Daily Archives: March 8, 2010

The emperor has no clothes watch: kudos to Jerry Coyne and Duncan Porter!

On the principle that no good deed goes unpunished, University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne states the obvious and receives a blizzard of freak-out mail, a lot of it ugly. Here, according to AP, is what Coyne said about … Continue reading

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“Avatar” and the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE

Something that jumped out at me in the film Avatar was this: the calamity that befell the blue pagan forest people came very close to tracking the calamity that befell the Jews in 70 CE (when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and … Continue reading

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