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Rated • 68 reviews • evolution • sciam.com
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Last seen: 19 months ago
burntineffigy is a 24 year old woman from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
I'm a recent college graduate, I double majored in Politics and Medieval & Early Modern Studies. I love photography - both taking photographs and looking at others' photographs.
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The Pain - Latest
Rated • 20 reviews • cartoons, evolution, comics • thepaincomics.com
Science VS. Norse Mythology
"I had recently read an article about a battle over textbooks in Pennsylvania, in which one school board member, an opponent of Inteligent Design, who you would expect to be the voice of reason, gave the following reason for her opposition: "When I hear `Intelligent Design,' I think aliens." We despaired over the state of the average American's scientific literacy, currently at about the same level as a twelfth-century European peasant's. Aaron likened the whole absurd and exasperating controversy to having to take Grimm's Fairy Tales as seriously as physics. I decided to change his analogy to Norse Mythology because 1.) Grimm's tales don't really have a creation myth or a story about the origin of human beings and 2.) Norse mythology is so fucked up. In fact it's so complex and contradictory that I had to cheat a little in my descriptions; although Bullfinch's (the finest authority on all mythology, after D'Aularie's) says Yggdrasill is rooted in three different worlds, other references have it at nine, including Hel, Midgard, the world of the dwarves, the world of the dark elves, etc., which is all much too hard to draw."
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Rated • 719 reviews • evolution, satire, parody • venganza.org
Who doesn't love the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
