Hitchens debated Blair , and then he wrote about it in the Washington Post : As for religious charity and good works, this is not even a bad...

Some days I think stochasticity is an important phenomenon in evolution, and some days I don't.

Oh.. dear, I'm becoming one of those annoying obsessed types - with the peacock tail. For the I don't know what time, someone is sta...

To my elation, the much anticipated debate between Tonay blair and Christopher Hitchens is up on YouTube. To see it, and to skip the first 1...

Can anyone confirm or deny the accuracy of this translation? If true, this is just fantastically disgusting.

A few posts from the past are still generating comments now and then: Warning: don't go to La Sierra University. Islamic crud stones inn...

Fuck! Things will never be the same again, for me. If we are what we write, then forever there is no knowing who we are. Am I even who I cla...

Well, here's one on the topic. But I object. There are many songs that do not have any affiliation with anything religious, but they are...

This blog post is for all those things going on in the blogosphere and affiliated * that I am ignoring. There is lots of crazy stuff out th...

I have just finished reading Jerry Coyne's latest book, Why Evolution Is True . Jerry is one of the world's most famous living evolu...

I swear I was gonna leave this subject alone, but a new post by Greta Christina has just said something on the topic of what evidence is ne...

← Carnival of Evolution has a splendid logo, don't you think? We don't need a new one. However, I'd like to get another one fo...

New editions of various science blog carnivals have been posted recently: Scientia Pro Publica is now at edition #44 . It runs weekly now, ...

I am very dismayed that namesakes of mine are Christian missionaries. They have a blog that keep popping up in my reader, so I read what the...

The 29th edition of Carnival of Evolution is now ready at Byte Size Biology . It's a great game of evolution this time. Kick-off is a po...

Today a very affectionate cat walked up to my son and me as we were walking back from basketball practice. He wanted a lot of attention, and...

Michael Egnor has answered the questions he put to the Atheists the other day. My answers are here . His answers are kind of longish, so al...

I've just learned of a new online application, Time Tree , with which you can search on two species/taxa and get the time since they div...

"There can be no evidence for X, because X must per definition have the property Y, and Y does per definition not exist." Find X a...

Michael Egnor has some questions for atheists , because he thinks there must be more to what we believe than just these: 1) There are no god...