All posts tagged "Atheist"

Answers in Genesis's Ken Ham placed billboards designed to "reach out to atheists" in San Francisco and New York City's Times Square over the weekend. Ham's organization runs a widely mocked creationist museum in Kentucky, and Ham himself is fond of insisting that humans aren't related to apes.

Religious people distrust the world's estimated 500 million atheistsas much as rapists, a study found Friday in the wake of a poll that said less than half of Americans would vote for an atheist president.

[rebelmouse-image 24749831 original_size="428x365" expand=1]All weekend at Skepticon, books were everywhere. The book seller had books about atheism, about science, and books written by the speakers. There were books being purchased, read, carried around, and signed. But these were not the books that were the ones being most discussed, even as the speakers hawked their own books from stage. That honor went to two highly contested texts: the Holy Bible and On the Origin of the Species. Never were two books so discussed while remaining largely unread.

[rebelmouse-image 24749727 alt="Some Golden Daybreak" original_size="240x237" expand=1]So, I'm sure you saw the latest Pew report on Americans and religious knowledge. It, unsurprisingly, discovered that Americans are both really religious and profoundly ignorant, even about their own supposed faith. But the big news is that atheists score better than all other groups on the test.

Oh man, I was listening to the Skepticality podcast, and they opened by playing this news clip about the Charlotte Pop Festival donating its proceeds to the Richard Dawkins Foundation. And let me just say this video is comedy gold.