An interesting article on Debunking Christianity: A Double Standard for Morality? regarding the double standard Christians allow god when it comes to questions of morality.
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How do you prove photography to a blind man?
Skeptico blog has an interesting post regarding dealing with belief in psychic claims: How do you prove photography to a blind man?
READ MORE »Morality Is All In The Brain
Agnostic Mom has an interesting article on how morality and ethics is likely a bio-neurological construct found in our brains as a result of evolutionary development: Much Of Our Morality Lies In The Brain Update: They discuss this neurological connection of emotion to moral decisions, and the fact that brain damage affects morality in the [...]
READ MORE »Evolutionary Predictions
One of the ways in which one divides good science from religion and pseudoscience, is can the developed scientific theory make accurate predictions? I recently came across this list of predictions the theory of evolution has successfully made: Is Evolution Science? What predictions about the natural world can “intelligent design” make?
READ MORE »Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
The latest Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe has a brief follow-up to the whole “Tomb of Jesus” shtuph. Some peer-review feedback includes an analysis of the labeling of one of the ossuaries shows that the “Mary Magdalene” one is actually “Mariamene and Mara,” the second name added by a different hand a century later. Putting [...]
READ MORE »The End Is Thigh! Er, Neigh!
(OK, another stupid title.) A recent episode of Point of Inquiry has an interview with author, theologian, literature scholar, Robert M. Price (who, by the way, was a key member of the “Jesus Seminar,” which was a collection of theologians, historians, clergy, and scientists from various fields whose task it was to determine the levels [...]
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Mmmm, Universe-noughts.
Wow! (Second “wow” in a week.) This last AstronomyCast episode: Episode 28: What is the universe expanding into? is incredible! They discuss the theoretical shapes of the universe (the current theory is it’s flat, finite, and donut (torus) shaped. I’ve discussed discovering the concept of the universe being flat before, and the torus shape allows [...]
READ MORE »Bite Me, Alien Boy!
Saw this clip on another’s blog, “remembering your past for you so you don’t have to,” and the first half of it is hilarious! (Second half is a little tedious and ends amusingly but anti-climatically.) But it’s pretty funny for us “Dr. Who” fans.
READ MORE »Back From the ICFA
Addendum: I’ve been trying to observe good grammar in my entries of late (compare to my earlier posts!) but this one is still a victim of stream-of-consciousness writing as I hate editing my blogs. You’ve been warned. Wow! What a week! My wife and I spent last Wednesday through to Sunday in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, [...]
READ MORE »Who Wrote The Bible
An excellent program, a nearly 2-hour documentary by theologian Robert Beckford, on the history and creation of the compilation of writings we call “The Bible.” Who Wrote the Bible He comes from a very religious background, raised by a pious mother and taught not to question the Bible–and what he finds during his journey discovering [...]
READ MORE »US Fascim: Good News/Bad News
Some good and bad news on the administration’s behavior as fascist power mongers: As part of the Patriot Act, the administration rammed through a provision that gave the Attorney General the ability to appoint federal prosecutors without the traditional, and Constitutional mind you, check-and-balance of getting Senate approval. Over the last few months the administration [...]
READ MORE »The Tombinator
I’ve been avoiding commenting on the whole Cameron/Jacobovici crypt of Jesus thing because I was highly skeptical from the moment I’d heard about it (which, being a skeptic and a seemingly hostile debunker of Christianity and other organized religious theism’s, this supposed proof of a dead Jesus should have been good discussion.) I could tell [...]
READ MORE »Mr. Deity
This is funny stuff! I learned about this short video series from the Humanist Network News podcast. Very entertaining! http://mrdeity.com (this is episode 2)
READ MORE »Darwin’s God
Jennifer of Idle Rambling’ posted a comment, on a previous entry of mine, directing to a fascinating article: Darwin’s God It’s long, but an excellent, fantastic read! Very thought-provoking analysis of the science of religion, aspects of faith. Give it a look.
READ MORE »The Cost of Discovery vesus Destruction
An article on CNN.com discusses how NASA has no money in its budget for locating planet killing asteroids: NASA lacks funds to find killer asteroids And I see what NASA’s yearly budget is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget), a little more than $16 billion. Wow, that’s a lot of money. Hmm, I wonder how much the pentagon budget it [...]
READ MORE »The Soul and Dealing with Death
An good little post on Agnostic Mom today: Regarding The Soul (Poor woman–her really cool blog appearance keeps going away and defaulting to the plain one.) She comments on an interview with Dale McGowan, editor of Parenting Beyond Belief, where he describes the soul as: Whatever sense of self and personal identity we have springs [...]
READ MORE »Mona Lisa in 1′s and 0′s
Discovered something interesting: Portrait Professional digital image software that “improves” the image by fixing imperfections in the face–from blemishes and acne, to facial structure and size problems! In one way, this is really cool! Look at the before and after pictures. The geek in me can’t help but find this fascinating. Some (not all!) of [...]
READ MORE »Video Sci-Fi Podcast: Fascinating!
The Slice of SciFi podcast had an interview last week with the creator of a new video podcast that’s really interesting: Stranger Things It’s an amateur project with an incredibly professional feel. Filmed in HDTV, it’s meant to be a “Twilight Zone” or “Outer Limits” for today, focusing on stories of speculative fiction like sci-fi, [...]
READ MORE »Suffering God
DebunkingChristianity has a post that reviews a recent debate regarding what the existence of suffering in the world means regarding the existence of (the Judeo-Christian idea of) god: Weisberger Evaluates the Arguments in the Loftus-Wood Debate [snippet:] The point Wood wants to make is that the claim about the abundance of evil outweighing the good [...]
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