Ben Dry has created a visual representation of the evolution of the changes in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (you know, our Most Sacred Holy Bible!) throughout the six editions.
This is what Ben says about it:
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as [...]
I recently picked up Vincent Bugliosi’s book arguing against the conspiracy theories around the JFK assassination, titled Four Days in November. It’s over 600 pages with index and endnotes, making it a hefty trade paperback and keeping it about equal with Gerald Posner’s Case Closed.
Of course, Four Days is really just a [...]
Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, is making some waves again with a sermon entitled Thank God for the New Atheists(pdf).
Dowd wants to thank us for forcing Christians to face the scriptural passages “that portray God as brutal, cruel, vindictive, and genocidal.” In doing so, the New Atheists are forcing believers towards [...]
by VorJack
So it seems that Anne Rice still loves her some Jesus, but she’s calling it quits with Christianity. She says, “It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.”
Being called “deservedly infamous” by the author of gothic vampire novels and s&m stories must sting a bit.
I [...]
… Everybody runs around for two hours, nobody scores and a billion fans tell me that I “just don’t understand!” [nb - I stole that line directly from Daniel's Facebook feed but I don't feel guilty since I'm pretty sure he nabbed it from somebody else].
It’s been a while since I’ve had a good old [...]
by VorJack
I was reading a summary of José Saramago’s The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. In a nutshell, Jesus is a human figure who is being used by Yahweh for His own ends. He is guilt-ridden about the Massacre of the Innocents, and about the excesses that will take place in the future [...]
by VorJack
There have been a number of books recently in which a person with little or no religious sentiment goes to a fundamentalist church or school, just to see what it’s like from the inside. The people involved rarely have the sort of training that allows them to come out with any deep insight.
This [...]
by VorJack
Psychiatrists Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá have a new book out entitled Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. Ryan blogs about its thesis over at Psychology Today:
Biologists distinguish sexual monogamy from social monogamy. As DNA testing has grown cheaper in recent years, we’ve learned that most species formerly classified as [...]
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