Dale McGowan’s excellent book Parenting Beyond Belief is featured in the BeliefWatch section of this week’s Newsweek magazine (July 16th issue). As usual, Newsweek finds it hard to discuss atheism in a positive light. Nearly a third of Lisa Miller’s article is spent discussing how parenting books in general are a bunch of crap. There’s also a pointless column-filling jab at atheist-lit: Parenting books are the most useless and irresistible kind of literature. Designed to prey on parents’ insecurities, they… Read more
Bill passes along this joke via Radio 4 in England: Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens must be feeling pretty stupid. They say they can’t discover any evidence of God, then Paris Hilton goes to jail and finds him within 24 hours. We know from Hilton’s interview with Larry King that she read the Bible but couldn’t name her favorite passage. According to 24Sizzler, we also find out this piece of entertaining news: The unseen outtakes of Paris Hilton’s interview with… Read more
Today is all baseball. The Washington Post reports the following about the Nationals baseball team: Reliever Jesus Colome remained in a hospital yesterday with an infection on his right buttock, though GM Jim Bowden said he would get out today. The Nationals don’t know when Colome, 4-0 with a 2.76 ERA in 40 appearances, will be able to pitch. “It’s a serious situation,” Bowden said. “We pray for his buttocks and his family.” As Arnold at Balance and Paradox humorously… Read more
After a hectic week, it’s a relaxing Saturday evening and I’m going to enjoy watching my Chicago Cubs crush the Pittsburgh Pirates! Oh crap. I have to do the Carnival this week, don’t I…? I will just have to do both at the same time. The Cubs have been doing well in the past couple weeks and whenever they get hot, talk in Chicago turns to their chances of winning the World Series. Some have said the Cubs’ odds of… Read more
Here’s your chance to view Carl Sagan’s incredible series Cosmos online (for free). You need a DivX player and a high speed Internet connection. And don’t you dare call yourself an atheist until you’ve seen all of these. (I’m going to take my own advice. I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t seen these yet.) Atheist Perspective (thank him for the links) says this about Sagan: I my opinion Carl Sagan is one of the greatest men ever to have lived…. Read more
What bugs me about this guy is not that he believes that praying for rain will actually do anything. He’s no more intelligent than Alabama Governor Bob Riley who asked people to say the prayers in the first place. What bugs me is he uses this story to indicate that “atheists cry out for help as well”: It is times like this that I remember the story of the atheist who was driving down the rain-slick highway. He was driving… Read more
g0at is running a contest. You have to add/change/edit a Holy Book (e.g. Bible or Koran). Details are here: The prize isn’t very exceptional, but just think of the pride you’ll have if you win! If you enter, though, you’ll have to go up against Ashley. Which means you’re going to lose. The deadline is July 28th. Good luck! [tags]atheist, atheism, YouTube, Bible, Koran, Qu’ran[/tags] Read more
This video by Greg Courtney takes a different approach to refuting the unscientific Creation Museum: Using the ground it stands on. (Thanks to Ashley for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism, Creation Museum, Greg Courtney[/tags] Read more
According to the School Library Journal: The [South Carolina] Pickens County Library System’s half-hour summer programs for middle and high school students were supposed to take a light-hearted look at the topics “Secrets and Spies: How to Keep a Secret by Writing in Code or Making Invisible Ink” and “What’s Your Sign?” Another program was to examine astrology, palmistry, and numerology; and others were to feature tarot cards, tie-dying t-shirts, how to make a Zen garden, and yoga. How do… Read more
I swear it’s not me. I don’t even drink Snapple. And I would definitely never file such a crazy, frivolous lawsuit. How dare someone sully my good name!? A New York man sued Cadbury Schweppes Plc on Friday, accusing the company of mislabeling certain products, including its Snapple juice and tea drinks, as “all natural” when they were not. Hemant Mehta, who wants the suit to become a class action complaint, alleged that the drinks contained high fructose corn syrup… Read more
