The FtBConscience conference happened to be on our 5th wedding anniversary, so the wife and I talked about how we met, and how we inspired each other’s activism. She’s a science teacher, so we have a common enemy in the creationist camp, and we talked a bit about our history with that too. I’m glad […]
Where are the Asian Faces of Freethought?
This quote from John Xu… “I have often remarked how little interest people of my ethnicity have for secularist and freethought issues. My theory is that this is because they are the product of very complicated and difficult social, political, and intellectual turmoils of the 20th Century. Most Chinese people I know are brought up with […]
Atheist Ink
As a former tattooist, I retain an interest in ink. Last year, I met this guy, Darin in Illinois, and he had a cool idea for a tat. Check this out! Darwin-fish, DNA, humanism, the American Atheist logo, the works. He even has the zopdoz of the apistevist! Nice! Thanks for sharin’ Darin. That’s how […]
A post-mortem on presuppositionalism
On Sye’s own website, ‘Proof that God exists‘, you follow a trail of questions set as dominoes erected to direct you to the desired conclusion: 1. Absolute Truth Exists: I chose yes, ignoring that knowledge will never be perfect or complete. It turns out that when presups ask this question, they’re only talking about whether […]
I am 3 of the 6 types of atheist, down from 4
I’m a little confused at the new study of ‘Six Types of Atheist’, because I am half of them. I fit their criteria for #1 the Intellectual Atheist, #2 the Activist, and #4 the Anti-theist. Personally I thought there were more categories than that, but the others I’m thinking of might all belong to category […]
What would an actual extra-terrestrial most likely look like?
When I first saw this fantastic color-enhanced electron micrograph image of this millimeter mite, I didn’t recognize it. At first I thought I was looking at something shown at actual size, and that it might be an experiment in man-made robotics. This thing does not look like an natural animal; it looks like it’s made […]
head-desk apologetics
Last night on the Dogma Debate podcast, I had to endure another tedious round of verbal tennis with Sye Ten Bruggencate. His sole notoriety is that he actually endorses what has to be the least logical of all possible positions with regard to truth and knowledge. It is the fallacy of the circular argument routing […]
What religion has contributed to the world this month
This is a shout out for a YouTube channel by the name of ConversationWithA. You can also find them on their facebook page, Religion Hurts Humanity. Now I’ve never talked to these people. I don’t know who they are, or anything about them. All I do know is that they regularly put out a video […]
The Secular Party of America
Last March in San Francisco, I had the honor of addressing a few highly-motivated activists who started a brand-new political party, the National Atheist Party. As hard as this might be to believe, there were a few people who were uncomfortable with that name, many of them were atheists! I recognized their concerns, as many […]
Unpopular Perry
Roughly 1,000 people had signed up to testify against the abortion bill being pushed through the 2nd special session of Perry’s personal agenda, but only about 10% of those people were actually allowed to speak. So a coalition of independent agencies put together a petition requesting senators to hold public hearings across the state. Yesterday, […]