Critical Massimo
Massimo Pigliucci, Ph D., is a professor of evolution and of philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. He has three doctorates – in genetics, botany, and philosophy. He contributes to Skeptical Inquirer and...
View ArticleRay Comfort, still retarded
Bananaman Ray Comfort is distributing his own abridged version of copies of On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection to college campuses. I’m sure there are some interesting edits in...
View ArticleRussian Creationists
New Scientist has this article about something an Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church said about how evolution “should be taught to children as one of several theories, but children should know...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Cases of Religious Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude isn’t even the best word to describe what you feel when you hear about cases like these. It’s a very specific kind of schadenfreude: one where you know that the subject’s irrational...
View ArticleThis Post is About Israel But Has Nothing to do With the Palestine Issue
… which makes it a rarity as far as blogs in general go, I guess. OK so there’s this lesson we here in America ought to take from Israel, and that is that we should fire government officials who are in...
View ArticlePaley’s Watchmaker
In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there...
View Article5 Fundamentalist Movies You Should Watch
GATES OF HELL I learned about this movie from Right Wing Watch, which is an organization that watches the right wing. And they watched the right wing pushing this movie, and it looks awesome. You might...
View ArticleLet’s Beat Up On Ron Paul
Last week on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart did a segment on how the media’s been conspicuously avoiding coverage of the Quixotic Presidential campaign of Ron Paul. His supporters loved it, probably...
View Article5 Ways 9/11 Truthers Are Like Creationists
On the Origin of Conspiracy Theories By Means of Natural Stupidity Happy 9/11 anniversary everyone! This year is going to be extra special because we have ten fingers and we’ve set up our numerical...
View ArticleBlessed Are The Cheesemakers
So it’s getting close to the end of 2011 and like every other group of dipshits in the known universe, science-religion accommodationists are releasing lists of people and things which have warmed...
View ArticleSchool’s Out (Of Their Minds)
So this column’s going back to the multi-topic format, and we’ve got a school-related theme this week. It’s funny how I started this thinking it would force me to write within a certain formula only...
View ArticleFlat-Earthers Are Probably Smarter Than You
Flat Earthers believe our planet looks something like this. “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” -Thomas Paine Last weekend my Twitter timeline blew up when Kirk Cameron showed...
View ArticleHelp, Help, I’m Being Repressed!
The persecution complex goes back to the roots of Christianity. It’s one of the few ideas an early follower would recognize from today’s Christianity. If memes are like genes, then the idea that...
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Jesus is the Most Dangerous Game OK, here’s the deal. I’m off celebrating Easter by hunting down the returned Jesus. Beyonce’ and Jay-Z’s demon baby is paying me to kill him so that Christianity will...
View ArticleA Perfect Metaphor For the Search For Noah’s Ark
The actress Donna D’Errico has been searching for Noah’s Ark from the Bible. Apparently she has no friends because none of them stopped her by patiently explaining that the story is a myth and there...
View ArticleBill Nye Says What We All Are Thinking
Bill Nye, who I admiringly refer to as Uncle Billy, pushed himself into the front lines in the war of Creationism vs. Science. In a video titled “Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children”he rails...
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