Everyone, especially fans of evolution, marine biology, and the Alien movies, and especially especially my brother, needs to go look at this page right now.

Thanks to drhoz for the link.

Good news from our reasonable friends in the UK:

The [British] government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.

If you're wondering what the heck the title of this post means, watch this video.

Well, truth be told, I didn't have any plans to visit Kentucky, but it just backed up behind Kansas and Mississippi in the "last states to visit--shortly after I die, maybe" competition. Hoo doggy! We're so proud of our dogmatic ignorance that we erected a museum to it!

Also, my 3:00 alarm just went off, and my camera is at home somewhere.

I just listened to the podcast of "Hmmmm..." the horribly named but otherwise pretty good science feature from NPR. In it I learned that David Quammen (my favorite science journalist) is writing a book about Darwin. I'm not sure if I should be excited about this or disappointed. I think Quammen's best writing is travel and experience based--the stuff he writes based on written research can be kind of dull. But anyway, the reason I bring it up is this quote, describing what the pre-Darwin theory of why living things live where they are (why there are only kangaroos in Australia for example):

"God created every species individually, and put them down wherever they are. I call that 'Special Creation, plus Special Delivery.'"

Cross-posted.