Some interesting posts on Debunking Christianity: The Outsider Test. It’s basically a request to assume if you were born in another country that you would likely be a believer in the religion of the area. Most people accept that it’s reasonable that OTHER people will believe in the religion of their geographic areas, but not [...]
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This, THIS Is What I am Talking About!
After posting yesterday about religious experience being a part of the brain, and emotion being biochemical but no less important than thinking it’s mystical: I find this video today, and it made me weep. I was so filled and swamped with emotional reaction to this I left my office for a bit. THIS is what [...]
READ MORE »Godhead: God in the Head
I was reminded today of something interesting which led me to look into it a little bit and find some interesting info about the interesting topic. *grin* It reminds me of a couple of years ago when I was reading someone’s blog and they were describing how it wasn’t until his mid-life when he was [...]
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Where Was the Tomb, Really?
An interesting post over on Debunking Christianity today, about why there was no veneration of Jesus’ tomb, empty or not, until the 4th century: Why Wasn’t There any Veneration of Jesus’ Empty Tomb? “The fact that there was no tomb veneration indicates that the early Christians did not know the location of the tomb of [...]
READ MORE »Popular Ignorance and the Land of the Persecuted
“Liberal media” my rear. What court proceedings is the leftist, administration hating, liberal media filled with the last few days? Is it the “Scooter” Libby trail in which the crimes of the administration is being investigated? Where evidence has been admitted that implicates Cheney and even prez. shrub in possible treason? Nope. Is it the [...]
READ MORE »Lying For Jesus–The Rocks Don’t
OK, that’s a terrible title. Anyway…. Phil Plait at BadAstronomy has a post titled: Should creationists be able to get PhDs in geoscience? He explains the case of young-Earth Creationist Marcus Ross who is currently teaching biology at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, got his PhD by writing and defending a thesis about the 65 million [...]
READ MORE »This Site Contains Information on Gravity….
OK, this is funny stuff! Textbook Disclaimer Stickers: http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/ The Berkeley site on understanding evolution, what it is and isn’t, and how it affects our lives: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
READ MORE »Neglectful Parenting Disguised as Faith
Faith in “alternative medicine” is going to kill a child in Oregon: Family puts faith in alternative hope I learned about this from the latest Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe podcast. In short (read the article yourself, please,) a couple with a daughter who had a brain tumor and seeking all possible medical solutions and [...]
READ MORE »Parenting Beyond Belief
There’s a great looking book called Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion that I haven’t read yet, but certainly plan to. It’s a collection of chapters written by various people, including a couple of reverends even, educators, psychologists, and of course parents. Like the host of the AgnosticMom Web site and [...]
READ MORE »Evolution for Christians
This is so sweet! Jennifer over at Idle Rambling’ has a post today which links to an essay by a professor of Science and Faith Studies at a Christian college “who has since won several awards for his published articles concerning the intersection of science and religion.” Borne from a frustration with having students of [...]
READ MORE »I’m a Poker Staahh!
Last night I played a second round of Texas Hold’em at the local Fox & Hound pub. Last week I finished 6th out of 21. Eh. Last night I finished…1st! *glee!* Well, 1st out of I think about… 15. But still! So, that qualifies me to play in the final round in two weeks. And [...]
READ MORE »How We Know What We Know, II
Yesterday’s posting about the latest Astronomy Cast podcast regarding the theoretical, and admittedly somewhat problematic, formula for estimating the number of systems in the galaxy that may have intelligent life supporting planets, got me thinking again about how we know what we know. How do we separate facts from belief? Some time ago
READ MORE »Chances Of Life, Astronomical! So to speak.
A fascinating episode of AstronomyCast where they analyze the makeup of the Drake Equation: AstronomyCast: The Drake Equation Yeah, anything with “equation” in the term is likely scary. But this episode, like ALL AstronomyCast shows, does an excellent job talking to the lay person regarding science. The astrophysicist that does all the explaining has a [...]
READ MORE »I’ll Stop Bothering
A recent post and its comments, A Book and A Belief, got me thinking again about the voraciousness of my secular evangelism. As I say in a comment on the post, I believe everything I say on my blog and it’s stuff I feel absolutely passionate about, but I don’t like the person it presents [...]
READ MORE »Professional Writing Angst
So my ENG 500 class, Professional Writing, is pretty imposing. The first half we’re actually writing and editing and publishing a book. And edition of Civil War era documents from and concerning the Campbell family, founders of Springfield, Missouri. Pretty fascinating, amazing! But the second half of the class we’ll be working on our own [...]
READ MORE »Stellar Dosey-Do
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy has a post today about a fascinating find regarding two gihugic , “nearly touching” stars throwing out Gamma rays like from a supernova. What boggles my mind is the fact these two stars, each over 80 times larger than our own sun, circle each other in nearly self-destructive velocities, in [...]
READ MORE »A Book and A Belief
There’s an interesting post today I read I want to talk about that involves the historicity of Jesus and his alleged resurrection; a debate between two educated opponents. But first, to reface that, it’s important to discuss the weight and validity of “evidence”. In general, of course. I touch on this in a previous post: [...]
READ MORE »God is a Bad Parent and Pet Owner
John W. Loftus, a former preacher who once studied under one of the most respected (in the Christian community) apologists, Dr. William Lane Craig, has been having a very interesting discussion regarding the nature of evil and the way it proves the non-existence of the Judeo-Christian idea of God with theology student David Wood on [...]
READ MORE »Bad Thinking Kills
In my post earlier today I discussed some of why religious delusion is dangerous–here’s an other good example why we MUST get rid of magical, superstitious thinking! Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy has a link regarding a murder due to fear of a hex: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/02/02/bad-thinking-kills/
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