High School Freethinkers, Come Out!
May 14, 2008
Imagine you’re reading your feeds, when you see a blog post about you. I’ve recently been seeing blog posts about me pop up all over the place, most recently from BadAstronomy.
From what I can tell, it’s mostly because I’m a teenage freethinker. Now, I am quite flattered and all, and I can understand why people find this such a remarkable phenomenon, but I know that I’m not the only one out there. Right?
I don’t hear crickets… oh. There they are now.
Just kidding. I know you’re out there. Maybe you run a blog just like me. Maybe you’re not outspoken because of anti-intellectual peer pressure. So… I’m ripping off of the Out Campaign and making a “Scarlet F” because I thought that that would be amusing.
Now, if you are a high school freethinker/skeptic/atheist/intellectual/all-around-cool-person (or know of one), I want to know about you. Leave a comment here, or send me an e-mail. If you have a blog or website, I’d be happy to give you linkage. I’m thinking of maybe doing a special section in my blog with links to high school freethinkers or something so that we can exchange ideas with each other, help each other out, be friends, have fun, etc.
In the meantime, check out the Center for Inquiry Campus Outreach site.
Ignunt Fool of the Week
May 9, 2008
Finally, the elusive question is answered… What delicacy do they eat in the Pleiades sector?
So say people who believe that some of their ancestors came from the Pleiades sector.
It’s really depressing to me because I myself am an avid fan of Stargate and I hate to see the show that I love abused in this way… of course… Stargate does have a lot of New Age tosh now and I haven’t been able to watch it in a while for that reason.
Anyway, these people are not alone in thinking that one of their ancestors did it with an alien. There are loads of lunatics out there who believe that they are “star children”, or humans who think they have alien DNA.
But anyway, I would not like to show that it is competely impossible for anybody to be a star child.
In biology, a population of animals becomes defined as a species when they don’t interbreed with other species and produce fertile offspring. That’s here on Earth where everything has a common ancestor. Let’s humour the star children for a little bit and say that life evolved elsewhere (fairly possible for now), has DNA just like ours (more far-fetched), found a means of interstellar travel (progressively getting more far-fetched but there are ways)… What are the chances that their DNA is so similar that they can produce fertile offspring?
Eating tapioca in their sector doesn’t sound so far-fetched anymore.
