My presentation to the Humanists of Houston, 2013/02/16, recorded by Steve Jordan and Vic Wang. Most of my references came from this creationist website: http://www.genesispark.com/ I probably should have mentioned here how there was never any unfossilized original biological material, and certainly no undecomposed blood cells confirmed found in any non-avian dinosaurs. If anyone wants […]
The North Texas Secular Convention
‘Activate Your Activism’ was my speech at UT Dallas last Saturday. http://youtu.be/9KsjYagTC_E This is my report on how the Religious Right continues to undermine education in Texas.
Texas’ cryptozoology conferences
The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy is sponsoring an all day event -from 9:00am to 7:00pm Saturday March 16th at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Not kidding. As a former sasquatch myself, (Luna, New Mexico 1988) I’m really surprised that I wasn’t asked to speak at this convention. Especially since there really haven’t been that many […]
If he’s serious, he’s seriously insane
Is it merely an irrational assumption? Or a deeply disturbing delusion? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRjxQIYOj4 How would you reason with this guy? Could you? I can’t help but imagine a waterphone playing in the background as he whispers. I often wonder about people like this. Did his religion drive him crazy? Or is he religious because he’s already […]
Pope Palpatine
I’m gonna miss the old sith lord. He was the best pope atheists could hope for. He started out as a Hitler youth actually wearing a Nazi uniform. As a Cardinal, he famously conspired to conceal sex crimes against children for the sake of the church. As pope, he addressed an audience in an AIDS […]
If you’re in Dallas this weekend…
JT Eberhard will open the North Texas Secular convention this afternoon. Brian (Mr Deity) Dalton will be on at 8:00pm. I will speak at 9:00am tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Several good speakers are there, Greta Christina, Jerry DeWitt, Zack Kopplin, David Smalley of DogmaDebate, and Brother Sam Singleton, the Atheist Evangelist -to name a few. It’s a […]
another Godless documentary
This is not the same ‘Godless’ as the documentary made by Staise Gonzalez. It’s a different piece with the same name. A couple years ago, a Canadian film crew came to record our Fellowship of Free Thought meeting for a documentary on atheists. We skipped Skepticon that year to be involved. I didn’t feel it […]
Icelandic Parliament passes life stance equality law
I got the following message from Thor Viðar Jónsson of Siðmennt. We don’t hear about most of the cool stuff going on in Iceland, so I thought I would share. Today, January 30, 2013, the Icelandic Parliament (Althing) passed a law which gives secular life stance organizations the right to apply for equal legal status […]
One of these days, I’m gonna say something really stupid.
We all do eventually. When I was in Ireland, I shared a stage with Rebecca Watson and Richard Dawkins. Later that evening, Watson stepped into what may now be the most famous of all elevators. We all know that after that Watson said something that was blown way out of proportion. This was largely because […]
Constant Attacks on Education
Sometimes the research I have to do is nothing short of disheartening. This weekend that that included Mark Chancey’s report on problematic religious studies in Texas public schools. http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/TFNEF_ReadingWritingReligionII.pdf?docID=3481 As if that weren’t already bad enough, some Texans also want to blindly follow Louisiana’s misdirection in their attempts to undermine public education, by adopting the […]