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March 4, 2015
Richard Dawkins answers evolutionary question about homosexuality (Video)
Over at the Richard Dawkins Foundation website there is a great new video that Dawkins himself made in celebration of Darwin Day.In the video, he answers a question by a reader about homosexuality,
A visit to the Creation Museum, Part 1: The incest problem
It is a pretty well documented “fact” that Adam and Eve’s son Cain, as he grew up and started to get that tingly feeling “down there”, didn’t have many girls from which to choose a spouse. In fact, his choices were his sisters or his mom. Since mom was already taken, sister it was! This, of course, leads to the joke that we are all a product of incest. Gross – or is it?
March 3, 2015
This is the Ark Encounter site after 5 years in the making
Originally announced in 2010, Answers in Genesis's Ark Encounter is under construction and after 5 years in the making, AiG has given us this wonderful video of the site so we can see their progress.
March 2, 2015
Lawrence Krauss destroys Deepak Chopra over cosmic consciousness
This never gets old, but the ever trolling Deepak Chopra, in an attempt to stay relevant in the headlines (and oops, I am helping) has attempted to troll Lawrence Krauss on Twitter and the exchange is just beautiful.
Arkansas lawmakers want to make it easier for businesses to discriminate
It seems that Arkansas conservatives just can't get enough of bullying minority citizens. As I reported a few months ago, a measure in Fayetteville, Arkansas that would have extended anti-discrimination protections to LGBT citizens failed. Now, the state legislature and Republican governor have decided to rub some salt into that wound.
February 27, 2015
Bill Nye says science changed his anti-GMO views
Backstage at Real Time with Bill Maher science communicator Bill Nye shows the world how real science is done.
February 26, 2015
Atheist activist Jamila Bey asked CPAC to embrace atheists if they want votes
Now to be clear, I don't want atheists voting for Republicans, even if you remove the theocratic rhetoric, you're still left with conservative government values that hurt minorities and the poor and bring the government in the wrong direction.
Free thought blogger murdered by Islamic militants in Bangladesh
Author and blogger Avijit Roy has been killed in what looks like a militant attack against him and his wife.
February 25, 2015
New poll suggests more Republicans turning against evolution
Republican presidential hopefuls such as Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal have gone to great lengths to avoid endorsing evolutionary biology. Why is this?
Video: Dawkins and Krauss say parents should not have the right to block a child’s education
In an interview with The Irish Times, Richard Dawkins said that when it comes to education that “the balance has swung too far towards parents.”
