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Lately I have been collecting old books on Evolution, both for and against. It is interesting to me to see what has changed since then and what hasn’t. Anyway, I received a new one recently and it just happened to open up on a particular page when I picked it up that I just so happened to find extremely interesting. Read more on anatheist.net Continue

I have once again come across this quotation purportedly from Cardinal Robert Bellarmine: "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." —Cardinal Robert Bellarmine / Trial of Galileo / 1615 (???) I searched Google and found plenty of references to the quotation all over the internet, but it always appears either without attribution, or with just a date (1615), or with the mistaken claim that it was said “at the trial” of Gal… Continue

Genesis 1 is a creation myth that was constructed for political and theological reasons. Older versions of Yahweh’s creation, including the parts that were preserved in Genesis 2, grew out of the ancient Mesopotamian mythic system. Read More… Continue

If you are convinced that your particular flavor of religion is true and that you have satisfactory and compelling evidence to think so, then consider this... Read more at anatheist.net Continue