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2011

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December 2011

  1. Caturday felid: cat on a leash!
  2. End-of-the-year footwear
  3. Readers’ wildlife photos: moar birds
  4. Chicago: clearing storm
  5. Lunch
  6. Kitteh contest: Moe
  7. Religion Dispatches names year’s most notable accommodationists
  8. You Make My Dreams Come True
  9. Alvin Plantinga: sophisticated theologian?
  10. The ontological argument, kitteh style
  11. The truth about scientism
  12. Teh rong birfday card
  13. Catholic bishop doesn’t know when to shut up: compares gays to Ku Klux Klan
  14. Cheetah to reunite with Tarzan in Heaven
  15. Religion brings out the best in everyone
  16. Faye Flam’s cat answers creationists
  17. Guest post: BioLogos on scientism, part 3
  18. Readers’ wildlife photos
  19. Note to heathens and the faithful
  20. Rosenhouse on scientism, part 2
  21. Sophisticated theologian with science training: Jesus is like dark matter
  22. Best sightings of Jesus and Mary in 2011
  23. A bug
  24. Okay, this is over the top
  25. The no-free-will experiment, avec video
  26. Who says cats aren’t useful?
  27. In defense of Hitch
  28. Screenshots
  29. You know you want to
  30. The Pope asks Catholics to be stupid
  31. A new definition of scientism
  32. World’s best touchdown
  33. Pollination
  34. Happy Coynezaa!
  35. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: The final day, with music.
  36. The vast majority of Americans still believe in angels
  37. A posthumously published piece by Hitchens on the holidays, and a rant about Christmas letters
  38. Caturday felid: A kitteh for the New Age (plus Rosenhouse bonus)
  39. Denis Alexander tells us the right way to read the Bible
  40. Tinkering with elephants’ feet
  41. Guest post: Templeton renews the BioLogos grant
  42. Quote of the Day
  43. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: Part 7
  44. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: Part 6
  45. Time magazine gets everything wrong about atheism (and a lot wrong about religion, too)
  46. A swell Christmas carol
  47. The world map of unbelief
  48. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: Part 5
  49. Guest post: Two HuffPo pieces claim Hitchens for religion
  50. Readers’ wildlife photos: frogs in lust
  51. North Korea is a theocracy
  52. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: Part 4
  53. This just in: Shroud of Turin is real, Christianity vindicated!
  54. Hitch dissing: the worst of the worst, and two rebuttals
  55. Catholics get an out: more on the Shroud of Turin
  56. A real miracle: the laying-on of paws
  57. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: Part 3
  58. Did Darwin plagiarize Wallace?
  59. Hitch inspires another word
  60. Ruse goes after scientism again, but screws up about morality
  61. Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds
  62. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens: Part 2
  63. Answers to all those Xmas questions (well, three of them anyway)
  64. Guest post: Sigmund on scientism
  65. Readers’ wildlife photos
  66. North Koreans bewail the loss of their Dear Leader
  67. Dennett on Hitchens: There’s a time to be rude
  68. Readers’ tributes to Hitchens
  69. Rosenhouse on scientism
  70. Harris on Hitchens
  71. Government-funded accommodationism at UC Berkeley
  72. NYT‘s ten best books of 2011
  73. Jackassery
  74. Kim Jong Il is dead
  75. Caturday felid: a 26-toed cash cat
  76. Four tributes to Hitch
  77. My own tribute
  78. Creationist rabbi Moshe Averick has another Marshall McLuhan moment
  79. Best tweet ever
  80. Ian McEwan on Hitchens’s last days
  81. Hitchens
  82. Our Hitch memorial
  83. Today is that day
  84. Spiral with a pearl earring
  85. Remarkably stupid remarks by a sophisticated theologian
  86. Oy gewalt! A creationist rabbi attacks me.
  87. Close encounters of the plane kind
  88. Texas approves Jesus license plate
  89. Christopher Hitchens is dead
  90. Cold-weather footwear
  91. Guest post: Accommodationists are halfway to crazy town
  92. Cat Tebows!
  93. A Christmas letter from Dawkins to the Prime Minister
  94. This just in: creationists deny the existence of dinosaurs!
  95. God helps Broncos defeat the Bears
  96. Three ways of looking at a blackbird
  97. Lungfish nearly walk, shed light on the invasion of land
  98. Reader photo: man bonds with rabbit
  99. Everybody Tebow!
  100. Creatures of the deep sea
  101. Whence moderate Islam?
  102. Darwin’s orchid: film of the missing pollinator
  103. Baggini discovers that the faithful really believe that stuff
  104. Reader photo: Snowy owl
  105. Steve Pinker answers questions and criticisms about his book
  106. World’s greatest card trick
  107. New York Times: those “Nones” without religion really do believe in God
  108. I haz a new picture
  109. Tim Tebow and his Jesus-soaked football: NYT further osculates the rump of faith
  110. Caturday felids: cat pwns bat, hears baby talk
  111. Valencia: paella!. . . and other stuff
  112. Website landmark today: 10 million views! (and a bonus contest)
  113. Houston, we have ten million! And other good news.
  114. Hitchens dispels the bromide that suffering makes you stronger
  115. Dawkins to edit New Statesman Christmas issue
  116. Sister Golden Hair
  117. Guest post: BioLogos begins series on scientism
  118. Julian Baggini discovers, to his chagrin, that atheism and “real” religion are incompatible
  119. The world’s 50 top atheists (avec moi)
  120. Heart Like a Wheel
  121. Space shuttle video
  122. Guest post: Religiosity drops in America
  123. More cause for celebration: evolution acceptance on the uptick
  124. Obama himself supports limiting access to “Plan B” pill
  125. Why Don’t You Do Right?
  126. Discovery Channel backs down; will show global-warming episode after all
  127. Rosenhouse does it again
  128. Dr. Coyne gets religious pushback
  129. Steve Jones on Muslim students vs. Darwin
  130. Obama administration overrules FDA, prohibits unrestrained access to contraception
  131. Beyond the sea
  132. Reader discovers world’s first night-blooming orchid (and other cool species)
  133. Sean Carroll on free will
  134. Some dinosaurs ate birds
  135. A moment in Valencia
  136. Religion reduces science literacy in America
  137. Two posts you should read
  138. Krauss on cosmic connections
  139. More on free will: Dr.^3 Pigliucci weighs in, I respond
  140. A big nest of baby dinosaurs
  141. What is “scientism”?: a guest post
  142. The elusive cone
  143. Caturday felids: classic album covers kittified
  144. Elaine Ecklund continues to whitewash the atheism of scientists
  145. Case study: religion pushed to change its “morality” by secular considerations
  146. Mars rover launched
  147. Moar on lizards eating fruit
  148. More creationist lunacy in Texas
  149. Sophisticated theologians circumvent Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality
  150. Over the Alps in a glider
  151. Muslim students boycott evolution lectures in London
  152. Scientific Americat
  153. Big news (not): Republican candidate favors teaching the controversy
  154. Jim Houston apologizes; I accept
  155. Steve Pinker and his new book profiled in the NYT

