1. Science is not philosophy

Comment #198642 by Kricket on June 24, 2008 at 10:42 am

If the flower pot is accompanied by a sperm whale its number would be 42.

2. Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways

Comment #166833 by Kricket on April 23, 2008 at 12:54 pm

When I was in 6th grade my public-school teacher decided to teach us about Moses and how he led the Jews out of Egypt for our "History" lesson.

He even started out by saying something along the lines of "I'm not teaching religion because that's against the rules, but this all really happened, so it's just a history lesson."

Later, questions about Moses appeared on our History quizzes.

So it came as a bit of a shock to me later in life to read there's no physical evidence of Moses ever existing.

If I knew then what I know now I would have reported him for this (and a few other things) But when you're a kid you just assume Teacher is always right and you should believe what they say.