Marriage is between people, not disparate ideas

There are a couple articles floating around about a new site run by Francis Collins and Karl Giberson
Our Mission: Faith and science both lead us to truth about God and creation. The BioLogos Foundation promotes the search for truth in both the natural and spiritual realms, and seeks to harmonize these different perspectives.
It’s just another [...]

Worth repeating

Via PZ Myers

The valuable points

PZ Myers has a post about the people who are obsessed with making science out to be the accommodating factor for religion. It simply isn’t true and I want to emphasis an important point; this can’t be repeated enough.
Funny thing is, in those situations (as well as in the classroom) I just focus on telling [...]

A major hurdle for creationists

Just a quick observation: anytime scientists carry out experiments which demonstrate an evolutionary process, creationists are quick to screech “B-b-but people did those experiments! People direct things, thus everything must be directed!”
It’s dumb and needs to stop. It doesn’t follow logically. That’s probably precisely why creationists love to screech it.

The uncanniness of Darwin

Scientists make an otter-like fossil discovery.
They named the creature Puijila darwini (“pew-YEE-lah dar-WIN-eye”). That combines an Inuit word for “young sea mammal,” often a seal, with an homage to Charles Darwin. The famed naturalist had written that a land animal “by occasionally hunting for food in shallow water, then in streams or lakes, might at [...]

Good call

Another anti-science Bush position falls.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge’s order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of “Plan B” to women 18 and older. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month in a lawsuit filed in New York that President George W. [...]

C’mon Yahoo

Yahoo! has an article from Space.com which talks about a Hubble image of three interacting galaxies known as Arp 194. Upon reading the article, I noticed there was a picture of the winner of the recent Hubble contest. Naturally, I assumed I was reading an article about that galactic trio. But then I realized the [...]

More exoplanets

They keep findin’ ‘em.
In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place.
European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring [...]

The Cosmological Anthropic Principle

This isn’t an argument for theists.
The creationist argument goes, the Universe appears fine-tuned for life. Take away any cosmological constant and the Universe is radically different, probably amorphous. It must have been God. This explains nothing. It is the exact same argument they use for explaining complexity (and everything else). All this does is [...]

Vacuous

Joseph Reisert of Colby College recently wrote a tremendously flimsy, unballsy, muddling, vacuous, dumb piece about gay marriage in the local paper.
If you are sure that gay marriage is wrong, you need to listen to what same-sex couples have to say about their lives, their families and their relationships. Whatever your religion may teach about [...]