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How Google’s cute „dood­les” became Satan’s pawns — Ars Tech­nica.

Those Google „dood­les” that some­ti­mes adorn the search giant’s home­page with cle­ver varia­ti­ons on the com­pany logo might be cute, but take a clo­ser look. Cri­tics charge that it’s pos­si­ble to see in the sket­ches Google’s dis­dain for (take your pick) Ame­rica, Mus­lims, Chris­ti­ans, Christ­mas, and creationism.

Take this week’s unvei­ling of the dar­wi­nius masil­lae fos­sil cal­led Ida. Our own sci­ence edi­tor, John Tim­mer, calls the fossil’s big reveal a tre­men­dous bit of hype not fully justi­fied by the sci­ence, but some press accounts have tal­ked Ida up as a key mis­sing link in human evolution.

So when Google tur­ned Ida into a doodle, it was only a mat­ter of hours before backers of crea­tio­nism char­ged the Big G with „going ape over the sup­po­sed dis­co­very of a ‚mis­sing link’ in the evo­lu­tion theory.”

And pos­ters on mes­sage boards like Rap­ture Ready went much fur­ther. „I am really tired of this stu­pid AC [anti­christ?] world… MY FATHER IS YHWH [Yah­weh]… MY GOD AND MY SAVIOUR YESHUA [Jesus] and THE KADOSH RUACH [the Holy Spirit].…they [Google, not the Tri­nity] wor­ship satan… Sick stuff.”

Ano­ther pos­ter said that „I almost threw my lap­top it made me soooooooooo mad! Made me won­der what the logo would look like after we’re taken outta here!”

But the Satan wor­ship­pers over at Moun­tain View don’t just irri­tate crea­tio­nists wait­ing to be rap­tu­red. No, it turns out the dood­les have a long history of ange­ring people.