Ronald Lindsey, President and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, has a great article out about coming out as an atheist in which he compares and contrasts disbelief with sexual orientation. He makes some great points: [Read more…]
I was amused, in a dark sort of way, reading the usual Worldnut Daily drivel today. Here’s what Farrah’s linkbait de jure quoted in his piece Why Can’t Atheists be Real Americans? (Hint, because they’re atheists! Duh.) [Read more…]
Technically, wouldn’t god or gods or goddesses have to also qualify as non human intelligent aliens? That’s a great question, sadly, we can only explore the answer in fiction these days: [Read more…]
The prospect of having the first Mormon nominee for the Oval Office and the possibility of the first Mormon US president has the faithful both worried and hopeful. At least according to some reports from the trenches of middle class Mormon America: [Read more…]
Famed fossil hunter Richard Leakey thinks the evidence for evolution will become so strong in the next few decades that skeptics will be forced to accept it: [Read more…]
First the info, an excellent post at Balloon Juice. The author brings her perspective as a lawyer and a campaign treasurer for a local candidate on the Rickett scheme (If you’re not sure, for now it’s a freshly killed zombie revolving around the Rev Wright and Obama). She framed this really well using multimedia, beginning with this conclusion: [Read more…]
I’m sorry for being a jerk in comments before. Let’s try this: A president who was in the past tepidly agnostic comes out and says he’s thought about it, and now he’s an atheist. And in a doomed to fail preemptive qualifier, I know this is not the same thing. Let’s go ahead stipulate it’s not the same thing.
So, if that happened, should we as atheists react with “It’s too late or not enough” and be angry, should it not affect our view and other issues be more important, or would we think this a positive change, or something else not shown here? Should we reward that, not care either way, or be angry about it? Which of those reactions would help atheism in general and which might not? I personally would lean toward rewarding it but other issues would still matter too. Your turn: Go!
Wisconsin Governor and general all around Koch-whore Scott Walker asked fellow Christians for their prayers in fending off a recall election early next month: [Read more…]
This is Don McElroy, the guy who used to run the Texas Schoolboard, stating he believes dinosaurs and humans walked side by side. Technically, he might be right — if one accepts that modern birds evolved from raptorial dinosaurs. A view McElroy would have a hard time accomodating. But what’s more interesting are McElroy’s reasons for believing this. Intelligent design creationists make a big dog and pony show about how empirical evidence is the sole crtieria in their rejection of evolutionary biology, or the age of the earth. But so many of them, like McElroy, just can’t keep their yaps shut about the real reason: his specific, narrow religious beliefs.
It struck me today, going through comments and posts, that we have a healthy international contingent at the big Z, and for those participants, the daily twists and turns of US politics may seem bewildering. Or at least a bit fuzzy; understandable, especially if you aren’t directly affected by them and don’t follow the insane drama 24/7. You all have my eternal envy if you fall into the latter category. Australia seems to have a strong skeptic community, plus they speak English! So, in the spirit of turn-about is fair play, I did a virtual walk-about through the political landscape down under. [Read more…]