November 2011

  1. The Discovery Channel dissimulates
  2. Would the world be better without religion?: the debate
  3. My Christmas wish list
  4. Jason Rosenhouse pronounces intelligent design dead
  5. Nuttall Club in the New York Times
  6. The horror
  7. How green were the Hitler Youth?
  8. Cat answers phone
  9. Caturday felid: Catvertising
  10. BBC television episode reporting climate change won’t be shown in the U.S.
  11. A brinicle is formed: amazing video from Frozen Planet
  12. Susan Jacoby: Christian politicians are professional victims
  13. Happy Thanksgiving!
  14. Aussies surprisingly nonreligious
  15. Women scientists talk about evolution
  16. RIP Lynn Margulis, ctd.
  17. Hitchens fête at Royal Festival Hall
  18. Two Guardian posts gratuitously sympathetic to religion
  19. Burrowing owls
  20. The history of Earth in 60 seconds + another 20
  21. Lightspeed neutrinos: you read it first on WEIT!
  22. Watching Fox News makes you dumber than watching no news
  23. What, if anything, is a hagfish?
  24. More neutrinos
  25. Benton! Jesus Christ!
  26. RIP Lynn Margulis
  27. Jim Watson: an anecdote
  28. Gross-out time: toad with a worm in its eye
  29. David Berlinski makes an ass of himself defending intelligent design
  30. Hagfish, hagfish, hagfish!
  31. Republicans insane; want to establish theocracy
  32. Demon cats
  33. I have landed
  34. Thought for the day
  35. A secular humanist really, really wants there to be a creator
  36. Caturday Felids
  37. Caturday Felid- Can your cat do this?
  38. Owls
  39. Faster-than-light neutrinos observed again
  40. Brother Blackford on “other ways of knowing”
  41. Can philosophy or religion alone establish facts?
  42. A whole book on the evolution of eyes
  43. Jesus appears in a dog butt
  44. Who has the largest huevos?
  45. Balzan prize to Russell Lande!
  46. How Darwinian and atheistic were the Nazis?
  47. How green were the Nazis?
  48. Yesterday’s debate on the value of religion, and participants’ comments
  49. Guest post: Catholicism waning in Ireland
  50. Ads
  51. Five books on insects
  52. Peregrinations
  53. Another philosopher redefines free will so we can still have it
  54. Why are the young abandoning Christianity?
  55. Man eats world’s hottest pepper; vomits, hallucinates, and is generally laid low
  56. Nietzsche was close. . .
  57. Stunning duets in a neotropical wren
  58. How soon we forget
  59. Andrew Sullivan explains his spirituality, with a bonus psychoanalysis by Sigmund
  60. Great video: Earth flyover from the ISS
  61. More religious incursion into science
  62. Dog breeding: the debasement of the American cocker spaniel
  63. An illuminated Origin of Species
  64. Box sandwich Maru
  65. Caturday felid: The making of “Jedi Kittens”
  66. A deluded rabbi explains why everyone is a believer
  67. Andrew Sullivan reveals what he’s learned from the New Atheists
  68. Not really . . .
  69. Andrew Brown fails again
  70. Hitchens fêted in London
  71. What’s the probability that you exist?
  72. Another paper on “symbiotic speciation” by Donald Williamson is retracted
  73. New York Times recalcitrant on OkapiGate
  74. Massimo calls out Templeton
  75. The Last Waltz
  76. Dover ID movie, “Judgment Day,” now in one video
  77. Robert L. Park on Templeton
  78. “Personhood” amendment defeated
  79. A good short piece on science, philosophy, and religion
  80. Auroras!
  81. Religion of peace firebombs a paper for satire
  82. At last: how to tell a Biblical metaphor from a Biblical truth
  83. Dallas newspaper excludes secular voices
  84. Species without relatives?
  85. Baggini moves closer to the Gnus, totally derides sophisticated theology, MacDonald dissects
  86. A good place for my book
  87. The science/faith wars are over!—or so says Michael Zimmerman
  88. Mississippi about to confer the same rights on zygotes and adults
  89. The Darwin two-pound coin
  90. A miracle!
  91. Movies: One good, one bad
  92. Eric MacDonald on the debate Q&A
  93. Guardian writer foolishly claims that religion answers factual questions
  94. Professor or hobo?
  95. Caturday felid: kittehs in art
  96. “You know what really bothers me?”
  97. Blackford on l’affaire Haught et Coyne
  98. A nice exchange
  99. It’s still fall
  100. What good is theology?
  101. Texas reporter gets flak for interviewing 9-year-old freethinker
  102. It’s fall
  103. Q&A added to “The Video”
  104. A murmuration of starlings
  105. Chopra and Bill O’Reilly join forces, go after atheism and evolution
  106. Teh critics
  107. Happy Palindrome Day
  108. Andrew Sullivan talks about his books, his faith, and why science proves God
  109. Under pressure from blogosphere, Haught explains and relents
  110. Flowers!
  111. The video!
  112. Theologian John Haught refuses to release video of our debate

