by Carl Howard | Aug 12, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
Heard a very good point on a Mindcore episode: Biblical literalists require a stronger belief in evolution than the most “radical atheist scientist”. If Noah’s ark had only 1 pair of each kind, the speed of evolution required to get some of the variation that exists...
by Carl Howard | Apr 21, 2008 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Science and Skepticism, Spirituality
Mysticism is typically associated with peace: Mother Teresa is considered the ultimate mystic/ascetic/saint in modern mythology (however this is bullshit). There are of course older archetypes like Francis of Assissi Mysticism is seen as a “more advanced” version of a...
by Carl Howard | Apr 27, 0209 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
I just heard an excellent BloggingHeads talk between Robert Wright and David Plotz (whose Blogging the Bible series is the inspiration for my strangely-similarly-named series). The talk was about David publishing his Blogging the Bible as a book. David noted that...
