Some critics argue that homosexuality contradicts the basic idea of evolution.YouTuber Stephen Woodford does a nice job in this video explaining why that's not true.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/homosexuality-goes-against-the-laws-of-nature-debunked/
11/14/2017 12:00:20 PM

I’m sure I’ve posted this video at some time in the past, but it must have been long ago, and it’s worth seeing again.( Besides, I just watched it.) Here Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain defends science against various species of quackery. He reminds me a bit of George Carlin, and I love the “get […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/dara-o-briain-on-science-quackery-and-creationism/
11/14/2017 11:15:35 AM

To those who grew up in a strict, fundamentalist homeschooling culture, Roy Moore's molestation scandal is not at all considered weird or perverse.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/roy-moores-alleged-abuse-isnt-scandalous-in-some-evangelical-circles/
11/14/2017 9:00:38 AM

For these pastors, no woman's story of assault matters as much as getting a man who claims to represent Jesus in a position of power.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/more-than-50-al-pastors-have-signed-a-letter-defending-roy-moore/
11/14/2017 7:44:46 AM

Recently I dropped into an online discussion of Ten Steps to Complex Learning, about which I wrote a series of posts some years ago. Among the four components of its learning blueprint were: Procedural information, which helps when you’re dealing with skills that you use pretty much the same way each time. You can think of […]

From Dave's Whiteboard
http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/6137
11/14/2017 6:15:06 AM

The atheists' lawyer remarked, "I thought it was well-settled that all dogs already go to heaven."

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/atheists-sue-taxpayer-funded-animal-shelter-over-religious-blessing-ceremony/
11/14/2017 6:00:38 AM

Click on the screenshot to go to the article: If you need confirmation, go here. Needless to say, Sarsour has no expertise in anti-Semitism (except how to promote it), nor, apparently do the other panelists. This is one example of how many liberals, among them Jews, promote the undermining of their own principles and well-being […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/this-is-not-from-the-onion/
11/14/2017 5:00:17 AM

You know your Christian movie is bad when Creationists say it's too unrealistic.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/even-this-creationist-thinks-the-christian-movie-let-there-be-light-is-awful/
11/14/2017 4:30:10 AM

Here we have a sad example of someone who’s been driven into unreasonable thoughts and behavior by Trump’s election, and puts it on display in the New York Times. (Click on screenshot below to go to the op-ed.) The person is Ekow N. Yankah, an African-American professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/nyt-op-ed-black-professor-says-that-hes-teaching-his-children-that-they-cant-be-friends-with-whites/
11/14/2017 3:40:44 AM

The more I study the activities of chiropractors, the more I find myself comparing them to striptease dancing as depicted in my favorite humorous musical number from the 1962 movie “Gypsy.”

The scene is a dressing room in a burlesque theater in Wichita, Kansas. Louise Hovick (who eventually becomes striptease star Gypsy Rose Lee) is a young woman with a booking at the theater to sing and dance—but not strip. She encounters three seasoned strippers. She explains to them that she doesn’t have any talent for stripping.

One of the strippers, Miss Mazeppa, assures her: “To be a stripper, all you need to have is no talent.”

Another stripper, Tessie Tura, counters: “Pardon me! But to have no talent is not enough. What you need to have is an idea that makes you strip special!”

And so begins a performance of

From Committee for Skeptical Inquiry | Main Feed
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/chiropractors_and_diabetes_gimmickry
11/14/2017 3:37:00 AM

Yesterday a young woman thought she would call me out on Twitter. It didn’t go quite as she had planned; she ended up looking very foolish. In the rant that followed, McGann who apparently prides herself on her knowledge of evolution revealed that she doesn’t understand evolution. A lot of natural parenting advocates have the […]

From The Skeptical OB
http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/11/darwin-finches-and-the-fallacy-at-the-heart-of-natural-parenting.html
11/14/2017 3:29:43 AM

Should be an interesting one to watch.

From AFA Forums
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/forums/showthread.php?t=30671&goto;=newpost
11/14/2017 3:23:16 AM

This type of behavior is spread by ignorance and reinforced by bigotry, and it has no place in modern society.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/drill-sergeant-gets-10-years-for-abusing-muslim-recruits-leading-up-to-suicide/
11/14/2017 3:00:11 AM

Look at this giant snake shark! ...

From JREF Forum
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=324722&goto;=newpost
11/14/2017 2:41:02 AM

I’ve kvetched before about the religiosity and faitheism flaunted by Scott Simon of National Public Radio (see here and here), and about the soft-on-faith attitude of NPR in general. They rarely seem to give atheists a good hearing, but there’s always plenty of opportunity for the numinous, as in the brief interview below as well […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/npr-goes-soft-on-faith-again/
11/14/2017 2:00:59 AM

These evangelical Christians "love the sinner" so much that they'll reward him for alleged child abuse.

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/13/37-of-evangelicals-are-more-likely-to-back-roy-moore-after-assault-allegations/
11/14/2017 1:30:09 AM

This is an stupendous feat of ingestion, and so I’ll put it up by itself. The video was shot by reader Rick Longworth, who calls it, accurately, “Big Gulp.” His notes: Here we see a green heron (Butorides virescens) downing a good sized bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) near Poughkeepsie, NY. This is my first attempt at […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/readers-wildlife-video-7/
11/14/2017 1:15:27 AM

Where were all of you last year?

From Daylight Atheism
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2017/11/dystopia-journal-11-better-late-never/
11/14/2017 1:03:46 AM

This song was written in 1969 by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett, and first recorded by Delaney & Bonnie. But the definitive version was by Karen Carpenter, and so I’ll show this as a second tribute to Leon Russell, who died exactly a year ago after a heart attack.  When Bette Midler performed this on the Tonight […]

From Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/superstar/
11/14/2017 12:15:43 AM

On this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Gem, Lauren, Laura, and Ashlyn take listener requests! The panel discusses trans fats, the gender pay gap, password security, and an exciting form of health pseudoscience called the physiospect. Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a podcast that delves into issues of science, critical … Continue reading Episode 126: Trans Fats, the Pay Gap, Passwords, Physiospect →

From The Winnipeg Skeptics
https://winnipegskeptics.com/2017/11/13/episode-126-trans-fats-the-pay-gap-passwords-physiospect/
11/14/2017 12:00:57 AM