Skepticism
Skepchick Quickies, 3.31
- Evolution gets a boost: Wired looks at some new findings.
- Greg Graffin, singer of band Bad Religion and UCLA biology professor, will receive the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy.
- Want to feel detoxified? Try leeches!
- Indiana booksellers incensed over sexual content law: “The way we read this bill, if you stock a single book with sexual content – even a novel or a book about sex education – you will have to register as a business that sells sexually explicit material.”
- Tap water is not a naturally occurring substance.
That evolution piece in Wired is interesting because it actually outlines a claim creationists have made that is testable and falsifiable.
On the Indiana booksellers having to register as dealers of sexually explicit material…
Does this mean that a store that sells the Bible will have to register thusly? (Have you read the Song of Soloman, or the stories of Lot and his daughters????)
Too f-ing funny
oh….I like that comment, Zim!
And yes, under the law, probably. It’s pretty damn broad.
There’s a photo attached to that article, showing an Indiana bookseller posing with a stack of books. The titles are pretty small, but I can make out Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, so these books probably represent the “classics” which the law would regard as, to be blunt about it, pornography.
On the very top of the stack is the Bible.