Straw man

Evolution, huh? Then where’s my crocoduck? It’s absurd to suggest that primary school children should get any kind of sex education. Kids shouldn’t be watching porn until they’re old enough to find it for themselves on the internet. Any psychics in the audience, please raise my hand. Sometimes it’s really hard to argue properly against [...]

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Evolution’s moral implications

This is another updated and altered version of something I wrote a while ago. It was initially kicked off by a creationist article, where some guy boringly repeats yet again the tedious fallacy that evolutionary processes can be equated with moral decisions. If you are an “evolutionist” – which I think means, if you are [...]

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Evolution

It’s hard to start writing an overview to evolution without feeling that everything I’m saying is either already established to the point of tedium, or blindingly obvious – but, given how little some people seem to know about it, I suppose I shouldn’t presume too much about what’s obvious or what “everybody” already knows. This [...]

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Tarvu tarvooti

Oh, what a fool I’ve been. I thought science and reason were all I needed to live by, and thought I was happy in my godless existence, but finally I’ve discovered the wonderful truth of Tarvu. At last my life has the mdfitty numnum I never knew it was missing. Tarvuism is such a glorious [...]

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Of little consequence

See, I said I wasn’t going to post every day any more, and look, I was totally slack yesterday and posted not a damn thing. Screw you, internets, and your fascist “one post a day” rule guideline for successful blogging. I don’t need your advice, or your custom, or your fancy internet popularity with more [...]

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The Bible

There are people who claim that every word of their particular edition and translation of the Bible is absolutely true, and thank Jesus daily for the mysterious and divine processes through which everyone who disagrees with them about anything is totally wrong. A lot of them won’t even qualify the word “true” with more than [...]

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Judas’ death

This is the topic that originally prompted me to expound on some general ideas about how Biblical literalism tends to go, and some of the problems with it. I’m not going to bring any pesky “evidence” or inconvenient “facts” into things here. I just have an observation about the way people often attempt to reconcile [...]

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AKA legitimised apathy

I’ve been having fun and feeling useful lately, adding to the Skeptictionary at a pretty good rate, and I’m thinking I might shift my priorities more in that direction, let myself off the rule of posting something at least once a day, and just work on updating that as fast as I can manage it. [...]

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Is Jesus the only path to salvation?

Well, is he? It’s a central tenet of Christianity (though certainly not one held by every Christian I know) that only through accepting and praising Jesus Christ as the son of God can any of us be “saved” – that is, reaching a state of being worthy to enter Heaven. Clearly I have some problems [...]

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Why bother?

If you’re an atheist, then you know as well as I do that life is a yawning chasm of despair and hopelessness, and you surely long for sweet oblivion to finally put an end to the whole pointless charade. But fret not! Spit out that handful of pills, put down the razorblades and step away [...]

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