Aronra

Author's details

Date registered: June 18, 2012
URL: http://www.aronra.com

Biography

Aron Ra is one of the "YouTube atheists" and an advocate for rationalism in science classrooms. He grew up in an exclusively creationist environment where he felt like a lonely outcast just for understanding evolution, let alone accepting it. Being raised in a mostly-Mormon family encouraged him to explore other denominations and eventually non-Abrahamic spiritualism before rejecting faith-based beliefs altogether. He was drawn into activism when the Religious Right dominated his state's Board of Education, and began undermining education in history, health, science, and social studies. His videos often focus on evolution and the evidence indicating an interrelated tree of life. His series summarizing the 'Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism' and his subsequent series, 'Falsifying Phylogeny' (including the Phylogeny Challenge') have been mirrored, featured, referenced, and recommended by many professional scientists, secularists, and educators, and has attracted more than 60,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. Read Comment Policy before posting.

Latest posts

  1. iERA Statement in Light of the Woolwich Attack — May 23, 2013
  2. the MARCH of REASON documentary film — May 23, 2013
  3. What is becoming of Kamloops — May 22, 2013
  4. Responding to CognitiveFaith — May 15, 2013
  5. C- [creation] rap on Dogma Debate — May 9, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. What I think about Atheism + — 221 comments
  2. How do you define truth? How do you determine it? — 118 comments
  3. Veteran vlogger, but a blogging noob — 116 comments
  4. The Black Knight always triumphs! — 87 comments
  5. Excerpts from the Texas GOP platform — 78 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr 17 2013

Camp Quest Texas

I have been crazy busy lately, but I can’t put this off any longer.  How can I possibly compete with David Smalley of Dogma Debate and Matt Dillahunty of the Atheist Experience? One guy is a publisher with a professional podcast, and the other guy is a leader in the atheist community with his own …

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Apr 17 2013

Regarding Madalyn Murray O’Hair

I find that I often have to explain the importance of removing prayer from public school.

Apr 17 2013

Another bill to protect creationism

It never stops in Texas.  Now Wednesday April 17th, the Texas state legislature will hold a hearing “relating to prohibiting discrimination by public institutions of higher education against faculty members and students based on their conduct of research relating to intelligent design.”  What’s that mean?  Well, I’m not sure, but I would guess that it …

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Apr 05 2013

Talkin’ Politics at NAPCon

I don’t usually like to talk about politics because it is largely a matter of opinion, and I prefer to deal in matters of fact.  As an activist in the atheist community, I have noticed that people are usually happy to hear me talk about science, even though scientists are, well they have low tolerance …

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Apr 02 2013

You have no right to make others pray to your god.

So the city council of Rowlett Texas wants to open every meeting with a prayer, and the townspeople intend to hold a “prayer vigil” tonight to support that idea.  Because of course we evil atheists are gonna be there to ruin everyone’s fun again.  They think we want to deprive them of the right to …

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Mar 27 2013

50th Anniversary of American Atheists

MMOH

Tomorrow we’re heading down to Austin for the national convention of American Atheists.  I’m really stoked about this weekend.  I love Austin, and overall, I’m happy to represent that organization particularly in this state, and especially in that town, where it all began fifty years ago.

Mar 26 2013

Someone advertising his ignorance of how science works

A couple weeks ago, I got a few emails from someone betting me $10.000.00 that I couldn’t prove evolution before a hand-picked Superior court judge.  I said that I could actually.  However there was a catch.  I had to put up $10,000.00 of my own money, and risk that to bypass -and ignore- the peer …

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Mar 16 2013

Should I give them a Bigfoot sighting?

I’m trying to talk myself out of going to the Bigfoot Believers conference today, (Saturday).  It would be such a waste of time and money.  Plus imagine the sort of granola required to make up that audience.  But morbid curiosity and my desire to be an asshole to gullabelievers are beckoning.  I couldn’t help but …

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Mar 11 2013

What’s in a name?

This weekend, I went to NAPCON, the 2nd annual convention of the National Atheist Party.  While there, I mentioned that the party should change their name to the American Secular Party.  Most of those attendance seemed receptive to that idea, but not everyone.  The most resistance came from Justin Light, the representative from California.  Initially …

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Mar 06 2013

Should the National Atheist Party change their name?

While I am proud to be associated with the National Atheist Party, that name is in conflict with our core value as atheists.  Because we are among the greatest defenders of the separation of church and state, we know that perspectives on religion should not be politicized.  Atheism should no more be equated with a …

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