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The Boycott Mexico Campaign
2008-03-14 15:56:00 I hope that bloggers, websiters, myspacers and facebookers will join in encouraging people to boycott travel to Mexico until Brenda Martin is released from her unjust Mexican imprisonment, receives a sincere public apology from the Mexican government, and a multi-million dollar payment as an attempt at restitution for her 2+ years of unjust detainment. The story ... More About: Morality , Campaign , Guantanamo , Boycott
It?s L. Ron Hubbard?s Birthday and SCIENTOLOGY IS A TOTALITARIAN TERRORIST
2008-03-13 05:39:00 It’s not everyday that we get to celebrate the birthday of a man who realized his aspiration to get rich by starting up a religion. It’s not everyday that we get to celebrate the birthday of a man who created a totalitarian Orwellian terrorist cult. Today we get to celebrate both. Today is the birthday of the ... More About: News , Religion , Culture , Scientology , Morality
SAVE BRENDA MARTIN: Woman held in Mexican jail for 2+ years without trial.
2008-03-13 03:54:00 From SaveBrenda Fund.Ca: Brenda Martin is a Canadian woman who has been imprisoned in a Mexican jail since February 2006. Brenda?s family have been desperately attempting to raise awareness of her plight, calling on the Canadian Government to ensure that she receives a fair trial. Brenda has had limited contact with her family and friends, and at this ... More About: News , Mexico , Trial
Expelled: No Intelligent Flying Spaghetti Monsters Allowed
2008-03-10 17:44:00 I’m mad. Flaming mad! I thought the scientific community was about academic freedom, following the evidence wherever it leads, and expelling dogmatism. That was until I saw this documentary preview. I was wrong. The scientific community that I had long trusted and respected has been usurped by Darwinist dogmatists. Richard Dawkins may be Darwin’s Rottweiler, ... More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Religion , Evolution , Intelligent
The fundamentalist?s implicit acknowledgement of his own ridiculousness
2008-03-10 07:36:00 Dave Scot at Uncommon Descent [i.e., a ridiculous blog by and for Christian fundamentalists who like to delude themselves and each other into thinking that 1) Intelligent Design is a science rather than one big faith-based argument from ignorance; 2) that there is some grand dogmatic “Darwinist” conspiracy in the scientific community which is dedicated to ... More About: Science , Atheism , Religion , Christianity
If only Canada could be more like Amsterdam?
2008-03-10 00:25:00 (Taken at a store in Amsterdam by a friend) More About: Canada
The Religious Humor Contest: What?s the funniest piece of scripture you?ve
2008-03-09 22:32:00 What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever read in the Bible, Qur’an, or any other supposed communication from God endorsed by a current or past world religion/cult? Submit responses in the comment section of this post between now and 11:59 PM on Sunday March 16 (which is, coincidentally, the day after the next international day of protest against the Cult ... More About: Contest , Humor , Scripture , Piece , Religious
The funniest Bible verse that I have ever read
2008-03-09 21:30:00 I’m currently reading the Bible , Old Testament and New. Working my way through Deuteronomy I nearly broke out laughing when I read this: Duty to a Dead Brother (25.5-10) “If two brothers live on the same propery and one of them dies, leaving no son, then his widow is not to be married to someone outside the ... More About: Religion , Scripture , Read , Verse
www.ExpelledExposed.com: The National Center for Science Education?s offici
2008-03-08 20:01:00 The US-based National Center for Science Education has opened up a website for its response to the upcoming Ben Stein crocumentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, in which he and fellow Intelligent Design and traditional Creationists spread their delusional thinking about how science and secular governments are out to get them, science is dogmatically enamored with ... More About: The National
What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they?ll keep being wrong!
2008-03-08 09:03:00 The story of my days since starting The Frame Problem. More About: Leave , Wrong
The short-comings of every theist argument that I have ever heard, and the
2008-03-06 16:15:00 I am an agnostic atheist. An agnostic atheist is one who does not make the assertive statement “There is no God”, but simply lacks a belief in any God. I do not know for certain that there is no God, so I won’t claim such knowledge. In my experience, though, I have had no experiences ... More About: Short , Theist
The Secular Conscience | Dr. Austin Dacey speaks in Toronto this Friday
2008-03-05 21:11:00 THE SECULAR CONSCIENCE: WHY BELIEF BELONGS IN PUBLIC LIFE, with Dr. Austin Dacey. The first Canadian book tour stop! Do ethics presuppose religion? Are objective morals incompatible with secular liberalism? Do questions of religion & values belong in public life? Secular ism has lost its soul. From Washington to the Vatican to Tehran, religion is a public matter as never before, and ... More About: Toronto , Conscience , Friday
Moses was very probably high on psychedelic drugs, says Cognitive Psycholog
2008-03-05 05:02:00 According to Hebrew University (Jerusalem) cognitive psychologist Benny Shanon, Moses was very probably under the influence of psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments and when he saw the burning bush. In a study published in the Time and Mind Journal of Philosophy, Shanon says that such mind-altering substances played an integral ... More About: Drugs , Psychedelic , Psychology , High
Editorial Submission re: War of the Worldviews religious debate event in Wh
2008-03-04 18:14:00 Here is the final draft just sent to the Durham Region News, for publication as an op-ed: Local Creationists Stage Slanted Religious Debate Weekend The recent War of the Worldviews event on religion was little more than a deviously mislabeled 2-day long endorsement of Christian literalism and sanctioned bigotry toward everyone else. This event was slanted to ... More About: Event , Editorial , Submission
Proof that God exists and that he supports male homosexuality
2008-03-04 18:08:00 Hat Tip: Kish More About: Intelligent Design , Christianity , God , Evolution , Homosexuality
Florida State Senate Bill 2692: The We Have *NO* Scientific Standards Act
2008-03-04 02:14:00 Florida Republican Ronda Storms has introduced the positively named Academic Freedom Act in the Florida State Senate . The bill concerns the rights of teachers and students with regard to education on, you guessed it, evolution. The bill proposes that teachers be able to “objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views ... More About: Standards , Florida