October 2011

  1. A new phylogeny of the mammals
  2. “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
  3. An academic conference on Jersey Shore
  4. Well, it’s not Jesus, but it’ll do
  5. What’s with Freethought Blogs?
  6. Gastro-art 2: Pie!
  7. Interview with a 9-year-old skeptic
  8. An Australian report on the Texas Freethought Convention
  9. Happy Halloween
  10. Buy your peanut butter now
  11. Caturday felids:
  12. Two philosophers defend the indefensible, try unsuccessfully to pwn me and my readers
  13. An exchange with Dan Barker
  14. Win
  15. Gastro-art: 1. In vino ars
  16. Creationists infiltrate geology meeting
  17. More shenanigans at BioLogos: attacks on science and Giberson
  18. Whatever happened to Sinead O’Connor?
  19. Templeton funds inquiry into how God’s mind works
  20. The Daily Show: what’s science up to?
  21. How do we tell which parts of scripture are true?
  22. Saturn’s moons
  23. Evolution of a joke
  24. Eric MacDonald and NYT readers respond to Giberson and Stephens
  25. Answers: rock and food contest, and a call for bad lyrics
  26. A portrait of Ed Wilson
  27. Science wins because it works
  28. Rock contest: food
  29. Big news: evangelicals reject accommodationism once again
  30. Andrew Sullivan explains why he’s gay but still Catholic
  31. New children’s book on evolution, fact-checked and with foreword by moi
  32. Houston: video of Dawkins award to Hitchens
  33. Maybe my philosophy isn’t so unsophisticated after all
  34. Can there be evidence for the supernatural?: an interview with Maarten Boudry
  35. Anne Crumpacker’s new website on secular parenting
  36. I have landed (and nommed)
  37. I get email
  38. Paper on “living fossils” finds recent radiation, but misses the point
  39. This is so wrong
  40. Caturday felid: drainpipe rescue!
  41. A new biography of Van Gogh with a provocative theory
  42. Physics pwns creationism
  43. What’s up at BioLogos?
  44. An EMBO report on science blogging
  45. The Inter-Faith Rag
  46. Woo may have killed Steve Jobs
  47. Caption this photo
  48. Israel allows formal status as “secular Jew”
  49. Qaddafi reported dead
  50. It’s about morality, stupid: why Dawkins won’t debate William Lane Craig
  51. Cuttlefish camouflage
  52. Guest post: Are the faithful really more charitable?
  53. Time to put Andrew Brown to pasture
  54. Felid vs. felid: housecat encounters mountain lion
  55. Jesus ‘n’ Mo: Double entendre?
  56. Quantum locking
  57. Tim White recommends five books on prehistoric man
  58. A wide-ranging interview with Steve Pinker on BBC Radio 4
  59. If you’re a Finn. . .
  60. Uncle Karl and friend decry anti-science Christianity in the NYT
  61. A conversation: Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
  62. Charles Krauthammer gets science wrong
  63. What I find “miraculous”
  64. Pinker’s new book: the Guardian summarizes the reviews and interviews the author
  65. Baggini explains why science and religion are incompatible
  66. A new pro-evolution film
  67. Caturday felid: gangster Whitey Bulger brought down by Miss Iceland and a stray cat
  68. Kentucky governor proclaims official Bible Month
  69. My podcast in Kentucky
  70. Another awesome tee-shirt
  71. Thoroughbred racing: a visit to Keeneland
  72. Physicist and atheist Alan Lightman goes accommodationist
  73. Jews behaving badly
  74. My groupies, redux
  75. Living stromatolite found in Ireland!
  76. Friday LOL: a Jewish cowboy
  77. The L. A. Times gives dubious data in arguing for science/faith harmony
  78. My debate with John Haught in Kentucky
  79. Ancient artists
  80. Live-bearing lizards
  81. Sophisticated theology: why we don’t find God
  82. Andrew Sullivan claims that Bible stories are “true” but not “real”
  83. Dogs vs. cats
  84. Andrew Sullivan gets it right
  85. The Atlantic equates criticism of religion to racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism
  86. You totally need these tee-shirts
  87. Mason Crumpacker and the Hitchens reading list
  88. Day one of the religion debates in Kentucky
  89. The NYT checks in on Hitchens
  90. 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics
  91. The Freedom from Religion Foundation convention
  92. “I’m not going to quit until I absolutely have to“: videos of Hitchens in Texas
  93. Coming soon: ‘Frozen Planet’
  94. Unbelievable: Dawkins event banned in Michigan
  95. BBC’s The Museum of Curiosity deals with religion (and zero and other topics)
  96. Inter-Amish religious war!
  97. Nobel Laureate wins prize parking space
  98. Hitchens makes rare appearance in Texas
  99. Singer lauds Pinker’s new book
  100. Caturday felid: cat litter commercials
  101. East Coast tour: 1. Connecticut comestibles and the apotheosis of pizzas
  102. Rosenhouse on Andrew Sullivan—again
  103. An amazing amalgam of art and architecture
  104. Andrew Sullivan is plenty peeved; responds
  105. Bill O’Reilly tries to show that Dawkins’s children’s book is atheistic propaganda
  106. Stoats, weasels and worms
  107. RIP Steve Jobs
  108. Andrew Sullivan is a mush-brained metaphorizer
  109. The HUP Gould mosaic
  110. We have a winner!
  111. Sam Harris interviews Steve Pinker
  112. Ross Douthat doesn’t understand atheism
  113. Templeton continues to conflate science and religion
  114. Three astronomers nab Nobels
  115. Ken Miller, confused, finds free will in quantum mechanics
  116. IQ2 Debate online: “Atheists are wrong”
  117. Peregrinations
  118. First Nobel of the year goes to three for work on immunology (and a contest)
  119. Live near Chicago and want a cat?
  120. The best rock climber on Earth
  121. One of this year’s Nobel Laureates died Friday
  122. Dowd on the evils of a Catholic Supreme Court
  123. Uncle Karl continues his transit to the Dark Side
  124. Kentucky newspaper gives biased account of our upcoming debate on religion
  125. Denmark: you can be good without fat
  126. A remarkable case of mimicry: beetles as a venereal disease of bees
  127. Penn Jillette’s anti-faith op-ed: bracing but unrealistic
  128. October has come again
  129. Caturday felid: treadmill cats
  130. 2011 Ig Nobel prize: beetles bonk stubbies
  131. Keep your fork—there’s pie!!!

