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11-24-09: Happy Birthday, H.L. Mencken. You Big Jerk!3 comments

mdmorn wrote 1 week ago: This segment originally aired September 9, 2009. Listen to the conversation. The Sage of Baltimore, … more →

Tags: Arts and Culture, [on air], Politics, Lecture, Mencken, Pratt

Islam's Darwin Problem 17 comments

yasserlatifhamdani wrote 1 month ago: By Drake Bennett in the Boston Globe Three weeks ago, with much fanfare, a team of scientists unveil … more →

Tags: Islam, Science, Pakistan, Arab, Egypt, Modernity, Muslim, Anthropology, turkey

H.L. Mencken- Hilariously Biased, Highly Effective Journalism

Amanda Punshon wrote 1 month ago: Scopes Trial Coverage [Series of Articles] By H.L. Mencken The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29-Sept. … more →

Tags: Writing Skills Assignments, Journalism 1123, Writing Lessons, H. L. Mencken, Monkey Trial

The Cross of Gold

paperlessworld wrote 1 month ago: It was little more than one hundred years ago that William Jennings Bryan delivered his Cross of Gol … more →

Tags: Jesuit, Roman Catholic, Relationships, History, Nebraska, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, William Jennings Bryan, Gold Standard

Mondays with Mencken: Evangelical Ignoramuses Pt 3

danborvan wrote 2 months ago: Pt 1, Pt 2 Their public effects are constantly underestimated until it is too late.  I ask no indulg … more →

Tags: Mencken, Evangelicalism

God1 comment

osopher wrote 2 months ago: The Ancient of Days, aka God William Blake, 1794 (–”What do you mean, William Blake? … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Religion, Clarence Darrow, Evolution, Inherit the Wind, Jimmy Buffett, karen armstrong, Kierkegaard, L. Ron Hubbard

Science + Courtrooms = Bad Science

thequixoticman wrote 3 months ago: There’s an article in the LA Times from last week all about how the US Chamber of Commerce wants a t … more →

Tags: Politics, Global Warming, Law, stupidity

Mistøkini og tilvildin í menningarlæruni

gaasedal wrote 3 months ago: “Á, Timoteus. Varðveit tað, sum tær er litið upp í hendur, og vend tær burt frá hinum vanheilaga, tó … more →

Tags: Mistøkini og tilvildin í menningarlæruni, Australopithicines, Neanderthal Man, Piltdown maðurin, Pithecanthropus, The Orgueil Fall

Keep the Faith2 comments

mburgan wrote 4 months ago: An article in the Times awhile back (yes, as I previously wrote, I am a bad blogger and have been te … more →

Tags: Science, Religion, UFOs, Evolution, Darwin, Creationism, Clarence Darrow, William Jenning Bryan, H. L. Mencken

More anniversaries

mjr256 wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday, I got so excited about the 40th anniversery of the Moon Landing that I completely forgot … more →

Tags: intelligent design/creationism, General Skepticism, Skepacabra, anniversary

Evolution Is A Fact Not Theory1 comment

yasserlatifhamdani wrote 4 months ago: By Anthony J. Aschettino It has been eighty-three years since the landmark “Scopes Monkey Trial” in … more →

Tags: Pakistan, Religion, Science, Evolution, Clarence Darrow, dawin, Inherit the Wind, Theory, Fact

Instructions to the Jury

Dan Greenfield wrote 5 months ago: For this month’s series on The Bible and Evolution, I’ve been reading the complete stenographic repo … more →

Tags: Biblical Creationism

Damned Yankee in Columbia

osopher wrote 5 months ago: Winterton Curtis, the Scopes expert who pulled dollars from my ear and provided my first solid roof, … more →

Tags: happiness, Education, Philosophy, Evolution, autobiography, Columbia MO, University of Missouri, Winterton Curtis

"Don't tell me the lights are shining..."

osopher wrote 5 months ago: We’re planning to spend the day in this grand old city park, if the rains abate. It hosted the … more →

Tags: Evolution, autobiography, H. L. Mencken, Winterton Curtis, Forest Park, 1904 World's Fair

Eternal Battles 2 comments

mburgan wrote 6 months ago: I am not a Christian. Why is it so scary to write that? Maybe because in our so-called secular socie … more →

Tags: History, Science, Religion, spirituality, Evolution, Darwin, Atheism, Fundamentalism, Christianity

Monkey Trial

patriciahysell wrote 6 months ago: May 5, 1925: John T. Scopes is arrested in Dayton, Tennessee. He was charged with teaching evolution … more →

Tags: History, may 5, Evolution

MARCH 13: SCIENCE, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT3 comments

Administrator wrote 8 months ago: Attorney Clarence Darrow, the defense lawyer at the Scopes “Monkey” trial, died on this … more →

Tags: Today in History, Trivia, March, Pluto, clyde tombaugh, harvard, Tennessee, Clarence Darrow, william herschel

Claiming Charles Darwin: Confessions of a Christian1 comment

murrayo wrote 9 months ago: The phrase “Father, forgive me, I have sinned” might be an appropriate statement for generations of … more →

Tags: Aletheia Forum, Politics, Science, Theology, Science and Religion, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, Thesitic Evolution

Inherit the Wind: a Fictional Drama

Bill Pratt wrote 9 months ago: I have been hearing for years about the movie, Inherit the Wind, a documentary-drama which is suppos … more →

Tags: Creation, Evolution, David Menton, Inherit the Wind, Monkey Trial


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