While playing catch up with Planet Atheism, I saw this Google advert at the foot of the page:
“100% accurate” and “astrologer” are to my mind not two items that should appear in any sentence that makes any kind of sense, but I’m willing to allow someone claiming such things to try to demonstrate it, especially [...]

Google have now released their Wikipedia competitor, Knol, where a “knol” is defined as:
…an authoritative article about a specific topic.
knol.google.com
Taking a look through a few of the articles (e.g. infertility, diarrhea (sic), athlete’s foot to get a feel for the place, some of them read more like layperson1-friendly entries into journals.
The content does appear to [...]

Khaled Diab over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free has written a really interesting article that I can’t find much fault with: Contemplating God-free zones.
Caveat: the comments, as always, are something of a different matter.
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It never occurred to me that islamic dating could be so fraught with indecision…

/hattip: PhotoBasement
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Northern Ireland, that bastion of (arguably religiously supported) sectarian bullshit can now proudly lay claim to another religious born-again bigot, this time in the form of DUP Strangford assembly member Iris Robinson.
Robinson, a born-again christian (apparently she didn’t quite get it right the first time) is quoted as saying that homosexuality was an abomination when [...]

Unlikely? Not so much. I can think of a couple more things they agree on…
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What do you mean they’re not True Christians™? They really do seem like sincere believers in Jesus to me…
/hattip Humanistdad
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Thanks to a letter sent to the National Secular Society, I’ve been made aware of BBC (i.e. taxpayer) provided webcams at the creationist Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm near Bristol.
Obviously, the BBC has moved on from the need to report on reality, and can now comfortably spend the licence fee on supporting the unverifed (and unverifiable) [...]

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Priest-Off® Clergy Repellent”, url: “http://www.nullifidian.net/2008/05/16/priest-off-clergy-repellent/” });

Genius
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A guide to “alternative medicine” produced by Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health, Complementary Healthcare: A Guide, that has been produced with over £900,000 of taxpayer’s money, is being asked to be recalled as it is claimed that:
[T]hey both contain numerous misleading and inaccurate claims concerning the supposed benefits of alternative medicine… The nation cannot [...]

http://www.catholic.ie/
I’ll say no more.
Except “pwned”.
/hattip The BHA e-bulletin
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Well, that was interesting. Here’s a transcript of a conversation between myself and self-proclaimed “anti-Darwinist” and serial blogwhore1 John A Davison (that’s “John A Davison”, damnit!), which he “threatened” to publish if I cared to respond. I don’t care to respond further to such an agressive posturing arsehole, so I’m publishing it myself [...]

Pedro over at Way Of The Mind has recently posted about the fallacy often used by creationists to argue that “life could never happen by chance”. Go and read it, then come back, and I’ll give you my take on it.
Back? Ok.
One of the things that Pedro didn’t address is his post was [...]

The British “guerilla” graffiti artist that goes under the nom de guerre Banksy has recently been to the Middle East to offer the locals his particular brand of controversial graffiti.
This example is to be found in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank:

As a statement, this image of a dove (presumably a “dove of peace” from [...]