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Why I Believe In Evolution

May 20, 2013Will Truman 107 Comments

In a thread about evolution, Pierre Corneille said the following: Speaking for myself, sometimes I actually kind of get a little chip-on-shoulder-y with the pro-teaching-evolution-in-school crowd because I detect sometimes a certain arrogance that annoys. When deciding where I want… Continue Reading →

Antiscience, Evolution, Religion

Establishment and Free Exercise

October 20, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

I anticipate some flak coming my way on this point after Tea Partiers read below that I criticized Christine O’Donnell. So here is a brief refresher for those among you who see grave Constitutional peril in a particular semantic. The… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Courts, Evolution, History, Religion

Unfair Documentaries Are Still Unfair Even When I Agree With Them

July 7, 2010Burt Likko

If you were to watch this video without a critical mind, you’d probably wind up feeling outraged. But as someone who has had his own thoughts and beliefs tested by countless documentaries and other media productions, and who later in… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, Evolution, Teaching, Tennessee

Ravi Zacharias’ Six Questions Answered!

May 15, 2010Burt Likko

At The Atheist Experience, I find a set of six ‘questions’ from Ravi Zacharias, an evangelical Christian apologist.  Matt D. at Atheist Experience does a fine job on his own behalf and I commend his thoughts on the issues Zacharias… Continue Reading →

Atheism, Ethics and Morality, Evolution, History, Link Love, Philosophy, Religion

Talking To Believers, Part 5: Preparation

March 6, 2010Burt Likko 4 Comments

To conclude my series of unsolicited advice about how to navigate a wide universe of conversational disagreements, thinking specifically about skeptics engaged in dialogue with believers, I’m getting more practical and less theoretical, and more specific to my chosen target… Continue Reading →

Atheism, Evolution, Talking to Believers

Talking To Believers, Part 4: The Meta Conversation

March 6, 2010Burt Likko

Next, I want to consider a few things that I’ll address in ways that a lawyer would.  These are “issues about issues,” and they are often not explicitly discussed in a conversation (at least, not in an interesting one) but… Continue Reading →

Atheism, Evolution, Talking to Believers

Happy Darwin Day!

February 12, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment
Evolution, Science

Weekend Weirdness, Volume V

November 14, 2009Burt Likko

Yes, it happens to us all.  Here’s proof.  Man, Brendan Fraser looks like me! Sick with the swine flu because no one will give you a vaccination?  Well, don’t let that stop you from getting your buzz on! You’ve fantasized… Continue Reading →

Death, Evolution, Sickness and Health, Weirdness

Getting The Science Wrong

October 28, 2009Burt Likko

The international news reporting firm Al-Jazeera ought to be ashamed of itself.  No, my conservative friends, I don’t take Al-Jazeera to task today for painting America in a bad light, although I dislike that they do that, too — Al-Jazeera… Continue Reading →

Antiscience, Evolution, News, Religion, Science

Intermediate Fossils

October 18, 2009Burt Likko

It occurred to me that the usual anti-evolution protest of “There are no intermediates in the fossil record!” is kind of like looking at a spectrum cast out of a prism: Optics-Denier:  “Well, I see red and I see blue,… Continue Reading →

Antiscience, Evolution

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