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via Unreasonable Faith, comes this tidbit about a speech Bill Nye The Science Guy gave in Waco, Texas in 2006: The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Bill Nye The Non-Creationist Guy
October 10th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Astronomy, Atheism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Religion, Religulous, Science 
Tags: Bill Nye The Science Guy 
No Comments »Scientist vs. Blowhard
October 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Daily there are great new interviews with Dawkins coming out as he promotes the new book. This one is the most worthless and insight-free. But it’s one of the most high profile since it’s on O’Reilly’s show and it’s also O’Reilly setting a personal record for stupidity. He could not be any more tangential, desperate, [...]
Daily Hilarity: Fundies Say The Darndest Things
October 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Below is an extremely funny video based on actual comments from fundamentalists found on internet forums and catalogued at the indispensable Fundies Say The Darnedest Things. I tried posting this last night but the post went up without the video and then WordPress was doing maintenance and locked me out of being able to fix anything or even [...]
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Creationism, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Hilarious, Intelligent Design, Parody, Religion, Videos Tags: Fundies Say The Darnedest Things No Comments »Why Did Barack Obama Win The Nobel Peace Prize?
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Geir Lundestad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee explains the reasoning: (H/T) Your Thoughts?
The Mormon Roots Of Beck’s 912 Movement
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Even political fundamentalism is still really religious fundamentalism in (thin) disguise: Beck has been furiously promoting “The 5,000 Year Leap” for the past year, a push that peaked in March when he launched the 912 Project. That month, a new edition of “The 5,000 Year Leap,” complete with a laudatory new foreword by none other [...]
Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Glenn Beck, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Theocrats Tags: "The 5, 000 Year Leap", 912 Movement, Alexander Zaitchik, America's Founding Fathers, Anti-Communist Paranoia, Cleon Skousen, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theorists, George Wythe University, J. Edgar Hoover, Mormonism, New World Order conspiracy, Reactionary Right Wing Politics, Red Scare, Salon 3 Comments »Pigs Can Learn How To Use Mirrors
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So neat: In just five hours, an average farm pig can learn how to interpret an image in the mirror and use it to find hidden food. Scientists consider the ability to use a mirror a sign of complex cognitive processing and an indication of a certain level of awareness. In addition to humans and [...]
Why Barack Obama Does NOT Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize At All
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke As I already said, everyone left, right, and center is baffled today by Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize received out of the blue and before he has actually accomplished much of anything of what he had promised from his presidency (as Saturday Night Live compellingly argued). Earlier I made an argument that his election merits the award [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Politics, World Affairs Tags: Afghanistan, Glenn Greenwald, Nobel Peace Prize, War in Afghanistan No Comments »Breakfast Of Champion Actor Governors
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Arnold reveals the secret to his success on Twitter. Behold his breakfast: via Your Thoughts?
Richard Dawkins’s Address To The Atheist Alliance International Convention 2009
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From a week ago tomorrow, Richard Dawkins addresses the Athiest Alliance International. He reads the final chapter of his newest book, The Greatest Show on Earth which is an exegesis of the last chapter of The Origin of Species. There are 5 parts so keep watching after the first video below! Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: The Amazing Atheist On Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This guy’s pretty funny and insightful on the GOP and Obama. The real must-see bit starts at 2:34 when he explains how to figure out the GOP’s views on any issue: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Comedy, George W. Bush, Hilarious, Politics, Videos Tags: Dick Cheney, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Disarmament, The Amazing Atheist No Comments »Why Barack Obama DOES Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize Already
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Everyone left, right, and center is baffled today by Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize received out of the blue and before he has actually accomplished much of anything of what he had promised from his presidency (as Saturday Night Live compellingly argued). He certainly has failed to be a fierce advocate of gay and lesbian rights, failed [...]
