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clipped from www.kentucky.com
There is trouble in paradise, with a fight of biblical proportions raging between a Kentucky-based creationist group and the Australian group from which it sprang.
Three days after the Memorial Day opening of Answers in Genesis’ $27 million Creation Museum in [...]
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Posted in Christian Right, Christianity, DNA, Darwin, Educational Policy, atheism, creationism, education, ethics, evolution, inteligent design, morality, prayer, religion, religious intolerance, religious right on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Just a little tidbit I found on YouTube. If it weren’t so sad it might actually be funny. As the anti-evolutionists seek to introduce biblical mythology, call it what you will–creation science, intelligent design–into the classroom, they seem willing to turn back the clock to a time more reminiscent of the [...]
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I am posting a short video I made that addresses Pascal’s Wager that simply states that even if the odds for the existence of God or gods is overwhelming, there is the slight chance that one is wrong. If it turns out that God(s) exist then the non-believer risks eternal damnation while the [...]
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Posted in Philosophy, Politics, astronomy, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, education, environment, evolution, exploration, hubris, morality, planet on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Clipped from YouTube, this video is a powerful reminder that asking the skeptical questions is the first and only requirement of being human. Without skeptical inquiry we would still be napping flint weapons, living in caves, and wandering about the plains in search of food. Asking skeptical questions, however, is not a [...]
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Posted in Christian Right, Darwin, Radical, atheism, beliefs, creationism, evolution, extremists, inteligent design, religion, religious intolerance, religious right, theism, theocracy, values on May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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I believe because I want to believe! To hell with the evidence to the contrary, the bible says it is true.
It is absolutely amazing to me how otherwise intelligent people can be so duped by belief that they cannot or will not examine the rigorous body of scientific evidence that exists regarding the [...]
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Posted in American Taliban, Christian Right, Christianity, Starbucks, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, pop culture, religion, religious intolerance, religious right, theism, values on May 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Who would have thought that a cup of coffee could be so offensive. When the following appeared on a Starbucks’ cup I laughed a bit and moved on with my life:
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for [...]
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clipped from www.reuters.com
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.
Pope Benedict, himself a top theologian who before his election in 2005 expressed doubts about limbo, authorized the publication of the document, [...]
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This is an annotation of Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen? – News Bloggers
Dinesh D’Souza exposes his bigotry and, frankly, his stupidity as he slams atheists in this posting. In part he states: “Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there [...]
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