Atheists/agnostics and religion-unaffiliated make up 4 and 16.1% of America
2008-03-03 17:20:00 The US Religious Landscape Survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that 16.1 % of America ns have no particular religion, making the religion-unaffiliated the second largest faith-related group in the country, trailing only Roman Catholics who comprised 23.9% of the 35,000 survey respondents. The study also shows that the proportion of ... More About: Make Up , Make , Make-up
The troubles of debating Creationists
2008-03-03 15:53:00 Steven Novella of NeuroLogica has written an incisive analysis of PR strategies that are apparently being employed by Creationists, particularly when it comes to debating evolution and Creationism . I highly recommend reading his analysis, which I present below.Novella writes: Yesterday I interviewed PZ Myers, author of the popular science blog Pharyngula, for this week?s SGU podcast, ... More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Religion , Evolution
Responding to Intelligent Design/Creationism: The Law of Biogenesis
2008-03-03 02:30:00 This is the first entry of an ongoing program on this blog dedicated to responding to Intelligent Design /Creationist claims. Leading Intelligent Design/Creationism advocates accuse mainstream scientists of being dogmatically attached to naturalistic evolution, they describe evolution as being a faith rather than a scientific enterprise, they refer to those who accept evolution as “Darwinists”, so ... More About: Atheism , Religion , Evolution
Letter to the Editor Re: War of the Worldviews religious debates in Whitby,
2008-03-02 20:24:00 The recent War of the Worldviews religious debates in Whitby, ON was covered in the Durham Region newspapers this week. The event was also covered extensively on this blog, here, here, here and here. My letter to the editor on this event can be read below. I will be sending the letter of as soon ... More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Atheism , Religion , Christianity
Video chronicle of Scientology scandals
2008-02-20 11:24:00 Here is a video which chronicles Scientology scandals. Scandals include infiltration of the IRS, going to extreme lengths to suppress critics, causation of deaths (including possible murders), exploitation of members, and so on. More About: Video , Morality , Chronicle
Scientologist Fundamentalists
2008-02-20 10:41:00 Prepare to be stunned. I just finished watching a video on YouTube in which a camcorder-carrying critic of Scientology attempted to attend a Scientology street event and was not allowed in, despite the fact that the party was on a public street and there was a sign up indicating that all are welcome. The critic was ... More About: Religion , Quackery , Ron Hubbard , Scientologist
Hateful message directed to Pastarians at Michigan Tech University
2008-02-20 08:06:00 “they should be shot and hanged from the tallest redwood and then thrown to the raging sea” read the note posted on the door of the newly-formed Michigan Tech University Pastafarian club. In October, the website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster reported that the two students who had been identified as the ... More About: Intelligent Design , Atheism , Religion , Culture
The snakefish: A concerning ecological threat (Updated with picture)
2008-02-20 05:34:00 In 2002, the snakefish (or Channidae) was described as “something from a bad horror movie” by US Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Planet Ark describes snakefish as having ”a voracious appetite, often consuming all other fish in a lake or pond and even eating its young. It can slither across land, staying out of water for up to three ... More About: Culture , World , Picture , Threat
The Florida Board of Education has voted in favour of lying for Jesus
2008-02-20 01:04:00 Thanks to religious dogmatism and sophistry, the biological fact of evolution will be taught as a theory in Florida public schools. While this is surely a step up from the old curriculum, which did not mention evolution at all, it is a clear demonstration of religious dogmatism polluting impartial scientific teaching. Read on for more ... More About: Jesus , Education , Board , Lying
Fidel Castro steps down from Cuban Presidency
2008-02-20 00:34:00 BBC - The 81-year-old Cuba n leader announced early this morning in a letter published on the website of the Cuban Communist Party’s newspaper, Granma, that he will not be accepting another term as President. Castro has been in power for 49 years, though his brother Raul has held the reigns since July 2006, when Castro ... More About: Politics , Bush , China , European Union
Charles Barkley blasts the Christian Right, calling them ?fake Christians?
2008-02-19 09:28:00 NBA great Charles Barkley said what surely millions of people have been thinking for a long time: the Christian Right is rife with fake Christianity . This group is known for being one that claims righteousness in the word Christ, but they have shown themselves to be unChristian time and time again, primarily by passing judgment ... More About: Politics , Religion , Sports
A full-blown Rapture-anticipating anti-evolution Christian fundamentalist s
2008-02-19 03:50:00 A reader is currently claiming that evolution is completely without evidence, that only scientists who are atheistic subscribe to evolution, and that the reason that atheistic scientists “cling” to evolution is that the alternative is to believe in an outside Creator, something that they just couldn’t bare. To give you a preview of this commentor’s ... More About: Christian , Evolution , Full , Anti , Rapture
I just received a poem from Rapture Alert about Darwin?s alleged recantatio
2008-02-18 22:50:00 For those of you who haven’t heard of Rapture Alert, it’s a website dedicated to the anticipation of the rapture. One of the website’s fans or administrators just sent in a poem in response an earlier post on a Florida school board which had voted to oppose the teaching of evolution as fact. Take a ... More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Atheism , Religion , Christianity
Defending the legality of abortion
More articles from this author:2008-02-18 21:35:00 In this post I will argue on behalf of the legality of abortion. I will consider the issues from the stance of the unborn fetus, the parents, and society. I will also briefly consider the issue of abortion in the case of rape. I will not, however, consider abortion from the perspective of religion. While ... More About: Philosophy , Politics , Abortion , Morality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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