Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Dec 3, 2009, 7:51 pm
Dear Climate Deniers, I know you like to be called "skeptics" but that seems unfair. Michael Shermer is a skeptic. I am a skeptic. You are not skeptics. You are skeptical of things much too selectiv...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Nov 25, 2009, 10:09 pm
Cold. Dark. Fjords. Glaciers. Lutefisk. Cross country skiing. Good socialized medicine and welfare. Happy people despite cold and darkness. When lots of us think of Norway that's what we think. B...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Nov 20, 2009, 10:41 pm
The Summer Day By Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the on...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Nov 11, 2009, 5:49 pm
A town in Vermont has placed the Pledge of Allegiance out of classrooms? Watch Michael Newdow work the Faux News anchor on the topic despite the interruptions. Thoughts?.. type="text/javascript" src=...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Nov 11, 2009, 5:26 pm
This is too good to be true. On the day that Comfort's and Cameron's no-talent retrograde moron show comes to campus to sling lowest-common-denominator mud about evolution, two professors from...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Nov 6, 2009, 5:12 am
Austin Dacey has written a blogpost, "Putting God out of the Ethics Business," at Psychology Today on the "good without God" posters up in New York City. For the secularists, skeptics, and Unitarians ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Oct 27, 2009, 9:15 pm
This is when I want to go ballistic. The Worldview Times says: Environmental alarmism is being exploited to chip away at national sovereignty. The latest threat to American liberties may be found in ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Oct 23, 2009, 7:29 pm
Quite a while back I posted some stuff about an Ohio "science" teacher who was teaching creationism and allegedly abusing students with a Tesla coil. In my original post I said he is worse than the mo...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Oct 9, 2009, 2:38 pm
I've just gotten my copy Dawkins' new book, The Greatest Show on Earth and haven't gotten more than two chapters in. But I just thought I'd fan the flames for good reads by posting Law...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Oct 8, 2009, 9:29 am
I hate the growth economy. Hate it. There. I've said it. I think it disrupts happiness, destroys communities, and demolishes ecosystems. And I hate a lot of the things associated with it includin...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 30, 2009, 10:10 pm
I hope to do a more extended post on this later. Louisiana Coalition for Science has a new post up that is simply appalling in how far creationists have gotten in their push to undermine good scienc...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 29, 2009, 7:50 pm
My wife is going to go bananas for this. She loves R. Crumb (image at right courtesy of dgtweb's site on R. Crumb). I think there's a festivus present in this. PARIS — Subversive US cartoon...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 26, 2009, 7:17 pm
Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma). Just watch the video at this link and marvel at his pernicious lunacy. It is a spectacular level of willful ignorance to say, "The science really isn’t there" abou...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 25, 2009, 1:43 pm
Is there going to be a "tea party" at Southern Methodist University over the Darwin celebrations this year? The Texas Freedom Network reports that Bill Dembski, "cdesign proponentsist" extraordinaire,...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 24, 2009, 8:09 pm
It's hard to wrap my head around such totally infantile thinking as Kirk Cameron's. See, he and his numbskull buddy Ray Comfort are releasing a "special edition" of Darwin's Origin of Spec...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 24, 2009, 4:38 pm
NCSE reports today that Creation, the new movie about Darwin, has found a U.S. distributor. Hoorah... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js">
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 23, 2009, 6:28 am
My acquaintance Ondrej Mitas makes airplanes from balsa wood, paper, acrylic enamel, steel, and aluminum. The shapes are amazing! Watch them fly! You can see them at Webster's Bookstore & Cafe in...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 23, 2009, 5:32 am
Apparently we atheists and god-haters think the end of the world is coming because of the Mayan calendar. Or says World Nut Daily. How can a world filled with secular humanists, atheists, and just pla...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 23, 2009, 4:38 am
We've been saying that there are fewer religious people in the U.S. than the holy rollers would lead you to believe. But it's true. Recent social surveys have been showing that 15%-16% of the ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 17, 2009, 6:27 pm
This is just too awesome. Antitron, black metal lord of urban bike assaults! I hope that Abbath (at right) from Immortal gets to see this. Abbath usually looked like some stupid pro wrestling goon. T...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 17, 2009, 5:58 am
