Highlights from ScienceOnline2010 – The Dr. Seuss Bible
OK, so this wasn’t really part of ScienceOnline2010, but it really should’ve been. Perhaps there could be a special session next year on comedy in scientific communication. Any nominations on who the...
View ArticlePat Robertson and the Dominion Meteorology Report
Image: Idiot Box / Matt Bors And now, of course, Robertson and his Christian Broadcasting Network can interpret geological events as well. On January 13, just a day after the devastating earthquake in...
View ArticleHow To Prove Evolution is Fake – The Peanut Butter Test
The creationists have done it again, first it was bananas and now it’s peanut butter. It seems they do all of their heavy thinking while shopping for groceries. Ray Comfort saw mutant bananas forged...
View ArticleAtheism and Science at The Huffington Post
My essay The Unseen and Unknowable Has No Place in Science has just gone up this morning in the Religion section of The Huffington Post: Yes, religion is incompatible with science. This doesn’t...
View ArticleWhy I Am Not A Humanist*
Looking nonhumans in the eye. Image: Elephant Man by Chris Gallucci In 1927 Bertrand Russell wrote his now famous essay “Why I Am Not A Christian” and outlined the general reasons for...
View ArticleIf Atheists Ruled the World
Taken word for word from online fundamentalist forums(contains some graphic language).
View ArticleDoes God Have A Future?
Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Deepak Chopra, and Jean Houston square off for a Nightline debate on the future of belief. Part 1 The entire program lasts about 1 hour 50 minutes. Watch all parts...
View ArticleDarwin and Hitler, Again?
Image: via PZ Myers PZ Myers has a new post condemning Discovery Institute ideologue David Klinghoffer’s recent post connecting Darwin to the eugenic policies of Hitler. He trots out some of the same...
View ArticleResponding to the Discovery Institute at Huffington Post
My response to David Klinghoffer’s piece in the Huffington Post has just been published: Creationists are fond of laying the blame for Nazi eugenics on Charles Darwin. They insist that his materialist...
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