Blog Stats
- 2,372,037 readers since June 2008
Recent Comments
- Vincent on A Guided Meditation With A Little Help From A Wallace Stevens Poem (“The Plain Sense Of Things”)
- tayoulevy on A Guided Meditation With A Little Help From A Wallace Stevens Poem (“The Plain Sense Of Things”)
- Santi Tafarella on How do you spell relief? R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N?
- Vincent on How do you spell relief? R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N?
- Vincent on Why I Still Like Jesus
- Anonymous on What is an Etiological Narrative? And Might Confusion About Its Nature Be the Source for Fundamentalist Religion?
- Anonymous on On Having No Head: The Headless Squid Bowl, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, And The Cosmos’s Undirected, Mutually Interdependent Arising
- Vincent on On Having No Head: The Headless Squid Bowl, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, And The Cosmos’s Undirected, Mutually Interdependent Arising
- Santi Tafarella on On Having No Head: The Headless Squid Bowl, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, And The Cosmos’s Undirected, Mutually Interdependent Arising
- Vincent on On Having No Head: The Headless Squid Bowl, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, And The Cosmos’s Undirected, Mutually Interdependent Arising
- Delphinium Flower on Four Hundred Fifty Antisemitic Verses In The Gospels And Book of Acts
- Nick Reid on In 1935, Were Cary Grant and Randolf Scott Sex Partners? No, But These Images Look Rather Camp
- newscluesandafewblues on American Nazis at Jefferson’s Statue: That Image from Charlottesville I Can’t Get Out of My Mind
- andrewclunn on American Nazis at Jefferson’s Statue: That Image from Charlottesville I Can’t Get Out of My Mind
- Anonymous on American Nazis at Jefferson’s Statue: That Image from Charlottesville I Can’t Get Out of My Mind
Top Posts
- What is a Human, Really? Thinking about Definition via Aristotle
- How Crazy is Dr. David Jeremiah?
- Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Children Experimented upon at Auschwitz
- Ludwig Wittgenstein for Beginners
- How Many People Could the Ancient Colosseum in Rome Hold?
- What is an Etiological Narrative? And Might Confusion About Its Nature Be the Source for Fundamentalist Religion?
- Walt Whitman: "To be indeed a God!"
- Saint Ranieri, Meet George Jetson: Deconstruction Illustrated with a Catholic Painting
- Adam Smith and Capitalism for Beginners
-
Recent Posts
- A Guided Meditation With A Little Help From A Wallace Stevens Poem (“The Plain Sense Of Things”)
- On Having No Head: The Headless Squid Bowl, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, And The Cosmos’s Undirected, Mutually Interdependent Arising
- Partially Excited States: An Interview With Charles Hood
- American Nazis at Jefferson’s Statue: That Image from Charlottesville I Can’t Get Out of My Mind
- Distract, Maul, And Dominate: Donald Trump’s CNN Wrestling Video GIF And Hitler’s Reichstag Fire
Recent Haiku Tweets
- Perfect. twitter.com/newsundayheral… 8 months ago
- RT @goldenglobes: At tonight's #GoldenGlobes we honor Hollywood legend Meryl Streep with the prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award. https://t.… 8 months ago
- If Trump establishes a Muslim registry, and calls on Muslims to provide their names, this agnostic will be joining them. #registerasamuslim 10 months ago
- #DonaldPGroper Donald P. Groper. Donald Trump is done, right? 11 months ago
- #DonaldPGrabber Donald P. Grabber. Donald Trump is done. 11 months ago
Monthly Archives: August 2012
When Experts Collide: Jerry Coyne verses James Shapiro
At his blog, evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne recently took after his University of Chicago colleague, James Shapiro, complaining about him in the following manner: Virtually all of the non-creationist opposition to the modern theory of evolution, and all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged atheism, atheist, critical thinking, Darwin, evolution, James Shapiro, jerry coyne, molecular biology
Leave a comment
Mars, the Book
A miracle. This is not the American Southwest, but part of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater on Mars. The (apparently sedimentary) rocks exposed here are more than three billion years old. Curiosity is about six miles from them. Behold the Book of Mars. We’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged astrobiology, astronomy, life, life on mars, Mars, NASA, science, space, wonder
Leave a comment
Louis CK Does a Close Reading of the Story of Abraham and Isaac
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apologetics, books, comedy, humor, interpretation, reading, religion, the Bible
Leave a comment
Lyric and Song: Why Simple Reasons, However Incoherent or Decontextualized, are Effective Persuaders
I have a theory about explanation, and why bad explanations so frequently trump good explanations. Good explanations (that is, explanations that are true) often do not accord with what we want to believe is true. Therefore, when evaluating a successful … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, critical thinking, evolution, reason, science
1 Comment
Bill Nye Frets Over Evolution Denial
___________ Why is the above video so compelling? I’d say it has primarily to do with his manner of speaking about evolution: Bill Nye the Science Guy, a man beloved by children and parents alike, is pained, bewildered, and disappointed–and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged albert mohler, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Bill Nye, creationism, critical thinking, evolution, reason, YEC
Leave a comment
Senator Al Franken Draws US Map from Memory
At the Minnesota State Fair. Pretty impressive.
Give George Orwell a Statue Near BBC Headquarters
The exact site has yet to be settled on, but this is in the Telegraph today (quoting the artist commissioned to make the statue): George Orwell is regarded as something of a patron saint of political journalism so his presence … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, critical thinking, George Orwell, intelligence, reason
Leave a comment
Are We Alone? Mars News You May Have Missed That Seems Pretty Important
This appeared at New Scientist back in 2006, but it seems pretty important to thinking about what Curiosity is up to now: [A] paper by Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez of the University of Mexico and others demonstrates that the GCMS instrument [organic … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged are we alone?, astrobiology, extremophiles, life, life on mars, Mars
Leave a comment
Forcible Rape Anti-Abortion Co-Sponsors: Paul Ryan and Todd Akin
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) __________ The above two men would forbid a victim of rape or incest to terminate her pregnancy. And they co-sponsored a bill in Congress that brought into contemporary discourse the noxious phrase “forcible rape.” Then Mitt … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Colorado, Florida, mitt romney, Ohio, paul ryan, sexism, women, women's rights
Leave a comment
