To recap: My wife Lilandra found out that Ken Ham will be lying to the Texas Home-school Coalition on August 1st thru 3rd. She being a former creationist and now a science teacher, expressed her concerns about that. Ham heads answersingenesis, a disingenuous pseudoscience propaganda site that is listed as one of the top ten […]
Tonight on Dogma Debate
I found out on Friday afternoon that Rachel Brown and I were to run this week’s episode of Dogma Debate, because Smalley will be out-of-town. I wanted to line up a couple of science-heavy guests that she and I would like to talk to, but there just wasn’t enough advanced notice to set that up. […]
The March of Reason, part 3 of 5
A couple months ago, I blogged about the first two episodes of a five-part documentary series called ‘The March of Reason’. Well, the 3rd part of that set was just made available.
Atheist Ink II, defiant quotation
Another atheist chimed in to show off his tat, and I’m happy to share it.
Wretched behavior
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 […]
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 […]