entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

Apparently, the clowns who made the inevitably craptacular Thor movie cast an actor of African descent as Heimdall.  This fact has gotten the collective panties of at least one group of racist fuckheads in a twist.

"Why is it the greatest champions of the White Race always turn out to be the worst examples of it?  YOU!  WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?"

The Sumerians had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi. They even wrote a hymn to Ninkasi. That's just plain cool. Someone should set it to music.

(blame littleamerica for winding me up)

In my opinion, Easterbrook talks too much about a return to religion and not enough about religion and science living together.

His idea that biotech "may" heal the evolution-Creation (i will not dignify mythology by giving it a name that sounds like it's in any way valid science) rift is, at best, preposterously optimistic; it's evident that it's already made things worse.

"Science, which once thought the case for higher power was closed..." WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. "Science" does not think. "Science" does not assert anything. Only scientists do. This anthropomorphization of science is one of the things that polarizes the science-vs-religion false dichotomy.

"Hoyle's faith in chance was shaken by evidence of purpose." So, if the odds for something are "phenomenally low", and it happens, that constitutes "evidence of purpose"? Is this what passes for deep thought these days?

"Did a designer set Earth's life processes in motion? Few questions are more interesting or intellectually rich." Interesting? Sure. Intellectually rich? It's fairly banal, in my view. Even if the answer were "yes", its subsequent question, "Why?" is fairly stupid. You might as well ask your parents why they decided to conceive you (assuming it wasn't a purely animal moment, of course... hmm, the universe exists because God was horny. Sure, why not?)