Sunday Funny #7

O, the kooky inner-workings of the religious mind…

Virus Batteries

This is too cool, researchers at MIT are working on batteries that are powered, in part, by the mechanics of viruses…
Instead of physically arranging the component parts, researchers genetically engineer viruses to attract individual molecules of materials they’re interested in, like cobalt oxide, from a solution, autonomously forming wires 17,000 times thinner than a sheet [...]

The Best of Truth: The Very First “BoT” Award!

Often the comments that folks leave here make me laugh out-loud or sometimes pause in quiet reflection. Other times they make me fear for the future of the human race — be that as it may, I’ve decided to create a “Best of Truth” award. I just want to call attention to what I think are the funniest, most intelligent, or thought-provoking of the comments [...]

If It Feels Good, Do It

I am often perplexed by other’s perplexity. In this particular case, it’s the oft-repeated, “I can’t see how science can explain where goodness comes from,” or “Evolution just can’t account for morality.”
Really?
Well, first, several good books explain the connection between evolutionary theory and morality (the last one I read was The Moral Sense, by James [...]

Strangelets be Damned!

Well, it seems that next month we will finally find out if a black hole in Switzerland will eat our planet. I sure hope not, I’ve got tickets to Cake that I really don’t want to waste.
In case you haven’t been following this closely (just as I haven’t been) the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland is going to run [...]

‘Truth is a Woman’ Needs a Woman’s Help

Ok, so I’m at Merriam-Webster’s looking up the definition of “bruit” when I see this ad on the right side. I read it. Then I take out my eyes, dust them off, and reinsert them into my skull. I read it again.

Still not fully grasping what I am seeing, I click-through and this appears…

Coming Out A

This is a post about some comments about a few posts… pretty meta, huh?
A couple of folks have asked me why is it important to frame atheism in a “palatable” way? Or maybe the question is why I feel that it is important…
First off, I will say that I think P.Z. Myers and his sort of [...]

Sunday Funny #6

I dunno, It looks to me as if the kids on the right have a touch of schadenfreude… (this is yet another cartoon from Ray Comfort’s blog)…