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 …
Category Archive: Skepticism
Sep 27
Illogical Answers in Genesis (Reification)
The young-Earth creationist organization Answers in Genesis (AiG) has started publishing articles explaining various logical fallacies, a practice not unlike a blood-stained lion defending vegetarianism. In each article, the author—Dr. Jason Lisle—attempts to show how biologists and other scientists who support evolution commit these fallacies. That Dr. Lisle frequently contradicts himself and misrepresents both scientists …
Sep 23
Faith Insurance
GuideOneInsurance is a special kind of niche-market insurance company. While some insurance companies cover acts of God; GuideOneInsurance covers godly acts. It offers “churchgoers” a special FaithGuard insurance plan that covers the following features: Anyone involved in an automobile accident while driving to or from church services doesn’t have to pay their deductible. [This concession makes …
Sep 22
Evolution? Not in OUR School!
Not too long ago, a High School in Sedalia, Missouri, prevented its band students from wearing a T-shirt with an evolutionary motif. The shirt said “Brass Evolutions 2009″ and depicted the popular image of a long line of evolving hominids, with a monkey all the way to the left gradually evolving into modern homo sapiens, …
Sep 22
Illogical Answers in Genesis (Introduction)
The creationist organization Answers in Genesis (AiG) is perhaps best known as the group that brought us the creation museum, an impending sense of doom for the future of humanity, and the world’s largest bucket of cognitive dissonance (only slightly smaller than the world’s largest ball of twine). However, I was delighted to learn that AiG is apparently …
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