How the Bible implies that unicorns exist

January 11th, 2007

I've been on a bit of a binge lately with blog entries on faith and religion, perhaps because there's so much fun analysis that can be performed on them. My latest subject is contradictions in dogma and why fundamentalist thinking is incompatible with reality. In fact, I below present a proof that the Bible implies that unicorns exist.

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What if the Blasphemy Challenge had been a scam?

January 10th, 2007

What if the Blasphemy Challenge had not been a gimmick to raise awareness and promote debate about fundamentalism, but instead had been a covert Christian group harvesting the names and addresses of sinners? (For the record, they're legit -- I got my free DVD.)

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Tear it Apart: Faith vs. Reason

September 4th, 2006
The first in a sporadic series called "Tear it Apart", wherein I ask folks to dissect a provocative argument or statement. I'm not interested in the issues involved, just the logic of the argument.

Yesterday I was watching a Stephen Colbert interview with Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith. Sam Harris made a very interesting statement regarding faith, and I thought I'd present it here in an altered form for folks to dissect:

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