I know that this topic has been exhaustively discussed previously, but I still want to rant about it (read: this is a rant, be forewarned).
I describe myself as an atheist. This means that I do not believe in a god. The definition isn’t confusing to me, because I already know what my beliefs [...]

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It’s always refreshing when the journalists actually get science news right. Regarding the Large Hadron Collider:
But there has been a struggle to explain to the public that, though this energy is vast from the perspective of a circulating proton, each collision between a pair of protons will release an amount of energy comparable to [...]

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Found on this website, “Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Evolution” is meant to be a handy guide for students skeptical of evolution. According to this article at The New York Times, science teachers in the US are increasingly having to deal with similar anti-evolution ploys. Reading through the list gave [...]

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Scientific American has published this handy map of the creationism battle in the United States. Specifically, the map explains what’s currently going on — and where.
This is a must see for anybody who is concerned about, but not too familiar with, the current creationism battlegrounds.

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Why do we drive like jerks, and behave like assholes on the internet?
Some of the more seemingly sophisticated arguments for God (or some type of higher power) revolve around the mysterious nature of human morality. Dismissing evolutionary explanations for morality, some people believe that we simply cannot explain traits like altruism through the evolution [...]

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It should be common sense that staring into the sun may not be the best of ideas.  Doing so can very well result in damaged or loss of eyesight.  So what would it take to incite dozens of adults to stare into the sun long enough to lose it completely?

Well, religious superstition, of course.
At least [...]

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Recently, I’ve been thinking as to the criteria that would cause me to accept the existence of an intelligent god that interacted with humans.
So here’s my challenge to God: start answering prayers. More specifically, start answering the prayers of sick people. If everybody1 with some sort of disease, who prays to God to [...]

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Science and religion are similar in that they both seek to answer questions about natural phenomenon. They both try to come up with plausible explanations for how observable phenomenon appear. Whereas science tells us how inheritance and natural selection causes genetic variance in populations over time (evolution), religion tells us that a divine [...]

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Table O’ Miracles

God
Science/Technology

Lead Moses out of Egypt and into the Promised Land
Landed men on the Moon.

Parted the Red Sea
Dykes in the Netherlands permanently holding back the sea

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Resurrected Jesus
Cured thousands of diseases, and brings people back from “traditional” death on a regular basis

Caused a global flood
Global warming

God [...]

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the Louisiana Science Education Act, a bill blatantly constructed to set the precedent for an anti-scientific, religious curriculum to be taught in public schools.  The bill, furthermore, is allegedly tied to The Discovery Institute, an anti-evolution organization famous for losing the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case, [...]

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