Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# politics
While priests are looking how to get more butts in pews they're willing to consider anything to explain dropping church attendance. Anything except people losing faith.
# science
It's not a revelation that people like creationist "just-so" stories. Pundits need to stop insisting that scientists make up some of their own.
# politics
"Yeah, sure he's not that good. But he's a man of such deep faith!"
# politics
Yes, praying for someone after a tragedy is not even as helpful as sharing a news article about it on social media. And that's a very low bar to fail to clear...
# evolution
Christina fundamentalists may want to ban evolution from schools, but Muslim fundamentalists want to kill anyone who teaches it.
# oddities
Scientology presents itself as a religion of the future, but its former members tell the story of an abusive, criminal cult obsessed with money, power, and blackmailing its followers.
# science
Biologos openly declares that the only science they will accept is science tinged by a heavy religious bias.
# politics
What do most atheists actually want? Surprisingly for many theists, it's not the abolition of faith...
# health
Instead of helping Africans combat the spread of AIDS, the Catholic Church keeps pouring gasoline on the fire.
# politics
Blasphemy is an important tool in a secular society, but it's not a good way for angry religious zealots to engage in a low brow tit-for-tat.