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June 2012

June 24, 2012
Before the Flying Spaghetti Monster, before the Invisible Pink Unicorn, was Bertrand Russell’s orbiting teapot....
June 21, 2012
Can science say that anything doesn’t exist? Sure—unicorns, dragons, wizards. It doesn’t say this with...
June 17, 2012
How do we handle claims of unicorns and other fanciful beasts? These don’t perplex us;...
June 13, 2012
This interesting Hebrew word means “torrent of water.” But that’s not what it really means.
June 11, 2012
A recent podcast spent an hour responding to Dan Savage’s well-publicized public spanking of the...
June 09, 2012
A recent podcast spent an hour responding to Dan Savage’s well-publicized public spanking of the...
June 07, 2012
A recent podcast spent an hour responding to Dan Savage’s well-publicized public spanking of the...
June 02, 2012
Though close to a century old, this hoax has lessons that remain valid today.

May 2012

May 31, 2012
Claims that prayer actually does work aren’t hard to find. Getting a plausible, evidence-based claim...
May 29, 2012
Christians and Star Trek fans (the kind who dress up like Vulcans and Klingons) share...
May 26, 2012
This term has two meanings, and politicians (deliberately?) conflate them to imagine a problem where...
May 25, 2012
Few Americans can list the Ten Commandments, but so what? What is their relevance in...
May 23, 2012
Here are some thoughts after a weekend freethought conference
May 21, 2012
A cartoon with a very pointed response to Christians’ answer to the Problem of Evil
May 18, 2012
I’m headed out to the Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference.
May 16, 2012
A summary of a recent local debate between a humanist and a Lutheran minister. The...
May 14, 2012
We can tell charities from country clubs by their financial statements. Charities do good works...
May 12, 2012
Of all the logical fallacies, these are some of the most common. But be careful...
May 11, 2012
Nonprofit status comes with strings attached, and one of those is that pastors must not...
May 09, 2012
Senator Grassley was largely ignored by six ministries when he asked for information about their...
May 07, 2012
U.S. nonprofit organizations are required to disclose their financial information to the public. It’s a...
May 03, 2012
Prayer is easy. Doing something is hard. Let’s be adults and realize that prayer does...

April 2012

April 30, 2012
Some of the New Testament parables are pretty good. They make a useful point, and...
April 28, 2012
The claim “That’s an Argument from Authority Fallacy!” is common. But when is it actually...
April 27, 2012
Noted theologian Dr. Robert Price recently presented a flattering review of my book, Cross Examined,...
April 26, 2012
IBM-compatible MS-DOS PCs used to start up displaying a C-prompt (the “C:>” with a blinking...
April 24, 2012
What happened during the Bible’s Dark Ages, the period from the original documents to our...
April 21, 2012
This phrase wasn’t in Darwin’s original edition and is often misunderstood.
April 19, 2012
What do we do with the contradictory passages in our thousands of copies of New...
April 17, 2012
Take a trip back in time to see the hurdles we have in seeing the...
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