A NY Times Op-Ed says Obama is considered an apostate under Islamic law. An author at the Huffington Post says that’s wrong.
I have to say, Eteraz’s response is strange. He delves into the technicalities of Sharia law and finds that Obama doesn’t meet the criteria. Sounds like he’s right, but I don’t know. Still, the […]

I don’t get many creationists around here. Even fewer that stick around and strike up a discussion with me. However, there’s one in the comments here.
I point this out for a couple of reasons. The first is that not all creationists are created equal. I had one here a few years ago who debated with […]

This is sad.
How long is it going to take until we get to this point with gay marriage? I’m looking forward to the day when we officially recognize that banning gay marriage is nothing but uninformed bigotry. It doesn’t affect me, but we all should be happen when injustices are remedied.

John Derbyshire on the Intelligent Design movement:
There is only a gaggle of fools and fraudsters, gaping and pointing like Apaches on seeing their first locomotive: “Look! It moves! There must be a ghost inside making it move!”
I move we make that the new dictionary definition of Intelligent Design.

Connecticut Woman Says She Stole Hundreds of Paintings to Prepare for Apocalypse
WATERBURY, Conn. — A 53-year-old Waterbury woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 150 paintings reportedly after God told her the end of the world is near.
Diane Catalani was arrested last year. According to court documents, Catalani told a psychologist that she […]

Well, I went and saw Expelled. I was not impressed.
The first thing that wasn’t impressive was the fact that the theater had the reels out of order. The first two reels were swapped, so there were no opening credits until a third of the way through the movie (right before they mocked panspermia). That’s not […]

I’ve been debating whether I should go see this or not, since it’s playing here in town. On the one hand, I’ve read about its claims elsewhere and I don’t want to contribute to an incoherent anti-evolution movie. On the other, I’ll feel better about criticizing it if I actually go see it.
In any event, […]

So now both Obama and Clinton are pandering to the anti-vaccine crowd, just like McCain.
Obama is the least worst here, though not by much. McCain says there’s strong evidence a preservative in the vaccines is causing autism. This is obviously and dangerously wrong. Clinton’s answers to the questionnaire indicate she is going to work to […]

You’ll find none here. God saved the missionaries and lit a 15 year old on fire. Sounds like a good plan to me.
I tend to have that reaction whenever anyone says something like that. Clearly, you’re just that important. Conversely, God having a plan also explains unexpected deaths and hardships, so I’m not entirely sure […]

As I said a couple posts ago, I’m nothing if not current. I find it curious how often global warming deniers equate belief in human caused climate change with faith. This post from one of Montana’s newer conservative blogs (and so far, what appears to be one of our better ones) is a good example. […]