September 2011

  1. The pace of life: a crazy idea for an experiment
  2. A striking case of predator avoidance in fish
  3. Computer chip replaces cerebellum in a rat
  4. Trivers’s book out soon
  5. Guest post: Normalizing Catholic torture
  6. Lioness saves cub trapped in ravine
  7. Templeton-Funded BioLogos cleans house, promotes young-earth creationist, begins slide into irrelevance
  8. Find the kitteh
  9. It’s boot weather!
  10. Scientists battle malaria using toxic nectar
  11. Triple play
  12. Aurora!
  13. Why Republicans should actually like evolution
  14. Victor Stenger on speedy neutrinos: did we cause God?
  15. A twelve year old cat with two faces
  16. The physics of a falling Slinky
  17. Only in Alabama: go to church or go to jail
  18. Uncle Karl disses the evangelicals at last!
  19. The follies of faith: woman to be whipped for driving
  20. Atheists invade Hartford
  21. Epigenetics again: will it cause a revolution in evolution?
  22. Susan Jacoby on Michele Bachmann and the HPV vaccine
  23. Secular Jews
  24. Another free evolution book
  25. Chicago: sunset after storm
  26. When cats pray . . . and psychologists lose it
  27. Evidence? I don’t have to show you any stinking evidence!
  28. Sunday afternoon jazz
  29. Caturday felid: Trainspotting cat
  30. Skyscape: South Pacific
  31. Moar on the superfast neutrinos
  32. A flexible dogma
  33. More stupidity from Andrew Brown: creationism doesn’t come from religion
  34. Neutrinos exceed the speed of light?
  35. Lighting show at Grand Canyon
  36. Want evolutionary change? Wait a million years.
  37. Oy vey!: Jewish creationism.
  38. New York Times bestsellers
  39. Chicago: Two moods
  40. The ugly, vicious, fanatical side of atheism
  41. Dead man walking
  42. A fossilized cowboy boot?
  43. John Gray: religion isn’t about truth (and science ain’t so hot, either)
  44. Accommodationist bingo
  45. Sam Harris on lying
  46. Scientists decry creeping creationism in Britain
  47. An amazing fly-over of Earth
  48. A defense of naturalism—and scientism
  49. NYT profile of Dawkins
  50. Dinosaur feathers in amber!
  51. How big was the human population bottleneck? Another staple of theology refuted.
  52. Steve Pinker’s new book
  53. Sunday snooze
  54. Caturday felid: lost cat surfaces after five years, and bonus commercials
  55. Two easy pieces
  56. Who knows where the time goes?
  57. Who says only the faithful give to charity?
  58. Brother Blackford & Co. defeat the goddies
  59. BBC goes after atheism tonight
  60. Catholics claim that lies are truer than truth
  61. Guest post: the conflicted relationship between Intelligent Design and BioLogos
  62. Guest post: why are Catholic priests celibate?
  63. Reflections on 9/11: Sam Harris and others
  64. HPV vaccine: Republicans prove themselves morons once again
  65. Andrew Brown: 9/11 was good for religion (?)
  66. Dawkins talks to the BBC about his new book
  67. A virus gene creates zombie caterpillars
  68. Free will: the neuroscientists versus the philosophers
  69. WEIT in Russian
  70. Moar cat scans
  71. Wonderful prose on an ugly topic
  72. A symposium in which I debate a theologian
  73. The New York Times reviews the new Hitchens book
  74. Stephen Jay Gould
  75. Caturday felid: Les chatons Telecom
  76. Mississippians vote on whether a zygote is a person
  77. Fetus and Mo
  78. Hitchens on 9/11: setting the record straight
  79. Winner: cat scan contest!
  80. Evolutionary Christianity
  81. Can evolution save the world?: my review of D. S. Wilson’s new book
  82. Susan Jacoby on the misuses of 9/11
  83. The Hermitage 1: the building
  84. Adam and Eve: theologians squirm and sputter
  85. Dawkins’s new children’s book
  86. Chicago
  87. The last of its kind
  88. Science’s publication frenzy—and a solution
  89. I’m a BILL!
  90. Why live? A comment.
  91. Do scientists have “faith” in science?
  92. “Spiritual” atheists explained: a guest post
  93. Templeton gives a million bucks to show that evolutionary convergence proves God
  94. Death and atheism
  95. Free Kindle edition of evolution book
  96. Two new books on animal behavior
  97. James Wood faults new atheism on specious literary grounds
  98. Caturday felid: you’re playing WHAT?
  99. Hitchens on Rick Perry
  100. University of North Carolina chorus expels gay singer
  101. Miscellaneous items on science and atheism from the Guardian
  102. Pre-caturday video treats
  103. Where does religion come from?
  104. The racket of academic publishing
  105. Anole genome published!

August 2011

  1. Radio 4 on epigenetics and health
  2. The ultimate in camouflage?
  3. Eagleman vs. Harris: debate on atheism peters out
  4. Robot theology
  5. Tool-using dolphins and living fossils
  6. An inbred cat
  7. San Diego State has new course on atheism
  8. How many species? I’m still not sure.
  9. Republicans’ science problem
  10. Neanderthals are us– More evidence
  11. How Ricky Gervais became an atheist
  12. Reminder: your cat scan is due
  13. On parasitoid wasps – now, then and in fancy dress
  14. More on the world’s earliest fossils: they’re real!
  15. Rhino horns snatched from museums
  16. Rhino horn thieves foiled!
  17. Caturday felids: cat ladders
  18. An atheist who almost believes in God
  19. (anti-)Adam and Eve video
  20. Dinosaur visits school!
  21. Paula Kirby on evolution and faith
  22. How many species are there on Earth?
  23. Another sophisticated philosopher weighs in on evil
  24. Jesus ‘n’ Mo tackle the Big Questions
  25. Moralist abandons morality
  26. Peregrinations
  27. Kitteh contest: Winston
  28. Newly found: the world’s oldest fossils!
  29. Catholics: dead pope’s blood will stop Mexican crime
  30. Tool use by a hot orangutan
  31. William Lane Craig goes after me for ignorance of religion and science
  32. An online variorum of Darwin’s Origin
  33. Where are all the dead gods?
  34. Cat scan contest
  35. Scientific images: beautiful, important, and/or iconic (add and vote):
  36. Is “epigenetics” a revolution in evolution?
  37. Note to readers
  38. A book you’ll want to buy—and give
  39. Caturday felid: the source of cat videos
  40. St. Petersburg: Peter and Paul Fortress and the Romanovs
  41. A nuclear physicist reconciles the Bible with an old earth
  42. Port-a-confessionals
  43. Another Republican disses evolution, claims that nobody knows the age of the Earth, and osculates conservative rump
  44. Brain-eating “amoeba”
  45. Pope gives Catholics “abortion holiday”
  46. The “David Mabus” story
  47. The prescient pachyderm: elephants are even smarter than we thought
  48. Sophisticated theology: why God is hidden
  49. Heisenberg’s cat
  50. Why theology is not benign: the “natural law” of Catholicism
  51. The Selfish Gene becomes a musical
  52. David Lose tells us how to interpret the Adam and Eve Story
  53. Evolution: fact or theory?
  54. WEIT translated into Arabic (and a Kindle edition)
  55. Are humans still evolving?: a Radio 4 show.
  56. More religious lunacy: why God loves sports
  57. A win for evolution in Texas
  58. Kitteh contest: Kizhe
  59. The checker shadow illusion redux
  60. Uncle Karl tells us how to read the Bible
  61. An awesome predator: the osprey
  62. St. Petersburg: The Zoological Museum
  63. American unbelief on the rise
  64. Does evolutionary convergence prove God?
  65. St. Petersburg: architecture
  66. An intriguing new book
  67. An empty nester
  68. Quote of the week: sophisticated evolutionary theology
  69. Caturday felid: cats with moustaches and chubby-cat bonus
  70. MacDonald takes down Feser’s theology
  71. Good owl hunting
  72. Big Love
  73. All religions on the level
  74. Ask Sam: Take two
  75. Puss in Boots
  76. The theological sausage grinder: why evolution is God’s plan
  77. The exorcists
  78. Exhibit B: a nice email
  79. James Wood disses atheism again
  80. Cat scans—and contest!
  81. Jazz improvisation: Waitin’ for Benny
  82. NPR: The veracity of Adam and Eve is a crisis for faith
  83. Ayaan Hirsi Ali urges oppressed Muslims to become Christians
  84. St Petersburg: the dance
  85. Kitteh contest: Ebony, Barney, Bibiana, and Baily
  86. Five books on debunking the paranormal
  87. The curiosity conversation: a debate about Hawking, the universe, and God
  88. The latest cover of Newsweek
  89. 20 voices of belief
  90. 100 voices of disbelief
  91. Is everything a religion?
  92. Denyse O’Leary fail
  93. “Curiosity” with Stephen Hawking
  94. How many scientists do you recognize?
  95. St. Petersburg: to the Finland Station
  96. Believer defends non-literal reading of the Bible
  97. Rose Room
  98. Caturday felid: The cats of St. Petersburg
  99. Can species arise in a small space?
  100. Perry has his Big Prayer Meeting
  101. Da roolz
  102. St. Petersburg: food
  103. More religious miscreants
  104. Hawking is an atheist
  105. A whale of a song
  106. St. Petersburg: Dostoyevsky
  107. More emails about morality
  108. Who’s more hateful: atheists or goddies?
  109. Kitteh contest: ART!
  110. I get email
  111. Sweet home Chicago
  112. The public responds
  113. God’s blog (sorry, website)
  114. The world’s best kitler
  115. My USA Today op-ed on morality