On Facts, Theories, And The Philosophy Of Science
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers fisks Nicholas Wade’s review of Richard Dawkins’s The Greatest Show on Earth, in which Wade gets pedantic about a distinction between facts and theories which only shows his own ignorance about how the two relate to each other. Along the way Wade badly invokes the philosophy of science. First off Myers quotes Stephen [...]
Why Do Atheism Rates Correlate With Education Levels?
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Carlo Strenger argues the case that the statistical correlation between increased education and increased rates of atheism is not a coincidence or a matter of conformity for the sake of status among intellectuals: Nick Spencer shows that there is indeed a correlation between educational level and atheism. In the US this phenomenon is far more [...]
It’s Not Bragging If It’s True
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Sendai Anonymous picks up the ball from where my post on “Smug Atheists” left off and draws some of the further implications. She kicks off her post with an illustration from recent intellectual history. Many years ago, Alan Sokal epically owned stupid pomos* by submitting a ridiculous parody article* to their prized journal, Social Text. The article [...]
Michelle Obama Wins Nobel Prize Too!
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From David Fitzsimmons of The Arizona Star, via The Moderate Voice Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Comic Strips, Hilarious, News Discussion, Parody, Politics Tags: David Fitzsimmons, Michelle Obama, Nobel Prize No Comments »Marge Simpson On Playboy Cover
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Well this is… unexpected. When I went to bed last night the thought that Barack Obama would win the Nobel Peace Prize and Marge Simpson would be on the cover of Playboy would have never, ever crossed my mind. Maybe the other way around would have even been more plausible. What a goofy world we [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, News, News Discussion, Politics, Pop Culture, World Affairs Tags: Marge Simpson, Nobel Peace Prize, Playboy, The Simpsons No Comments »Shady Tricks Of The Mind
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Really neat stuff on an optical illusion: I wonder what would happen though if there were a pencil on every line—would the effect be just like having no pencils or would the mind turn all four shades into one? (via Omnibrain) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Psychology, Videos Tags: Color Perception, Optical Illusion, Visual Perception No Comments »Child Brides Have To Pay Way Out Of Marriage
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The Good Atheist writes: CNN has the touching and painful story of little Nujood Ali, a 10 year old Yemeni girl that recently had to fight to divorce her much older abusive “husband”. She’s become somewhat of a celebrity, and her parents (the same people who basically sold her away to a pervert) are angry that [...]
Posted in News, Politics, World Affairs Tags: Child Abuse, Child Brides, Nujood Ali, Rape of Children, Yemen No Comments »“Moral Beauty” Pageant Held In Saudi Arabia
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Interesting stuff. Your Thoughts? (via Atheist Media Blog)
Missed Connections
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -m4w (L train to Manhattan) You were reading Catch-22 on the subway this morning. I have never seen such a beautiful profile. I wanted to say hi, but then you’d turn towards me and I wouldn’t be able to look at your profile anymore. You were so into your book, I [...]
Daily Hilarity: Awkward Facebook “Likes”
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke College Humor has more and they’re really doozies. Your Thoughts?
“Where Was His Miracle?”
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A poignant two paragraphs from Jerry Coyne’s piece reporting from the AAI that I mentioned Andrew Sullivan maligned earlier: It’s the first time I’ve been in a group of fellow atheists (and I haven’t detected one sign of stridency or militancy), and it gives one a warm supportive feeling. One of the functions of speaking [...]
Tony Blair: All Faiths Should Unite Against Those Who “Scorn God”
October 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Blag Hag reports: The Times reports on Tony Blair’s recent speech at Georgetown University, where he had some strong words to say about the irreligious: “We face an aggressive secular attack from without. We face the threat of extremism from within.” Arguing that there was “no hope” from atheists who scorn God, he said the best [...]
The Law Of Unintended Consequences And The Separation Of Church And State
October 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke State of Protest has an interesting retrospective of his first two years of blogging, highlighting his best posts and giving an interesting glimpse into the ways blog readership expands and contracts over time. The post is reading as a nice guide to his site. As part of that post, he highlights one of his more [...]
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