Well hey, maybe don't project unfair shit onto your husband.

Oh, yeah? How do you explain this? Check and mate, atheists!

You went through all the trouble of writing a thoughtful reply, and then I got clobbered with work and blew you off. Anyway, here are my delayed replies:

There's no grand statement or link. We've just never used them. Simply put, our headlines and intro text are meant to clearly convey where the content of each post is heading.

if you want to wear uncomfortable clothing all the time and remove all your individuality then be my guest, but don't force your decisions on the children.

Ok just a thought, doesn't the alcohol kill the leaked gut bacteria? Or should we expect some other result from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the primary U.S. agency for conducting and supporting research on the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and…

As bad as they are?!? He wants schoolchildren to be taught facts the other side wants schoolchildren to be taught fairy tales. How is he just as bad as they are?

It's more like being fired from your job over it.

Ok, anyone other than the Bush administration?

My Catholic teachers (many of them nuns and priests) did, in fact, say no such thing.

I once read a very good theological statement on the concept of Adam and Eve as the rise of sapience. The nice thing about that viewpoint is it neatly answers the question of "who did their kids marry?" (And yes, it was by a Catholic theologian.)

Where do I find this pit of secular orgy?

I like that io9 posts these kinds of things. Really, it's the best world-building science-fiction out there.

Nope. Nor do we believe that any of those stories are meant to be taken literally... Unlike Evangelical Protestants, we Jews put great stock into education.

If you were God, what would you wear?

Dancing is a sin. Only demons dance.

It is like quitting your job over a debate about Sauron and the One Ring.

And my Catholic teachers of yesteryear would laugh and say, "You know God is great and wise enough to (instruct people to) write in metaphors, yes? So, just calm down and stop being extremists."

"The issue? Whether Adam and Eve were the progenitors of humanity."