July 2011

  1. If only genetics was this simple
  2. Rabbi Wolpe defends animal sacrifice
  3. Pictures of our meeting
  4. On the kindness of strangers: why are humans so nice?
  5. Caturday Felid: Lincoln and cats
  6. More death threats from religious folks
  7. Norfolk eaglets released
  8. Squeeee – baby hippo underwater ballet (with added epistemological question)
  9. The importance of religiosity to US voters
  10. St. Petersburg: The Hermitage
  11. Rabbi Yoffie defends “religious” morality
  12. Francis Collins is ticked off at atheists
  13. Dead squid dances
  14. A bunch of atheists explain why we’re faithless
  15. Hitchens to receive Dawkins award
  16. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Moses (?)
  17. The puma and the goldfish
  18. NASCAR prayer
  19. Evolution in the City
  20. Quiz: Baby boom at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris
  21. St. Petersburg. 2
  22. Peregrinations: in transit
  23. Two new books on religion and money
  24. The secret to a succesful website
  25. On the veiling of children
  26. St. Petersburg: 1
  27. Caturday felid: mousers at St. Petersburg museums
  28. Rosenhouse on Feser on the cosmological argument
  29. The moving walkway
  30. “Adaptive” hybridization in mice
  31. Rabbi Yoffie gets morality from God: presumably accepts stoning and genocide
  32. Marc Hauser resigns from Harvard
  33. Why is religion stronger in economically unequal societies?
  34. Apple releases new operating system
  35. Saved whale says “thank you”
  36. Google is awesome
  37. Peregrinations
  38. Multiverses
  39. Kitteh contest: Kiki
  40. Dawkins: why science isn’t a religion
  41. The spirit bear
  42. Brother Blackford weighs in on free will
  43. Highlights: Women’s World Cup
  44. Do life’s uncertainties promote religion? A flawed study
  45. Amazon reviews of the Bible
  46. Sunset, Chicago
  47. Women’s World Cup final today
  48. Making religious virtues from scientific necessities
  49. Feynman on God and religion
  50. Japan takes the World Cup
  51. Caturday felid: annoying doves
  52. Giberson: science has its limits (ergo Jesus?)
  53. Muslim prayer, misogyny, and Ruse’s ambitendencies
  54. Proof that humans will do anything, however stupid
  55. Quote of the week
  56. Hypnotoad!
  57. Jason Rosenhouse: there’s no good theology
  58. New book: Bible doesn’t say what it says
  59. The good news and the bad news
  60. Sean Carroll on free will
  61. Irishman decries accommodationism
  62. What is “choosing”?
  63. Kitteh contest: Kermit
  64. BBC Radio 4 tonight: a revolution in evolution? NOT
  65. O noes! I have to read Aquinas
  66. Lawrence and Arabia
  67. Papal peccadillos
  68. When the doves fly: two more bird prints
  69. Peter Kramer defends antidepressants
  70. Mr. Deity addresses current events
  71. Two scary apples
  72. Why your concept of “free will” is important
  73. The first tool-using (?) fish
  74. Sunday backyard biology
  75. Eric MacDonald defines and defends free will
  76. Live docking of space shuttle: don’t miss.
  77. This can’t be posted too often
  78. U.S. advances over Brazil in Women’s World Cup
  79. Caturday felid: Gaming kitteh (and bonus)
  80. A second case of meat farming
  81. A buttload of “blogs”
  82. The scholar warriors
  83. Dublin panel: Women atheist activists
  84. Friday natural history: death in the garden
  85. More sophisticated theology: what do Christians do with all those troublesome other faiths?
  86. Proof of Ceiling Cat/Arguments not for Ceiling Cat
  87. Name the hawk
  88. John Horgan responds, defends wishful thinking in science
  89. Who has free will?
  90. Kitteh contest: Leo and Curaca
  91. Antony Flew and his famous atheist article
  92. OMG: a three-ton wombat!
  93. Chicago: Sunset with ducks
  94. New data on an ancient species: the coelacanth
  95. Andrew Brown: there are lots of ways besides science to find truth
  96. Happy Fourth
  97. Why am I reading theology?
  98. America’s top scientist again peddles woo in public
  99. Spiders in their dotage
  100. A scientific test of Noah’s Flood: a good idea which is mine
  101. Caturday felid: Anti-cephalod post
  102. Sam responds to the “transcendence” issue; I respond to him
  103. The biology of Mauritius: part 2
  104. Biology: a reader reports from Mauritius
  105. Ask Sam
  106. Ancient bird pigments identified

