I read this article yesterday at NPR regarding the evolutionary advantages of belief in a god(s) and the supernatural. While I understand the argument, I do not agree.
Jesse Bering’s mother died of cancer on a Sunday, in her own bed, at 9 o’clock at night. Bering and his siblings closed her door and went downstairs, hoping they might somehow get some sleep.
Prop 8 is overturned. Activists and progressives who are concerned with equality and justice just exhaled the biggest rainbow-colored breath. I have written about this divisive and ugly proposition and the following protest (one of the many).
So how cool is this news on this blogger’s 48th birthday: Proposition 8, the horrible and neurotic (Who cares who marries whom?) law prohibiting Gay marriage was overturned today, Wednesday, August 4th, 2010.
A little over three years ago, I wrote a piece entitled “Why Aren’t More Women Atheists?“. After attending The Amazing Meeting this year and receiving a comment from my friend Wendy (pictured just below, center) reminding me of this, I decided to revisit this notion. There have been a great deal of lady atheist and skeptic bloggers and readers that have come to be known since I first wrote that post in May of 2007. You can see many women in these photos:
