From evolution to vaccinations to global warming, something I encounter on a regular basis on television and the internet is denialism, rejecting the scientific evidence in favor of an alternative… an alternative which could be anything from pure woo to scientific-sounding arguments: “Just have faith” to “irreducible complexity.” Denialism is something that invariably...

I wish the Republican party would go back to being the fiscally conservative, small government party they used to be instead of the religious, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-environment party they are now. Just sayin’.

At the beginning of last month, I wrote about the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s sign at the Olympia, Washington capitol building, stating that I wasn’t all that pleased with the approach they took with the wording of the sign. Since then, I’ve read a lot (and I mean a lot) of commentary about that situation [...]

I have to admit that I don’t understand. I haven’t understood for a long time. Why… why does the US always blindly support Israel no matter what it does? Now don’t get me wrong. I’m certainly not suggesting that the actions of Hamas and the Palestinians have been any great representation of moral superiority… far from it… [...]

Last Friday (October 3rd), a friend and I went to see Bill Maher’s new movie Religulous. It wasn’t showing locally, so we had a forty minute drive to get to a decent theater and we got there well ahead of time to make sure we weren’t thwarted by crazy crowds of Friday-night movie-goers. We had [...]

In an editorial by Sam Harris, this passage really struck me. Ask yourself: how has “elitism” become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, [...]

I just read this editorial today and found it very interesting. It’s in English, translated from Norwegian. God as Denial of Responsibility Editorial criticism is the only place where religion and politics should meet.