Tenneessee to have teachers teach about creationism in schools?

In the state of Tennessee, a large portion of the population does not believe in evolution. Unfortunate, but true. Tennessee isn't maybe the buckle of the so called Bible Belt, but it isn't too far away from that. The governor of that state is about to sign legislation that...

4 arguments against God = 1 argument for God

Please examine the document here. It's quite straightforward .. Embodied in the diagram is four arguments against God: atheists declare there is no God; no scientific evidence existentialists declare neutrality is the preferred perspective; assuming a God exists is...

GLAAD holds anti-gay activists accountable for their own words

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, is an organization that has supported gay rights in our nation for the last 27 years by supporting positive images of gays and lesbians in the media. So, it serves a different niche in the gay civil rights movement in...

Why does creationism go along with rejection of global warming?

James Inhoffe, an anti-gay rightwinger U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, does not believe in global warming. On a conservative radio show, he made the statement, while giving a statistic, that many less Americans believe in global warming caused by humans, than a few years ago....

Your chance to turn anti-gay Mormons, gay, in an afterlife

The Mormon church often baptizes non-Mormons, after their death. They did it to the father in law of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Romney's father in law, Edward Davies, was an atheist. He had called organized faith, "hogwash". Some Mormons also did it to...

Birth Certificate Reveals Santorum To Be The Son of God ( Humor)

Washington, DC -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has declared his campaign to be “The Second Coming,” after learning that his birth certificate identifies him as the Son of God. “I thought I...

Litmus test for Biblical statements

Biblical statements can be tested for their authenticity based on what we know about God. In looking at these statements, the question to be asked at all times is, "Would this be something that an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-righteous creator of the universe would say?" If...

Quantum Realism Creation

In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word Is God .. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters .....

Please, don't muzzle us atheists

   In the book,  "Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety, by Wendy Kaminer, she cites research from the 1980s showing that Americans believed that freedom of worship  applies to all religious groups,...

Is Religion the Root of All Evil? Is Dawkins Right?

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist, traces the roots of evil to organized religion and to faith itself: the belief in a God has spawned all manner of wickedness and malice throughout...

Why and how evolution is true

Some who argue against evolution bring up the First and Second laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Like Dracula in a bad movie, these arguments just won’t die. Basically the First law stated that energy level in a closed system is constant and the Second law states that in...

Evolution is not a religion of humanism

 I constantly hear statements by people who dont believe in evolution, that show a complete lack of understanding of the subject. If someone wants to not believe in evolution, that is fine, but I would urge them to at least try to get a basic understanding of it first...

prime values

Values that relate to human civilization: long-term benefit, sustainable, power to do good, practical, balance, holism, adaptable,.. Values that relate to work/play: inspiration, intuition, cooperation, collaboration, elegance, enthusiasm, learning, improving, mental agility,...

Faith and Analysis

A major claim within Christianity is that Jesus was the only begotten son of God. My response to that is simple. An omnipotent entity can beget any number of sons, and any number of daughters. To claim that Jesus was the only son of God is to fail to recognize what God is....

Why is it offensive to question a historical Jesus?

I was listening to conservative talk radio and the host, not a Christian conservative but a Jewish conservative, asked his guest a question on the topic of Jesus. The question drew the response that Jesus never existed. At all. The guest was David Silverman, president of...

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