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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program…The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.
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You've probably already heard this one, since it is all over the news: a preacher, Anthony Hopkins, murdered his wife after she caught him sexually abusing their children and stuffed her in a freezer — with the daughter's assistance....
Posted on August 1, 2008 10:05 AM • 434 Comments
People keep writing to me about this wretched scumbag who shot up a Unitarian church in Tennessee, killing two people there to watch a children's play. I don't know what happened, but despite it happening in a church, I don't...
Posted on July 28, 2008 11:13 AM • 258 Comments
Christopher Hitchens' views on war in the Middle East often infuriate me, even while I greatly enjoyed his views on religion. My respect for him goes up, though, because he has done something I wouldn't: to determine whether it...
Posted on July 2, 2008 4:11 PM • 580 Comments
This has to be seen to believed. John Conyers asks John Yoo a simple question: "Is there anything the president could not order be done to a suspect?" He can't give a straight answer. So Conyers reduces it to...
Posted on July 1, 2008 8:06 PM • 149 Comments
I wondered, incorrectly, if Leila Hussein was a reluctant accomplice in the death of her daughter, Rand Abdel-Qader, the young girl who was murdered by her monstrous father for speaking to a British soldier. Now I feel particularly awful about...
Posted on June 2, 2008 9:40 AM • 209 Comments
Prayer doesn't work. Enshrine it in the law — prayer is not a helpful action, but rather a neglectful one. Teach it in the schools — when the health class instructs students in how to make a tourniquet or do...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 9:59 AM • 498 Comments
Here's the story of a young Yemeni lady filing for divorce from her abusive husband. "My father beat me and told me that I must marry this man, and if I did not, I would be raped and no law...
Posted on April 13, 2008 6:18 PM • 138 Comments
Here, let me ruin your morning, just in case you hadn't already heard the story of this raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. A raid was finally triggered April 3, after a family violence...
Posted on April 13, 2008 11:25 AM • 238 Comments
I don't have anything to add to the story of the lunatic who opened fire on a freshman science class, but here's a place you can talk about it without the taint of piety that's getting introduced into all the...
Posted on February 15, 2008 8:50 AM • 400 Comments
John and Cynthia Burke have adopted two children. By all accounts so far, they were a decent couple of an appropriate age and financially able to take care of the kids. The first was from the Children's Aid and Adoption...
Posted on January 2, 2008 9:32 PM • 75 Comments
This is quite possibly the most depressing story of the year, because it says so much about the amoral nature of some people: A 48 year old woman named Lori Drew poses as a cute 16 year old boy...
Posted on November 24, 2007 4:54 PM • 80 Comments
There has been another tragic shooting at a school, this time at Jokela secondary school in Tuusula, Finland. It was a single gunman on a rampage, and at least seven people have been killed. We're going to hear much...
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Posted on November 7, 2007 10:57 AM • 201 Comments
You've got to read this account of the intelligence that led to the Iraq war. On April 23, 2006, CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had...
Posted on September 5, 2007 9:32 PM • 164 Comments
Last summer, a lot of people hated this post where I advocated calling the apocalyptic cultists on their evil delusions. Then we had some prominent Christian leaders calling for war with Iran, and John Hagee gave a demented interview...
Posted on July 27, 2007 5:34 PM • 69 Comments
There's always the quick and easy icepick lobotomy for rapid relief. All joking aside, follow the link: it tells of the infamous Dr Walter Freeman, who lobotomized thousands of people in this horrific fad of irreversibly ripping up people's...
Posted on July 25, 2007 1:00 AM • 29 Comments
