Comments on: Teenage Skeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:34:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Saturn, Lord of the Rings | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-98712 Saturn, Lord of the Rings | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:32:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-98712 [...] cool stuff. If you’re in the area, treat yourself to the DMNS. They do good work… and Splendid Elles is there too for a [...] […] cool stuff. If you’re in the area, treat yourself to the DMNS. They do good work… and Splendid Elles is there too for a […]

]]> By: Teen Skepchick, open for business | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-95922 Teen Skepchick, open for business | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:01:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-95922 [...] Elles to sign up and blog for her, which is great. She’s already proven herself to be a very capable young woman. I’m no psychic — no one is — but I see good things ahead for this new [...] […] Elles to sign up and blog for her, which is great. She’s already proven herself to be a very capable young woman. I’m no psychic — no one is — but I see good things ahead for this new […]

]]> By: CafeenMan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88935 CafeenMan Thu, 15 May 2008 12:14:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88935 “What is the museum going to do when they find out that one of their employees is writing publicly and negatively about its patrons?” Well, nothing. I asked the volunteer coordinator (I’m a volunteer, I don’t get paid) what he thought of my post. He said it was all good as long as I don’t piss off a creationist so much that they never come back again and the museum loses money. # Lucia on 14 May 2008 at 1:24 pm Ok. :) I don't know what it takes for them to not come back but whatever it is, it might be worth it. And from what I've seen all it takes is *anything* reality-based to piss off a creationist. :) “What is the museum going to do when they find out that one of their employees is writing publicly and negatively about its patrons?”

Well, nothing. I asked the volunteer coordinator (I’m a volunteer, I don’t get paid) what he thought of my post. He said it was all good as long as I don’t piss off a creationist so much that they never come back again and the museum loses money.

# Lucia on 14 May 2008 at 1:24 pm

Ok. :) I don’t know what it takes for them to not come back but whatever it is, it might be worth it.

And from what I’ve seen all it takes is *anything* reality-based to piss off a creationist. :)

]]> By: CR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88934 CR Thu, 15 May 2008 04:22:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88934 I realize I made fun of the creationist idea that meat eaters were vegetarians until The Fall, but afterward, I noticed in seriousness that it shoots down one of their biggest arguments... if the animals on Earth are as God supposedly made them, then doesn't the animals' change after The Fall reflect that they AREN'T the same? I'm not saying it proves evolution, but it disproves their big 'God created all life as it is' argument. I realize I made fun of the creationist idea that meat eaters were vegetarians until The Fall, but afterward, I noticed in seriousness that it shoots down one of their biggest arguments… if the animals on Earth are as God supposedly made them, then doesn’t the animals’ change after The Fall reflect that they AREN’T the same? I’m not saying it proves evolution, but it disproves their big ‘God created all life as it is’ argument.

]]> By: GDwarf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88933 GDwarf Wed, 14 May 2008 23:26:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88933 Mariah, mind not trolling? (This might even be concern trolling, albeit done very ineptly.) Anyways, props to Lucia for making a blog post that's better written than anything I could type or, really, conceive of. Mariah, mind not trolling? (This might even be concern trolling, albeit done very ineptly.)

Anyways, props to Lucia for making a blog post that’s better written than anything I could type or, really, conceive of.

]]> By: Lucia http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88932 Lucia Wed, 14 May 2008 19:24:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88932 "What is the museum going to do when they find out that one of their employees is writing publicly and negatively about its patrons?" Well, nothing. I asked the volunteer coordinator (I'm a volunteer, I don't get paid) what he thought of my post. He said it was all good as long as I don't piss off a creationist so much that they never come back again and the museum loses money. “What is the museum going to do when they find out that one of their employees is writing publicly and negatively about its patrons?”

Well, nothing. I asked the volunteer coordinator (I’m a volunteer, I don’t get paid) what he thought of my post. He said it was all good as long as I don’t piss off a creationist so much that they never come back again and the museum loses money.

]]> By: Nigel Depledge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88931 Nigel Depledge Wed, 14 May 2008 19:02:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/13/teenage-skeptic/#comment-88931 Hey, does anyone else have that Wheatus song bouncing around in their head after reading this? Hey, does anyone else have that Wheatus song bouncing around in their head after reading this?

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