Hey, check out this ancient NCSE training film!

Genie Scott and Stephen Meyer square off at the First Amendment Center. For more about the First Amendment and related issues, visit www.firstamendmentcenter.org. Broadcast date: 2/17/1997

Bernarda:
I am having trouble getting this comment to stick to Pharyngula. Some kind of technical problem at scienceblogs.com. So, go read the blogpost about the NEA, note the comments on the history of education, ending with Bernarda’s,
… and then pick up the thread here:
There are a number of African “books of […]

Hey, I’m just saying…. PZ Myers reports on an interesting case of a child being toted around by his parents, following the will of god, as a corner “street preacher.” Hey, it did not occur to me to think this, honestly, but Myers asks “I do wish we could arrest all those parents […]

I had a dream last night that I was in the kitchen cooking Calamari, when several medium sized octopi crawled out of the pot and led me to the basement, beckoning me to come near the computer. They formed a stack, one on top of the other, and the top octopus took the mouse […]

Please consider visiting The Creation Museum. This is a “web carnival” of Internet resources about the new museum in Kentucky.

In Genesis 4, we see specific reference to herdsmen and farmers as distinct groups, represented by Abel and Cain, respectively. God indicates a preference for the results of herding over planting, and the sibling troubles that ensue result in the world becoming a difficult place to farm, and humans becoming more nomadic, as herders. […]

Genesis 2 ends with Adam and Eve being naked yet not ashamed. In Genesis 3, the Serpent, who is wiser than average, tricks Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit of one of god’s two magic trees. This results in Adam and Eve recognizing their own nakedness, and compelling them to produce the […]

Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 (5 – 25) are distinctly different and contradictory origin stories. The biblical origin story represented in this text has long been known to resemble a set of Sumerian stories that mainly deal with a multitude of gods interacting (some of these gods are converted to humans in the […]

As a child in Catholic school, and later in public school and being sent off to “release time” religious instruction, I had the opportunity to read most of the Old and New Testaments of the standard bible. Later, in junior high school, I became interested in comparative religion, and read it all again, together […]