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April 2013

April 06, 2013

Mourning with those who mourn

No pious jackasses sit around pondering "Should Christians Take Insulin?" No insufferably holier-than-thou idiots pretend...

March 2013

March 14, 2013

7 things that are older than Ken Ham’s universe

Young-earth creationists say that the universe is 6,000 years old. Scientists say the universe is...

February 2013

February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day … science!

Some science-y notes and links, including: Canadians in space; everybody else still way ahead at...

February 13, 2013

Geocentrism and a historical Adam

This is a fact: the geocentric model of the universe is not true. That fact...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

A tolerable response to intolerable sophistry

The semantic game of immovable object vs. unstoppable force is intended to be just that,...

January 23, 2013

As sweet as any harmony …

She blinded me with linkage: Fewer Americans doubting their own experience of the climate; Rawlsian...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Hobby Lobby takes human biology to court, loses

It doesn't matter if the evangelical gazillionaire owners of Hobby Lobby believe that emergency contraception...

December 11, 2012

As deep as any ocean …

She blinded me with linkage: Gravity could light the developing world ... funny molecule names?...

December 10, 2012

Black swans and blue tarantulas: ‘Without’ and ‘despite’ are not the same

To believe that which has been disproved is always wrong. To believe that which cannot...

December 09, 2012

Does the Universe Have a Purpose? Your vote counts

We have a say in this. We cannot consider the question "Does the Universe Have...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Uwe Reinhardt says Europeans visiting the U.S. marvel at infrastructure that reminds them of the...

November 16, 2012

Bulgarian town survived Noah’s flood

Even more remarkable than the ancient town's unique fortifications or its "peculiar burial positions and...

November 12, 2012

A belated happy Carl Sagan Day

"As scientists, many of us have had profound experiences of awe and reverence before the...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Not all sins are stupid and not all stupidity is sinful, but young-earth creationism is both

When undeniable facts “conflict with your beliefs,” then you have only two options. You can,...

September 22, 2012

Giving names to the animals

Here's a delightfully odd Bob Dylan song: I've been thinking about that one lately as...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

Look at those cavemen go

A week ago, I obsessively followed NASA's successful landing of the Curiosity rover on the...

August 11, 2012

‘Stuff that you long ago forgot isn’t general public knowledge’

"What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?" asks Maggie Koerth-Baker at BoingBoing. She goes...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Two more thoughts on ‘Miracles’

A couple more stray thoughts in response to reading Tim Stafford's Miracles for the Patheos...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

Creationism requires a global conspiracy of lying scientists and/or a lying God

The results from the annual Gallup survey on creationism are out, with the numbers right...

June 12, 2012

Missing links, mantis shrimp and koalas at sea

RJS at Jesus Creed reminds us that anyone who wants to know what the Bible...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

I’m looking through you

I enjoyed this trippy, riffing and rambling reflection from John Van Sloten at Think Christian:...

February 2012

February 01, 2012

Climate-change denialism outraces parody

Last month, NASA reported that 2011 was the ninth-warmest year on record: The global average...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Siding with the scientific consensus of secular knowledge

So after going through a couple of bottles of Anbesol and walking around for a...

October 25, 2011

The inevitable injustice of unreality and Al Mohler’s ongoing crisis of faith

Google Reader brings me a serendipitous, or perhaps providential, sequence of articles. First up is...

October 23, 2011

Climate denialism: ‘It’s about ideology, not facts’

The big news last week on climate change wasn't news at all, just more of...

October 19, 2011

As usual, there’s an xkcd for that

Go here. Click random. Resurface hours later.

October 19, 2011

More Fun with Karl and Joe

See Karl. Karl Giberson and colleague Randall J. Stephens say that the Earth is more...

October 19, 2011

Creationism and Charles Fort’s talking dog

Patheos is hosting a book club this month on W. Scott Poole's Monsters in America:...

October 19, 2011

Joe Carter says facts and truth are subjective matters of opinion

Joe Carter of First Things is horrified that Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens would...

October 18, 2011

David Barton and Ken Ham aren’t mistaken, they’re just lying

Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens, who we discussed a few weeks ago in "Evangelicals...