Freedom of Religious Discrimination?
It’s always tricky when you have to balance competing rights, such as the freedom of a religious group to have it’s beliefs and practices and basic human rights. It’s not like it […]
2011
Is There a God? – What About Fine Tuning?
There are so many problems with this argument, but we’ll just have to take them one by one. Problem 1 – How fine tuned is the universe? Fine tuning assumes […]
What’s in a Label?
There are so many different things you can call yourself if you don’t believe in a god or gods, there’s atheist, agnostic, skeptic, humanist, freethinker, naturalist, non-theist, bright, antitheist, polyatheist, […]
Atheists CAN Get Elected in Idaho!
It’s at least happened once. Last night at the Idaho Atheists’ monthly “Meet an Atheist” gathering we were joined by a member of the Mountain Home, ID City Counsel, Geoff […]
Michael Shermer on the Colbert Report
I’ll be honest, I haven’t watched this yet, but when I saw the email with my Hulu Que update I just had to jump on the opportunity. Don’t worry, I […]
Tuesday Science Video – Using nature to grow batteries
If Angela Belcher can perfect this biotechnology it could revolutionize manufacturing: This is just one of the many ways that science can change the world. Of course it already has […]
Tuesday Science News – STS 135, The Latest Hybrid Mice, Paperless Schools, an Artificial Trachea, and More!
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but there was just way too much science news in the past week. There were great articles that I could have included, but all […]
International Day Against Stoning
Today is the International Day against Stoning. Organized by Maryam Namazie. There is currently a woman in Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtinani who has been sentenced to death by stoning. The […]
I Hate Spiders
I think it’s time that I admit my arachnophobia. I had a reminder of it when I sat down on the couch a few days ago (okay, right before writing […]
Meatland and Nomeatland
Just to rub it in, while you’re reading this comic, I’m on a mountain in Central Oregon camping by a lake…Ah, so that’s how heaven and hell first came about… […]