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.
# oddities
What happens when a preacher loses faith? They may have no choice but to keep preaching...
# politics
Just to answer the questions, no, I'm not interested in participating in the branding and sale of Atheism BrandTM Atheism...
# politics
Professor Massimo Pigliucci is trying to make a case for accommodating believers railing against science and fact-based education and discourse with some very flimsy arguments...
# evolution
According to David Scharfenberg, Ken Miller is the only sane, rational person in the debate about how evolution should be taught, a debate led almost exclusively by foaming-at-the-mouth irrational extremists on both sides.
# politics
This blog's creationist readers appear to need a reminder the criticizing their statements is not the same thing as disagreeing with a deity.
# politics
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels teaches a master class in mindless, empty, hostile zealotry and stringing together supposedly fear-inducing buzzwords.
# politics
Theologian Stephen Prothero would be happy to engage atheists. He'd just like them to be attractive ladies his age and type...
# politics
How do you cover a schism that doesn't actually exist? You whip one up from cherry-picked quotes and use them to stir up a tempest in a teacup.
# oddities
A theologian claims that the God of the Old Testament is just one deity who separated us from writhing, shapeless monsters. Don't expect his colleagues or mainstream believers to care much about his treatise.
# science
Everyone's least favorite science communicator, Chris Mooney, is once again trying to warp reality to fit his narrative.