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The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.
[Robert G. Ingersoll, speech, New York City, May 1, 1881]
Category: Bad science
The words of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'aleihi was-sallam) have been tested scientifically, and found hilarious. In work carried out under the direction of Dr. Jamaal Haamid, students at Qassim University examined a saying by the prophet, and have...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:56 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
First we had Steven Pinker writing about The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, with the thesis that we're getting more peaceful over time. Now John Horgan has declared the potential for The End of War...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:33 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad science
I know you kids like the youtube and hate that tl;dr text stuff, so if you couldn't find the patience to read my post on Islamic embryology, you can now watch the screen instead. The Rationalizer goes through the 'science'...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad science
I have read the entirety of Hamza Andreas Tzortzis' paper, Embryology in the Qur'an: A scientific-linguistic analysis of chapter 23: With responses to historical, scientific & popular contentions, all 58 pages of it (although, admittedly, it does use very...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:01 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad Science
Kitties experience pain and suffering, which turns out to be a theological problem. If a god introduced pain and death into the world because wicked ol' Eve was disobedient, why is god punishing innocent animals? It seems like a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:21 AM • 268 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Keith Ward sounds just like Ken Ham. It's remarkable. You see, Ken Ham has this schtick in which he basically denies all of history: you weren't there (the only valid evidence is eyewitness evidence captured through your biological senses),...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:51 AM • 60 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History
If you tuned in to that local debate on Christian radio, you know that one of the points the Christian fool trotted out was the tired old claim that the Nazis were no true Christians — no True Christian™...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:55 PM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
You must watch this episode of the Daily Show — it's all about science. Lisa Randall is on it plugging her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door (she actually doesn't get to say much about it, but I've ordered...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:35 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
Want to spend an hour cringing and twitching? This is the abridged version of "Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision", and you will suffer if you watch it. It is a wasteful, terrible thing to do to a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:24 AM • 130 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
This is a wonderful video debunking the Kalam Cosmological Argument. What I really like about it is that it takes the tortured rationales of theologians like William Lane Craig, who love to babble mangled pseudoscience in their arguments, and shows...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:00 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
