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.
# 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.
# science
Answers In Genesis says that the fall of Atlantis was caused by the Great Flood and they have the numbers and verses to prove it.
# oddities
How to argue like a creationist in one easy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant step.
# oddities
A group of religious zealots was ready to quite literally go to war with the unbelievers in Amarillo, Texas.
# science
Chris Mooney has effectively allowed the Templeton Foundation to bribe him not to write anything negative about religious zealotry or over-reach.
# oddities
Did biblical tests predict guided missiles? Sure, if you didn't actually read the passage in which you claim they appeared, much less its context...
# science
A study of brain cancer patients in Italy shows the neural epicenters of spiritual experiences and religious belief.
# 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.
# science
Pundits and commentators are still perplexed by Ken Ham and his temple of ignorance, and keep setting out on a snipe hunt for a deep, complicated reason why he created it.
# education
An accidental sneak peek at what kids are taught in a creationist science class shows a profound disregard for both the Bible and scientific facts.