Chris O’Brien at Antiquity!
My online access to Antiquity has a 6 month lag and my library doesn’t have the summer edition yet, but I have it on good […]
culture wars
Playing God? Life Created in the Laboratory
Newsweek’s Cover story is about abiogenesis and synthesis of self-replicating organisms. I just finished reading this article online [NewsWeek at MSNBC.Com] and noticed that PZ […]
The Archaeology of Exodus
According to the Biblical account, Passover commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites who gained their freedom by escaping their enslavement by the Pharaoh of Egypt. […]
Biblical Archeaology: Tomb of Jesus?
James Cameron is to release a documentary that claims to reveal the discovery of the tomb of Jesus Christ. He claims the evidence is statistical […]
What if almost every day you heard talk radio hosts talking about killing your friends?
Blogger Spocko, the nom de blog for the author of Spocko’s Brain, writes of a radio station, KSFO AM 560, which does just that. And […]
Carl Sagan: Prophet of Scientism?
Note: this is a repost of one of the very first posts I made on this blog. Since Theo over a Humbug Online has mentioned […]
Atheism vs. Theism in Recent News
Afarensis recently posted a short review of the Newsweek article, The New Naysayers . A bit later, PZ Myers posted a more in depth discussion […]
Dr. Bill Lucas: A “Cracked Up” Pseudoscientist
Silkworm at Defending Science is in the trenches with CORR (Christians for Origins and Religious Research), and he hammers their lead speaker, Dr. Bill Lucas. […]
Review- Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life
Quite by accident, I discovered Alister McGrath’s book, Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, as I was browsing the stacks of my […]
Does Scientism Exist?
The topic of “scientism” keeps coming up in conversations with both those who criticize the rigorous demands of the scientific method as well as through […]