Yes, I actually learned about the acceptance of evolution by the Catholic Church in my senior-level evolution class in undergrad. I didn't know this was news, but I guess now it's becoming more mainstream, which...good!

John Paul II (Electric Boogaloo) believed in evolution too.

not a big deal at all except for tone. The Big Bang was first theorized by Fr. Georges Lemaitre, a Jesuit priest and given the blessing of the pope almost immediately. In the midfifties the pope said that there's was no reason a catholic couldn't except Darwinism. Pope John Paul II said there was no debate and that…

You are right. Pope John Paul II was pretty clear about it.

As has been pointed out numerous times on any number of outlets (including Gawker), this is not new for Catholics. Catholicism has never believed in Biblical literalism, evolution has pretty much always been a non-controversial idea, and the guy who first proposed the Big Bang Theory, Georges Lemaître, was a Catholic…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this already established by a previous pope? I didn't really think Catholics were part of the Creationist crowd.

you come here...to scream your idiot opinions that you think are fact. Like I seriously don't get the entitlement men like you have. No one here wants to talk about your fucking dick preferences, but you keep bringing them up.

doesn't give GB a whole lot of leeway to condemn Russia now does it? Kettle, pot, black

There is an interview he did with Nick Cave and it's really weird. Weird No.1: he interviews Cave about the way he wrote about Lavigne in his novel and it gets really sexual creepy and Weird No.2: Cave makes the mistake to be all guilty pleasure about liking Lavigne as an artist which had Gomeshi be all freaked out…

It's the ghost of the band Puddle of Mudd.

Maybe it's because I'm ancient compared to him, but I have a really hard time buying Nicholas Hoult as a criminal mastermind in those Jaguar commercials. All I see is the kid from About a Boy.

Hm. I was thinking maybe the kid who wants to meet up with (or who's parents want him to meet up with) cool black kids, is black, and his parents think he needs to lean to be cool from cool black kids. I was momentarily concerned about how much worse that would make the social situation (assuming said "cool kids"…

Excellent trolling is excellent.

So, I once told a group of friends that I have never done karaoke. They were quick to correct me. Turns out I have not once, but twice performed karaoke while.black out drunk. The song? "I touch myself" by the Divinyls. Both times.

In 1976, a young Dustin Hoffman was shooting one of the biggest movies of his career - Marathon Man. (...) To put himself in the mindset of a man losing control Hoffman didn't sleep for days at a time and let his body become disheveled and unhealthy. Finally, after all this work Hoffman notices his co-star Sir…

God bless that cat for trying to save the world from that terrible, terrible song.

Blandine is not that weird if you're French. Also, the father's name wasn't November. It was Lionel. The article says that they named the baby *during* the month of November, not that his name was November.

Ah, I didn't read it that way. Re French as a "dying" language, read the endlessly fascinating THE STORY OF FRENCH.

Isn't Damon a perfectly normal name that existed prior to TVD (and here I'm referring to the books, since they were written in the early 90s)?

Damon is a real name. Daemon is a computer term.