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Tucker Phelps is a part-time student of cultural anthropology and a lifelong Oakland resident. Skeptical by nature, his childhood exposure to religion taught him the value of examining the rationale, motivations, and beliefs held both by himself and by others in order to come to the soundest, most valid conclusions available.

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San Fransisco author and researcher heralded as the next messiah.

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Raj Patel is a columnist, scholar, social activist. author, critic and according to cyber-sleuths the world over, the next Jesus Christ, Krishna,...
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Tea Party Convention off to a good start; CEO of WND claims Christs birth record better than Obamas

Saturday, February 6th, 2010 · 3 comments

Joe Farah spoke today at the National Tea Party Convention, on the tired old topic of Barack Obama's citizenship. According to Farah, not only is...
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Kin Selection among humans; how male homosexuality may have evolved

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Published last month in the Journal of Psychological Science, two Canadian evolutionary psychologists have observed some tantalizing evidence...
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There's crazy and then there's this. Anti-Gay beliefs involved in Prop8 decision

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 · 1 comment

Today, I came across one of the most convoluted, ridiculous, and silly arguments against same-sex marriage I've ever read and I just had to share....
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Creationism in schools? Dangerous.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

In the recent article on the Trijicon 'Jesus Rifles' I wrote in passing that, “Creationism in schools poses a major long term problem with...
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Westboro Baptist Church to picket in San Francisco

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 · 2 comments

America's most hated family has announced it will be touring the San Francisco area this Thursday and Friday in order to spread their message of...
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Reminder: PZ Myers to speak at UC Berkeley this evening (Friday), 7PM

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PZ Myers, Associate Professor of Biology and author of the blog Pharyngula will be in town this evening to speak on...
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The problem behind these biblical scopes [Update]

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Update: Trijicon has announced it will no longer continue this dangerous practice, following the backlash from several prominent military agencies...
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Martin Luther King Jr., a true prophet

In the early period of Western religions during the periods described in the Tanakh (Old Testament) a prophet was a person who spoke for social...
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Atheist firebrand PZ Myers to speak in Berkeley

Thanks to the Secular Student Alliance and SANE {Students for A Non-religious Ethos}, Professor PZ Myers will be in town the 22nd to speak on...
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