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Tag Archives: religion
Weddings: the best and worst
Everything you hear about wedding planning really is true; obviously there’s a continuum and everyone’s mileage will inevitably vary, but you’ll more than likely run into some person or another airing their dirty laundry. It sucks. It sucks that the … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life, Religion, the fam, The Lady
Tagged bible thumpers, catholicism, christianity, fundamentalism at its worst, hate hate hate the subservience line, i can respect beliefs i don't agree with but i can't respect illogical arguments, judaism, literal interpretation of the bible: you're doing it wrong, receptions, religion, save the drama for your mama, this isn't even interpreting the bible literally it's making shit up out of thin air, weddings
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Starting the process
For the last handful of years, I’ve been a faithful listener of the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast (not to be confused with the One True SGU). I’m a huge fan. They’re a phenomenal group of people, and are … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Real Life, Science
Tagged agnosticism, atheism, carl sagan, creation, dialogue > monologue, don mcleroy, evan bernstein, evolution, i know some catholic jokes that are actually funny, neil degrasse tyson, neil degrasse tyson is the man, religion, seriously just put some effort into your joke making and i'll appreciate it, sgu, sgu means stargate universe and it always will kthx, skeptic's guide to the universe, sorry this post was so short on lolcats, steven novella
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The “dichotomy” of good and evil
This is something of a world-view I’ve been cooking up for the better part of the last 24 years, but only just discovered last semester – in the throes of Hoeffding-instigated agony and insomnia-induced delium – how to adequately and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Politics, Real Life, the dark side
Tagged (p * good) + (q * evil) = you, central limit theorem, conservatives, dichotomy, gauss was a badass, gaussian distribution, if life was simple everyone would do it, jedi, liberals, life is normally distributed, normal distribution, obama, one of the few absolutes is that there are few absolutes, polar bears, polarization, Politics, religion, star wars, yoda was a match for darth sidious because yoda is ms piggy
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Look! I’m a scientist!
Who’s up for a little autobiography tied into an age-old debate? I’ve always been something of an engineer. My Dad enjoys telling the story of when I was barely able to walk: I fixed a loose bicycle wheel by tightening … Continue reading
Posted in lolcat, random
Tagged !(evolution xor creation), "because the bible says so" != logical scientific argument, creation story, creationism, critical thinking, debates, evolution, gravity is just a theory, hidden markov models, im tired of televangelists giving me science lessons, integrationism, let there be evolution, microevolution^(2million) = evolution ?, religion, science, scientific method
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