Kentucky is defended by a god

Specifically, it’s defended by the god we all know so well.
Under state law, God is Kentucky’s first line of defense against terrorism.
The 2006 law organizing the state Office of Homeland Security lists its initial duty as “stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.”
Specifically, Homeland Security [...]

Meteor Follow-up

LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta – Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month.
University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural Alberta-Saskatchewan border, near the city of Lloydminster [...]

Kin Discrimination and the Social Amoeba

Research recently published in PLoS Biology indicates that amoebas which are close to starvation will seek out genetically similar relatives.
We tested how widely social amoebae cooperate by mixing isolates from different localities that cover most of their natural range. We show here that different isolates partially exclude one another during aggregation, and there is [...]

Dinesh D’Souza is a moron

Let’s just jump right into an article by Dinesh D’Souza.
But of late atheism seems to be losing its scientific confidence. One sign of this is the public advertisements that are appearing in billboards from London to Washington DC. Dawkins helped pay for a London campaign to put signs on city buses saying, “There’s probably no [...]

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Turtle fossil discovery

Researchers recently uncovered a transitional turtle fossil in China.
From the three Odontochely fossils discovered in China, [Li Chun at the Chinese Academy of Sciences] said it was clear the turtle first developed the plastron, or the lower shell that encases the belly, before getting its upper shell, or the carapace.
“The plastron developed first and after [...]

More bus campaign news

The British Humanist Association recently received public monies. It’s unclear if this has anything to specifically do with their recent bus campaign (maybe a Brit can clarify). At any rate, this is all fine and dandy, but the response has been interesting, if a tad predictable.
Critics say it is wrong for the Equality and Human [...]

Ad company offers bigotry instead of ad space

The Atheist Foundation of Australia has recently been given a blow. Following in the footsteps of other atheist and humanist organizations, the AFA sought to place ads on the sides of buses, hoping to get their message out to the general public. Unfortunately, one ad company simply refused to allow them ad space without comment.
President [...]

Hubble captures another great image

With such a large and spectacular Universe, doesn’t it seem a tad arrogant for humans, such a small piece of a small planet next to an average star, to believe it to have been made entirely, or even in part, just for us? Surely we aren’t so grand.
The Hubble telescope has captured a spectacular image [...]

Why we believe in gods

I found this video on why we believe in gods to be very interesting and worth watching.