Christian Colleges and Evolution

I graduated from a Christian college. However, they weren’t a Bible college – they were scientifically literate. While I don’t believe in Christianity, I do have to give them credit for getting the science right. Of course, that earned them the ire of certain Christian groups which accused them of being too [...]

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YouTube videos: Why do people laugh at creationists?

PZ Myers’ recent post, which included a creationist mangling whale evolution, reminded me of this series of videos:
Parts 1-3:

The author of these videos has made a lot more. Right now, there are seventeen videos in the series.

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Barak Obama is the Antichrist?

While looking over the latest posts in Fundies Say The Darndest Things, I found this quote:
I go to church sometimes but I am not as religious as I would like to be. My niece is convinced that Obama is the anti christ. She quoted from the Bible different things about how people would act and [...]

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Is nanotechnology morally acceptable?

Maybe the reporters just really screwed up the reporting here, but ScienceDaily is claiming that a majority of Americans doesn’t think nanotechnology is morally acceptable: “In a sample of 1,015 adult Americans, only 29.5 percent of respondents agreed that nanotechnology was morally acceptable.” They go on to say that europeans are more likely to [...]

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Ode to Caroline Crocker

Caroline Crocker was a professor at a community college a few years ago. She taught Intelligent Design in her biology class. Subsequently, she didn’t have her contract renewed. Not surprisingly, she showed up in the movie Expelled. The IDists have been trying their best to make her look respectable and victimized. [...]

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Personal Relationship with God = God doesn’t talk to me

One of the absurd ideas of Christianity is the whole notion of having a personal relationship with God. In many cases, Christians will believe that God is talking back to them or guiding them. In my late teens (growing up in a fundamentalist family), I couldn’t help but notice how frequently ‘God’s instructions’ [...]

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Scientology Protests

The “official” scientology protests were today. Apparently, over 200 people showed up in LA to protest their headquarters. I don’t think it will have any effect on the people inside (it’s probably more likely to produce a bunker mentality and a visible enemy for their leaders to rail against), but it is a [...]

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“Psychic Nikki” caught red-handed

The SkepTick gave a talk a few weeks ago, and, just for fun, he copied down some predictions for 2008 that PsychicNikki had put on her website. One section was titled “Death Watch/Health Watch” – with names of people who might have a higher chance of dying that year. A few days later [...]

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Pastafarian spoof videos

Spoof of the Anonymous / Scientology video:

Spoof of the Tom Cruise / Scientology video:

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Rapture-mania

I stumbled on this little diagram today. It’s a chart made in 1918, and it describes periods of history from a pseudo-Biblical perspective – even claiming that the antichrist would appear in the year 2000. I say “pseudo-Biblical” because it seems to be based on the perception that significant Biblical events happened every [...]

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