It just keeps raining

…and raining…and raining…and raining…and raining
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…and raining…and raining…and raining…and raining
…and raining…and raining…and raining…and raining
…and raining…and raining…and raining…and raining
…and raining…and raining…and raining…and raining.

Ark, anyone?

Until the rain finally stops and things dry out and my pain abates, I'm putting Mike in charge.

Creationists Prove Theory of Evolution

It just occurred to me, listening to the news just now, that creationists actually do prove that life evolved on Earth. The taxonomic record is full of evolutionary dead ends, lines that got stuck in a rut and couldn't adapt and change when the environment around them did.

Some of these dead-end species did a lot of damage before they finally gasped their last, just as creationists and the Christian right (and Islamic fundamentalists, and others who are fundamentally ignorant and willfully blind-to-the-facts) do.

The unfortunate thing, of course, is that it just takes so damn long for the gene pool to clean itself that the damage these defects can do is great, when measured against the lives they affect. Taking the geologically long view, they're just a blip.

Unfortunately, I, like most of you, are short-timers, and stuck with the fundamental mess they make.

R.I.P., Cy and Tiktaalik.