Archive for February, 2008

Flawed Logic: Creationism = Scientific Superpower? »

It’s time to tackle some more creationist stupidity, this time from blogger and Intelligent Design proponent DaveScot at the Uncommon Descent blog.  Dave argues that, all evidence to the contrary aside, the state of science education in America is just fine.  You almost can’t blame a creationist for holding onto an incorrect belief in the […]

Darwin the Racist? Please. »

Those wacky short-earth creationists are at it again.  They lost the Intelligent Design fight in court back in 2004, so now they’re going straight to the source in an attempt to discredit the entire scientific body of knowledge supporting evolution by resorting to the oldest and most childish of logical fallacies: the ad hominem attack.  […]

Christian Fiction and Christian Fact »

I was in a local Borders earlier this weekend browsing through the Religious History section when I heard the following conversation from the other side of the stacks where all of the bibles and other strictly christian works were kept:
Son: “Look, some idiot put a Bible in the Christian Fiction section.”
Mom: ”Oh, well you’d better put […]

Irreligiosity »

Irreligiosity is all about religion gone wrong.
If you count yourselves amongst the devout in a particular religion then please give me at least to the end of this post, and if you count yourself as a member of the neo-atheism movement that has been gaining popularity in recent years then please hold your vaguely smug […]