1. Mental Disorders In Parents Linked To Autism In Children, Study Shows

Comment #176080 by JSW on May 6, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Maybe that's why so many parents of autistic children are crazy enough to think it was caused by vaccines.

2. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #139870 by JSW on March 6, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Scientific progress goes BOINC?

3. Pope says some science shatters human dignity

Comment #120271 by JSW on February 1, 2008 at 11:27 am

What is "human dignity"?

Whatever it is, apparently someone who drives around in a clown car and is incapable of ever getting laid is uniquely qualified to comment on it.

4. Life-Forming Chemicals Found in Distant Galaxy

Comment #114728 by JSW on January 22, 2008 at 4:08 pm

JSW, Steve is refering to the Bajorans of "The Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", etc. They had all these silly rituals and prophecies.

I thought we were talking about Star Trek. Why are you bringing those other shows into it?

5. Life-Forming Chemicals Found in Distant Galaxy

Comment #114549 by JSW on January 22, 2008 at 11:52 am

The Klingons didn't mention their religion in Star Trek other than to state that they had no devil. There was no species called "Bajorans" mentioned at all.

You must be thinking of one of those other shows.

6. Gigantic fossil rodent discovered

Comment #112811 by JSW on January 18, 2008 at 6:03 am

Heeere it comes to save the daaaay!

7. Man-sized sea scorpion claw found

Comment #89833 by JSW on November 21, 2007 at 9:16 pm

I never understood why spiderman had web comming out of his hands. (No science Hollywood) It should have been out his south end, Can't you picture the big screen with him flying through the buildings shooting web out his...

That's because webbing isn't actually one of Spider-Man's superpowers. After getting bitten by the spider and gaining super-strength, the ability to climb walls and the spider-sense, Peter decided to complete the package by inventing web-shooting devices that attached to his wrists.

Of course, Hollywood had to dumb it down, and then the newer comics followed suit, but it at least made marginally more sense as originally written.

8. Man-sized sea scorpion claw found

Comment #89702 by JSW on November 21, 2007 at 2:40 pm

Or a man sized spider that spins its web on high ways intersections to make a meal out of un-suspecting travelers.

On the plus side, if this Spider-the-size-of-a-Man could, in fact, spin a web to any given size, it would also be able to catch thieves just like flies.

9. 'Expelled' Movie: The Extended Trailer

Comment #88281 by JSW on November 15, 2007 at 5:58 pm

Not for an instant! We can't be "mud animated by lightning!", we just CAN'T!

Now, mud animated by breath, on the other hand...

10. Help Counter the New Atheist Crusade to 'Evangelize' America!

Comment #79597 by JSW on October 17, 2007 at 10:31 pm

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

11. Dawkins - what can't he be blamed for?

Comment #75259 by JSW on October 2, 2007 at 6:54 am

'Kubla Khan' was to contain the most profound and convincing proofs for the existence of the Prime Mover. I think we can all guess the identity of the 'person on business from Porlock' who broke Coleridge's concentration, thereby saving the Atheist movement from conceding defeat. For the time being, at any rate.

Not naming names, but - thank you, Richard.

That was Richard MacDuff, not Richard Dawkins.

12. Talking Action Figure Jesus

Comment #73359 by JSW on September 24, 2007 at 9:20 pm

This is nothing new. Why, for years I've treasured my figure of the one who descended from the heavens to live among us, who died but then rose again in all his glory to save us all. And with mine, if you move his arms, legs and head around just so, he transforms into a truck!

'Til all are one!

13. Creationism raised as Ont. election issue

Comment #68302 by JSW on September 6, 2007 at 6:41 pm

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070906.wontschools06/BNStory/National/home

Tory is backpedaling on this statement now.

A bit of a relief, but still not enough to keep me from voting Liberal.