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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Inauguration Day Krispie Scotchies Dessert Bars
It's a special day here in the USA; our newly elected President Obama was sworn into office this morning. Like many Americans, I watched the ceremonies on TV with much interest and hope for the future. After the ceremonies, the President and other politicians joined together for a private luncheon. An announcement was made that the recipes for the luncheon received more hits than any other part of the inauguration website! We foodies know our priorities!
Actually, I haven't visited that website, but I did see the menu listed on another blog. It's kind of interesting how the whole Presidential luncheon thing started. From the main course to the dessert, the menus are planned well in advance and I'm sure thoughtfully and artfully put together.
Did you ever think about going into politics? I always wonder what drives someone to pursue the job of President or Prime Minister or whatever your country's top job is. When I was in 8th grade, it was our nation's bicentennial, and the school year was full of patriotism related activities. I remember seriously pondering what it would be like to be a Congressman, or Senator, or President, and I wondered at what age those who held an office had decided to pursue that dream. My oldest daughter is toying with the idea of running for middle school student council next year. Have you ever run for office, any kind of office? What was that like?
In honor of today's presidential inauguration, today's post at It's All Gouda is a sweet dessert bar recipe. Now I'm not much of a dessert baker or eater, and so you won't see many dessert posts here. As today is a special day, it's perfect timing to post something sweet. I call these lovely babies Inauguration Krispie Scotchies Dessert Bars, and I guarantee you they will be a hit with all who try them. They are safe for my gluten free future-voter, require no baking, are ridiculous easy to make, and are so incredibly yummy you'll want to share them with the entire world. They are a perfect marriage of texture and flavor, and a luscious treat for any special occasion. Here's to sweeter times ahead for the USA, and indeed, all the world.
Inauguration Krispie Scotchies Dessert Bars
1 cup Karo light corn syrup
1 cup sugar (told you it was sweet!)
1-1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup Nutella (you could just use all peanut butter)
5 cups rice krispie cereal (NOTE: Rice Krispies are not gluten free, but do not bother my daughter as her problem is with wheat. You could substitute Rice Chex which are now labelled gluten free, yeah!)
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
In a large non-stick dutch oven, combine the corn sryup and sugar, and cook over medium heat just until it bubbles (this happens pretty darn fast). Turn off the burner, and stir in the peanut butter and Nutella (YUM). Go ahead and lick the Nutella spoon, we'll wait. Okay, once the peanut butter and Nutella are incorporated, add all of the rice krispies. Put into a greased 13 x 9 inch pan. Press down with waxed paper or a silicone spoon. Melt chocolate chips and spread over the krispies. Melt the butterscotch chips and spread of the chocolate. You could melt them together since the chocolate and butterscotch will combine, but a thin layer of chocolate will remain if you do them separately. Let cool and cut into squares.
These are sooooo yummy. Despite what may at first glance appear to be coma inducing quantities of sugar, they actually are not cloyingly sweet. Much different than rice krispie squares, they boast a denser quality almost like a chewy candy bar and dessert mixed into one. Caramel type flavor as well as a faint hint of hazelnut from that wonder of wonders, Nutella, greet you with each bite.See the little rivers of chewy caramel type yumminess tunneling through the krispies? The peanut butter isn't overwhelming, and that chocolate/butterscotch topper is terrific.I didn't time how long it took to make these; it was something like less than 10 minutes. Super easy, and something that kids and grown ups alike will enjoy. Here's to making the world a sweeter place!
21 comments:
- Mediterranean kiwi said...
these look fantastic - remind me of my school days!
- January 20, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Lisa said...
I have made these before and they are sweet and good.
- January 20, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- doggybloggy said...
wow these look great...I will have to make these, my kid will flip..
- January 20, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Proud Italian Cook said...
Oh, Paula, I've been sick and have missed all this good food you've been making. The Nutella addition in these bars are brilliant!!!
- January 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- Marjie said...
Aren't you a wonderful Mom, thinking up a great dessert for little Miss! The boys watched, although I didn't. I watched my floor being sanded instead. God Bless America!
- January 20, 2009 at 1:46 PM
- noble pig said...
Did I just read you are not a dessert eater....wha? That is so interesting to me...I live for it.
These look wonderful and tasty...I'd eat em' up in a second.
- January 20, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Cheryl said...
those look yummy I happen to have a bag of butterscotch chips on my counter!
