Monthly Archives: December 2010

Divine Inspiration or Religious Insanity?

Peggy Fletcher Stack has a provoking article on Religious News Service that discusses the difference between divine inspiration and religious insanity: A teenager says God and Jesus appeared to him in a grove and told him to start a new … Continue reading

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Orson Welles on Cold Reading

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The story of Biblical Creation!

A fine demonstration of reducto ad absurdiem :-)

Posted in Bible Absurdities & Contradictions, Creationism / ID, Humor | 3 Comments

Unicorns On Ark?

Ken Ham’s redneck ark prop might have unicorns on it: Some people claim the Bible is a book of fairy tales because it mentions unicorns. However, the biblical unicorn was a real animal, not an imaginary creature. Modern readers have … Continue reading

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"Stomp Out Atheists"

Throw this one into the “bitter irony” folder … The above is a hoax. It was received and printed in an Alaskan paper, the Peninsula Clarion, in 2007. It got a furious response. However, a few weeks later the paper … Continue reading

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Degrees of Wrongness

Duane over at Abnormal Interests talks about people who refuse to trust the experts. Along the way he quotes the famous Isaac Asimov piece The Relativity of Wrong: John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When … Continue reading

Posted in Astronomy, Oh the Stupidity!, Science | 90 Comments

To debate the lunatic fringe?

The other day my good lady rented the movie “Creation”, which, despite its fundagelical sounding title, is an account of the life of Charles Darwin during the period in which he wrote “On the Origins of Species”. The movie, however, … Continue reading

Posted in Creationism / ID, Darwin, Evolution | 36 Comments

Flip Side

From the blog Find and Ye Shall Seek, here’s a rough translation of a Danish national broadcast story entitled “God is naughtier than sex,” “If I had said something about my marriage or my sex life to the reporter from … Continue reading

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Targeting Liberal Apologetics

The other day I walked past a library shelf that held Karen Armstrong work, “The Case for God.” It sat alongside a work of evangelical Christian apologetics, a work trying to prove that Genesis was divinely inspired and – oddly … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism, Christianity | 38 Comments

A Star Wars Christmas Special

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