Monthly Archives: April 2010

Sign of the Times

Posted on April 11, 2010 by vorjack

by VorJack This has been making the rounds. I got it from Respectful Insolence, and it’s too good not to share, even if I have a hunch it’s just a joke.

Posted in Pictures, Pseudoscience | 5 Comments

QotD: Life-Changing Books

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Daniel Florien

Question of the Day: What book has changed your life for the better?

Posted in Books, Questions | 123 Comments

How Science Reporting Works

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Daniel Florien

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Posted in Comics, Humor, Science | 31 Comments

Are We Brights?

Posted on April 10, 2010 by vorjack

by VorJack Some years back, the term “brights” was introduced by Paul Geisert, Daniel Dennet and others as an umbrella term to describe people with a naturalistic worldview. It got its fifteen minutes and – as near as I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Atheism | 30 Comments

Preacher Ridicules Doctors and Breast Exams

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Daniel Florien

Wow. There’s some serious anti-science and anti-human progress in this clip. (via)

Posted in Christianity, Science, Videos | 79 Comments

Klan Distances Itself From Phelps

Posted on April 9, 2010 by vorjack

by VorJack Via the New Humanist, the following is a screen shot from the Arkansas KKK (click to expand): What more needs to be said?

Posted in Cults, Current Events | 14 Comments

QotD: Believing in God

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Daniel Florien

Question of the Day: If you don’t believe in God, what would it take for you to believe? If you do believe in God, what would it take for you not to believe?

Posted in God, Questions | 158 Comments

Two Sorts of History

Posted on April 9, 2010 by vorjack

by VorJack Jonathan Rowe dug up a great interview with Mark Noll from back in 2001. Noll is an Evangelical and a historian, and his book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind is a classic study of anti-intellectualism in American … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, History | 9 Comments

Missing Link Between Man and Apes Found

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Daniel Florien

The telegraph is reporting that the “missing link” between man and apes has been found: The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Evidence, Evolution, Science | 36 Comments

QotD: Unnatural?

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Daniel Florien

Question of the day: Is there anything that exists that is not natural?

Posted in Questions, Science | 46 Comments