One of the realizations I had while writing I Sold My Soul on eBay was that there were more “liberal” religious people out there than I had ever anticipated. I rarely heard their voices in the press, so it was surprising to me that so many Christians with progressive views existed. Apparently, Jerry Falwell didn’t represent most Christians. Shocking. Media Matters just published a study (PDF) that confirms that conservative religious views dominate the news media. Here are their key… Read more
Pretty girl. She’s on some soon-to-be-canceled show on the CW network called Hidden Palms. She’s also an atheist. If only she’d be our spokesperson… Brent has a plea for Amber to do just that. Check it out. [tags]atheist, atheism, Amber Heard, Hidden Palms, CW[/tags] Read more
From today’s Onion: I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period An excerpt: We can look at the fossil record and trace many of our genetic traits back to ancient species. In fact, scientific reasoning can explain nearly every stage of life from the Big Bang to the present day. I say “nearly” because the period that scientists claim lasted from roughly 205 to 250 million years ago, commonly known as the Triassic period, was quite obviously the… Read more
One of this blog’s readers sent me an email (slightly edited by me): I received a disturbing phone call from my sister-in-law yesterday about her husband, my brother-in-law. Seems that my bro-in-law is experiencing difficulty with alcoholism, but he is reluctant to attend AA meetings because of their insistence that in order to be successful in the AA program, you must submit to a higher power – a power greater than yourself – God. Of course, you are permitted to… Read more
For those of you who like essays and cash, Seed and Honeywell are sponsoring an essay contest where entrants answer the following questions: What does it mean to be scientifically literate in the 21st century? How do we measure the scientific literacy of a society? How do we boost it? What is the value of this literacy? Who is responsible for fostering it? The deadline is July 1 and the maximum word count is 1,200. For some reason, you have… Read more
The Islamic Adam and Eve, by artist Hamid Bahrami: (Thanks to Logos for the link.) [tags]atheist, atheism, Islam, Christianity, Adam, Eve[/tags] Read more
After several hours spent at the Rally for Reason, several students and I tried to figure out whether we wanted to go inside the Creation Museum. The upside would be seeing the museum first-hand. The downside would be that Ken Ham would get $20 of our money via the admission cost. (Actually, it was $15 with the coupons we had… but still.) We decided to go into the museum. Even though we didn’t have the Creationist attire of khaki pants,… Read more
I spent the first part of my day at the Rally for Reason protest outside the Creation Museum. The second half was spent inside the museum itself, which was created by the people who run Answers In Genesis (AIG). Here’s the recap. There are a lot of pages of notes, so I tried to condense wherever possible. … As soon as I got to the rally site, there was already a plane flying overhead with some welcoming words. The protesters… Read more
Here’s what I said on Sunday night for the “pre-rally” against the complete ignorance of the Creation Museum. The actual rally will take place today morning. Who knew there would come a day when Intelligent Design would be seen as a step up from anything? Unfortunately, here we are, at the opening of this Creation Museum. Apparently, this is a museum full of hard facts and evidence. In fact, listen to what Answers in Genesis co-founder Mark Looy said in… Read more
