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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Muslim is spared a speeding ban so he can drive between his two wives

When it comes to avoiding a ban for speeding, the courts hear every excuse in the book.
But yesterday one motorist offered what must be a unique reason why he should keep his licence.
Mohammed Anwar said a ban would make it difficult to [...]

This is astounding. A Democratic Chicago legislator berating an atheist testifying before a Illinois House committee? We Democrats aren’t as enlightened as I’d like to think.
Not only that, but I think you could pick a better representative of the God-fearing character of this nation than Lincoln, who wasn’t exactly the most devout believer.
In other (ironic) [...]

Jonah Goldberg is offended by Darwin Fish car magnets.
Because it’s mocking a symbol of Christianity. The mean atheists are making fun of poor Jonah’s beliefs.
Religion’s funny. People like Jonah want special status for their nonsense, so they don’t have to hear people make fun of it. I mean, they can’t make racist and misogynist comments [...]

This is kind of a like a do not disturb sign. Except it keeps away thin skinned religious people.
The company that owns the billboard says it was put up illegally, but that seems…difficult.
It does kinda suck for that restaurant by it.

So I was thinking about my last post some more today and I don’t think my assessment lines up with the survey I posted about a while back, where the ranks of unaffiliated believers were growing, as was changing religions. I realize we’re talking a survey in the exception to religious decline in the Western [...]