Somehow I happened across a Facebook post criticizing me and anyone who “follows” me, whatever that means. I couldn’t comment on that thread, but it made some interesting claims that I think should be publicly addressed. The Question Evolution Project appears to be the same entity as the blog author, Piltdown Superman. So he is […]
Some folks never learn
The infamous charlatan “Dr” Kent Hovind (with a worthless mail-order PhD) is opening another “Dinosaur Adventure Land”, this time in Alabama. Somehow hucksters like him always find rubes to donate money and property to keep lying in the guise of education. Otherwise he’d have to sell used cars, wonder drugs, or multi-level marketing schemes. As […]
Dillahunty vs. Giunta: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead
Matt Dillahunty will debate Blake Giunta tonight at the Bible and Beer Consortium Debate Series. This is RationalWiki’s opinion on their last debate about the existence of god. Apparently, his opponent plays with probability in a way that weights his conclusions about god more heavily and discounts natural explanations while leaving out other possibilities. He […]
Three reasons not to raise your child to fear any god
There are a great many Christians who use the Bible for parenting guidance. As a former Christian, I did when my children were very young. If there is one piece of good advice on parenting (though it isn’t meant that way) in the Bible, it is this: 11 When I was a child, I talked like […]
Four Blood Moon Tetrad nonsense
I went to the American Atheist National Convention in Salt Lake City Utah in April of 2014. It’s funny because there was a ComiCon going on right across the street. A lot of them belonged with us -and visa versa. Patrick Stewart and William Shatner were both speaking there, but could just as well have […]
Breaking Love and Reproductive Rights Out of the Christian Frame
I have been pleasantly surprised that the youtube comments on my speech on The Heart of Humanism at The Southern California Secular Humanism Conference are mainly addressing the topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJB0bH_1EQ Especially because I addressed how secularists need to examine where their beliefs about love in particular may be influenced by Christian culture such as ideas […]
Say it ain’t so Bill Nye! Bill Nye debates Ken Ham.
So Ken Ham won’t debate Aron Ra and PZ Myers because… reasons! He complained that the debate invitation was rude, but look how rude he was to Bill Nye… “Bill Nye still doesn’t understand the difference between historical science and observational science — so he may be known as ‘Bill Nye the science guy’ — […]
Tips on Evangelizing Evolution from Aron Ra
Ray Comfort noticed that a lot of atheists visited his Facebook page, and it occurred to him that he could train other Christians to witness to the “unsaved”. “The average Christian can’t stand on a soapbox at a university and preach, but he or she can now engage the unsaved and have their comment read […]
Why did I think I could watch this video about Fish Tongue Eating Isopods?
Warning! Do not be fooled by the cartoon fish.It is not for the squeamish. Thanks to Meg of The Thinking Atheist for the scare… This is Meg with a video for you to share the next time one of your friends starts in about how a god must have made the world because look at […]
No saved recording of the Bob Dutko debate
In my debate with Bob Dutko, he criticized me for not debating the existence of God -which was my choice of topics from the selection he gave. I wish we had been able to talk about that, but instead he wasted most of that hour burning and re-building his strawman of my position while ignoring […]