fantastic.

I came across many things to riducule today, but this one trumps everything else. An art teacher was fired for taking the students to an art museum. Awesome.

a compelling argument.

Says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, chairman of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya:

"When you use evolution as God's tool in creating man in his image, you have to reckon with the fact at what stage in the evolution process does man attain to that image?" he said. "The conclusion is either God's image is evolving or God Himself is evolving or every creature has God's image. God could be anything and I'm afraid I cannot put my faith in a 'changing God' or an 'anything God'.”

Note that he's not really addressing evolution here, but evolutionary creationism, or the idea that evolution is the method by which God created mankind. This belief is often presented as a way of bridging the gap between science and religion, a way of asserting that the two are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, there are many scientists who see their work as a way of understanding God's handiwork. The most elegant mathematical proofs are thought to come from God's book. And when the Grand Unified Theory is finally uncovered, we can throw our hands in the air and shout "Hallelujah!", for only the prescient vision of God could have seen the magnificence and complexity of the universe in the simplicity of M-theory (and the M will then stand for Moses, who initiated the study in his seminal book Genesis.). I agree with Bishop Adoyo. There's no way to reconcile the assertions of science with those of the bible. And when the Leakeys show their collection, they won't need to use the words "scientific evidence"; the proof is in the bones.