Does morality come from God? Instead of defending an evolutionary approach to morals (where others have done a pretty good job), I would like to take on a different approach and discuss how God and/or religion could never provide us with the moral guidelines we currently have -and which are of course continuously evolving.

Factician over at the Conspiracy Factory is hosting this year’s 81st Skeptics’ Circle. This is the first time I contribute something and I hope I will keep doing this for a long time. Interesting posts as always so head over at the Factory for the full stuff!

It is truly mind-boggling how many “paranormal” and “psychic” sites exist in the Internet: “Learn to be Psychic”, “Trance Channelling” and more. Here I have a look at some of the strangets and funniest things I have seen in the “Psychic Abilities” Webring!

Everyone has a beef. Everyone has a problem with something or someone. Some beefs are normal, or rational, like being annoyed when someone tests your resolve to situations evolving near the border of acceptable social behaviour (the common “I - eat - a - smelly - tuna - sandwich - in - your - face - while - packed - like - sardines - in - the - morning - rush - hour - tube” situation for example). But some beefs are baseless and irrational. Lets have a look at those beefs and their proponent characteristics -because they make for funnier writing!

Video: Mrs. Garrison from Southpark explains evolution to the kids: “You’re the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish squirrel, congratulations!”

Every year. Consistently. It always happens. No exceptions. Birthday again. 10227 days old today. Sounds a lot. But it’s not. There’s more to come.

BBC just reported that measles cases have reached a record high! Measles for crying out loud! Which shouldn’t be out there at all if people were vaccinated properly! Yet because of some stupid lying alternative medicine proponents with their abysmally baseless MMR vaccine-causes-autism campaign have managed to bring it forward again!

I am sure everyone has seen those products that promise to make you 3 inches longer in certain areas of your body, right? Pills, ointments, vacuums etc. you name it! These are only being sold by some obscure internet-based companies with suspicious sounding names. Have you ever wondered why no big company sells those? Answer: because they do not work. Analogy: why aren’t the big companies selling Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) when there are so many people using those, and when it guarantees huge profits? Found the pattern yet?