- January 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Linda said...
I love anything with peanut butter and chocolate. I'll be trying this recipe out.
- January 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Esi said...
This is a fantastic treat to celebrate this day!! You know, I used to want to be President. I actually had a plan. I went to school and my first major was English, then I was going to go to law school and get elected in the year 2020...I somehow don't think that is going to happen now :)
- January 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM
- Lisa said...
It was an exciting day. Everywhere I went people were extremely upbeat about the ceremonies. And what better way to celebrate than with a sweet treat. Great idea!
- January 20, 2009 at 10:24 PM
- Grace said...
the thought of the combination of butterscotch, nutella, and chocolate makes my head spin and my stomach growl. incredible.
- January 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM
- Lo said...
Oh, yum.
DH has been craving "scotcharoos" lately... I think these would fill in quite nicely. After all, who can beat nutella??
- January 21, 2009 at 7:08 AM
- Pam said...
I have so much hope for our future - yesterday was a great day.
The Scotchies look really tasty. My kids would really love them.
- January 21, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Aggie said...
Yes, here is to making the world a sweeter place!! Love it! And love those bars...mmmm. I think I can handle these! ;)
- January 21, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Excuse me while I drool.
- January 21, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Jeena said...
These are wonderful and a perfect sweet treat. It is the kind of food that you say is for your kids but really you love to indulge in them yourself!
- January 21, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Cathy said...
Yummm, these look delicious. I love butterscotch chips, and adding Nutella and peanut butter, Outrageous! My grandchildren will give me big hugs for making these.
- January 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM
- Sara said...
I love rice krispy treats, and I love nutella, so I need to try these!
- January 21, 2009 at 9:19 PM
- happywife said...
Those look truly mouthwatering. I've always made my Krispie treats with marshmallows, but I like this option of using Karo instead.
For anyone interested, there's a Valentine Ideas Contest where you can win a delicious Valentine's Day prize for submitting recipes and ideas.
- January 22, 2009 at 1:24 AM
- Deborah said...
You should start posting more dessert recipes if they are like this one!!
- January 26, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- OLGUIS said...
it looks really good.
- February 1, 2009 at 3:33 PM


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For a year, I attended a Protestant university where the "girls" dorm had a midnight curfew; the men, 2:00 am. Condoms were stored behind the counter at the town drugstore, so you had to ask the creepy pharmacist to allow you to buy them. I doubt anyone had ever dared ask the college health service to prescribe the Pill, but the answer would have been "no." It was 100 times easier to buy any illegal drug on that conservative campus than to buy something to protect your fragile young life. We were really stuck in the Dark Ages, though it was 1969.
I was 18, a few months into college. My friend's roommate's girlfriend went home at Thanksgiving to see the family doctor, and found out she was 6 weeks pregnant. She was a senior, planning law school, much more sophisticated than I, and still, in a complete panic. Though I was still too scared to have sex — precisely because I wanted to avoid just such a pregnancy — I was the designated brave one delegated to find her an abortion. I knew people in Chicago in the anti-war movement who put me in touch with JANE abortion service. I remember it as a huge relief. She avoided the back-alley experience, and we learned that there was this amazing network of women who took care of other women with unplanned pregnancies, selflessly and safely.
Only 4 months later, women could get to New York City, camp out overnight in front of newly opened clinics — as they did in happy bunches — and get a safe, legal abortion because New York state had broken the ban. With the Roe v. Wade decision in three years later, we thought the years of agonizing deaths from septic abortions were over; we thought women, at least in the U.S., would not be forced to bear children against their will anymore.
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But Dr. Carhart, who trained at Hahneman Hospital in Philadelphia, said the women he treated with septic abortion injuries made such a lasting impression in his surgical training, that he set out to make sure women would have the best care possible after 1973. In spite of the intense anti-abortion harassment — including a Nebraska state law passed in 2010 to stop his provision of abortion past 20 weeks — he's expanding services at his Bellevue, Nebraska clinic. And he's now doing advanced gestation abortions for maternal and fetal indications at his clinic in Germantown, Maryland.
Germantown, Maryland – January 23
About 150 anti-abortion protesters (link provided for reference, not endorsement) were outside that clinic Sunday, though it's not open on weekends. On short notice, 45 pro-choice activists came, from 6 states, to celebrate abortion rights and defend Dr. Carhart and courageous abortion providers who make choice possible. We were filmed and interviewed by most local news, and some national outlets.
