Below are the nine posts that got the most visits over the past year. Each of them received more than 10,000 pageviews, and #1 post received more than 35,000 pageviews. #9 Ignoring the Most Biblical Explanation #8 Beware of Who’s Who Scams (this post is from 2011, but since the scams continue, interest in the post continues) #7 The Ham on Nye Debate in a Nutshell (I was very pleased that it was not merely a meme I shared, but a meme... Read more
The episode begins with a flashback of Sayid overseeing shredding of documents, and then being captured by American soldiers during the Iraq war. They get Sayid to help them interrogate his former commanding officer, Tariq. Inman shows to Sayid video indicating that Tariq used Sarin gas in a village where Sayid had relatives. Danielle Rousseau finds Sayid to take him to where she has caught a man in a trap. He says he is named Henry Gale and from Minnesota.... Read more
I shared a link on Facebook to Hemant Mehta’s blog post, which points out the irony of Ken Ham running an advertisement on a billboard in Times Square complaining that religious freedom is allegedly under attack. Steve Caruso responded by adapting Ham’s billboard to feature another supposedly unsinkable ship, and I’ve shared it above. Read more
Some physicists have done a study of the energy involved in turning water into wine. It seems that it may in fact have involved a very different process than what SMBC depicted in cartoon form a while back: Read more
From Existential Comics (who will explain the joke to you, if you don’t get it). Read more
Two items related to the existence of a historical Jesus came to my attention today. One is an interview with Bart Ehrman: The other is an article by Mike Bird, with the title, “Yes, Jesus existed … but relax, you can still be an atheist if you want to.” Here’s a sample: The Jesus mythicists are a group of enthusiastic atheists who through websites and self-published books try to prove the equivalent of a flat earth. I serve on the editorial... Read more
The episode begins with Jack and Locke in the armory. When Jack asks whether they should leave the heroin in the statues, Locke asks Jack if he wants to break seven Virgin Marys, saying he’s superstitious. In a flashback, we see Sawyer getting caught trying to con a woman, Cassidy. She asks him to teach her how to con people. When Sun is working in her garden, she is grabbed from behind and then left tied up. Locke is confused,... Read more
Michael Roberts shared the above card for playing “Creationist Bingo.” It seems to have been updated compared to ones that I have seen before. Someone needs to make a full set, with the squares shuffled around, and perhaps some more added/substituted on some of them. And then the next time someone comes here promoting young-earth creationism or Intelligent Design, we can all play! Read more
Via Unvirtuous Abbey on Facebook Read more
The website IO9 asked, “What Real Historical Figure Is Portrayed The Least Accurately Onscreen?” Suggestions thus far have included Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, and Rasputin. No one has mentioned Jesus as of my writing this blog post. Do you think he should be in the running? Ought he to win? Has anyone been portrayed onscreen less accurately than he has, and if so, who? Image from Valerie Tarico’s blog Read more
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