in-cheek article he wrote as a young man). When she says "raising taxes, which is a tenet of Marxism", the face on Chris Coons is pretty damn h ...

A few days ago I wrote an article about a crusty old religious white dude who claimed to know more about the Universe than Stephen Hawking, presumably because a dusty old book of myths told him so. Because Stephen had the "audacity" to postulate the Universe created itself, religious rubes have been tripping over one another trying to voice their objections to one of history's greatest minds smacking down t ...