A couple months ago, I blogged about the first two episodes of a five-part documentary series called ‘The March of Reason’. Well, the 3rd part of that set was just made available.
The Asian Panel at FTBCon has spawned a group for Secular Asian Americans
Our panel was composed of East and South Asians, and Hemant Mehta joked we were the only Asian freethinkers. We wondered why we didn’t see more Asian faces active in the freethinking movement. Yau Man Chan‘s theory is that culturally many Asians don’t want to rock the boat, and prefer to keep their heads down. […]
Atheist Ink II, defiant quotation
Another atheist chimed in to show off his tat, and I’m happy to share it.
Wretched behavior
The FtBConscience conference happened to be on our 5th wedding anniversary, so the wife and I talked about how we met, and how we inspired each other’s activism. She’s a science teacher, so we have a common enemy in the creationist camp, and we talked a bit about our history with that too. I’m glad […]
Where are the Asian Faces of Freethought?
This quote from John Xu… “I have often remarked how little interest people of my ethnicity have for secularist and freethought issues. My theory is that this is because they are the product of very complicated and difficult social, political, and intellectual turmoils of the 20th Century. Most Chinese people I know are brought up with […]
Atheist Ink
As a former tattooist, I retain an interest in ink. Last year, I met this guy, Darin in Illinois, and he had a cool idea for a tat. Check this out! Darwin-fish, DNA, humanism, the American Atheist logo, the works. He even has the zopdoz of the apistevist! Nice! Thanks for sharin’ Darin. That’s how […]
A post-mortem on presuppositionalism
On Sye’s own website, ‘Proof that God exists‘, you follow a trail of questions set as dominoes erected to direct you to the desired conclusion: 1. Absolute Truth Exists: I chose yes, ignoring that knowledge will never be perfect or complete. It turns out that when presups ask this question, they’re only talking about whether […]
I am 3 of the 6 types of atheist, down from 4
I’m a little confused at the new study of ‘Six Types of Atheist’, because I am half of them. I fit their criteria for #1 the Intellectual Atheist, #2 the Activist, and #4 the Anti-theist. Personally I thought there were more categories than that, but the others I’m thinking of might all belong to category […]
What would an actual extra-terrestrial most likely look like?
When I first saw this fantastic color-enhanced electron micrograph image of this millimeter mite, I didn’t recognize it. At first I thought I was looking at something shown at actual size, and that it might be an experiment in man-made robotics. This thing does not look like an natural animal; it looks like it’s made […]
head-desk apologetics
Last night on the Dogma Debate podcast, I had to endure another tedious round of verbal tennis with Sye Ten Bruggencate. His sole notoriety is that he actually endorses what has to be the least logical of all possible positions with regard to truth and knowledge. It is the fallacy of the circular argument routing […]