I recently debated a Christian apologist at a church in Waco, Texas. I tend to let my opponents pick the topic, because they usually choose a better one than I could think of myself, and this was a fine example of that. Tyler Vela suggested, “Has Christianity Historically Been in Conflict with Science?” I could […]
An Infidel reads Surahs 113, 114, 112 & 53
If you’ve just found this series, see my 1st post on Surahs 1 & 2. my 2nd post on Surahs 96, 68 & 73. my 3rd post on Surahs 74, 111 & 81. my 4th post on Surahs 87, 92, 89, 93, 94 & 103. my 5th post jumping to Surah 18. my 6th post on Surahs 100, 108, 102, 107, […]
An Infidel reads the Qur’an, Surahs 100, 108, 102, 107, 109 & 105
My 1st post on the Qur’an on Surahs 1 & 2. My 2nd post and 1st video on Chapters 96, 68 & 73. My 3rd post and 2nd video on Chapters 74, 111 & 81. My 4th post and 3rd video on Chapters 87, 92, 89, 93, 94 & 103. By special request, my 5th post and 4th video chat jumped out of sequence […]
Scorpio Rising
I’m involved with the Phylogeny Explorer Project because I’m fascinated by the systematic classification of life-forms. A few days ago, I posted how I and a few paleontologists once thought that turtles weren’t really reptiles; that they might be the last surviving lineage of Permian para-reptiles, but that subsequent discoveries proved us wrong. However years before […]
An Infidel Reads the Qur’an – Chapter 18
My first post about reading the Qur’an was on Chapters 1 & 2. My second post and first video chat was on Chapters 96, 68 & 73. My third post and second video chat was on Chapters 74, 111 & 81. My fourth post and third video was on Chapters 87, 92, 89, 93, 94 & 103. Though I will now refer […]
What are turtles?
The classification of turtles is one of the oldest and most contentious debates in taxonomy. What are they? Meaning, what is their phylogeny? Not “how did they evolve?” (we’ve figured that out now, I think) but “what did they evolve from?” Several years ago, I gave a presentation making some predictions about how future fossils […]
An Infidel reads the Qur’an, Chapters 87, 92, 89, 93, 94 & 103
My first post about reading the Qur’an was Chapters 1 & 2. My second post was on Chapters 96, 68 & 73. My most recent post was on Chapters 74, 111 & 81. As each chapter is so short now, I’ll cover maybe a half dozen of them at a time from here on. According […]
An Infidel reads the Qur’an, Chapters 74, 111 & 81
I started reading the Qur’an at Chapter 1, followed of course by Chapter 2. Al-Baqara “The Cow”, which is the longest chapter in the whole book. The others are all quite short. I wrote a blog post about my impression of both of those first two chapters. Then I learned that the Qur’an is not written […]
To the Indiana State Senate
Hi, I’m Aron Ra, Director of the Phylogeny Explorer Project, Regional Director of American Atheists, and author of Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism. This video is an open letter to Indiana State Senators, Dennis Kruse and Scott Schneider, and any other legislators who promote teaching “various theories on the origin of life, including creationism” in public […]
An Infidel reads the Qur’an, Chapters 96, 68 and 73
I’m starting a new experimental video series wherein I’ll read a few chapters of the Qur’an and post my impressions of that here. Then I’ll get on a Google Hangout with some ex-Muslim apostates or preferably practicing Muslims and maybe others who are familiar with the Hadiths and the way that these scriptures are understood […]