Tim Minchin is creating an animation for his popular beat poem, “Storm.” It’s definitely one of my favorites from him:
Can’t wait to see the whole thing!
Update: There’s also a blog about the production.
That may look like a snake, but it’s actually a hawkmoth caterpillar. How could something that amazing be created by “randomness”? It couldn’t, of course. It came about by natural selection, as Richard Dawkins explains in The Greatest Show On Earth:
If you were a bird, out hunting caterpillars in a forest, what would you do [...]
Dinesh D’Souza says he has proof of an afterlife:
His proof is near death experiences. He says atheists are “very worried” about that evidence.
Anyone here worried about that “evidence”? Anyone? Anyone?
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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:
Yoav: THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS DOESN’T MAKE YOUR ARGUMENT MORE CONVINCING. Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census
Elemenope: Very poor evangelism, all around. You can’t stop me from praying for you, no matter how... Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census
Melvis: Nope, don’t expect you to get saved and seriously doubt that any of you have read the... Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census
Kodie: So anyone have an idea when this clusterhump is supposed to happen? I want to mark it on my... Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census
Sunny Day: It gets even better if you read the book written in it’s original Klingon. Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census
trj: You’ll pray we become believers. No surprise there. But actually I thought you Christians... Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census
