by Jesse Galef
My friend Hemant Mehta (FriendlyAtheist) had a great interview with blogger Nancy Duke on the Chicago Coalition of Reason billboard, atheism, and religion. The questions gave away her semi-hostile position, but I feel like Hemant did a great job answering in a positive way:
ND: What is ChriFSMas?
HM: Christmas for the Flying Spaghetti Monster [...]
by Jesse Galef
I’m always astounded at how poor data-gathering devices we humans are. Forget all the hallucinations and misinterpretations, we simply don’t notice or retain most of what happens around us. Here’s a great demonstration (via Richard Wiseman’s blog)
I was pretty pathetic. How did you all do?
This is one of the reasons we developed [...]
A Guide for Doubting Theists
Shortly after I became a Christian, I saw a book about Jesus at the library. I couldn’t get enough of Jesus, so I brought it home and began reading. Excitement turned to horror as I realized it was arguing there was hardly any evidence that Jesus even lived, much less was [...]
Here is a good rebuttal to the idea that scientists have “faith” in evolution and don’t want to rock the boat, lest they risk their careers:
Science has always reserved its greatest accolades for those who prove what came before to be wrong, and every scientist in the world knows the best way to become famous [...]
This is an amusing presentation, though I wish he slowed down a little:
This is like a witch trial. Burn him! Burn him! Evolutionist! Hasn’t he read the Bible?!?
“You are showing the fact that you are a godless idiot! We must not believe punks like him, we must believe the Word of God!”
Ah, the golden age of American television…
By Vorjack
We spend a lot of time talking about evidence for God — as we should — but I can’t help but think we’ve skipped a couple of steps.
Consider this excerpt from George H. Smith’s Atheism: The Case Against God:
Mr Jones: “A unie exists.”
Mr White: “Prove it.”
Mr Jones: “It has rained for three consecutive days—that [...]
Craig Duckett: Now if Dennet would have said that “God is just a word” that would’ve been another... Meaningless Deepities
BD: http://blog.cafepress.com/2009 /11/20/psalm-1098-update/ Designs are off the website. Huzzah for reasonable people who see the... Pray for Obama
Siberia: Darth Pope wins. 2009 Bad Faith Awards
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Elemenope: Solid, except the “stop the hate” at the end blunts it slightly with corniness. Pray for Obama
bigjohn756: Pathetic… The Book Burning That Wasn’t
