Winter’s Haven

Why, you ask, are Creation scientists not truly scientists? Item one: provided that it doesn’t appear to contradict their holy books, Creation scientists couldn’t care less about how the natural world works. The creationist I recently encountered certainly exhibited that mindset. He of course, was merely a random engineering student.
To see how professional Creation [...]

I generally don’t spend much time following the propaganda and misinformation put forth by creationists, and PZ’s recent post nicely illustrates why I don’t: this stuff is surreal. It’s positively sickening to witness people so full of hate and fear that they invent vile, baseless slanders against their opponents and then go on to believe [...]

Apparently, some people really can’t tell the difference between a donut and a coffee mug, although I doubt this particular crackpot is any sort of professional topologist.
Hat tip to The Quantum Ponitiff for finding this hilarious video (or should that be a mitre tip?).

[Video from YouTube illustrating a crackpot "the earth is growing" theory, [...]

Here’s something you don’t see on the blogosphere every day: Abel Pharmboy liveblogs his vasectomy.

I finally found a backup utility which meets my needs: Duplicity. It’s primarily intended for backing up data on a remote server, which is how I use it. Duplicity compresses and encrypts (using GnuPG) your data and uploads it using SSH/SCP (among other backend protocols), so it can backup data to any server you can [...]

By day he’s a physicist at Caltech, but Sean’s posts at Cosmic Variance include some of the clearest and most level-headed discussion of epistemology to be found anywhere (regardless of academic department).
In a recent post, he carefully explains why it is unreasonable, in light of our best physical theories, to believe in telekinesis and other [...]

Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams’s statements advocating the introduction of Sharia law for muslim residents of the UK has drawn plenty of well-deserved criticism. Johann Hari, writing for The Independent, offers some particularly enlightening commentary. He argues that by advocating Sharia law, Williams has pushed the doctrine of multiculturalism to its logical conclusion and unwittingly demonstrated [...]

A sociology grad student at Northern Illinois University opened fire on a crowed lecture hall there, killing 5 people and wounding 16 before killing himself. Details can be found at the New York Times and most everywhere else. I just want to toss out a bit of meta-commentary.
As in past mass shootings, this incident [...]

Thad Guy discusses objective morality, in his usual brilliantly succinct fashion.

I think that pretty much sums up the issue.

I found this comic via Hemant.

That hypothetical situation sure showed what an intellectually dishonest fellow that fictional atheist was! I have no idea whether this comic is trying to make some sort of point, or what that point might be.
The only reason I’m posting this is because I’ve long dreamed of launching an array of [...]