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"I would have walked to the ends of the earth to terminate that pregnancy. Because my life already means something! I am not just a vessel waiting to be filled!"
WBAI Radio: a Celebration of Roe v. Wade – January 22
For an hour Saturday, I was on the radio show Equal Time for Free Thought. Sunsara Taylor hosted The Morality of Abortion and the Immorality of Those Who Would Force Women to Bear Children Against Their Will (audio).
Guests were Dr. Leroy Carhart; Merle Hoffman, Founder of Choices Womens' Medical Center in Queens NY (going strong since 1971); Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches From the Abortion Wars: The Cost of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us, as well as, Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade and myself.
We jumped into the discussion of the morality of abortion, four of us with several decades of history doing so, from two sides. Depriving women of control over our bodies — even birth control access is being limited by state laws now — is profoundly diminishing to women, and immoral. When backed up by theocratic ideas like the Biblical submission of women to men, and violence to abortion providers, it's intolerable to a people who care about the humanity of women.
Arguing for the morality of abortion, I can't say it better than this:
The morality that should be supported and fought for is one that values the rights of women to lead full social lives. It supports social and intimate relations where people respect each other's humanity and flourish together—and not where women are supposedly commanded by "God" to "submit themselves" to men. This morality sees children as a joy to society, and as ultimately the responsibility of all society, while not compelling anyone in any way to have children against their will. It does NOT, as these theocrats do, sanctimoniously shout hosannas to a clump of cells that might someday become a child—while feverishly upholding the murder of real live children in the war being waged by the U.S. in Afghanistan, and self-righteously dooming literally millions of other real live children, right in the U.S., to lives of deprivation and punishment—in the name of those same traditional values.
from The Morality of the Right to Abortion… And the Immorality of Those Who Oppose It
San Francisco, CA – January 22
There was a very large statewide anti-abortion protest in San Francisco, with many more children and teenagers than in past years. The pro-choice presence was smaller than previous years, though some young ones got a banner stretched across the anti-abortion group, before being pushed off.
There really is a battle for the minds of the next generation on this. Will their heads be filled with the lie that "abortion is murder?" World Can't Wait activists with a bullhorn directed questions to the children brought to the march, which apparently infuriated some of their parents. "For all you who were afraid to tell your mom and dad you didn't want to come here today — for all you all who are afraid to tell your pastor you believe abortion should be legal — you're right!"
More photos from all the above Roe celebrations on Facebook.
Sunday morning, the New York Times reported on an abortion provider who is bearing the brunt of society's under-appreciation for the caring service he provides:
"I'm just a punching bag," he added. "I don't do well with that. Sometimes they [patients] won't even look at me the day of the procedure; they won't speak to me. That I despise. I really hate that.
"They were referred to me because I do it safely and expeditiously," the doctor continued. "To be treated like garbage — and my staff — is really very upsetting."
Please, send Dr. Berg a thank-you card and let him know just how vitally important his work is to women's lives, and how much we appreciate him.
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When I heard about the shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai by a coward, who must think he's a real man to shoot a teenage girl while on a school bus simply because she wants an education, I felt sick.
I might sound like a broken record when I tell you over and over that Islam does not support this behavior.
When I tell you that in fact, Islam liberated women and liberates women from being subjected and used by men.
When I tell you that the Prophet Muhammad fought to stop the practice of burying newborn girls by men who believed women brought shame to families in Arabia during the pre-Islamic era. In fact, there are verses in the Koran recounting these events and prohibiting it for the believers.
When I tell you that the Prophet dedicated portions of his sermons to women, that the Koran has a chapter literally called "The Women."
When I tell you that there's a chapter in the Koran dedicated to Mary, who is considered the most important woman in Islam.
When I tell you that when God addresses the believers in the Koran, he's addressing both men and women equally, unless specified otherwise.
When I tell you that Islam empowers women through calling for their education, rights and place in society.
When I tell you that the Prophet's first wife, Khadija, paid him a salary because he worked for her.
When I tell you that his second wife, Aisha, used to hold classes to teach men, among them the Prophet's own companions, on family life under Islam.
When I tell you that women, in early Islam, enlisted in the military.
But these are just the facts.
How can a person who claims to be a Muslim justify what he did if he knew these facts about the religion?
