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MARCH 22, 2021 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! I’ve always been interested in astronomy, and some of the news from that end of the science-o-sphere has been getting my attention of late. A recent paper in Science discusses how a team of astronomers have detected the precursors to known life in space — and in greater […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 15, 2021 Matt Powell, the hate-preacher and Creationist who appears to have dedicated his life to making atheists look smart, has done it again. Fresh off of his humiliating video claiming scientists believe in surfing monkeys, he’s now pretending dinosaurs farted themselves into extinction. I know this because his latest video is called […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 11, 2020 Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released the results of a new international survey focused on biotechnology research. But I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of charts all about acceptance of evolution, the understanding of which is a prerequisite to knowing how CRISPR gene-editing technology works. If you understand […]
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE COVIDIOT: Megachurch pastor Rodney Howard-Browne claims the new COVID-19 vaccine is a “satanic plot” to change human DNA and “remove the God factor out of people so they won’t feel God.” Right Wing Watch reports: Right-wing pastor and ardent conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne says the COVID vaccine is a satanic plot […]
NOVEMBER 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE COVIDIOT: After claiming God had given him immunity to COVID-19, conservative pastor E.W. Jackson reveals that he and his wife have contracted the virus. Newsweek reports: Months after he told his congregation that he wouldn’t get coronavirus, conservative pastor E.W. Jackson announced in a Facebook Live sermon that he and his […]
OCTOBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE The Anti-Science President: Speaking at a campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday, President Trump warned supporters that if elected Joe Biden would “listen to scientists.” Yahoo News reports: President Donald Trump sought to insult former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday by saying that his Democratic opponent would listen to scientists […]
OCTOBER 15, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER Alister McGrath, an Anglican priest and professor of theology at Oxford, contrasted atheism and Christianity in an interview on the conservative Christian site The Stream: “An Atheist’s Reasonable Journey to Faith: An Interview With Alister McGrath.” You may know McGrath from The Dawkins Delusion, his response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, which I read shortly […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 1, 2020 There are plenty of books that explain evolution, debunk Creationism, and get into the weeds of public policy regarding how we teach science. But historian Adam Laats believes we will only be able to get past the controversy if we have a better understanding of how it developed and how we’ve […]
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! The decline of Christian dominance has been one of my interests for many years. Accordingly, I’ve always kept an eye on the way that Christians engage with that decline. And today’s story might well represent one of their newest attempts to stem the tide of customer […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE If Karma Was Real: Oregon State Senator Fred Girod, a Republican and a climate change denier who made headlines by preventing a vote on climate change legislation last year, lost his home to one of the wildfires currently ravaging the state. The Daily Beast reports: Among the thousands who have lost […]
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Schadenfreude: An Idaho pastor who mocked the idea of wearing a mask and kept his large church open for services without requiring masks despite a mask mandate has been hospitalized with the COVID-19 virus. Paul Van Noy, senior pastor at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, has been hospitalized in […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE For Science: Scientific American has endorsed Joe Biden for president, marking the first time in its 175-year history the magazine has endorsed a presidential candidate. NBC News reports: Scientific American has endorsed Joe Biden for president, the first time the venerable science magazine has backed a presidential candidate in its 175-year […]
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Satanic Panic: Former Missouri GOP Governor candidate and “warrior for Christ” Saundra McDowel claims that wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19 is really “part of a demonic ritual to get rid of our individual God-given rights.” McDowel, writing on her Facebook page this weekend, boasted about how she went […]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Trump Lied People Died: Trump knew that COVID-19 was highly contagious, airborne, and deadly as early as the beginning of February, but did nothing about the virus except downplay the danger, lulling many Americans into a false sense of security, and ultimately costing tens of thousands of lives and a […]
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE When In Doubt, They Blame The Gays: Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Filaret contracts coronavirus after blaming gays for the virus. The church leader who recently claimed COVID-19 was “God’s punishment” for same-sex marriage has been hospitalized after testing positive for the virus. ABC News reports: Leading Ukrainian religious figure Patriarch Filaret […]
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Satanic Panic: The headmaster at a Michigan Christian school rejects science, claims a mask mandate means “Satan wins,” and has fired a teacher for raising concerns about a lack of masks in classrooms. Michigan Public Radio (MPR) reports: Many Michigan schools are open for in-person learning. But even those schools look […]
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE The Red States Are Winning: 70 percent of new coronavirus cases are coming from red states, according to a new report from The Washington Post. The Hill reports: Red states in the U.S. are officially at the forefront of COVID-19 outbreaks, with 70 percent of new cases stemming from the nation’s Republican-led […]
AUGUST 25, 2020 BY GENE VEITH Elon Musk, our real-life Tony Stark, plans to announce this week the progress of his company Neuralink, which is dedicated to developing a Body Machine Interface (BMI); specifically, implanting a computer connection into the human brain. Musk has described how robotic surgery will sew ultra-fine filaments into the cerebral cortex, which will be […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA AUGUST 31, 2020 In an extremely brief paper (technically a research abstract) that’s getting attention this week because it was presented at a virtual conference, students at Baylor University, using information from the 2017 Baylor Religion Survey, found that atheists sleep better than religious people. If it’s considered healthy to get between 7-9 hours of sleep […]