"We humans, we've barely scratched the surface! The longest lasting of our relics? All our buildings will be dust in twenty thousand years, even the pyramids. Neil Armstrong's footprints in the Sea of Tranquility will crumble under micrometeoroid bombardment in a mere half million years or so. The emptied oil fields…

This is a very welcome development.

Is the squid tree related to the tree octopus?

Recommended reading: William Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief." (It can be readily found online.)

We liked your comment so much that we quoted it:

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Yes, we edited out your comments in support of intelligent design (but for purposes of length, not ideology).

I'm glad you approve!

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Or with his foot in a block of concrete. With a hovercraft base. #izzard

"You mean I'm called Achilles, Mum, and I have an Achilles heel as well? I'll be a laughing stock."

Just so.

There are a great many of us not pleased with the status quo, and are working actively to strip supernaturalism of its respectability.

What Islam is, is beside the point. These are humans who are making such threats (who are free, as humans are, to interpret and misinterpret texts, sacred and otherwise, as they seek to justify their actions as permissible or necessary.)

Assigning blame for individual actions to membership in any political, ethnic,…

I'm inclined to put one of these pins on my jacket as I walk around Boston (where people are apt to forget that this is the kind of ugly antagonism that passes for political difference in this country.)

A must read for those infatuated with grisly unicornia: www.tor.com/stories/2013/09/equoid

Or to The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy; especially given that the way Millhouse was decapitated imitates the decapitation-by-falling-object-squashing in Hot Fuzz.

"But I know that's going to blind people who are in charge of procurement how expensive these are yet how limited their capability is compared to an equivalent."

Those initiatives are underway.