Who are you going to believe: The man whose life has been dedicated to exploring the boundaries of science or the man whose entire mode of thinking exists fully outside those boundaries?

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/07/stephen-hawking-doesnt-know-how-earth-will-end-says-creationist-who-doesnt-know-how-earth-began/
5/8/2017 2:00:24 AM

Word on the street is that the book shown below, by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg, is very good (it’s out on June 13; click on screenshot to go to Amazon link). You may have heard of Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers in using the new CRISPR technique to genetically edit cells—”genome editing”; […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/a-new-book-on-crispr-gene-editing-and-their-ethical-implications/
5/8/2017 1:15:42 AM

There he goes again. Dr. Jack Newman has a disturbing tendency to rationalize or ignore the iatrogenic injuries and deaths causes by relentless promotion of breastfeeding. Sadly, he resembles many physicians who refuse to take responsilbity for the preventable errors that are so prevalent in today’s medical system. Like the classic paternalistic doctor, he is […]

From The Skeptical OB
http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/05/dr-jack-newman-breastfeeding-and-iatrogenic-injuries.html
5/8/2017 12:22:26 AM

Yesterday’s New York Times had an article written by a Muslim comedian, Zahra Noorbakhsh (you can see part of her act here). Her piece, “It’s not this Muslim comedian’s job to open your mind,” recounts the dilemma of a woman expected to have a comedic mission: to show Americans that Muslims are just like everyone else. This […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/nyts-piece-on-a-muslim-comedian-evades-some-important-issues/
5/8/2017 12:15:20 AM

Dear Pastor Sean Nolan,I was surprised by your desire to offer advice to a young woman, Kelly, who never asked for it. She is engaged and happy, and your first instinct was to tell her to break it off because she's marrying someone who doesn't believe in God.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/07/letter-to-a-pastor-butting-into-a-womans-engagement-to-a-nonbeliever/
5/8/2017 12:00:28 AM

In the past month or two, I have read many social media posts about how tired people are of hearing about President Trump. Although the people posting these sentiments are probably hearing about Trump from nearly every news source they consume, the complaints are usually aimed at social media. In essence, what these people are saying is that they are tired of others filling their Twitter timeline, Facebook news feed, and so on with links to news stories about Trum

From Atheist Revolution
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AtheistRevolution/~3/utZH7gPLjEU/tired-of-hearing-about-trump.html
5/7/2017 11:21:00 PM

Speaking of snipe (see previous post), can you see this one? Yes, this is a real snipe hunt, not a bogus one inflicted on young campers. The photos come from Stephen Barnard in Idaho, with his notes indented. Click photos to enlarge; reveal at 11 a.m. Chicago time. 1. Extremely difficult. Nearly impossible in my […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/spot-the-snipe-2/
5/7/2017 11:15:56 PM

Roger Latour sent what he describes as “a couple of pictures showing the spring flora on mount Royal in Montreal. A must-see when in Montreal!”  Roger’s notes are indented. On the left: Erythronium americanum (yellow trout lily) and on the right Acer saccharum (sugar maple): Podophyllum peltatum, a sequence showing emergence of the very rare (here […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/readers-wildlife-photos-395/
5/7/2017 10:30:22 PM

Turns out transubstantiation has usefulness even if you don't believe in such nonsense.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/07/the-real-power-of-transubstantiation/
5/7/2017 10:00:45 PM

News that actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry, above, is being investigated for possibly breaching Ireland’s blasphemy law, went viral at the weekend and has attracted condemnation from many quarters. Professor David Nash, above, an international expert on the history and contemporary status of blasphemy laws throughout Europe and beyond, told Atheist Ireland: This incident […]

From The Freethinker
http://freethinker.co.uk/2017/05/07/ireland-made-to-look-stupid-over-blasphemy-complaint/
5/7/2017 9:40:20 PM

Good morning on Ceiling Cat’s Day: Sunday, May 8, 2017. It’s a beautiful day in Chicago, though chilly, with a predicted high of only 50° F (10° C). Although Holi—the Indian spring festival of colors during which people pelt each other with powdered and liquid dyes—was on March 13, for some reason Indian-American students at […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/sunday-hili-dialogue-158/
5/7/2017 9:30:43 PM

This week’s Secular Sunday can be found here. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email

The post Secular Sunday #280 – Say a little prayer appeared first on Atheist Ireland.

