1. Creationist critics get their comeuppance

Comment #199792 by Just Plain Cliff on June 26, 2008 at 11:07 am

You can read Lenski's entire response on Pharyngula. A veritable masterpiece.

2. Physicists in Congress Calculate Their Influence

Comment #194679 by Just Plain Cliff on June 17, 2008 at 7:18 am

Perhaps what is needed is a dedicated "science staffer" for each congressperson.

3. Mark Steyn vs. the 'Sock Puppets'

Comment #185640 by Just Plain Cliff on May 28, 2008 at 8:49 am

I hope the hollow feeling in my stomach is from hunger, but after reading the above, I fear that it isn't.

4. Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions

Comment #176947 by Just Plain Cliff on May 8, 2008 at 11:26 am

Sweet, gentle, Jesus! how do you make the bad man stop?

5. Papal encyclical attacks atheism, lauds hope

Comment #92396 by Just Plain Cliff on November 30, 2007 at 12:19 pm

"Let us put it very simply: man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope."

Isn't it the other way around?

6. Pupil defends teacher in Muhammad teddy furore

Comment #91818 by Just Plain Cliff on November 29, 2007 at 11:29 am

For those who don't know, via AP -

Gillian Gibbons was convicted of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan, one of her defense lawyers said Thursday. She will spend the next 10 days in prison, having alread been incarcerated for 5 days. What a joke!

7. Help Counter the New Atheist Crusade to 'Evangelize' America!

Comment #79658 by Just Plain Cliff on October 18, 2007 at 5:14 am

Anyone who uses the word "truth" with a capital T should be immediately suspect.

8. Response to My Fellow 'Atheists'

Comment #77399 by Just Plain Cliff on October 9, 2007 at 7:53 am

"Your veto, frankly, seems insane to any educated person, and it is painfully obvious that it was the product of religious metaphysics and superstition—not science or morality."

And how will this avoid alienating 180 million Americans?

9. The Religious Right's New Tactics for Invading Public Schools

Comment #77388 by Just Plain Cliff on October 9, 2007 at 7:25 am

"The Texas law, which was drafted and promoted by a Religious Right group called the Liberty Legal Institute, is yet another salvo in a long-running battle in America over the proper place of religion in public schools."

There is no proper place for religon in public schools. Period. School is a place to teach facts, not faith.

10. CNN Request for 'I-Reports' on religion

Comment #65215 by Just Plain Cliff on August 23, 2007 at 7:50 am

My CNN 'I-Report'

Mark Twain once remarked that "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." A very succinct way of stating that faith is antithetical to science, reason, and evidenced-based decision-making, those tools I have trusted to guide my life's course. Faith hobbles the intellect, and robs one of the joys of understanding. Faith is the enabler of superstition and magical thinking, the distorter of reality, the destroyer of unfettered thought, and the suppressor of creativity. Faith prevents the definition of one's own life, all that one truly owns. To have faith is to relinquish one's humanity. Faith's codification, religion, imprisons it's adherents in false and stultifying dogma, justifying pernicious acts towards one's fellow beings.

Faith deserves only to be questioned, and when inevitably found faulty, merits annihilation