(via godtoldmeto)

AC Grayling is one of the most well spoken individuals I think I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to.

friendlyatheist:

Top Ten Creationist Arguments (via TheThinkingAtheist)

Dead on.

(via orbitalteapot)

An 11-year-old boy’s parents say that he has been having memories of a WWII pilot killed in battle 60 years ago. (via CNN.com)

Really?

Their logical conclusion is to say the kid’s nightmares are from a past life, and there is no other explanation for his statements?

You’re really going to label your child like that, and force him to grow up thinking he’s really someone else?

Do you even know what that could do to your kid, psychologically and emotionally?

Until your sensory perceptions can be proven infallible, I’ll just take your “personal arguments” for theism with a grain of salt.

Christopher Hitchens clip from Collision (via WhyWon’tGodHealAmputees)

This might be the most straightforward argument I’ve ever seen Hitchens make during a debate.  That’s not to say he’s unreasonable in other debates, but rather that he gets himself a bit convoluted from time to time.

(via Pharyngula)

Yep.  That’s about right.  I love the “Children raised by gays will become gay!”

Lachezar Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirmed the research.

He said the centre’s researchers were analysing 150 crop circles from around the world, which they believe answer the questions.

“Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time,” Mr Filipov told Bulgarian media.

“They are not hostile towards us, rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to establish direct contact with them.”

Mr Filipov said that even the seat of the Catholic church, the Vatican, had agreed that aliens existed.

[…]

The publication of the BAS researchers report concerning communicating with aliens comes in the midst of a controversy over the role, feasibility, and reform of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Oh boy.  Even the Vatican agrees with you? There’s a hallmark of reliability if I’ve ever known one!

Funnily enough, crop circles are better “evidence” for aliens than anything the Vatican has for God.  You know, so long as you disregard the fact that there’s a logical human source for crop circles (which is no different than the Vatican disregarding most scientific explanations in conflict with its own dogma).