Despite the obvious commonalities between the two groups, the atheist movement has always had a rather strained relationship with the more generalized skeptical movement. In part this is the fault of organized atheism, as many atheists endorse mystical crap like acupuncture and other alternative medicines while pretending to be reasonable just because they reject religion. …
Monthly Archive: October 2009
Oct 26
New Posts Coming Soon!
Hey everyone, I’m writing this to let all you fine readers know that I do plan on updating this blog again eventually. I have been busy lately and I’ve also been stuck in a bit of a personal funk. (Okay, okay, so I’m having a quarter-life crisis!) It doesn’t help that I’m mildly perfectionistic about my writing …
Oct 12
How to Conquer the World
Conquering the world is a difficult task, but it is a worthwhile goal for any aspiring evil genius. Now what is the most important part of conquering the world? Is it having really cool, high-ranking henchmen with weird physical deformities and absurd methods of attack involving thrown items of clothing? No. Is it devising elaborate, …
Oct 08
The Anthropic Principle
The Anthropic Principle has had a long and sordid history among cosmologists and others. In essence, the principle asserts that the fine-tuning of the physical constants that allow for the formation of conscious life requires some sort of explanation. As an example, some physicists try to argue for the existence of multiple universes in order …
Oct 01
Tolerance and Blasphemy
As a skeptic, one of the most grating words I can ever hear is intolerance. Any skeptic, upon hearing this word uttered, is hit with instant paranoid dread and disgust, knowing that there is an almost infinitely likely probability that its sense is being mangled and distorted in such a way as to imply that one …
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