My reply to an arrogant comment by a Christian vividly illustrates my split personality: my skeptical and rational self, versus my religious self (I am a Pastafarian after all). Which one will prevail?

From Prof. Massimo Pigliucci (Rationally Speaking) I learned about a new study that just appeared on Science: “The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality”, authored by Ara Norenzayan and Azim F. Shariff. In the study the authors “examine empirical evidence for religious prosociality, the hypothesis that religions facilitate costly behaviors that benefit other people.” And a most interesting study it is!

Damn them I say! They are exerting their influence in all directions in an effort to belittle our good religion and promote their immoral, Nazi-friendly, totally improbable, Darwinian views!

At some point religious people have to realize that it is called faith for a reason: there is no evidence and hence no arguments in favor. Get over it, have as much faith as you want, but here is ten things you should never, ever do.

So, what do we have this week? A focus on the wars between science, reason, and rationality against creationism, lunacy, and arrogant ignorance. A very creative “demonstration” of how random mutations along with selection pressure make evolution not as improbable as creationists would like us to believe. A round of misinformation from creationists, regarding the Altenberg meeting of leading evolutionary biologists. Also answer to the questions “what really happened at the Altenberg meeting“, and “does atheism require faith too?“

A few interesting blogs I have recently (well, not so recently but anyway) added on my RSS feeds.

Christians have decided they need to do something to re-establish France as “the kingdom […] predestined by God to defend the Church of Christ Our Lord” because it currently has too many atheists! Of course.

Following up on my previous post regarding McCain never having read the US Constitution (!), Barack Obama took on pretty much the same subject of religion in politics, and here is what he had to say…