Monthly Archives: April, 2008
On being open minded
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what constitutes an open mind. Theists claim atheists aren’t open minded because we won’t accept the premise that gods exist. Conspiracy believers accuse the skeptical of being closed minded when they question the conspiracy stories. People who don’t believe in Big Foot or Nessy are called [...]
Two completely different ways of looking at the world
For most of us in the Western world, challenging religion and advocating free thought are reasonably risk-free activities. One has to admire the courage of Syrian poet Adonis, advocating those ideals while delivering the keynote address at the ‘Innovation in Islam’ conference.
“If a religion cannot offer human beings free thinking and freedom, there is [...]
Science Sunday: Intelligent Design Goes to the Movies
Over at Colorado Confidential, Dan Whipple provides an enlightening review of Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The movie’s subtitle ought to be posted on the door of every theater showing this pseudo-documentary.
…the film is so intellectually garbled it’s hard to summarize. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is Summa Theologica compared to “Expelled.”
“Expelled” trots out several [...]
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