This comic is a bit old, but it’s just so (agelessly) pertinent right now.

This has probably been around a while. I’ve had this sitting on my hard drive for ages.  But given my earlier post on Sarah Palin’s utter ignorance of Science and this quote about Sarah Palin from Philip Munger on Salon.com…
“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old [...]

Dr. Jim West has implicitly claimed that because evolutionists often defend the theory of evolution so passionately and vociferously (or as he puts it, with “religious zeal”), then that must mean that evolution is “doctrine” 1. (his post title: If It’s Not A Doctrine, Why Are People So Defensive?).
I hear this argument all the time, in [...]

Today in his Pharyngula blog, PZ Myers went off on Democrats for highlighting their commitment to religion and faith and the compassionate accomplishments faith-based groups can make in the world.
Let me first say that in essence, and in principle, I am in complete agreement with PZ. Liberals, progressives, and the Democratic party that we liberals, [...]

C. L. Hanson over at Letters From a Broad: The Adventures of a Friendly Ex-Mormon Atheist Mom Living in France Switzerland (I love that title) has composed the 98th biweekly edition of Carnival of the Godless, a blog carnival containing a myriad links to thoughts on atheism or tangentially related topics. This edition is particularly [...]

3D animation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This is a render that I modeled and animated in two nights. Bathe in the glory of his Noodly Appendages.
Created with the opensource Blender and the GIMP, and Adobe After Effects.
For you CG animators out there, I am providing the .blend file here. Do whatever you wish with [...]

For those of you who have yet to partake in the skeptical arts, check out the latest edition of the 93rd Skeptic’s Circle Blog Carnival, by City of Skeptics, who hosted the latest edition using a clever ironic Tarot reading (with the final card shown here).
My own most recent post about the second coming of [...]

“Hail, Earthen brothers and sisters, children of the Universal creator. As promised to you millennia ago, I come to you again to bring you unto the Heavens.”
The man raised his hands outward toward the gathered masses, the red scars still visible upon his wrists. The throngs cheered in unison as a great wave of pent [...]

Update: This essay can now be found on the NPR “This I Believe” website.
Recently, I wrote an essay for This I Believe, an NPR radio series that asks Americans to answer this simple question. My essay has not yet been reviewed; however I doubt my chances of getting selected on the radio program. It is [...]

Most people who believe in the presence of a soul, also believe that that soul contains some sort of information about who “you” are. They believe that it contains some essence of your self, your memories, your personality.
However, there now exists within the realms of neuroscience, a plenitude of evidence that such a soul does [...]

All life and human experience is devoid of meaning. The Universe is nothing more than an enormous cosmic accident. It is an accident that will be corrected in due course, as the Universe and its inhabitants are fated to be destroyed in an equally pointless cataclysm of some kind or another - whether it be [...]

It has finally hit you that the End Times are approaching. Good for you. Acceptance is the first step in surviving the tortuous existence about to come. For those of you that shudder at the mere thought of losing digital cable, broadband internet, and Spongebob Squarepants action figures, I have compiled this brief list of [...]

I’ve recently been reading “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a nineteenth-century Russian novelist, and I came across the following quote:
“Remember always, young man… that science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of [...]