Expelled from the Garden of Eden for being a snake?

Or just for being a scientist and an atheist? (And no, P Z Myers was not a gatecrasher, he was actually in the silly film: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.)

Conversation between Dr. Dawkins and Dr. P Z Myers over the movie and the expelling:



An hilarious overview.

Gaaaahhhh I'm mutating.....

Bryan has tagged me for The Pharyngula mutating genre meme

(corrected because I can't follow instructions)

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

• You can leave them exactly as is.
• You can delete any one question.
• You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.
• You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.
• You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My great-great-great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
My great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My grandparent is archy.
My parent is Why Now?

The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is: Dune by Frank Herbert.

The best “bad” movie in scientific dystopias is: Blade Runner.

The best sexy song in music: Cosi fan tutte by Mozart.

Mutating off to harass others, but only if they want to be mutated with:

JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie

Ripley of Zen Cabin

Sorghum Crow of Sorghum Crow's General Store

Eli of Multi Medium

Mustang Bobby of Bark Bark Woof Woof

If anyone else wants to mutate but hasn't been asked, say so in comments and I'll put you on the list. I don't think you're supposed to mutate by yourself...