Am I too Hard on Religion? – Part 1
Occasionally I’ll have someone tell me that I’m too hard on religion. Heck, sometimes I even wonder if I’m just an angry, bitter person with an ax to grind. I […]
No Religious Test
Ever voted in a church? I did last year. I’ll be honest here, it was really close to my house, we’re talking all of a few blocks. Given the choice, […]
Egyptian “Virginity Tests”
A few days ago the BBC ran an article about Egyptian “virginity tests” (emphasis theirs). Amnesty International, which first reported the checks in March, called the comments abusive and insulting. The […]
Beetle vs Toad
New Scientist TV: Born to be Viral: Beetle in death battle against toad Here’s the description from New Scientist: It takes guts to prey on a live animal much larger […]
Michael Shermer’s The Believing Brain
As a heads up, I just received my copy of Michael Shermer’s newest book, The Believing Brain: From Gosts and Gods to Politics and Comperacies — How We Construct Beliefs […]
Cherry Picked Theology
All of the verses referenced in the picture are from the New Testament, but don’t worry, there is plenty of misogyny in the Talmud and the Qu’ran as well. I […]
Tuesday Science News – Power, Bees, Echolocation, and Science-Friendly Imams
Let’s try something different for this week’s Tuesday Science. Rather than a science video or something about one topic, I’ll share a handful of interesting science articles I came across […]
Government Funded (V)BS
As a child I attended Vacation Bible School (VBS) most summers. One summer in college while I was working with a church in central Oregon I was tasked with helping […]
Memorial Day
For those of us in the US, today is Memorial Day. A day set aside to honor those who gave their lives in the service of their country to protect […]
Debunking a Rose
To put it simply a debunker is someone who follows their skeptical intuition without any investigation to reject claims of the supernatural, paranormal, and otherwise unlikely. In other words, debunkers […]