So Bryan Fischer came out swinging like a lunkhead, and now Ann Coulter scurries out to try and get in a sucker punch. Neither are very effective. Read more . . .
PZ Myers, “Rats Emboldened by Rick Perry”
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Category Archives: Evolution
Making Creationism Extinct: New Film Explores Dangers Of Anti-Evolutionism
Americans United opposes creationism in public school science classes because it is based on a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible . . . A new documentary with the provocative title “No Dinosaurs in Heaven” explores these issues . . . ‘No Dinosaurs in Heaven’ intelligently argues that public education must steadfastly resist the encroachment of religion in the form of creationism, and that science literacy is essential to a healthy democracy.” Read more . . .
PZ Myers,”Coulter Revisited”
Ann Coulter is a horrible, ignorant person who once wrote a whole book accusing liberals of being Godless, as if that were an insult, and advancing arguments against evolution that made the standard noisy creationist look like a veritable scholar . . . By the way, the Coulter challenge is still open, and has been for five years. All anyone has to do is pick one paragraph, any paragraph, from her evolution chapters in Godless, and post it with a defense of its accuracy. Read more . . .
Evolution Threatens Christianity
Paula Kirby, a former Christian, is a writer, consultant and project manager,
specializing in freethinking and secular organizations. She lives in Scotland.
So-called “reality TV” has done the world a grave disservice. I don’t just mean because the vast majority of such programs are mind-numbingly tedious, but because they have given people the idea that reality is something that can be decided by popular vote . . . In the real world, facts are stubborn beasts. They are supremely unmoved by whether we like them or not . . . And it is the same with evolution. Evolution is a simple fact. Read more . . .
Hitler Learns Christians Claim He Is An Atheist
Blog Post: “Rick Perry Knocks Evolution Again: ‘God Is How We Got Here'”
When a woman in South Carolina congratulated him for his remarks Friday, Perry replied “Well, God is how we got here. God may have done it in the blink of the eye or he may have done it over this long period of time, I don’t know. But I know how it got started.”
Video: “Rick Perry Faces Question About Evolution”
Article/Audio: “Tensions Develop Among US Evangelicals Over the Existence of Adam and Eve”
[…] with the mapping of the human genome, it’s clear that modern humans emerged from other primates as a large population – long before the Genesis time frame of a few thousand years ago… Evolution makes it pretty clear that in nature, and in the moral experience of human beings, there never was any such paradise to be lost… To many evangelicals, this is heresy.
Blog Post: “Evolution Easily Explains Morality”
Being able to go beyond our instinctual desires is the main thing that separates humans from animals. Still, I’m sure we all know just how hard it is to overcome our instincts. It’s hard to resist a beautiful woman, for example, and some men can’t (rapists). Still, from nature’s perspective, rape is a perfectly legitimate way of passing on your genes, which explains why there are rapists in the world. Ironically, if all raped women aborted their children perhaps rapists would die out.
Host Post: “On the Cosmic Babysitter, the Big Bang, and Evolution”
I had the following dialogue with a friend of mine concerning the invisible cosmic babysitter in the sky, the sky daddy, if you will, the big bang, and evolution. What are your thoughts concerning such matters?
Always Question Authority 