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    Meirelle: What a steaming pile of horse shit. Texas can rot in hell. more »
    Scott M. Schwartz: The big bang is a theory just like all the others. Hell, there's no direct evidence the earth's core is molten. Theory. Why not let 'em all in and let... more »
    Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.: The great part is that this is basically Idiocracy 2, writing itself. Using McLeroy's (really?) special brand of magic monkey science, I've fixed all ... more »
    farcast: And what are birds? We just don't know. more »
    Balius: To play the devil's advocate, isn't it theorized that before the Big Bang there was a Big Crunch, and whole thing is a cycle that's happened many time... more »
    twDarkflame: Sciences are sure of their uncertainties, thats what makes science a better way of doing things. It has margins of error. If children are taught scien... more »
    Grey_Area: I LOVED this post! A roller-coaster of emotion, and very much filled with learning stuff. Cowboys in space fighting evil corporate scientists, what an... more »
    92BuickLeSabre: Well, from where they are sitting, they are arguably correct. Texas hasn't changed, adapted, grown, or evolved, in at least 14 Billion Years. more »
    Cobra-Commander: Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be from this backwards state. Don't think that this represents most Texans however. The problem is that the people in cha... more »
    Andrew Liptak: *Checks news* Isn't George Bush out of office now? Why are we still seeing this drivel? more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I think it's fine if Texas wants to ignore science and its discoveries. They'll probably have to give back all those oil wells though and have their ... more »
    NefariousNewt: Note to Texas: perhaps you didn't hear President Obama when he said science was going to be put back in its rightful place. Keep it up if you want to ... more »
    Mount_Prion: While I never bitch about this, let me nitpick. This isn't so much an example of science fiction as science versus fiction. more »
    LastAndLeast: I really wish this was an April fool's prank. more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: Man, fuck facts. Who needs that shit? more »
  • #education

    Texas Officially Makes The Universe Ageless

    How old is the universe? Scientists agree that the answer is somewhere around 14 billion years (give or take a few million)... unless you happen to be a student in the state of Texas. More »
  • #intelligentdesign

    In Recent Scifi, Intelligent Design Is Truth

    A new crop of science fiction novels focus on what it would mean if Intelligent Design turned out to be the truth. Jay Lake's Escapement is a perfect example, as is Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces — both are novels about people in clockwork worlds designed by some kind of higher power associated with spiritual realms. Other recent tales, such as Charles Stross' Saturn's Children and Iain M. Banks' Matter, flirt with the idea of an Intelligent Designer by suggesting that under some circumstances it is the most logical explanation for reality: For instance, if you are a creature who lives in a synthetic world (or body) designed by sophisticated engineers, your existence has been literally created for you rather than randomly evolved. Are these scifi authors carving out a pro-science version of Intelligent Design theory? More »
  • #scifashion

    Absurdist Pro-Science T-Shirts for Every Occasion

    Since we were just talking the other day about how intelligent design theory has been creeping into popular culture via movies like The Happening, it's only fitting that we supply you with an antidote to such culture. Amorphia Apparel, known throughout the galaxy for their absurdist tees devoted to mad science and runaway pterodactyls (see below for a gallery), has just created a special line of tees for the ID cause. In the pro-ID movie Expelled, Ben Stein urged people to "teach the controversy" which is ID. These shirts urge you to teach all kinds of controversies, such as UFOs building the pyramids (my fave) and Atlantis existing under the ocean. Check out more goodness from Amorphia below. More »
  • #thehappeningreview

    "The Happening" Is the Biggest Intelligent Design Movie of the Year

    M. Night Shyamalan's critically-panned flick The Happening is Hollywood's first blockbuster to promote the anti-evolutionary theory of intelligent design. Maybe you thought Ben Stein's ill-fated documentary Expelled was the only movie to argue in favor of the neo-Christian idea that an "intelligent designer" created the universe. Think again. With its references to "unexplained acts of nature" and a science teacher main character who calls evolution "just a theory," The Happening is basically a giant propaganda machine for intelligent design. Maybe science journalists are jizzing all over its allegedly realistic plants-attack-humans plot, but we talked to Shyamalan and we know the truth. More »
  • #untelligentdesign

    "Expelled" Conspiracy?

  • #hiphopathiesm

    Richard Dawkins: the Rap Video