Religion

“Scientific Creationism”, Evolution & Race

2004, Feb 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudoscience

Some parts of the scientific creationist position dealing with the human fossil record and racial origins.



A Call to Heresy

2003, Mar 1st | Category: Religion

This is the famous ‘A Call to Heresy’, a collection of ‘Biblical quotations on Women, Sex, Slavery, Race and the End of the World¤ as well as Contradictions, Atrocities, Absurdities and Biblical Scholarship.



A skeptic looks at Christian Science

2003, Sep 1st | Category: Medical Quackery, Pseudoscience, Religion

The health claims of Christian Science are not all they are cracked up to be. Unsurprisingly.



An Evening with a Miracle Man

2003, Apr 1st | Category: Religion

Miracles, miracles everywhere. The only thing there isn’t, is proofs of real ones.



Aum Shinrikyo – Heavenly Terror, Part 1

2008, Jul 1st | Category: Cults, Medical Quackery, New Age, Psychic Powers, Religion

Part 1: How the Tokyo subway became a death trap, and hundreds of people got caught in a Millennial cult of mind-control and New Age rubbish.



Aum Shinrikyo – Heavenly Terror, Part 2

2009, Aug 1st | Category: Cults, Medical Quackery, New Age, Psychic Powers, Religion

The cult investigated various methods of implementing death and destruction on a massive scale. They tried every possibility, ranging from military weapons, to biological and chemical warfare. They settled on the nerve gas sarin, and ran several real-world tests, resulting in deaths. Life within the cult was no picnic either: Stay and obey, or leave and die.



Book Review: Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells

2003, Mar 1st | Category: Creationism

No biologist worth her or his salt would deny that the fossil record is incomplete. At best, we have a sketchy idea. However, stating that an inaccuracy in general biology textbooks is proof that the modern theory of evolution must be wrong is beyond ludicrous. Yet this seems to be the reasoning of Rev. Jonathan Wells’ book “Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth.”



Can you be a Christian and a skeptic?

2004, Mar 1st | Category: Religion, Skepticism

It is hard to know where to start to tell the story about how one became a skeptic especially if one cannot pin point an exact life changing moment. It is even more difficult if one wants to explain how one can be a skeptic and at the same time a Christian.



Creation or Evolution?

2004, Sep 10th | Category: Creationism

Is “Scientific Creationism” really scientific? This article investigates and finds some ugly truths.



Creation research projects

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism

An appeal to Creationists to prove some of their many claims. It is about time that they got started.



Critique of “An Evening with a Miracle Man”

2006, Apr 1st | Category: Religion

Niels Christian Hvidt has some criticisms.



Death Cults – Introduction

2008, Jun 1st | Category: Cults, New Age, Pseudoscience, Psychic Powers, Religion

Why are cults so popular? Why do they sometimes lead to death and destruction? A closer look at four cults that gripped the world in tales of mayhem.



Do you believe in Evolution?

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism

Here is why you shouldn’t. It isn’t a question of belief, but knowledge.



Doubting Darwinism through creative license

2004, Aug 1st | Category: Creationism

How Creationists misled the public through a public campaign to discredit Evolution.



Facing challenges to Evolution education

2005, Nov 1st | Category: Creationism

Some descriptions of strategies that are commonly used in attempts to force “creation science” into public schools, and suggestions on how to respond.



Facts, faith, and fairness

2005, Jan 1st | Category: Creationism

Does fairness demand that creationism should be taught alongside evolution?



I started thinking, and I got carried away

2003, Aug 1st | Category: Cults, New Age, Pseudohistory, Pseudoscience, Religion

The tantalizing story of an ex-Scientologist, who broke his contract just shy of 999,999,975 years before it expired.



If Jesus Christ held a press conference

2003, Jul 1st | Category: Lighter Side of Darkness, Religion

Assume that Jesus Christ actually existed and that now he has come back as prophesized. What is one of the first things he will do? Hold a press conference, of course.



Kabbalarian cockamamie

2003, Mar 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, New Age, Psychic Powers, Religion

Just how important a name is, is not clear to most people. Fortunately, a society exists to tell you precisely how crucial it is you choose the right name for your child. The name of a person, according to the Kalabarian Philosophy, determines no less than your destiny, your “mental direction”, your personality, how happy you are, how you attract people, how successful you will be, etc.



