There’s been a lot written in the atheist and skeptic blogospheres lately about Dale Neumann, who killed his 11-year-old daughter Madeline by refusing to take her to the doctor, instead choosing to pray for her recovery. He’s been charged with second-degree reckless homocide (back in March of 2003) for his daughter’s death from undiagnosed diabetes. …
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Creationist misinformation by The Good News website
The site The Good News – A Magazine of Understanding advertises a free book titled Creation or Evolution: Does It Really Matter What You Believe? along with a free subscription to their magazine. On Pharyngula, PZ Myers recommended that his readers order a copy, read it, and thoroughly debunk it… because it surely will need …
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Dembski gets things wrong… as usual
I hate to link and run, but I just read this post by Ian Musgrave at the Panda’s Thumb blog and found it eminently worthwhile to pass along. It’s about what he calls “Science Envy” by the pretend scientists at the Discovery Institute, referring to an article by William Dembski who is noteworthy for spreading …
Lying for Jesus in the Sunshine State
From Ron Gold at The Invisible Pink Unicorn comes this gem. Read his post for more info, but here’s the summary. The Community Issues Council is putting up billboards across Florida similar to the one pictured below. Where’s the lying bit come into play? Here’s a statement by Terry Kemple, the group’s local chapter president, …
Tibetan Demons and Dead Authors
The most recent podcast from my favorite right-wing, fundamentalist, conspiracy theorist Brannon Howse is a shining example of the effects of unrestrained ingestion of a toxic mish-mash containing equal parts religion, politics, and crazy. The topic? “The Spiritual Battle of Alice Bailey’s New Age Movement and its influence on America, the United Nations and its …
What kind of person?
With the 40th anniversary of the moon landing last week, the images of the Apollo landing sites taken recently by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter were of particular interest. They show all three landing sites along with some equipment left behind and disturbances by the astronauts’ boot prints. That’s very cool, and the LRO isn’t even …
More Trouble for Texas Education
Texas just hosted a long, drawn-out debate about science standards (specifically pertaining to biology and evolution) which resulted in a mixed bag of results. Some major points were made in favor of actual science while other points in favor of non-science (ie… creationism) were slipped in as minor addendums to the policy. It seems that …
Religion, Criticism, and Education… Oh my!
Atheists tend to deliver a lot of criticism of theology, be it Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or some other flavor. We find fault with the resurrection of Jesus, the winged horse of Muhammad, Moses and the Ten Commandments, the Holy Trinity, and a myriad of other theistic claims made by these religions. We debunk their holy …
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The Grand Canyon and The Flood
(((Billy))) nails it. My favorite bit of commentary… When I first encountered this view of geology, my thought was, “How limited. How depressing. How boring.†Two billion years of history reduced to a couple of weeks of flood drainage. A kindergartner’s version of earth history.
Cherry Picking
I recently spoke with a friend who is a fundamentalist young Earth creationist. I’ve known him for quite a few years and we get along great, despite our diametric views on religion and science. We’ve had plenty of discussions about religion, science, God, theology, and the bible and they’re always enjoyable because neither of us …