Rep. Shimkus' climate change denial is bad. But how does someone on the ground who hates "big government" say they don't believe in climate change? Like this. Hmmm. So God is engineering clim...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 16, 2009, 6:04 pm
I had almost forgotten about this piece of horrific lunacy when I decided it was a good time to go look up some fundamentalists denying climate change. Who comes to my rescue but Rep. John Shimkus (R-...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 16, 2009, 4:50 pm
Do these people huff glue before they talk? Or do anything at all? Don't forget that Jesus is our king in this country... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.j...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 11, 2009, 7:26 pm
Now we have a movie about Darwin called, The Creation. Over at The Panda's Thumb (a blog named loosely after an essay, "The Panda's Peculiar Thumb," by Stephen Jay Gould) they've posted a ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 7, 2009, 7:12 am
You guys remember Expelled, that steaming pile of film excrement that attacked evolution as a conspiracy by some scientific cabal? Oh yeah. Don't forget that it tried to link all of us evolutionis...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 5, 2009, 7:37 pm
This article about genetically engineering "pain-free animals" has really got my goat (download the whole Neuroethics article here). As one commentor has put it, "But wait... why don't we geneti...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Sep 5, 2009, 7:09 pm
This is a nice piece of news from a fellow atheist blogger and social activist. Austin Cline write to Judge Anne E. Lazarus regarding religion, atheism, and the role of the state and got a pretty sati...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 31, 2009, 12:08 pm
What do you think? Should I join? It's a question that all animal-loving Christian evangelicals must address: who will look after their pets on Earth when the Rapture comes and they are take...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 30, 2009, 9:25 pm
Some families in a Sedalia, Missouri school district are upset that human evolution was on their band shirts reports KMOV. T-shirts promoting the Smith-Cotton High School band's fall program have...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 29, 2009, 9:30 am
The nation's largest business lobby wants to perpetuate the "manufactroversy" about climate change science reports the Los Angeles Times. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potential...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 27, 2009, 7:15 pm
Over at Answering the Apocalypse, Irena Reznik has a poignant post up about her church experiences as a girl. In particular, she remembers the public shaming that happened at her Nazarene church. The ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 25, 2009, 7:49 pm
Queue some epic music...maybe Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in c# minor or the "Flight of the Valkyries" from Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen or put on an epic film score and get ready to read Richard ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 21, 2009, 1:48 pm
Notable atheist blogger, activist, and math teacher, Hemant Mehta, is being targeted by some Christians in his area. They want to erode his position. At least they seem to want an alternative math tea...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 20, 2009, 5:54 am
This in from The Independent on our nutty health care fight. The piece, from a British perspective, goes into a nice exposé of how totally bonkers the resistance to public health care is in the U.S.,...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 19, 2009, 3:10 pm
I think this guy says it better than I can. Plus...he has video. This fear of socialism - the definition of which these yahoos seem not to understand - is so gargantuously awful. It is engineered by d...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 14, 2009, 9:03 pm
Oh no. Ken Ham thinks that the youngsters are leaving the pews to go somewhere else. Like that vile world of secularism and all its trappings. Oh no! Reason! Evidence! They might eschew Biblical autho...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 5, 2009, 2:11 pm
"Doctor" Ken Hovind, felonious tax evading creationist charlatan extraordinaire has just suffered another setback. Besides being incarcerated for 10 years for evading $470,000 in taxes. Yeah. He didn&...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Aug 4, 2009, 8:25 am
It's over...for this year. As I wrote in my last post, I rode the Wilderness 101 as a team member for State College's Freeze Thaw Cycles on my Bianchi Sok single speed (pictured at right from ...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Jul 30, 2009, 5:54 am
On Saturday August 1st I will join about 300 other mountain bikers to embark on the Wilderness 101, a 101-mile single-day mountain bike race. We will climb over 10,000', cross several county lines...
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Peter B. posted an article on ...forms most beautiful... - Jul 30, 2009, 4:41 am
I really enjoy The Economist. And now, they've had a great piece on why it's silly to call an atheist a fundamentalist. They write: First and most salient, as Oxford's Tim Garton Ash write...
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