June 29, 2005

Almost Real Content (TM)

• George Will: closet godless liberal?

  The problem with intelligent-design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet—a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

  He must be, because anyone who believes in evolution is a liberal atheist just one step away from eating handicapped children!

  Shhh, George, better keep this one quiet. Might agitate the base.

  (h/t Pharyngula)

• War of Our World:

  Every 26 million years or so, a mass extinction wipes out most of the world's species, and it's usually blamed on a meteorite or an act of God. (The next one's not due for another 10 million years.) But after modeling evolution on a computer, Lipowski noticed that genetic mutations, accumulating over millennia, regularly produce "superpredators"—killers so powerful that they destroy the entire food chain, including themselves. That means the culprits behind mass extinction may not be meteorites, but meat eaters.

  That's it. Lock up Michael Moore immediately!

  The end is nigh!