Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
It can be tough being a Christian. You have to believe all sorts of unbelievable things. You have to go to church every Sunday and listen to some preachy dude beg for money. You have to put up with brilliantly-written, riotously-funny, expertly-argued books patiently debunking your faith. (I suppose this one doesn’t really distinguish you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 28th, 2009
It’s always exciting when scientists are able to corroborate fictional stories. Who wasn’t thrilled when paleontologists found the skeleton of Moby Dick? Who didn’t get excited when epidemiologists were able to isolate the “Captain Trips” virus? What child wasn’t delighted when zoologists successfully trained a mouse to ride a motorcycle? I felt that same sense [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2009
Friend of the blog Enemy of the blog (and anti-evolutionist, and Discovery Institute waterboy, and loathsome human being) David Klinghoffer gloats that the Holocaust Museum shooter was an “evolutionist,” based on his demented writings: As with ALL LIBERAL ideologies, miscegenation is totally inconsistent with Natural Law: the species are improved through in-breeding, natural selection and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2009
The governor of the Vatican visited CERN recently to reassure everyone that the Catholic Church “supports” “science.” In fact, according to his speech, the Church has always supported science. USA Today seems to have reproduced his quote, but for some reason they left out all of the footnotes, which I have carefully reconstructed below: “The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2009
If (like me) you’ve been busy wringing your hands over the fact that we live under a form of government in which the majority gets to tell the minority what to do, you may have missed the news that our good friend Francis Collins, the brains behind BioLogos, is in line to be the next [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2009
Over in the Huffington Post, writer Kamran Pasha has landed the coveted “I’ve got a book to sell, and so I’ve been invited to write a poorly-argued essay about current events that will allow me to repeatedly plug my book over the course of several thousand words” slot. Today’s essay is all about how Angels [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2009
A new, hard-hitting book from an NPR correspondent takes an unflinching look at the question of whether science can prove the existence of god: What did you find? Is religion all a sham? The conclusion I came to looking at all of this is that it’s okay to believe and it’s okay not to believe. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2009
If you’re a Christian (or a Jew), you’ve probably noticed that it’s hard to believe in both science and the Bible. Human Genome Project leader (and evangelical Christian) Francis Collins has noticed this too: After his best-selling The Language of God came out three years ago, Collins began receiving thousands of e-mails — primarily from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2009
Do you know which university is opening a new “Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values”? Maharishi University of Management is the obvious pick, but that’s not it. And it’s also not Lhasa University (Go Fighting Sherpas!), although that’s a great guess too. Nor is it Buddha College, Western Karma, or the Gelug School. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2009
Does prayer do anything? Like, if you came down with the swine flu mexican flu H1N1, and you didn’t feel like rooting it out at the causal level, would it be worth your while to force your friends to pray for your cure? The evidence, naturally, says, “no, of course that doesn’t work, what kind [...]
