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DAWKINS: I think that's a tremendous cop-out. If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

DAWKINS: I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now Dr. Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don't do that. Scientists say, "We're working on it. We're struggling to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...attempt to at least partially absolve Kenny Rogers. Personally, I find the guy downright obnoxious. His antics following the Tigers’ Division Series win against the Yankees, when he climbed on top of the dugout and started spraying champagne on fans and the head of a security cop?, were among the most excessive and ridiculous moments in the history of celebration. They reminded me of when former Yankee third basemen Wade Boggs inexplicably hopped on a police horse and took it for a few spins around Yankee Stadium after the 1996 World Series. And in Wade?...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BALLPARK FRANK: Smudge Scandal Indicative of Trend in Professional Ball | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

There will be a new cop on the block the next time that The Game returns to Harvard in 2008. Edward F. Davis will assume the post of commissioner of the Boston Police starting Dec. 1, the department announced Monday...

Author: By Irina L Vaynerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Boston P.D. Chief Named | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...decided to go water down the College’s namesake. “We got to the statue and it was drenched. It was disgusting. There was a solo cup upside down on top of his head,” the senior says. As he was unzipping, a cop spotted him and started yelling at him. The senior was forced to dismount John Harvard, as well as remove the offending solo cup from the statue’s esteemed head. He has yet to return, but hopes to complete the tradition before he graduates. When it comes to shedding...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tradition, Not Rebellion | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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