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XI. Thou shalt not speak before thinking
Fra Angelico, Peter Martyr Enjoins Silence, c.1441. Peter Martyr, known also as St. Peter of Verona, was an Italian Dominican friar whose preaching was responsible for returning many heretics, most...
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Who’s afraid of the dark?
Hawking at the Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics in Ontario, June 2010. Image source: Reuters. Photo by Sheryl Nadler Great news! The Wheeled One is going on about God again! Last time it...
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Notes on my delusion
Not deluded, apparently: Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800. Jefferson is quoted by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion thus: “Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if...
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Apophasis: Just the thing for beefy, well-fed liberals
Image courtesy of Jesus and Mo As I was poking about for images related to negative theology, I found this comic attached to a post at Why Evolution is True, biologist Jerry Coyne‘s blog. In said...
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Suffer the little children: Bees sting you because you’re naughty
Bombus terrestris, 1978. 10-dinar stamp from the Soviet days. Image source: Animal Kingdom I have recently stumbled upon a most depressing trove of nonsense at the Answers in Genesis website. As its...
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Ayn Rand’s perfect illusion or: Why my son will probably survive Anthem
Arnold Newman, Ayn Rand, 1964. According to biographer Anne C. Heller, Rand believed “the dollar sign was a better symbol than the cross, because it didn’t require the sacrifice of anybody.” So my...
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