If he and the group he belongs to, which admitted to shooting Malala and announced plans to end her life if she survives, understood just a portion of what Islam is really about, the thought of stopping women from being educated — the thought of hurting a human being, let alone a little girl — wouldn't cross his mind.
But what is troubling me is much bigger than this latest incident.
It's that the minute the Taliban or some kind of psychotic individual or group calling themselves Muslim commits atrocities, so many people around the world automatically assume that they're carrying on the teachings and mission of Islam and include the 1.6 billion of us in the same circle.
Those who say Islam is the source of these individuals' action don't realize that in doing so, they empower the criminals.
And those who expect Muslims to apologize for those psychos' behaviors put us in a corner and weaken us.
Let's see if I can provide you with a clear analogy: Say you're a devout Christian and one day you're reading the newspaper about some KKK member or skinhead who lynched an African American. Now, the KKK and its members claim to be Christians who are carrying out the will of Jesus. But are they?
Well, how hurt would you be if the next day, you and your religion are being defined by the KKK's actions or by the abortion clinic bomber, who too believes he's carrying out the will of God? What if you're expected to apologize each time one of them decides to go postal?
Does it say anywhere in the Bible that black people should be lynched or that it's OK to bomb the clinics and kill the doctors who perform abortions?
I haven't seen that.
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Well, I'm back home, a bit jet-lagged, but glad to be in the USA once more. The trip to Africa was amazing. The purpose, if you remember, was to take Copper Sun back to the continent. The program Reading Across Continents paired American students with students from Ghana and Nigeria. It was a true inter-continental, global, cross-cultural, shared social and educational experience. It focused on friendship and shared, common interests. As Americans, we sometimes see only the negative aspects of African society. We often fail to recognize the positive—their focus on education and their academic successes. The young people who were part of this program are the future leaders of their countries. And perhaps because of this program, they have formed friendships that will ease some of the world's social tensions.
Ten students from Ghana and ten from Nigeria visited the United States for three weeks in September. On this trip, twenty American students, all high school seniors from School Without Walls in Washington, DC, made the journey to Africa to meet up with their friends. Ten went to Ghana. Ten went to Nigeria. Their reunions were joyous and heartwarming.
I went to Nigeria first, where I got to know the students there. We visited the American Embassy in Abuja, as well as other sites, and the students began taking classes—in the uniforms of the Nigerian students. I did a book talk about Copper Sun to the teens from both Nigeria and America. It was an amazing discussion.
All too soon I had to leave Nigeria for Ghana, where I met the ten American students as they arrived from the US. Another joyous reunion of friends from two continents.
In Ghana, the American students again embraced the uniforms of their Ghanaian friends. I did another book talk with the teens in Ghana about Copper Sun, and somehow it was an even more effective and powerful discussion. I think it's because Ghana is where it all started.
The next day we got to travel to Cape Coast Castle, the place where the seeds of Copper Sun was born. I got to retrace my steps, to touch the stones of that building once more, and to tell Amari that I had done what she asked me to—tell her story to the world. I stood at the Door of No Return, in front of those twenty students, their teachers, and assorted guides and other visitors, and told the story of how the story started, of how I felt that I was asked to tell the tale. Then I gave thanks that not only was I able to write the book, and bring it back to that place, but that the book had been instrumental in joining the hearts and minds of forty young people and their teachers and schools. Not only had the story been told—it had been shared with the world. Standing in front of that door at that moment was one of the most powerful, emotional moments in my life. I wept. So did many of the students.
I took Amari back home.
Thank you.
To see all the pictures go to: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=39769&id=1473964793&l=12154a2803
Posted by Sharon M. Draper at 10:13 AM
Labels: Africa, books for tweens, Copper Sun, draper, Ghana, international reading, librarians, literacy, Nigeria, reading, Reading Across Continents, sharon draper
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- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 6:09 PM
I think that Copper Sun is a wonderful book. I have read all of your ziggy and the dinosours book, it is also wonderful.ReplyDelete
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The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), is his most renown work in prose and among his poems "Piedra de Sol" (Sun Stone, 1957).
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I have an original release, full size Kermit puppet and Animal puppet I bought after the launch of the very first Muppet Movie. I was 11. My favorite element was Animal's moveable eyebrows (loved how you could change his mood with the flick of a finger :) ). My sis had a Miss Piggy from the same release, but we lost it over the years.ReplyDelete
These two are tucked away in a chest in my closet, but I think I'll have to pull them out to share again with my kiddos tonight. :)
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My Kermit stuffed doll I had since I was a muppet baby. He was given to me when I was about 1 yr old. I believe the tag says 1976 or 77(when i was born). He has velcro on his palms and I remember grabbing his hands and swinging him in circles to mimic him swinging on the fan in the bar scene of the muppet movie. :) ~Joe VollmanReplyDelete
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…or so says Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver. As Wine Tasting Guy I naturally have to disagree, but I can't completely diagree…
I have been hearing commercials on the radio with Bewmaster Oliver making his beer pairing proclamation. It seems the brewmaster is a bit of a beer & food aficionado, and hearing his position regarding beer & food pairing (over and over again), I really got to thinking.
I'm excited about the approaching warmer weather for so many reasons. While most of them are obvious, one reason I'm excited is that I will be drinking more chilled beverages outdoors.
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'Samnang' goes to New York
The prestigious New York Film Festival invariably screens a glittering array of major feature films. During the current fest, which runs through Oct. 13, that includes the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis"; the Tom Hanks docudrama "Captain Phillips"; and the Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color."
The festival also, though, showcases smaller works, with a wonderful compendium of short films. Among the 20 selected for this 51st annual event is "Samnang" - whose cinematographer is Carlos Diaz, who is a multimedia journalist at The Day.
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"Samnang," which will be shown Oct. 5 and 8 at the festival, was part of Polonsky and Diaz's thesis film when they were getting their masters degrees at the American Film Institute.
They shot it over the course of five days in February 2012, with some reshoots in June.
The cast members are not professional actors. The lead, for instance, is Jonathan Nitasneak Dok, who owns a Cambodian restaurant in Long Beach. The movie needed people who could speak Khmer; the writer, Vanara Taing, is Cambodian and based "Samnang" on her family's story.
The movie team raised $65,000 to make "Samnang" but received support from a variety of companies - Panavision, Technicolor and Fuji - in terms of help and equipment.
They shot on 35-millimeter and used Fuji 400, a film stock that was discontinued in 2012. Diaz loves working with that stock and asked the company about it; they gave him the last 30,000 feet of Fuji 400.
Here is Diaz speaking about various aspects of working on "Samnang."
Cinematographers, Diaz says, are ultimately servants to the story:
"First thing we do is, we read the script for impressions. I try not to impose any imagery upon it, although it's hard not to do that. From there, I start breaking the script down with the director. Basically, what you're doing is, you're transcoding or translating a written meaning into a visual. My job as a cinematographer is to understand the point of view of what's being said in the story. ... I start creating images. I start gathering images from the Internet. For example, if I see my movie's going to be yellow (meaning have a yellow palette), I start gathering paintings and photos of other things that I think illustrate my yellow so I can show it to the director. Because everybody's eyes and minds work differently, so if I say yellow to you, your impression of yellow is going to be different than me. So if I show you something visually, then we're on the same page."
Taking a cue from music:
"I was mostly inspired by a song ('Everything Is New') of Antony and the Johnson's from 'Swanlights.' ... It is a song that has to do with looking at things you see and do on a daily basis through the eyes of an awakened person, in a new light. It is about death and rebirth in the same body. Seeing new possibilities with what we have."
The appropriate look:
"(The lead character) is an immigrant, so he travels from Cambodia to Long Beach. We don't see that part of the process, but he's in Long Beach, he's learning English, so we understand he's isolated. He's living in a world that's not his own. Off the bat, I understood the bakery, this shop at nighttime, is his place. This is home to him. So the shop is always going to be warm in terms of tones. His house - he's living with a roommate - is always going to be cold, because it's not his place of comfort. It's just the place he goes to sleep. So it's an inversion of the places a little bit."
Lighting the way:
"We wanted to be able to shoot - to move around - fast in 360 degrees all the time, so I had to light the whole doughnut shop with no light stands, with no fans on the ground. The lights had to be propped up in the air. So the whole shop is lit completely at all times, and that's very hard to create ... So that took us probably two days of pre-lighting the doughnut shop at nighttime. We had to get specific lights that I could hook up there, and then I had to get a grip - a person who knows how to secure things up in the air. It was very intense figuring out so many lights. So you'd see the ceiling was just 30, 40, 50 lights spread throughout the space."
The art of the film stock:
"As a cinematographer, film stocks are like paintings and brushes for us. Each film stock is particular. It's not like digital. Each film stock has character. It has its own make, its own quirks, its own thing. This particular (Fuji 400) film stock, for me, I loved because the whole movie is at nighttime in a doughnut shop. There's a lot of windows to look out onto the city, but the city - it's Long Beach - is dark, and you only see a lamppost here and there and trucks passing by. I knew I was dealing with a high contrast ratio between indoor-outdoor. This film stock is what we call low-contrast film stock, which sees into the dark more. So I was able to see inside what's lit and outside. ... This film stock is a little creamier. But at the same time the grain structure is present. So you know it's 35 millimeter. It just renders colors beautifully."
Recognition for the film:
"It went into the student Academy Awards - it was a finalist, which is pretty big, too. It didn't win, but it was selected. For the New York Film Festival, the director sent it to a few festivals, and this is the first one that came back 'We're proud to say you're in.' He was super excited, and I felt the same. It's a pretty big deal. It's a pretty tight group to be with."
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Evolutionary biology careers
Evolutionary biology careers are career paths within the scientific community which do not advance empirical science and instead promote the secular religion of Darwinism. The creation scientists at Creation Ministries International points out in their Question evolution! campaign that evolutionary biology is a religion and it has yet to achieve any scientific breakthroughs.[1][2]
Creation Ministries International on their 15 questions for evolutionists online resource declares concerning the pseudoscience of evolutionary biology:
|Karl Popper, famous philosopher of science, said "Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical [religious] research programme …." Michael Ruse, evolutionist science philosopher admitted, "Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today." If "you can't teach religion in science classes", why is evolution taught?[3]
Regarding the unproductivity of evolutionary biologists, Creation Ministries International states on their 15 questions for evolutionists online resource:
|Dr Marc Kirschner, chair of the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, stated: "In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all."[4]
Employment outlook for evolutionary biologists
The job prospects of evolutionary biologists is currently unpromising. According to The Atlantic, approximately 19% of PhDs in the life sciences were employed in 2011.[5] The demand for PhDs in the life sciences has been falling since at least 2001.[6]
In the Western World and in the world at large, with many local/federal governments and higher education institutions facing fiscal challenges, the future of this career path will remain unfavorable for the foreseeable future. In addition, global atheism/agnosticism has been shrinking and this trend is an established trend that is expected to accelerate so the demand for evolutionary biologists will continue to be low. Since World War II a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the evolutionary position which employs methodological naturalism have been atheists (see also: Causes of evolutionary belief)[7]
Furthermore, global creationism is growing rapidly and the field of creation science has expanded since its inception.[8] Henry Morris is largely credited with being the father of the modern creation science movement. Also, creationism is growing in many Western World countries.[9]
Conservative commentary on evolutionary biologists
Vox Day wrote concerning evolutionary biologists:
| How seriously can you possibly take people who are dumb enough to spend more than seven years and go into serious student loan debt in order to have a less than one in five chance at getting a job doing what they've studied for? And since the chart goes back to 1991, these scientific geniuses don't even have the excuse of claiming that they had no way of knowing that there was no significant employment demand for their highly educated services.
If you ever wondered why the Pharyngulans seemed unusually bitter for a blog readership, even a heavily atheist one, the chart above explains why.[10]
External links
- The employment rate of evolutionary biologist PhDs is 19% or less. Help cut the employment rate of evolutionary biologists by 50%
- Awww, those poor jobless evolutionary biologists
- ↑ 15 questions for evolutionists
- ↑ Question evolution! campaign
- ↑ 15 questions for evolutionists
- ↑ 15 questions for evolutionists
- ↑ The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 Charts
- ↑ Scientists are short-sighted
- ↑
- Dr. Don Batten, A Who's Who of evolutionists Creation 20(1):32, December 1997.
- Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D.,F.M., Refuting Evolution, Chapter 1, Facts and Bias
- ↑ Global creationism is growing rapidly
- ↑ Global creationism is growing rapidly
- ↑ Scientists are short-sighted


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This is one of those "one's that we missed" joints, Paris Jones "Winter" which was released last summer on the album J.A.P.A.N. To Paris, but we just got put on to this yesterday. (good lookin' Tai B & Ashley).
Yet another emcee out of the hot Los Angeles indie hip hop scene, Paris came up as a producer, and provides the music for most of his own writing.
