Non-Believers Giving Aid
-
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- arensb on Apologetics Is A Joke
- Worthey Brisco on Apologetics Is A Joke
- arensb on Kitty Theodicy
- Benney on Kitty Theodicy
- arensb on Floristgate: How Petty Can You Get?
Archives
Twitwaffle
Categories
Links
Podcasts
Weblogs
Meta
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Massachusetts Passes Electoral Reform; Right Wing Freaks Out
Yesterday, the Massachusetts state legislature passed a law changing the way its electoral votes will be allotted. This is part of a movement to switch to direct election of US presidents by popular vote. The idea is that each state’s … Continue reading
Godwin con Variazione
We’re all familiar with Godwin’s Law, that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” Allow me to propose a few variations: As a discussion goes on, the probability of a … Continue reading
Posted in :-), Politics, Religion
Tagged apologetics, gay rights, Godwin's Law, Pascal's wager
4 Comments
Sheep and Cats
One expression I’ve heard a lot lately (most recently at TAM 
is “herding cats”. As in, organizing skeptics/atheists is like herding cats. The implication in most cases was that this makes us nearly impossible to organize into groups. I … Continue reading
Breaking: Kent Hovind in Solitary
From Kent Hovind’s outfit, Creation Science Ministry’s Facebook page comes word that Kent is now in solitary: Creation Science Evangelism Pleas pray for Dr. Hovind. We were just informed that he is solitary confinement. We are not sure why he … Continue reading
Posted in Creationism, Links, News
Tagged Kent Hovind, prayer, prison, solitary confinement
1 Comment
The Thing, and the Name of the Thing
Yesterday, during a routine medical examination, I found out that I have a dermatofibroma. Don’t worry about me. My prognosis is very good. I should still have a few decades left. It means that at some point I got bitten … Continue reading
TAM 8 Miscellanea
Some notes I jotted down during talks at TAM 8: My wife and I have an agreement: if Brian Williams ever becomes single, she gets to leave me and marry him. And if Rachel Maddow ever… um, changes her mind… … Continue reading
Posted in :-), Miscellaneous
Tagged Hal Bidlack, Joe Nickell, Paul Provenza, Phil Plait, Rachel Maddow, Richard Dawkins, TAM, The Greatest Show on Earth
Leave a comment
Some More on Not Being a Dick
In an earlier post, I talked about Phil Plait’s “Don’t be a dick” talk at TAM 8. This time, I want to look at the other side of that. To the question “does this mean we have to be boring … Continue reading
A Brush With Celebrity
And not just any celebrity, but the highest: Now, the next time someone tells me, “You’re not really an atheist. You secretly believe in God”, I’ll be able to say, “You’re right. And I have photographic evidence.”
The “Don’t Be A Dick” Heard Round the World
I feel chastised. Undoubtedly the most controversial, most thought-provoking talk at TAM 8 was Phil Plait‘s “Don’t be a dick” talk, in which he decried what he sees as the rise of incivility in the skeptical blogosphere. He wrote it … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Creationism, Evolution, Religion, Science, Skepticism
Tagged critical thinking, Phil Plait, rationality, TAM
61 Comments
Another Creationist Myth Bites the Dust
We’ve all heard about the peppered moths of England: how soot from the Industrial Revolution turned English trees dark, and how as a result, peppered moths went from being mostly light-colored to being mostly dark. One argument in creationsts’ bag … Continue reading