June 2011

  1. World’s loudest creature (for its size)
  2. Frogs
  3. Another accommodationist book on evolution
  4. The weevil with screws in its legs
  5. Playcat
  6. The second disease eliminated on Earth
  7. Evangelicals, evolution and atheism: the 2011 Pew Foundation survey
  8. Our next Republican presidential candiate?
  9. “The Undefeated”: Palin biopic
  10. Eyes from the deep past
  11. Kitteh contest: MidtZee Mitzvidyev
  12. Rappin’ for Darwin
  13. A redefinition of “atheist”
  14. “Believing” in evolution
  15. Miss USA: the math question
  16. A great start to the week
  17. Free will, the brain, and the law
  18. Great species names
  19. Polymath reader discovers world’s smallest orchid
  20. Look away if you’re an earthworm
  21. A bad day for earthworms
  22. Caturday felid: the return of Maru
  23. Is medical psychiatry a scam?
  24. John Horgan equates incompatibilism with racism
  25. Scientists know nothing!
  26. Evening, Chicago
  27. Shame on our country: the complete answers to the Miss USA evolution question
  28. BioLogos argues that religious claims don’t require evidence
  29. Cats are wilier than you think
  30. Sloth defecation is for mating
  31. Jam session
  32. Sunrise: Norman, Oklahoma
  33. A day with ERV
  34. Jerry’s choice: five evolution books
  35. My big speech
  36. ASN presidential talk: Ricklefs disses the neutral theory of ecology
  37. Snake oil in the New York Times
  38. Extinct frog rediscovered– sort of
  39. The seven ages of the scientist
  40. Caracal kittens FTW
  41. Sweet home Chicago
  42. The gyrfalcon is a seabird and uses ancient nests
  43. Sunrise, Oklahoma
  44. Evolution 2011: Darwinian medicine
  45. The “right” species concept
  46. Miss USA is pro-evolution!
  47. Why are there no insects in the sea?
  48. There’s another accommodationist Biologos!
  49. Auditory illusions
  50. Falconcam in Racine, Wisconsin
  51. Evolution 2011: hot research—with cats!
  52. Ophelia channels Stedman
  53. Tough times for Grayling
  54. Caturday Felid: A-Kat-Aten
  55. Anti-cephalopod post
  56. The Guardian’s 100 greatest nonfiction books
  57. Oklahoma!
  58. The briar patch of theology
  59. How do we know things?
  60. Chris Stedman stole our word
  61. Bachmann: teach both sides, no matter how stupid
  62. South Pacific
  63. D. S. Wilson: can Darwin fix Binghamton?
  64. It’s flat!
  65. We need a new word for “spirituality”
  66. Camelot
  67. Religion takes credit for science
  68. Bowhead whale found with a century-old lance in its blubber
  69. NYT editorial on Steve Gould
  70. SquirrelCam!
  71. Peregrinations
  72. Only one thing would make me go to church
  73. “The Ledge”: an atheist movie
  74. Kitteh contest: Kitty (aka Stinks)
  75. One more go-round on free will: Eric MacDonald’s take
  76. Somewhere
  77. Marlene Zuk on AnimalCams
  78. Steve Gould gets it in the neck
  79. The secret life of squirrels
  80. U.S. students don’t know American history
  81. Chicago: dawn and dusk
  82. John Horgan: we do too have free will
  83. Best Broadway musicals
  84. Broadway: it’s not just for gays anymore
  85. My definition of free will
  86. Liberal Christian rag: creationism and evolution are “competing myths”
  87. Michael Ruse: Adam and Eve didn’t exist, but theology is still in great shape
  88. Why cats are better than dogs
  89. A religious interlude in a Darwin show
  90. Patrick Leigh Fermor, RIP
  91. Caturday felid: Annie—a sequence
  92. Winner(s): Adam and Eve contest
  93. Big fun: Miss USA pageant contestants to be asked about evolution!
  94. P. Z. is after cats again
  95. A cute anecdote from Hitch
  96. Natural selection in real time: birds of a feather don’t evolve together
  97. Are there too many atheist meetings?
  98. Graduation day
  99. Biologos clarifies non-position on Adam and Eve
  100. Jellyfish are smarter than you think
  101. Eric MacDonald: A memorial to Elizabeth
  102. “Evolution becomes revolution”
  103. Most awesome Google logo ever
  104. Physics art
  105. There’s no free will
  106. Kitteh contest: Simon (RIP)
  107. Paula Kirby: Why I’m an atheist
  108. A strong critique of the “arsenic paper”
  109. I iz ill
  110. The Sphenisciform Shuffle: how penguins keep warm.
  111. Politics and atheists: the good news and the bad
  112. Church cancelled due to lack of God
  113. Sarah Palin: I was right about Paul Revere
  114. Our new library
  115. The Arsenic Paper is out, along with eight critiques
  116. The glories of American cuisine: Slate disses pie
  117. Dawkins defends Darwin in Dublin
  118. Caturday felid: the wisdom of the kitteh
  119. Glass houses, etc.: Templeton and global-warming denial
  120. Melissa
  121. George Church expands on the harmony between science and faith
  122. Sphenisciformes
  123. Prescient words
  124. Get a degree in atheism!
  125. Sarah Palin explains Paul Revere
  126. Adam and Eve: the ultimate standoff between science and faith (and a contest!)
  127. Moral Maze podcast
  128. R.I.P. Rosalyn Yalow
  129. The second most beautiful experiment in biology
  130. I iz on Moral Maze today
  131. It’s June: time for that cooling haircut
  132. Rosenhouse shows, with finality, that atheism is not a religion
  133. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Darwin