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Knicks' Novak placed on inactive list
New York, NY – The New York Knicks will be without the services of 3-point specialist Steve Novak for Friday's Game 6 against the Boston Celtics after the team placed the veteran forward on the inactive list.
Novak played just under three minutes in Wednesday's Game 5 loss to the Celtics due to back spasms. The Marquette University product appeared in all five games against Boston, but recorded just 15 points and four rebounds.
To replace Novak on the roster, the Knicks activated forward-center Earl Barron.
New York signed Barron on April 17 after he was waived by the Washington Wizards in December. The 31-year-old veteran posted 11 points and 18 rebounds in his only game with the Knicks this season.


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Added you Violet.
April Blog Train Details
Thank you so much, Janet. Can't wait to start pinning!
You're very welcome! I'm looking forward to seeing more pins.
Wow, this would be my first try for a blog train.
Is there a limit (min and max) for the stuff you can put in the kit?
Janet could you add me also. I'm toying with some designs, though we'll see if I can actually come up with anything in time...lol Laura Wellinghoff on Pinterest. Thanks.
I've never done one of these before but I started playing with the colors and finding patterns/clip art that I could use for the theme. It was so much fun and so much more difficult than I had expected. After seeing the beautiful things people have created for the past two blog trains, I feel really good about this. It seems like such a welcoming environment and there's lots of helpful people with expertise. It's a huge learning curve and a marvelous creative challenge. Thanks for the opportunity.
Love the palette!!! I just joined today....perfect timing!
@Saskia: whatever you feel comfortable with... There haven't been in minimum and/or maximum requirements on the first two trains. Feel free to jump right it and give it a try, we'd love to see your designs!
@Jill: Great, glad you found us, and you have a little while (end of this month) to get your thoughts together and put a kit up too if you'd like to join in. We love to see everyone participate as much as they feel comfortable and maybe even stretch themselves a little while they're at it. This place is for designers to be born and grow!
When finished, where can we put our kits?
Love the scheme and theme~! (I am a poet...and didn't know it....
I am going to participate... I am sure it will be loads of fun
Thank you!
Janet... love your board... I am following now
Have a super sparkly day!
@shellseeker, you made me laugh. My dh says that all the time because of that commercial at Christmas. Thanks for the smile today. I really needed one!
Marissa, thank you for adding those colors. I love them. I'm home with the flu today so I'm going to at least have some fun making things for the blog train!
@Saskia; Once April is coming closer Marisa will put up a thread for the blogtrain participants, where you can post your preview and a link to the download. You can either put you part on your blog, or upload to a media-sharing site; there is some discussion about those here. If you choose the last option, you'll have to upload your preview to a photosite like Flickr or Photobucket so you can link back to the preview. But, all this will probably be in the Sticky post Marisa will put up around the end of March...
My portion is done and ready to go. These colors are amazing! I can't wait to see the rest of them!
Ack, I haven't checked this thread in a while! @Laura and Melouise, I've added you to the board. I'm so sorry I didn't add you sooner. If there are others out there, just let me know and I'll add you right away.
Can someone check the colors I got in GIMP for the neutrals Marisa posted. I got 292929 for the dark, and f0eee1 for the off white. (The others that I tried to get off the first photo were all off except the last color, so if someone else could check them, I'd feel better.)
Thanks for adding me, and I've been following the board, so not a problem.
Hi Laura, I use Paintshop Pro and have the same numbers.
Thanks Tina.
I am in!! Great color palette! Love the theme
I love the color scheme! Looking forward to seeing everyone's creations!
@ Jenn
Glad I made you smile sweetie~!
I did "borrow" that from the commercial... goes with my quirky-ness LOL
(I like being silly)
PS Can't wait to see your portion...
turtleShell (today esp.
Pretty colors!!!! Love the idea picture!!!
Apparently I like to make paper. HAHA I thought I would toss my hat in the ring and figure it out and have made a handful of papers. Hopefully they will be alright.
I've mine ready too.
Can't wait to show it, it's my first official Blog train join
I love the palette. Just beautiful!
Yay, I just finished mine. Now off to make another kit for another blog train I'm on...
i'm in! Love bright colours and the fun theme.
Hey, I know it´s not the official thread for posting previews, but what about showing us the finished portions to inspire the late people like me? For now, my kit has... 2 papers :p


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