Scientists in Britain have started creating genetically modified embryos to use for research purposes. It appears that they’re only using embryos that were discarded from fertility clinics, are destroying the embryos after five days, and won’t be implanting any of these genetically modified embryos into a uterus where it could potentially grow up to […]

Today is chock full of religiously motivated stupidity, and I haven’t even had time to brush up on Christian News Wire.  But for today’s first post I’m going to shift gears away from mainstream religion for a moment and tackle some good old-fashioned superstition.
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?  The […]

I suppose it serves me right for saying something even remotely positive about Islam, because the same day in Denmark five muslim men were arrested in a plot to murder one of the twelve Danish cartoonists who drew a caricature of the prophet Mohammed that Islamic extremists deemed offensive, to put it mildly.
And as we […]

There’s a bit of a dust up taking place in Turkey right now.  The moderate Islamic AKP party that came to power in the early 00s in Turkey have successfully pushed through constitutional amendments that lift a ban on wearing head scarves.  The ban was put in place in the mid 90s by the ruling […]