Nothing is to be held sacred, right?

PZ Myers has this thing he does on his blog. When he finds Internet polls, he gets them Pharyngulated. People put too much stock into these things, so he attacks them just to make a point. Any result is meaningless when it is had through the interwebbings.
But the normal point of attack is polls [...]

Dawkins on Colbert

Richard Dawkins will be appearing on The Colbert Report tonight at 11:30 / 10:30 Central.

Thought of the day

50% of being an atheist is correcting the strawmen people make up about us.

Blasphemy Day

What defines religion?

Type “Atheism is” in Google search and the first thing you get is the suggestion “Atheism is a religion”. This is a common idea among those who have no operational (or theoretical) definition of religion. But how can it be a religion?
One of the other suggestions you’ll get is “Atheism is a religion like not [...]

PZ’s talk

I just got back from PZ’s talk. It was pretty exciting seeing a guy whose writing I’ve been following for such a long time.
He spent some time explaining explaining Crackergate. Really, when you hear it in person, it just gets all the most absurd. People actually believe he was holding Jesus hostage. One person asked [...]

Today

Tonight

PZ is speaking in Lewiston Tuesday, September 29 at 5.

Psyched psyched psyched psyched
More travel this week: I’ll be in Lewiston, Maine to speak at Bates College, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, 29 September, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall. And from there I’ll be flying to Los Angeles for the AAI convention.
Lots of flight time is lots of writing time, right?
He’s also writing a book (hence [...]

A Glorious Dawn

With musical talent like this, I don’t know what he was doing with all that science-y stuff.