Kanungu – Hell on Earth, Part 1

2008, Jun 1st | Category: Cults, Religion

Part 1: Religious fanaticism coupled with extortion and persecution can only lead to a very real hell on Earth.



Kanungu – Hell on Earth, Part 2

2009, Aug 1st | Category: Cults, Religion

This is the second article about the Kanungu cult in Uganda. The apocalyptic prophecies ended in a disaster, where adults and children were burned alive, only to satisfy a few power-hungry maniacs.



Kent Hovind dissected

2004, Nov 1st | Category: Creationism

Kent Hovind is one of America’s leading young-earth Creationists and offers a $250,000 award to anyone who is able to prove (to his satisfaction) that Evolution occurs.



Miracles galore

2004, Apr 1st | Category: Religion

In these days of never-ending pandering to the cheapest thrills, it is not every day you get to witness a whole string of miracles, where people are cured of such varied ailments as ski injuries, whiplash, asthma and ovarian cancer. Blind people see, deaf people hear, diabetics are cured, fibromyalgia and even otherwise uncurable sclerosis disappears! That sure beats watching “Wheel of Fortune” on a boring Thursday evening.



Noah and his Ark: A critical examination

2002, Dec 1st | Category: Creationism, Religion

Even today, there are still people climbing the mountains of Iraq and Armenia, searching for the ark of Noah. Here are just a few reasons why they search in vain.



Noah’s bunnies

2002, Nov 1st | Category: Creationism

What happens if rabbits multiplied the same way Creationists calculate the human population growth after the Flood?



Origin myths

2004, Jun 1st | Category: Creationism

Various cultures have vastly different explanations of how the world came about. Why must it be the Creationist explanation that is true?



Response to Niels Christian Hvidt

2006, Apr 1st | Category: Religion

Claus Larsen has some responses to the criticism.



The 10 Commandments Are Everything The United States Are Not

2002, Nov 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory, Religion

Is American law based upon the 10 Commandments?



The 29 arguments for reincarnation

2003, Mar 1st | Category: New Age, Religion

Here are 29 commonly heard arguments in favor of reincarnation.



The Devil Within – Exorcism in the United States

2006, Dec 1st | Category: Religion

With renewed energy and fervor, the world has plunged again into a paranormal realm. Interest in psychic phenomena, communicating with the dead, and healing with the power of the mind have become, in this age of science, a gateway to the mysterious and escape from the mundane. Religion has also turned back to a more fantastical realm: Exorcisms. Once forgotten, casting out the devil is back in vogue.



The Evolution of Creationism

2004, Jun 1st | Category: Creationism

A brief history on how Creationism has changed, yet still maintain Evolution is false.



The transfiguration of a believer

2004, Feb 1st | Category: Religion, Skepticism

How the death of my cat started me on my journey that would, for the main part, always be characterized by one thing: need. From atheism, theism, deism, always with an undercurrent of agnosticism, it wasn’t until I dropped the Biblical inerrancy view though, that the objections of “unbelievers” really started to hit home with me, and become my own questions.



The Waco Massacre – Sex, guns and religion, Part 1

2008, Jun 1st | Category: Cults, New Age, Pseudoscience, Psychic Powers, Religion

Part 1: A botched ATF raid on a religious compound resulted in a 51-day siege and the deaths of almost a hundred people, many of them children.



The Waco Massacre – Sex, guns and religion, Part 2

2009, Aug 1st | Category: Cults, New Age, Pseudoscience, Psychic Powers, Religion

The preamble to the devastating raid on the compound at Mount Carmel. How did the preparations go? What were the reasons for the raid? Why the show of force? Why did it go so wrong?



The watch in the desert

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism

OK, so if you found a watch lying in the desert, would you assume that it “spontaneously assembled” itself from the desert sand and rocks?



The whole silly Flood story

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion

If you believe in the Biblical Flood, there is a couple of things you should consider. Quite a lot, actually…



Thermodynamics for two, please

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Skepticism

Evolution is impossible because it breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Oh, yeah? Bob Riggins has news for you.



Things Creationists hate

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion

Believing in Creationism does present a few problems. Here is a “handful”.



Those naughty vestigial bits and other bad engineering

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion

God’s design of Nature turns out to be less-than-perfect. In fact, it seems there is no end to the examples of just how poor a job he did.



Welcome to the ghetto (of scientific illiteracy)

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Skepticism

An ugly sound, but we already have a ghetto – of the scientifically illiterate.