From Atheist Ireland
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AtheistIreland/~3/uPQVGjfrFn8/
5/7/2017 6:53:34 PM

Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

Whenever faced with some utterly absurd claim I do seriously grasp for a thought that runs along the lines of “Nobody could possibly be that stupid“. Alas, time after time I find many are both quite determined and highly motivated to prove that I am quite wrong about that, and they also are usually quite successful […]

Top 3 Weekly Weird Religious News Items
Dave

From Skeptical Science
http://www.skeptical-science.com/people/top-3-weekly-weird-religious-news-items-6/
5/7/2017 6:42:20 PM

A man in Manhattan has been arrested and charged with flinging feces at two women on the street, but of course, it’s not his fault.  God told him to do it! Ekwan Hill, 42, is accused of throwing feces at a 33-year old woman, then, later in the day. he followed another woman and ground […]

The post Horror Show Sunday: Throwing Shit for God appeared first on Bitchspot.

From Bitch Spot
http://bitchspot.jadedragononline.com/2017/05/07/horror-show-sunday-throwing-shit-god/
5/7/2017 5:10:54 PM

0:00:00
Introduction
Richard Saunders
Includes interviews from Skeptics in the Pub and Susan Gerbic on the phone?

Susan Gerbic's talk
http://www.baskeptics.org

0:12:00
Interview with Michael Marshall
eBay removes listings for dangerous cancer ‘cure’ after investigation by Good Thinking
eBay has removed all listings for black salve after an investigation by Good Thinking revealed that the dangerous (and ineffective) alternative cancer ‘cure’ was not only available for purchase from the company’s website, but could be delivered via their ‘Click and Collect’ service to a large number of high street stores.

Good Thinking
http://goodthinkingsociety.org/

QED
https://qedcon.org/

0:31:20

Brew Ha Ha: Science in less time than it takes to order a coffee
With Casey Harrigan

https://www.australiascience.tv/vod/brew-ha-ha-britain-goes-coal-free/

Britain has gone coal-free for 24 h

From The Skeptic Zone
http://skepticzone.libsyn.com/the-skeptic-zone-446-7may2017
5/7/2017 5:04:54 PM

What kind of bastardry does it take to for a multi-million dollar enterprise (in league with the NSW Police) to pursue a criminal conviction against a single mother for two years over a minor infringement she had no clue she had committed? What if that single mother’s career – her only source of income – […]

From Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear
https://thatsmyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/hillsong-church-vs-a-woman-of-impeccable-character/
5/7/2017 1:20:12 PM

Boko Haram, an extremist Islamic group based in Nigeria, has reportedly released at least 82 school girls from the 276 they abducted several years ago.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/06/radical-islamic-group-boko-haram-frees-more-than-80-kidnapped-girls/
5/7/2017 9:07:07 AM

When we promote the Sandaled One's words, we are essentially promoting the genocide, torture, slavery, rape, and religious intolerance routinely seen in the Old Testament.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/06/the-thingsjesusneversaid-hashtag-is-whitewashing-what-he-actually-said/
5/7/2017 8:40:16 AM

If this Commission wants to have invocations at meetings, they can't institute a secret rule that all speakers must refer to Jesus or else.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/06/an-atheists-godless-invocation-in-eustis-fl-is-corrected-by-a-commissioners-christian-prayer/
5/7/2017 7:00:35 AM

I watched this debate between Sean Carroll (always great to listen to him) and Mr. Wallace, a...

From JREF Forum
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=319336&goto;=newpost
5/7/2017 6:33:26 AM