This week Ann Coulter stirred the political pot yet again. On the CNBC show “Big Idea”, Coulter was asked for her views on the perfect American society. At first she spouted off the idea that it would be a Republican society, shifted so far to the right that Joe Libermann would be viewed […]
How do we know what is true and what is not? How do we weigh the validity of another’s opinion, or even the validity of our own?
Some time ago, Julia made a post on the comfort of knowing the truth. This resulted in a comment discussion on the nature of truth, […]
Recently I came across this photograph of a billboard:
To give you some context, it is an advertisement for Answers in Genesis, the fundamentalist Christian organization which promotes Biblical literalism, including the idea that the universe was created about 6000 years ago, and that the immense diversity of animals we now see on the planet traces […]
Early in my career I taught physics and astronomy at a private religious college in the heart of the Bible belt. I often found myself teaching students who were creationists. As a result there were times when I would find myself using terms such as “billions of years ago” or “over many millennia” […]
Recently Nightline held a “debate” on the existence of God. The debate was initiated by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort, who claimed to be able to prove through science alone (without any appeal to faith or the Bible) that God exists. Representing the opposing team were Brian Sapient and Kelly of the […]
Recently I was reading an article on Daily Kos, and decided to check out the about page. At the end of it was an interesting turn of phrase:
We desperately need to catch the Right in the Blogger Wars.
This was after bragging about being the highest trafficked weblog on […]
In the recent Republican debates, John McCain was asked if he believed in evolution. McCain answered that he did, but that he also saw the hand of God when looking at something like the Grand Canyon. Asked a controversial question, he answered in the middle, which is not unexpected. But when the […]
Consider the following poem:
you few
as of also man
city than food
so people build now
down low
animal
All by itself it is a simple little poem, and not a very good one. But this poem is a dangerous piece of verse. So dangerous that it is illegal for me to tell you how this poem was created.
I […]
So far today I have had to delete about 30 spam comments. When going through them, I also accidentally deleted a real comment (sorry Grant). So I’ve reached my limit. As of today, posting a comment will require solving a simple math problem. For anyone who needs a refresher on how […]
It hasn’t taken long for the tragic events in Virginia to be politicized. The investigation into the motivations of Cho Seung-Hui is still in its early stages, and yet there are those who are clear as to the cause. Joseph Palermo blames the shootings on the NRA, and the Bush administration’s penchant for […]
