The leaders of Kenya's evangelical movement are pressuring the national museum to remove a world-famous collection of bones which conclusively depict the evolution of apes to humans.



The collection includes the most complete skeleton yet found of Homo erectus, the 1.7 million-year-old Turkana Boy unearthed by Dr Leakey's team in 1984 at Nariokotome, near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The museum also holds bones from several specimens of Australopithecus anamensis, believed to be…

Do you think it's possible that intelligence, consciousness could be transfigured into code? That we could exist in virtual realities of our own design? I think it's not only possible, but that it's possible within my lifetime, and probably most of yours. I think it's possible that this will mean we can live as long as we want, secure as files stored in quantum computers, able to filter and tailor the experiences of our existence, like super-powered parental controls. We'll be our own Gods,…

"For billions of years, the divine plan's been doin' just fine. Now you come along and pray for something. Well, suppose the thing you want isn't in God's divine plan. What do you want Him to do? Change His plan? Just for you? Doesn't that seem a little arrogant? It's a divine plan! What's the use of bein' God if every run-down shmuck with a two-dollar prayer book can come along and fuck up your divine plan?"

Epic. George Carlin, "Religion is Bullshit". Too bad the guy's…

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Had a super time last night talking at The Blue Danube to the Metroplex Atheists. Great audience and so fun to talk to. It was pretty crowded with 130 or so heathens all in one room. Food was great and people were even greater! Sam Singleton preached the true gospel to the groups after I finished.  Off to Huntsville Friday. Pray to the FSM that the governor of Ala. doesn't send in the troops to break up our convention - since weren't his…

After going through a dramatic break-up, a cousin of mine got in touch with me, and dropped some, much to my surprise, encouraging words of wisdom. The next day, this cousin sent me one of those texts that requires you to message 10 or so other people.  It was something like "Deny your Heavenly Father Which is in Heaven, and He too will Deny You...Send this message to blah blah blah."  I'm thinking how wise this cousin is, and how I'd probably stay in contact with her from now on because she…

I don't know if it's just me or not, but I seriously get a kick out of watching people like Kent Hovind and Ray Comfort talk about science they don't understand. It's just funny to listen to them say things like "scientist have never found any fossils which support evolution, there are no fossils". Or when talking to a real scientist ask them for some absurd fossil like a crocoduck. I also enjoy Kent Hovind's theories like "There use to be a giant ice layer above the Earth" which makes no…

I assume that religion is subject to evolution just like everything else. If I am right, then there must have been a beginning for religion. I suspect it started with agriculture when people found that they had more free time. They didn't have to spend every waking moment hunting and gathering food anymore. With more time, people started to do more thinking.…

Thanks for the responses from my posting last week about the Internet talk-radio program American Heathen. Hopefully you got to listen to the reruns on Freethought Radio, but if you didn't, you've got another chance to listen to the show (airing at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT) that addresses political and social issues and items in the news from an ATHEIST-Libertarian POV - American Heathen on ShockNet Radio (and simulcast on Freethought Radio -…