Atheist Bus News

The atheist bus campaign in Indiana has averted a legal showdown and won the right to display its ads.
From the beginning, the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign said it knew it was going to win the fight against the Bloomington Public Transportation Corporation.
After two months, the campaign was given the OK to run the ad “You [...]

Thought of the day

The religious are convinced that it is a mistake for atheists and scientists to mock their beliefs. It is not. The religious simply have no perspective. They hold bad ideas. Many of their ideas are as silly as unicorns, Santa, and celestial teapots. Feel free to believe those things – just don’t ask me to [...]

Spanking

I often find myself on the lonely side of an argument. I don’t think it’s because I’ve gone off the deep end or that I’m out of touch. It’s that I live in America and my argument-based loneliness is local. The so-called liberals here are the moderate right in most of Europe and our far [...]

Infuriatingly silly

Jerry Coyne has a post about why Francis Collins pollutes science with religion. It’s a succinct piece that basically nails Collins for all his silly, childish, superstitious, frankly stupid beliefs.
The most inane and disingenuous part of Collins’s argument is his claim that without religion, the concepts of good and evil are meaningless. (Collins’s slide 5 [...]

Catching Conservapedia in a lie again

From their lying front page:
Another new paper was just published in Journal of Climate. Added proof Al Gore & Company are simply lying hucksters, out for a buck. Written by eminent climatologists, called Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Air Temperature Variability: 1840–2007 which discusses data from Greenland since 1840. No unprecedented recent warming is found. For [...]

Thought of the day

The higher and tougher and more dangerous the mountain, the more I want to climb it.

Thought of the day

More sports.
There’s that old joke “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out”. Har. I’ve got one better, especially during playoffs.
“I was watching a ton of commercials and an NBA game broke out.”

No, they can’t

Yet another person thinks evolution and creationism can live side-by-side.
The image of the Virgin Mary is reported to have been seen on a tree stump in the village of Rathkeale, and thousands of people have flocked there. And yes, this is quite absurd.
But is it more preposterous to believe that that piece of timber, and [...]

Billions and…googols

Thought of the day

Baseball is a better sport, but hockey is often more exciting.