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Hat tip to No More Hornets for exposing the truth about Mike Huckabee, presidential hopeful and baptist pastor:

Add up all the letters in:
"Go Huckabee for President of the United States, Two Thousand and Eight."

"Go Huckabee" = 78, "for" = 39
"President" = 110.
"of The United States" = 211
"Two Thousand and Eight" = 228

Take the total: 78 + 39 + 110 + 211 + 228 = 666!

Wow, I was already wary of this reconstructionist wingnut, but this puts the icing on the cake: he's a spawn of the prince of darkness! Since the bible itself supports the use numerology (the bible forbids other forms of occult practices but conspicuously omits numerology), I think this evidence about Huckabee should be of concern to his Evangelical supporters.

Maybe we can find similar coincidences in the other candidates. That's the great thing about numerology, it "works" for everything.

MySpace, owned by wingnut cheerleader Rupert Murdoch, recently deleted the largest online atheist group. Personally, I've never used nor signed-up for MySpace (or FaceBook for that matter), and this latest incident only makes me avoid the site even more.

I have an idea, why don't the 35,000 atheist bloggers in MySpace join MyOpera instead? MyOpera isn't just about blogging, you can post photos, create and join groups, chat in our forums, or just network with your friends. And since it's powered by the folks who makes the standards-compliant Opera Browser, you can use this website with virtually any modern browser. What's more, due to it's European roots, MyOpera will have no problem with nonbelief (they're in godless Scandinavia, after all).

What are you waiting for, fellow heathens? Join in!

Since I am too busy with life, work, and family, I've all but abandoned my blog. But I don't want to leave it outright, so as a remedy for the paucity of posts in the last several months, I'll be posting semi-regular updates of events and opinions. I haven't decided if it's gonna be weekly or semi-monthly, but either way I'll try to stick with the schedule, more or less. I will still post topics that require an entire entry. Hope this can revive my near-terminal web journal.

PZ Myers is calling for new blog posts about the imminent opening of Answers in Genesis' (AiG) new creationist museum. If you want your voice heard, I suggest submitting your blog post to PZ for inclusion to the Creation Museum Carnival.

Here's my take: Ken Ham (president of AiG) and his cretinist minions have the right to squander $25 million on rank fantasies. Sadly, they seek to use this museum to attack science and promote their widely discredited views. And what are these views?

In my old blog I posted an entry almost exactly two years ago announcing the building of the museum, and I remarked then about Ken Ham's silly beliefs concerning the age of the earth, flood geology and dinosaur-human coexistence. I shall no longer dwell on them here. My concern is AiG's claim that the bible, not reason, should guide our understanding of the world.

Why should we even consider using the bible as a guide? It is a collection of books written by semi-literate bronze age goat herders™ who were woefully ignorant of how the world works and made things up as they go. The bible writers, for instance, believed in a flat earth (flat-earth creationists see no problem with this); and that clouds are the dust of god's feet (Nahum 1:3).

The bible is chock-full of absurdities that it would be foolish to list them all here. Besides, the Skeptics' Annotated Bible has done it already. Yet we are to believe that this book would still be relevant to figuring out the results of scientific research? If the bible says that the bat is a fowl/bird (Lev. 11:13-19), then taxonomy must follow suit?

Also, by starting with the bible as an absolute guide in understanding the world, then most of science would be nothing more than stamp collecting. No reason to figure out how the heavens go, it's god's will. Ken Miller rightfully points out that creationism (intelligent design creationism in his case) is a "science stopper". Indeed, if you look are most creationist literature, it is mostly a collection of (distorted) facts with no original research. To them, science is an evangelizing tool to proclaim the glory of Christianity.

Just look at the academic output of creationists (or lack thereof). Bill Dembski has been relegated to a theologian position at an insignificant bible college while still continuing to write mathematically inept books. Guillermo Gonzalez, current posterboy of the so-called IDC persecution, has been denied tenure for doing almost nothing. Kurt Wise, the honest creationist, despite earning a legit degree from Harvard University under SJ Gould, is teaching at some unknown bible college. Michael Behe has been unproductive for most of his IDC career. Jonathan Wells freely admits that his science career (if any) is not for conducting genuine research but to "destroying Darwinism".

The creationist museum will be a major disappointment to truth-seekers. Its foundation or biblical literalism will ensure that truth will be sacrificed for doctrinal convictions. It will also give true believers a false view that science confirms religious myths.