May 2011

  1. Falcon chicks banded today
  2. Accomodationist chase-truck
  3. George Church: The overlap between science and faith is “vast and fertile”
  4. Kitteh contest: Rufus
  5. Eyases banded, back in nest
  6. Is the human mind like a skunk butt?
  7. Blackford: New Atheists didn’t coin “brights”
  8. Memorial day amphibian: the axolotl
  9. Chicago: Twilight
  10. Another study supposedly proving science/faith harmony
  11. A star is torn
  12. AnomaLOLcaris
  13. Caturday felid: Cooper, cat photographer
  14. The longest cell in the history of life
  15. MacDonald on Orr on Dawkins: Part II
  16. Atheist converts after Jesus helps his mom win lottery
  17. Evidence against New Atheism: Exhibit B?
  18. Friday footwear
  19. BioLogos reviews my book!
  20. Squee quadrufecta
  21. Horace Freeland Judson, R.I.P.
  22. A Catholic whitewashes the whitewash
  23. Sean Carroll: We don’t have immortal souls
  24. Kitteh contest: George
  25. Surprise! Catholic Church whitewashes priest pedophilia
  26. Wednesday canid: Foxes of London, Ahooo!
  27. Child abuse
  28. Spring!
  29. Rosenhouse on math jargon
  30. MacDonald continues his defense of The God Delusion
  31. 2011’s top ten new species
  32. Knocking on heaven’s door: Bob Dylan is 70 today
  33. I was wrong: BioLogos promotes Jesus, not evolution
  34. Rapture notice
  35. Do sloths dump in the trees?
  36. Lioness steals camera; makes her own film
  37. What really happened to the dinosaurs?
  38. Catholics make stuff up. II. The Assumption
  39. Test your knowledge about sex in the Bible
  40. Bello o strano?
  41. Why out-of-body and near-death experiences don’t prove God
  42. Cocktail party tidbit of the week
  43. Caturday felid: The sisterhood of the travelling cats
  44. Melanism gene found in peppered moth
  45. Only a few tickets left for the World Atheist Conference
  46. Catholics make stuff up. I. The immaculate conception
  47. I got letters
  48. We’re still here!
  49. Tigers r born
  50. Eric MacDonald defends The God Delusion
  51. Sartorial splendor for the scientist
  52. More debased academics—at my school!
  53. LOLant on group selection
  54. FalconCam!
  55. Chicago: dawn with contrail
  56. What made Darwin sick?
  57. Math argot
  58. Giberson hints that accommodationism is doomed
  59. Burrowin’ lizards, Batman!
  60. Wake up!
  61. Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011)
  62. Hawking upsets a sophisticated rabbi
  63. NYC people: adopt a cat, get a book
  64. David Brooks and the evolution of human altruism
  65. Sloth crosses road: insert joke here
  66. Kitteh contest: Stewart
  67. Mark Vernon at the Guardian: What’s wrong with intelligent design?
  68. Ruse admits that faith and science are irreconcilable, but messes up on human “inevitability”
  69. Mooney snatches victory from jaws of defeat
  70. Dawkins’s children’s book
  71. Hawking scoffs at heaven
  72. Blackford reads Haught
  73. Last Endeavour Shuttle flight
  74. Monday hymn
  75. Hitchens reviews a WWI book
  76. Breakfast: Banff
  77. The owl and the pussycat
  78. Last morning in Banff
  79. Neanderthals are us?
  80. Caturday felids: kittens behaving badly
  81. Banff: Science noms
  82. Development is epigenetic
  83. Is this dog smart or dumb?
  84. Is it really a man in a suit?
  85. The path to atheism
  86. New Oxford study: religion pervasive, ergo impossible to eradicate
  87. No theists at 30,000 feet
  88. Dawn: Banff
  89. Myrmecomorphs
  90. Moar theodicy
  91. A morning in Banff
  92. Kitteh contest: Darwin
  93. Hitchens on his voice
  94. Water-birth – with added dolphin!
  95. I have landed
  96. Banff: 2
  97. What’s a bug?
  98. Peregrinations: Banff
  99. bin Laden and the evolution of altruism
  100. Beach creatures
  101. The Discovery Institute gives David Bentley Hart a spanking
  102. Philadelphia Inquirer: Is the Catholic Church down with evolution?
  103. Ecklund and Long: Scientists are totally spiritual
  104. Statistics
  105. Treehoppers redux: a cool video
  106. It’s official: Smokey is the world’s loudest cat
  107. Chicago: dusk
  108. Taxonomists: an endangered species
  109. Everyone under the bus!
  110. Caturday felid: The Cat Whisperer
  111. The sad, naive atheist-bashing of Rabbi Yoffie
  112. Signs
  113. David Bentley Hart on the Gnus
  114. Joni
  115. Chicago: sunset
  116. Our inner fishes
  117. No miracle healings
  118. Sunrise, Lake Michigan
  119. The strange origin of the treehopper “helmet”
  120. Joan Baez
  121. Last WWI combat veteran dies
  122. Laura Nyro, and a contest
  123. Once again: does religion produce knowledge?
  124. When nature calls in space
  125. Gayle’s new cat
  126. Cats can’t vote
  127. Uncle Karl departs Biologos
  128. A stealth creationist in Santa Barbara
  129. The Louisiana “Science Education Act”: letter to Governor Jindal and request for reader action
  130. Kitteh contest: Hamlet
  131. bin Laden wasn’t armed
  132. bin Laden
  133. Sam Harris on torture
  134. Chicago: dawn and dusk
  135. Our eagles: artificial-nest cam
  136. Too right!
  137. I love this man
  138. A scurrilous attack on Sam Harris

April 2011

  1. Caturday felids: Sumatran tiger and clouded leopard cubs
  2. Grayling on Colbert
  3. USA Today: Atheism is a superstition
  4. Movie recommendation: True Grit
  5. Inbred old gits
  6. Evening: Chicago
  7. The Archbishop of Canterbury is a pompous old gasbag who doesn’t understand evolution
  8. Update on Yokohamamama’s kitten
  9. Two cats to us cheer us all
  10. Mixed magisteria for science teachers
  11. Decorah Eaglecam
  12. Blackford on Gnu-baiting
  13. Norfolk eaglets doing well
  14. Murders: God vs. Satan
  15. Greg Paul: the science of religion
  16. Kitteh contest: Moe and Jimmy
  17. From God’s mouth to Biologos‘s ear
  18. More tonsorial discrimination
  19. Mother eagle died
  20. Monster flower blooming in Switzerland
  21. Radio interview
  22. Ross Douthat and the case for hell
  23. Love in the time of hawks
  24. The end of an era
  25. Happy Easter!
  26. Marine photos: prizewinners
  27. The roolz redux
  28. Easter science: the JC Project
  29. Amis on Hitchens’s rhetoric
  30. The damn Pope doesn’t understand evolution
  31. Caturday felids: Creationist LOLcat contest!
  32. A bright spot at The Chronicle and an open letter
  33. Truth of the day
  34. Martin Rees touts friendship between science and faith. Of course.
  35. Why scientists believe: morality
  36. Da roolz
  37. It’s Friday, Good Friday, gotta get down on Good Friday!
  38. Eaglets banded today
  39. The tale of the fugitive cat
  40. Another Tom Johnson: Did Dawkins call religious people “Nazis”?
  41. Why scientists believe
  42. Wanted: dead and alive
  43. EagleCam: banding day tomorrow
  44. Scientists and public figures explain their belief
  45. Sin of the day: fornication
  46. Does resurrection contradict science?
  47. Kitteh contest: Kira
  48. Sin of the day: homosexuality
  49. Dusk: Chicago
  50. Movie take: Somewhere is nowhere
  51. Faith and science: a conversation between Sam Harris and Robert Winston
  52. Sin of the day: Divorce
  53. Encomium!
  54. The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes
  55. God tells Michele Bachmann that he doesn’t like gays
  56. The Boston Globe on kin selection
  57. Blackford: What is New Atheism?
  58. Sin of the day: Blasphemy
  59. Caturday felid: when will I be loved?
  60. Where on Earth did language begin?
  61. Forgive me, Father, for I have touched myself
  62. Saxtastic: Art Pepper
  63. More fossil hominin footprints
  64. Contraception and Catholicism are “compatible”
  65. A zoo in her mouth
  66. Sam Harris/William Craig debate now online
  67. Can you ear me now?
  68. Sax week: Getz and Trane
  69. A feline memoir
  70. Did religion give us doubt? And a note on envy
  71. The remarkable courtship of the world’s most beautiful spider
  72. At least it didn’t look like Jesus
  73. Saxothon: John Coltrane
  74. Sauropods!
  75. How important is lateral gene transfer?
  76. Kitteh contest: Shirley
  77. Dawn: Chicago
  78. Charlie Parker: Embraceable You
  79. Lynn Margulis disses evolution in Discover magazine, embarrasses both herself and the field
  80. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  81. Nine minutes of saxtasy: Coleman Hawkins
  82. Hitch extols the Bible, revises Ten Commandments
  83. Scientism
  84. Orange tabby
  85. Jesus in a lab coat: the last word on Templeton
  86. It Never Entered My Mind: a sax duet
  87. Instant divergence times!
  88. Caturday felids: encounter at the air/water interface, and bonus vaccination
  89. Our visit with Dr. Sam
  90. Stenger on evolutionary convergence
  91. Harris speaks here today
  92. “Storm”: a skeptical animation by Tim Minchin
  93. The Guardian strikes back: Templeton and Rees are wonderful, Gnu Atheism is dead
  94. British creationism
  95. Not your ordinary boot
  96. Does faith undermine rationality? Peter Atkins and Lewis Wolpert discuss the Templeton Prize
  97. The earliest fossil of a flying insect
  98. Hitchens on Qur’an burning
  99. I’m the skunk in the woodpile again
  100. Harris vs. Craig: live online tonight
  101. Martin Rees nabs Templeton; I respond in The Guardian
  102. More criticism of Nowak et al.’s attack on kin selection
  103. The dictatorship of the proletaricat
  104. Kitteh contest: Lola
  105. RIP Huxley
  106. Sam Harris speaks here Friday
  107. A giraffe is born
  108. Grayling’s secular bible
  109. What does it take to blame religion?
  110. The Dutchman
  111. AnimalCams, now with moar falcon!
  112. Two books in one!
  113. Hoffmann coddles Islam, calls for Pastor Jones’s arrest
  114. Another EagleCam
  115. Caturday felids: Lasers!
  116. All is not well at the Center for Inquiry: Shook channels Chopra
  117. Religion’s death toll mounts in Afghanistan
  118. Public enemy number 0.5
  119. But Dawkins, are 100% of science writers men?
  120. Templeton Prize next week!
  121. Fifteen people who would still be alive if it weren’t for religion
  122. Watch ’em grow
  123. Biology & Atheism April Fool Awards

