The article Missing link found? Scientists unveil fossil of 47 million-year-old primate, Darwinius masillae, published in the New Scientist, reports that the missing link has been found. So what’s the link? Well, some dinosaur/possum thing that was found just outside of Frankfurt in 1983. Yes folks, it has taken scientists 25 years to come to the miraculous conclusion that what you see in the picture above is indeed the missing link. Scientists claim that the possum/dinosaur thing had “opposable thumbs like humans and fingernails instead of claws” and that the creature’s “hind legs offer evidence of evolutionary changes that led to primates standing upright”. It is thus the missing link – our “grand, grand, grand aunt”. **applause** So fingernails and some vague reference to hind leg ability equals missing link. Why something so obvious in its human-likeness was not reported back in the 80s, when the discovery was made, is anyone’s guess. (more…)

“There’s Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying And Enjoy Your Life” is the slogan of an atheist bus campaign launched in January around the UK. The campaign was financed by public donations to a fund administered by the British Humanist Association as well as a substantial payment made by Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, in fulfillment of his pledge to match a portion of the contributions made by the public. Many Christians have heralded the coming of the apocalypse because of this first ever UK atheist advertising campaign. I don’t get what all the uproar is about. I say “Thanks atheists”. (more…)