Austin Dacey has written a blogpost, "Putting God out of the Ethics Business," at Psychology Today on the "good without God" posters up in New York City. For the secularists, skeptics, and Unitarians among us, this is a no brainer in most ways. Dacey Writes,By now you may have heard about or seen the "good without God" posters in the subways of New York City and elsewhere. Media outlets from the New York Times to Fox News have characterized them as ads promoting atheism. Yet while the campaig... Read Full Story

This is when I want to go ballistic. The Worldview Times says:Environmental alarmism is being exploited to chip away at national sovereignty. The latest threat to American liberties may be found in the innocuous sounding Copenhagen Climate Treaty, which will be discussed at the United Nations climate-change conference in mid-December. The alert was sounded on the treaty in a talk given by British commentator Lord Christopher Monckton at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minn., on Oct. 14. Video of ... Read Full Story

Quite a while back I posted some stuff about an Ohio "science" teacher who was teaching creationism and allegedly abusing students with a Tesla coil. In my original post I said he is worse than the most diehard Slayer fan. They just mutilate themselves (pictures at right). This guy thinks it's a holy duty to brand students with crosses. As someone with tattoos and has had multiple piercings, I am not opposed to marking myself. But it's me. Don't scar others. Didn't you hear that bit about doi... Read Full Story

I've just gotten my copy Dawkins' new book, The Greatest Show on Earth and haven't gotten more than two chapters in. But I just thought I'd fan the flames for good reads by posting Lawrence Hursts' review in Nature (also reviews Carl Zimmer's new book)... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js"> Read Full Story

I hate the growth economy. Hate it.There. I've said it. I think it disrupts happiness, destroys communities, and demolishes ecosystems. And I hate a lot of the things associated with it including all of the niche advertising and the weird shadow techno-bureaucracy that's been built up around it on the internet.While a lot of people might not despise the cancerous globalized economy as much as I do, they don't want it tracking their every move. The New York Times reports:ABOUT two-thirds of Am... Read Full Story

I hope to do a more extended post on this later. Louisiana Coalition for Science has a new post up that is simply appalling in how far creationists have gotten in their push to undermine good science education there. The creationists of the Louisiana Family Forum seem to have gotten rules rewritten so that good teachers complaining to good people in the state apparatus will be thwarted so that "the prerogative of [Department of Education] professionals to handle the review process and make a ... Read Full Story

My wife is going to go bananas for this. She loves R. Crumb (image at right courtesy of dgtweb's site on R. Crumb). I think there's a festivus present in this.PARIS — Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are "totally nuts" for taking the book so seriously for so long."I grew to hate the Bible," he told a press conference for the international launch of "Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis", which he called a "gruelling" four ... Read Full Story

Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma). Just watch the video at this link and marvel at his pernicious lunacy. It is a spectacular level of willful ignorance to say, "The science really isn’t there" about climate change. Sorry bud. You need to go the way of the dinosaur. Like 20 years ago... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js"> Read Full Story

Is there going to be a "tea party" at Southern Methodist University over the Darwin celebrations this year? The Texas Freedom Network reports that Bill Dembski, "cdesign proponentsist" extraordinaire, wants his students to stick it to the "Darwin-lovers."(1) For extra credit I'd like you to go to SMU on September 24th. On that day there are two back-to-back events at SMU celebrating Darwin -- go to smu.edu/smunews/darwin/events.asp and scroll down to September 24th. I don't want you going the... Read Full Story

It's hard to wrap my head around such totally infantile thinking as Kirk Cameron's. See, he and his numbskull buddy Ray Comfort are releasing a "special edition" of Darwin's Origin of Species 3 days before its 150 anniversary release date. And Ray has written a very "special" introduction for this edition. Short bus anyone?But inquiring minds want to know...or something. You can read some real zingers in a new article on Cameron's crusade in People magazine (thanks Pam)."You can see where [Hi... Read Full Story