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October 2012

October 15, 2012

Animated Crash Course in Evolution

By QualiaSoup HT Hemant Mehta

October 14, 2012

Physics, Santa, and God

OK, the argument above is cute. Can it be used to prove not only that...

October 12, 2012

Religion and Science: The Bigger Picture

The blog of the British Center for Science Education shared slides from a recent talk...

October 07, 2012

Congressman Paul Broun’s Lies from the Pit of Hell

The news has been circulating for several days that congressman Paul Broun described evolution, the...

October 06, 2012

Spiritual Evolution

  A Facebook friend made the image above and shared it in the Facebook group...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

The Doctor Who episode "Ghost Light" is the penultimate episode from the classic series. For...

September 18, 2012

Scooby Doo vs. Doctor Who

It has been observed that some science fiction stories seem to make the opposite point...

September 17, 2012

Review of Seven Glorious Days, by Karl Giberson

There are many books about the early chapters of Genesis, and many books introducing readers...

September 14, 2012

The Dalai Lama on Buddhism and Science

As if in answer to my earlier question, George Takei posted this on Facebook: That...

September 14, 2012

Mythicism, Creationism, Science and Faith

Where do mythicism, young-earth creationism, mainstream biology and mainstream historical study (including but not limited...

September 11, 2012

Fundamentalists Lacking Conviction

Robin Parry has a post on the blog Running Heads entitled "Fundamentalists - Have the...

September 08, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Believe That Creation Was Finished in Six Days

I have been having an interesting conversation on Facebook with someone who describes himself as...

September 05, 2012

Rotating Earth vs. Biblical Literalism

This is what Ken Ham and other young-earth creationists would stand for if they were...

September 04, 2012

Ken Ham’s Kind Provision of Evidence to Support Fred Clark’s Contentions

In a comment on my post in which I shared a quote from Fred Clark...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

The Golden Rule with Error Adjustment

Via Facebook

August 29, 2012

Evolution: What About God?

This episode from the PBS documentary Evolution is a useful one, and I'll be having...

August 29, 2012

Biblical Studies Around the Blogosphere

There's a new issue of the open access Biblical studies journal Relegere, featuring several interesting...

August 28, 2012

From the Moon to Jerusalem

Given my interest in religion and science (I'm even teaching my class on the subject...

August 25, 2012

Neil Armstrong RIP

The news just broke that the first man on the moon has passed away. Neil...

August 25, 2012

The God of the Bible and the Genome

I came across this quote from Francis Collins on Reddit: I am sharing it because...

August 23, 2012

Mined Quote from James Barr

There's a quote, attributed to James Barr, which is popular among young-earth creationists. Here is...

August 20, 2012

The Problem With Reductionism Illustrated

The cartoon is good just for a chuckle, but I think it also illustrates an...

August 18, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Substitute Words of Men in Place of the Word of God

Time and time again I have heard young-earth creationists say that one has to choose...

August 17, 2012

Disproving Evolution

On Facebook I shared this quote from Richard Dawkins, which came to me in poster...

August 14, 2012

Differentiating Between Debate and Denial

IO9 (in an article entitled "How to distinguish crap denialism from legitimate scientific debate") linked to...

August 13, 2012

Competing Denialisms

Steve Douglas drew my attention to the above comic from SMBC. As someone who deals...

August 13, 2012

Calling Young-Earth Creationism Demonic

It seems that I am not alone in drawing the conclusion that young-earth creationism is...

August 10, 2012

A Liar Twice Over: Ken Ham Rushes In Where Rick Warren Feared To Tread

Remember not so long ago, when Rick Warren seemed to be linking the Aurora shooting...

August 06, 2012

Excuse of the Day

While my excuse for most things today will be the fact that I am still...

August 05, 2012

Curiosity

I hope that everyone in the world is aware that the NASA Mars rover Curiosity...

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