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

Mar 06 2013

Bouncing around the weekend

Since PZ posted about his hiking trip, I guess I’ll share my trip too.  At the last minute, my wife found that she was able to join me in California.  This required that she take a different flight on another airline, one that changed planes in Las Vegas.  That meant that I had to change …

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Mar 04 2013

The National Atheist Party political convention

The National Atheist Party first approached me at the Reason Rally, asking if I would represent them in some way.  Originally their convention was supposed to be in Boston just shortly before the presidential election.  That would have been great -speaking at a political rally in New England when the political environment was at its …

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Feb 28 2013

Flintstones Archaeology

My presentation to the Humanists of Houston, 2013/02/16, recorded by Steve Jordan and Vic Wang. Most of my references came from this creationist website: http://www.genesispark.com/ I probably should have mentioned here how there was never any unfossilized original biological material, and certainly no undecomposed blood cells confirmed found in any non-avian dinosaurs.  If anyone wants …

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Feb 15 2013

The North Texas Secular Convention

‘Activate Your Activism’ was my speech at UT Dallas last Saturday.

Feb 13 2013

Texas’ cryptozoology conferences

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy is sponsoring an all day event -from 9:00am to 7:00pm Saturday March 16th at the Fort Worth Convention Center.  Not kidding. As a former sasquatch myself, (Luna, New Mexico 1988) I’m really surprised that I wasn’t asked to speak at this convention.  Especially since there really haven’t been that many …

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Feb 13 2013

If he’s serious, he’s seriously insane

Is it merely an irrational assumption?  Or a deeply disturbing delusion? How would you reason with this guy?  Could you? I can’t help but imagine a waterphone playing in the background as he whispers. I often wonder about people like this. Did his religion drive him crazy? Or is he religious because he’s already crazy?

Feb 12 2013

Pope Palpatine

darkside

I’m gonna miss the old sith lord.  He was the best pope atheists could hope for. He started out as a Hitler youth actually wearing a Nazi uniform.  As a Cardinal, he famously conspired to conceal sex crimes against children for the sake of the church.  As pope, he addressed an audience in an AIDS …

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Feb 08 2013

If you’re in Dallas this weekend…

JT Eberhard will open the North Texas Secular convention this afternoon. Brian (Mr Deity) Dalton will be on at 8:00pm.  I will speak at 9:00am tomorrow (Saturday) morning.  Several good speakers are there, Greta Christina, Jerry DeWitt, Zack Kopplin, David Smalley of DogmaDebate, and Brother Sam Singleton, the Atheist Evangelist -to name a few.  It’s a …

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Feb 01 2013

another Godless documentary

This is not the same ‘Godless’ as the documentary made by Staise Gonzalez.  It’s a different piece with the same name. A couple years ago, a Canadian film crew came to record our Fellowship of Free Thought meeting for a documentary on atheists.  We skipped Skepticon that year to be involved.  I didn’t feel it …

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Jan 30 2013

Icelandic Parliament passes life stance equality law

I got the following message from Thor Viðar Jónsson of Siðmennt.  We don’t hear about most of the cool stuff going on in Iceland, so I thought I would share. Today, January 30, 2013, the Icelandic Parliament (Althing) passed a law which gives secular life stance organizations the right to apply for equal legal status …

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