By Lilandra, the Mrs. Ra How many former believers remember being told that their money already belonged to god anyways? Heck, he apparently had enough lucre lying around to pave his streets with gold. Prosperity gospel preachers encourage their followers to give to god as if he is like a usurious, heavenly banker. They promise […]
Diss Comfort
A couple years ago, Ray Comfort tried to get Richard Dawkins to debate him. I am convinced that he did this only to try to make himself seem more important than he could ever be otherwise. Dawkins wasn’t generous enough to give Ray that much undeserved credibility. So I posted a challenge to Ray myself. […]
Proof that I’m one ugly dude
Some folks are trying to raise money for MSF (Doctors w/o Borders) by auctioning off autographed photos of some of the participants on the charity drive. Look at what Matt Dillahunty’s photo is up to. Now look at how much they’re bidding for mine.
4th annual BlogTV charity telethon for MSF
I’m sleeping in late tomorrow, because I mean to ride out the whole 24 hour charity drive. It starts at 10:00am my time, (central time) Saturday morning on DPRJones’ BlogTV channel. I’ll be interviewing Mr. Deity at midnight my time, which will be 10:00pm his time, (Pacific) and 6:00am for DPR Jones, who is hosting […]
Haeckeling creationists
One of the more irritating arguments in the ‘crevo’ controversy are the lies of equivocation. The game is played by a creationist pretending to be objective -when he and we all know he is not- while projecting all of his own logical fallacies onto the science-minded, who of course do not share any of those […]
A Mammoth Wager
There is one more thing I need Bob Enyart to be aware of before he posts his final submission to our debate, because this is going to matter, and he should know that he’ll have to address this particular point or it will cost him. Now I don’t really expect him to honestly concede EVERYTHING […]
Open letter to Bob Enyart
Three weeks ago, I posted a notice about the online debate I’ve been having with Pastor Bob Enyart of Denver Bible Church. There hasn’t been much direct communication between us since this thing began. One of his minions occassionally checks the boards for messages, and recently relayed a notice from Bob. He says he is […]
Academic Study of Atheists
I’m sure I’m not the only one here on FtB participating in the academic study of atheists conducted by the sociology department of Berkeley University. I just want to share my answers to their questionnaire. Background Questions: 1. Were you raised atheist or did you have a religious upbringing of some sort? I was raised […]
Your great exponential grandfather
P.Z. Myers and I first became acquainted with each other many years ago through a Usenet group called Talk.Origins. My wife suggested that a couple of those all-but-forgotten articles should be revived and posted on my blog. OK honey, whatever you say. One of the two I would like to show is from the 4th […]
Time to ascend
I don’t often promote these events, especially when it seems like everyone knows about it already, but at the moment, I just want to think about good things I can look forward to. On Labor Day weekend, August 31st thru September 3rd, three weeks from now, I will be in Denver Colorado for the Ascent […]