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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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