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.
# tech
Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.
# tech
When you start with a deeply flawed premise and advance a deeply flawed argument, you'll come to a deeply flawed conclusion.
# politics
Newly minted atheists are joining skeptical groups and those groups are not happy about it...
# politics
What do most atheists actually want? Surprisingly for many theists, it's not the abolition of faith...
# politics
For appearance of factual correctness, insult both sides of argument regardless of facts, rinse, repeat, sell book.
# politics
Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.
# oddities
For some inexplicable reason, Nature decided to publish a paranoid parable about tyrannical New Atheists lobotomizing Christians into depression and loneliness.
# science
As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
# oddities
The modern world needs blasphemy not just as abstract right, but being actively exercised when the occasion calls for it.
# oddities
The (Non)Prophet blog has a contest for the atheists least likely to offend religious zealots and whose identity is based on how accommodating to their beliefs they are.