Posted on November 29, 2009 by ProfessorTreeFrog
It’s time for the ProfessorTreeFrog First-Ever Holiday Gift Guide!!!
1) This line of plush toys is seriously cute and seriously awesome. They’re called “Evolvems“, and are zip-inside-out plushies demonstrating major evolutionary milestones. They have the Coelacanth-to-Ichthyostega transition, as well as Dimetrodon-Cynognathus, Yinlong-Styracosaurus, and Pakicetus-Squalodon!!!
2) Also a line of plush toys, “Foodchain Friends” is for those with [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by ProfessorTreeFrog
Today is the day that Ray Comfort, the creationist of hand-banana fame, will be distributing copies of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species at “the top 100 universities nationwide”. The catch? A 54-page introduction equating the theory of evolution with Nazism, and overall bashing the venerable Charles Darwin with lies and [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2009 by ProfessorTreeFrog
In light of the loss for marriage equality in Maine, and the touting by many on the right of the few off-season races won by Republicans, I’d like to take a moment to remind myself, and everyone else, why I am a Democrat and why being a Democrat is a great thing.
REASONS I [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2009 by ProfessorTreeFrog
Today was an eventful day! You may have heard that NASA launched a projectile into the moon, in an attempt to locate large deposits of water. Here are the facts: our national space agency sent a 2.2-ton empty rocket stage crashing into the south pole of the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2009 by ProfessorTreeFrog
It seems the Texas State Board of Education is at it again. The state science standards are up for review again, and some of the comments made by boardmembers are quite interesting. Keep in mind 7 out of the 15 board members are BIBLICAL-LITERALIST, YOUNG-EARTH CREATIONISTS:
“If I can’t understand it, it’s not science.” – Rick [...]
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