I love reading things which take current historical and/or scientific knowledge and totally screw it up, and this fits the bill very nicely.
“Flint tools found in an English village show ancient humans settled northern Europe 800,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, which could prompt scientists to reassess the capabilities of [...]
The telegraph is reporting that the “missing link” between man and apes has been found:
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton [...]
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 [...]
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