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Drilling Wakes the Humanoid Reptiles: Doctor Who Part V

By Gabriel Mckee

…o familiar. There is no need to delve into the realm of fiction, much less science fiction, to tell a story about two groups fighting over the same land, one claiming “We were here first” while the other is the de facto possessor of the land. I am hopeful that the second part of the Doctor Who story will not feature either side appealing to its deity in order to justify its claim upon the land. But it is noteworthy that in this episode the represe…

Funding of Creationist Organizations Doubles

By Lauri Lebo

…for Science Education, the primary defender of public education from anti-science attacks by such religious organizations, is only 5.7 percent of the $22.7 million AIG brought in in 2008. Also, an interesting newcomer to watch is GodQuest, founded by Eric Hovind, the son of Kent “Dr. Dino” Hovind, the disgraced creationist currently residing in federal prison for tax fraud and creator of the DVD series Why Evolution is Stupid. In 2008, the organi…

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…he far corners of globe. At the dawn of a new century, they suggested that science might be used to support and understand faith rather than undermine it. This seemed true for a time. Scientific papers were published using recent experiments in the anatomical sciences as evidence of the Shroud’s authenticity. Simultaneously, the new images of the Shroud were used to reimagine religious events. The crucifixion, to begin with, could once again be se…

Liberal or Literal? James Wood, Terry Eagleton, and the New Atheism

By Nancy Frankenberry

…louting the actor’s point of view.” For Gould, religion is redefined to be about meaning, values, and morals, not the conventional beliefs that bring it into conflict with science. This is a long galactic mile from the miracle-performing, sin-punishing, prayer-answering, activist God who has a personal agenda and numbers every hair on our heads. But, as Dawkins observes repeatedly, this is precisely the form of religion embraced by millions and mi…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, but 41% say gay and lesbian relationships are moral. Resorting to pseudo-science is the last gasp of anti-gay groups and they will certainly tout this study, ﬂaws and all, as proof that same-sex couples make awful parents and raise terribly troubled kids. Again, it’s no shock – the religious right wing is always quick to twist science to its liking – and they will still continue to quote Robert Spitzer’s study on “ex-gays” even though Spitzer ha…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…gospels: this is another aspect of the New Age that is not new at all. New Science, Ancient Religion But the premise on which this text is built is new; one fascinating example of the complex interweaving of new scientific knowledge and ancient religious wisdom. The reason this book is called The Aquarian Gospel has to do with the (relatively) new modern science of astronomy. As Levi’s wife, Eva S. Dowling, explains in her introduction to the book…

Auditor Calls ‘Gay Parenting’ Study ‘Bullshit’

By Peter Montgomery

…it recognizes that religious right groups have not been telling the truth about the study. Ferguson quotes the FRC saying, “In a historic study of children raised by homosexual parents, sociologist Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Augstin has overturned the conventional academic wisdom that such children suffer no disadvantages when compared to children raised by their married mother and father.” Says Ferguson, “This is not only breath…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…those fields! But there are essentially no non-Christians who do “creation science” or believe in the literal Genesis account of creation, and there are essentially no non-Christian scholars who believe the Bible is inerrant and that the authors of the four Gospels (who never identify themselves) are the actual people Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This is a highly controversial question because it begins to name that which must not be recognized i…

Bill Nye Video Riles Creationists

By Evan Derkacz

…rty, you’d hardly look up from your small talk and salad if you heard… AiG fired back with a video of its own attempting to address Nye’s points, though frankly it’s embarrassing. Nye then clarified his point on CNN, noting that in the original Big Think video above he was “talking about the use of tax dollars for science education”; that it’s fine to teach your kids whatever you want, so long as you don’t call it science and you don’t use tax dol…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…are, but as speed-talking right-winger Ben Shapiro says, “facts don’t care about your feelings.” Hell, even he picked the lock on the box his ventriloquist keeps him in to tweet about the weird racial attacks on Harris. Facts are facts. Oakland-born Kamala Harris’ father is a Jamaican American Stanford professor emeritus, and her mother was an Indian American biomedical scientist. The two met and fell in love while both were involved in the civil…