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Quickies: All Good News Distraction Edition
Published: 14/10/2019As the dumpster fire all around us expands to reveal it was actually a tire fire all along–much bigger, difficult to put out, with toxic effects we’ll be dealing with for years–IR ... Read moreSource: skepchick.org -
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In which I diverge from Steve Pinker on free will
Published: 13/10/2019Well, I’m not always in accordance with the views of Steve Pinker, and I found this short Big Think video he did on free will (full transcript below) in which we part company in several ways. Gr ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Nathaniel Comfort redux: Science doesn’t progress (or does it?)
Published: 13/10/2019Oy, my kishkas! Science historian Nathaniel Comfort has now emitted at least 65 tweets either doing down Pinker for Steve’s one tweet criticizing Comfort’s dreadful Nature article, or prom ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com
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Nathaniel Comfort gets all angry about a tweet from Steve Pinker
Published: 12/10/2019Two days ago I wrote a critique of a curiously disjointed and poorly written article by science historian Nathaniel Comfort: a critique of science and “scientism” published in Nature. It w ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Caturday felid trifecta: Why cats land on their feet; cats with hats made from their own fur; New York’s most glamorous cats
Published: 12/10/2019Let’s begin with a cat quote sent in by reader Stuart: “I have cats because they have no artificially imposed, culturally prescribed sense of decorum. They live in the moment. If I had an aneu ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Saturday Link Love: Cooking, Friends, and the Cutaway
Published: 12/10/2019Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more th ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com
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US Attorney General William Barr blames secularism for society’s ills
Published: 12/10/2019LAWYERS must unite to take a stand against secularism, which poses a grave threat to Christian-based morality in America. That was the gist of a “religious freedom” speech given by US Atto ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com -
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Would you like a Bible, a gun and a flag with your new vehicle?
Published: 11/10/2019IF so, hurry along to the Carolina Ford dealership in Honea Path, South Carolina. For until the end of November the company is handing out Bibles, flags and gun vouchers to customers. Derrick Hughes, ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com -
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Stepping Heavenward: Angsty Katy Is Angsty
Published: 11/10/2019It is 1834, and Katy has just turned 19 years old. Her schooling is over, and she lives at home with her widowed mother. She enjoys drawing and music, and helps her mother with some sewing. But really ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com
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Bernie Sanders appoints yet another anti-Semite as a campaign “surrogate”
Published: 11/10/2019The Jerusalem Post and other outlets, as well as Amer Zahr himself, have reported that Zahr, described by Wikipedia as “a Palestinian-American comedian, writer, filmmaker, political activist, an ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Bogus accommodationism: The return of Adam and Eve as real people, as proposed by a wonky quasi-scientific theory
Published: 11/10/2019If you’re a liberal Christian scientist (no, not the Mary Baker Eddy kind, but the profession), and would like to persuade more fundamentalist Christians that evolution really happened, what do ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Popular ghost tours to cease after vicar’s alleged harassment
Published: 11/10/2019MIKE James, above, who has been organising enormously popular Cotswold Ghost Tours in Prestbury, Gloucestershire, for four years, claims that harassment by a vicar – the Rev Nick Bromfield, inset – ha ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com
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What the Hell Happened to Bad Chart Thursday?
Published: 10/10/2019Bad Chart Thursday, for me, has always been about examining through satire how people and organizations mislead, through charts or through ideas I can illuminate as nonsense simply by charting the log ... Read moreSource: skepchick.org -
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Oberlin digs in, appealing Gibson’s Bakery case with high-priced legal team and recasting case as “free speech issue”
Published: 10/10/2019I’ve followed the case of Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College from the outset, and because there’s now a Wikipedia article on the case, I needn’t review the whole mishigass here ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Holy water-filled ‘Jesus Shoes’ branded ‘blasphemous’
Published: 10/10/2019OVER on YouTube, a video of a fella from Saving Health Ministries unboxing a pair of ‘Jesus Shoes’ filled with ‘holy water’ from the River Jordan has attracted an angry respon ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com
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Op-ed in science journal Nature disses science and “scientism”, questions Enlightenment values
Published: 10/10/2019Nathaniel Comfort, author of the risible Nature essay at hand (click on screenshot below), is a professor in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. We’ve met him three times before ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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A diplomatic and a spelling mistake by Trump
Published: 10/10/2019I won’t belabor the stupidity of the U.S. tacitly allowing Turkey to start killing Kurds—once our allies against ISIS. What we’ve done is allow Turkey to invade Syria under the misguided n ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com -
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Pope tells atheist ‘Jesus was not a God at all’. Outrage ensues.
Published: 10/10/2019EXASPERATED Catholic commentators are asking why Pope Francis keeps giving interviews to Eugenio Scalfari, the 95-year-old atheist founder of La Repubblica who, in an October 8 editorial, claimed the ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com
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Malta ‘pro-lifers’ angry over Equalities Commissioner’s brush-off
Published: 9/10/2019EARLIER this year Christian groups in Malta campaigned to enshrine the right to life in the constitution of Malta. What they got instead at the beginning of October was an undertaking that the mainly ... Read moreSource: www.patheos.com -
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Georgetown University protestors shut down talk by head of Homeland Security
Published: 9/10/2019Here’s another instance of deplatforming by the Left, which should be embarrassed since, in the last few years, far more speakers have been disinvited or deplatformed by the Left (traditionally ... Read moreSource: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com