Irish Atheists Speak Out! | AnAtheist.NetYasmin Alibhai-Brown: Who'd be female under Islamic law? - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Commentators - The Independent
Jacob Dickerman: Swines and Birds and Homeopaths, Oh My!
JREF - Shouting Fire
Dispassionate analysis of the ethics of the anti-vaccination lobby
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A tale of ultimate redemption
The Santa Barbara Independent - Reading, Writing, and Original Sin
Another example of how religious evangelists consider that "the end justifies the means"
Accommodationism and All That : EvolutionBlog
Go-faster shark skin swim suits - Creation Science Movement
It seems that as so often is the case, creationists simply ignore the overwhelming evidence for evolution.The science of imitating nature to produce more effective designs is called biomimetics (3). There are many applications, including robotic arms, variable geometry aircraft wings, and this one. It seems that as so often is the case, God got there first!
Rumours of God's return are greatly exaggerated | David Aaronovitch - Times Online
The Tale of the Twelve Officers - vuletic.com
(via Modusoperandi commenting at Daylight Atheism)
This is what might be called a parable about the "problem of evil". My own take on the POE (or theodicy, in its supposedly reconciled form) is that it isn't much of a concern. For the problem of evil actually to be a problem, you have to believe in a good god. Those of us who don't believe in the existence of gods of any kind do not find our worldviews confounded by something as illogical as theodicy. In the same way we do not concern ourselves with statistical analysis of the likely average length of the typical unicorn's horn, nor with the wing-folding techniques most probably employed by angels who dance on the head of a pin.
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