This week’s cover article in Time magazine and the results of a recent survey on the extent of religious faith in America got me thinking. I I’ve been critical of anti-scientific thinking for some time now. One of the books… Continue Reading
It’s interesting to note that the very arrogant preacher whom I saw in the Richard Dawkins video rightly call Prof. Dawkins on the carpet for arrogance is now caught up in allegations of having paid for gay sex. Apparently his… Continue Reading
There are fewer better explainers of evolution than Richard Dawkins. There are also fewer bigger critics of religion than he, and perhaps it’s no wonder. No field of science has been attacked more directly, consistently, or successfully than evolution in… Continue Reading
A friend from Tennessee writes: Right now we have an interesting problem in Cumberland County. Someone has placed a truly awful piece of chainsaw art – Moses and the 10 C’s – on the sidewalk in front of the county… Continue Reading
Are there really moderates in America’s political landscape? Of course. Are they a political force to reckon with? Of course not. The reasons people define themselves as “centrists” or “moderates” are very diverse, to the point that it is next… Continue Reading
How odd that Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh chose the two months before the release of the movie The Da Vinci Code to sue Dan Brown for copyright infringement. Their claim was that Brown ripped off their idea that Jesus… Continue Reading