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Many religions have creation stories. The Judeo-Christian creation stories are found in the first chapters of Genesis, which is the first book of the Bible. There is no need to repeat the Genesis stories here. It can be agreed that there are some metaphorical or analogical correspondences between the Genesis stories and our best science. [...]
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December 31st, 2011 
Eric Steinhart Atheist Fundamentalism?
October 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Kelly: You are an atheist fundamentalist, Jaime. Jaime: That’s impossible, there can be no such thing. Atheism itself is just “a lack of belief”. There is no holy book or other source of “fundamental” positions any atheist must hold. Not every atheist even needs to be an atheist in the same way. Some can only [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Rationalism, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates 
38 Comments »American Values vs. Fundamentalist Values
September 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Contemporary Evangelical arguments for the mixing of Church and State usually fallaciously assume that for America’s most historically vindicated political, moral, and cultural values to be accepted as good and as true, either theoretically or in practice, or for these values to be preserved and advanced in future generations, Americans must accept and continue to perpetuate [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Christianity, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 7 Comments »Tyson On How We Can Tell Nature Was Not Designed For Us
March 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A really nice rundown from Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your Thoughts?
Trainwreck of the Day
March 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A couple Christian kids with a nauseating, badly performed anti-atheist song set to “My Humps” (via Greg Laden, whose categorizations of the video say it all about the video’s contents): And then there’s “Don’t Cha Wish Your Savior Was Right Like Mine”: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Creationism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religulous, Religulous, Theocrats, Theocrats, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy, Videos 
Tags: Novelties, Self-Parody 2 Comments »Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution's Mindlessness
February 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Last Christmas Eve, I argued that the belief that God “guided evolution” was not a rationally respectable way to reconcile science with faith but rather it was essentially an effective denial of the theory of natural selection, in its scientifically explanatory sense. Part of the revolutionary character of the discovery of evolution by natural selection [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Evidence, Evidence, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Historical Philosophy, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Science, Secularism Tags: Alvin Plantinga, Eugenie Scott, Huston Smith, Jerry Coyne, National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), National Center for Science Education (NCSE) 4 Comments »Kansas vs. Darwin
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke From today through March 12, you can screen Kansas vs. Darwin. Description of the film: Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America’s ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, [...]
Rebutting "Irreducible Complexity" Claims
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A couple of months ago I profiled a spectacular video in which Qualia Soup succinctly, clearly, and precisely debunked the creationist argument that within organisms there are designs which are so irreducibly complex that they could not have evolved but must have been intelligently designed. In reply to that video came criticisms from creationists and [...]
Posted in Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Science, Science Tags: Irreducible Complexity 1 Comment »"Evolution Is A Blind Watchmaker"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A simulation addressing Paley’s watch argument by demonstrating that if the components watches are made of had the same basic properties that the components of organic beings have, then they could have evolved just as well: Thanks to Eric for the find. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Science, Videos Tags: "Clocks", Coldplay, Irreducible Complexity, William Paley 2 Comments »The Story of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Narrated By Edward R. Murrow (And Footage Of Inherit The Wind)
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Beautiful speeches from Inherit the Wind are here and here. I’m pretty sure this film would be too controversial to shoot and release to mainstream audiences with this script in America today. Your Thoughts?
Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: People Are Not Animals! (and evolution never happened)
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Edward Current makes the case: Your Thoughts?
Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke DarkMatter2525 sums up creationism: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Parody, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire No Comments »How Belief In "Theistic Evolution" Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The following is a repost from December 24, 2010: One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people [...]
Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?
January 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke In reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authority, Authority, Autonomy, Autonomy, Christianity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Creationism, Creationism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Education, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Racism, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Dogma, Dogmatism, Homeschooling, Indoctrination, Islamophobia, Parents' Rights 21 Comments »“Beware The Believers”
January 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I have no idea whether this parody (which is several years old) is actually against us or is just irreverently for us. I think that’s part of why I like it so much. That, and it’s totally well made, mesmerizingly bizarre, and undeniably hilarious in its visuals: (NSFW) Okay, after writing the above, I did [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Comedy, Comedy, Creationism, Creationism, Hilarious, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Music Videos, Music Videos, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Parody, Parody, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Religion and Science, Satire, Satire Tags: Daniel Dennett, Eugenie Scott, Richard Dawkins 2 Comments »TOP Q: “Is It Unjust To Outlaw Schools, Even Private Religious Ones, From Teaching Religious Doctrines As Though True?”
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sweden is planning to make it illegal, even for private schools, to teach religious doctrines as true. Their content may be discussed, of course, but they will not be able to be presented as facts. In The Guardian, Andrew Brown explains the issues involved and the ulterior motives which may really explain the legislation: The [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Creationism, Creationism, Education, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q) 9 Comments »How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people believe in both and logically it is clear that [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Biology, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Cosmology, Cosmology, Creationism, Creationism, Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Science, Secularism 12 Comments »Refutation Of Irreducible Complexity Arguments
November 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The great Qualia Soup is back, with a video explaining the problems with the anti-evolution arguments which rely on the idea of irreducible complexity. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Science, Videos Tags: Charles Darwin, Duane Gish, Evolution of the Eye, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, Qualia Soup 1 Comment »In Defense Of Offering The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers has put online the text of an impassioned speech he recently gave against accommodationism. It’s a must-read so read it in full and pass it on to your friends. Here’s the gist: Shouldn’t we move beyond just reacting to every assault by Idiot America on science education, and honestly look at the root [...]
What Would Darwin Say To Today’s Creationists
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Eugenie Scott on both the stagnation and the devolution of creationism since the time of Darwin: Your Thoughts?
“I Didn’t Evolve From You”
July 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Some classic Saturday Night Live with Dana Carvey as Regis Philbin and Jan Hooks as Kathy Lee Gifford. The era on the show that they come from (and which extends for me just a couple years beyond them) ~1986-1994 was when I came of age, so it will always be my favorite: Thanks to Heather [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Creationism, Creationism, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, Kathy Lee Gifford, Regis Philbin No Comments »Settled Matters?
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke NonStampCollector sums up what he takes to be the points which have been thoroughly resolved and should be non-issues in all debates between atheists and Christians going forward: Controversially, you will note, he takes mostly atheist points to have been vindicated beyond the point of reasonable disagreement. Is he right? Does he wave away any [...]
The Hard Evidence Against A Literal Adam And Eve
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Jerry Coyne explains why the proposed idea of a single pair of original human ancestors is refuted by what we know of our evolutionary ancestry: Over at the Templeton-funded BioLogos website there has been a lot of discussion about the historicity of Adam and Eve. This is a problem because scripture claims these two were [...]
Posted in Bible, Biology, Christianity, Creationism, Evolution, Religion, Religion and Science, Science Tags: Adam and Eve, Jerry Coyne, Literal Readings of Genesis No Comments »Noah’s Ark: God, Giraffes, & Genocide
June 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Gordon for the video. Your Thoughts?
Russian Orthodox Church Wants Creationism In Schools
June 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sigh. The Russian Orthodox Church called recently for creationism to be taught along with evolution in Russian schools, according to Reuters. Senior Russian Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion said, “The time has come for the monopoly of Darwinism and the deceptive idea that science in general contradicts religion. These ideas should be left in the past,” Reuters [...]
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