March 2011

  1. Talking bears explain kin selection flap
  2. Why is General Electric like the Catholic Church?
  3. Stop and watch the birdies
  4. When theology does cosmology
  5. Holiday snaps, northern Virginia
  6. Kitteh contest: Ulysses Everett McGill
  7. How to cross slick surfaces: lessons from birds
  8. Life living on death: part 2
  9. Smokey the cat, as loud as a 747: Now with video and audio!
  10. Moar on Maryland
  11. Hoffmann debate continues
  12. Playful cervids
  13. Bertrand Russell and expert opinion
  14. Talks in Maryland
  15. Another rabbi embarrasses me
  16. Caturday felid: new cheetah and ocelot cubs
  17. Happy birthday, Richard
  18. O noes! Atheists ignore history!
  19. Paul, the movie
  20. Big dust-up about kin selection
  21. Peregrinations
  22. Dawkins on Nowak et al. and kin selection
  23. So close and yet so far . . .
  24. Why God hurt Japan
  25. Bummer
  26. Kitteh contest: Rousseau
  27. Dad, are we there yet?
  28. Why do atheists do theology?
  29. Website back up
  30. Crows gone wrong
  31. News flash: creationists distort science
  32. Three little eaglets
  33. Geographic variation in human penis size
  34. Guess the Templeton Prize winner
  35. Who’s related to fruit flies?
  36. Michael Ruse: New Atheism is as bad as the Tea Party
  37. Click and weep
  38. Caturday felid: the black-footed cat
  39. Natural selection: God’s tool?
  40. More Darwinian theodicy
  41. Catheology
  42. Many voices of disbelief
  43. Life living on death
  44. Europe screws up, allows crucifixes in classrooms
  45. Header issues
  46. Moar food for the guest
  47. New antievolution bills
  48. SEM arthropods
  49. More food!
  50. Don’t forget the hummingbirds
  51. Possible evidence for God
  52. A visitor gets ribs
  53. Second eaglet hatches
  54. New book shows that humans are genetically nice, ergo Jesus
  55. Kitteh contest: Charlie and Emmy
  56. The evidence for god: an exchange with Anthony Grayling
  57. Penguin on a plane!
  58. Eaglet gets its first meal
  59. NYT special issue on human/animal relations
  60. Monday footwear
  61. Dawkins and Grayling: can there be evidence for god?
  62. Keeping the eggs and bobbleheads warm
  63. Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Origin of Species
  64. Moar Grayling: the evils of earthquakes
  65. A visit to Indiatown
  66. A book about heaven rakes in the bucks
  67. First eagle egg hatches!
  68. Caturday felids: thanatology
  69. Eaglecam: bobbleheads imminent?
  70. Can you see that monkey up there?
  71. Hummingbird cam: babies today!
  72. Earthquake in Japan
  73. Congrats to Dr. Matute!
  74. Rosenhouse reviews Giberson and Collins
  75. The ontological argument (again)
  76. Moshe Averick: another creationist rabbi
  77. Why I’m a cultural Jew
  78. The ineffable grace of the kitten
  79. Kitteh contest: Mocha Java Hecht
  80. Is there a tree of life?: Gene transfer between fungal species
  81. Smackdown! Hitch and Sam take apart two rabbis
  82. Jesus ‘n’ Mo go for a Templeton
  83. Mimicry: polymorphism for camouflage in a caterpillar
  84. A rabbi proves God
  85. Thirteen minutes with Hitch
  86. Islam and science: cowed Muslim physicist cancels lecture on evolution
  87. Never Let Me Go
  88. It feels so good when it stops
  89. Caturday felid: claustrophilic kittehs
  90. Weekend footwear
  91. Illinois creationists retreat, tail between legs
  92. Templeton’s latest: Two wooish videos and an accommodationist interview
  93. Meryln gets castrated today
  94. Mimicry: The nefarious cuckoo
  95. Stangroominations
  96. Living without religion: a CFI campaign
  97. Creeping creationism in Chicagoland
  98. So you think you knew Templeton? A new report.
  99. Religion = frog worship
  100. Amazing mimics: the mussel Lampsilis
  101. Kitteh contest: Clyde Stubbletail
  102. Dust to dust
  103. An excellent movie
  104. Atheist website wins religion Bloggie
  105. The Civility Institute

February 2011

  1. We have a winner
  2. Why save species?
  3. Atheist squabble update
  4. What’s new at Biologos?
  5. The last doughboy is dead
  6. The last voyage of Discovery
  7. Oscar contest
  8. Caturday felid: cat burglar!
  9. Dembski pwned again: ant trails and intelligent design
  10. The greatest pop voices of our time. Day 6, also-rans: Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, and Tony Bennett
  11. New arguments against New Atheists
  12. Jesus ‘n’ Mo are timely
  13. I haz a priez!
  14. It’s Friday; let’s have some cats!
  15. The greatest pop voices of our time. Day 5, also-rans: Johnny Hartman
  16. Two weird fossils
  17. Rabbi Yoffie lays it out
  18. Hizzoner
  19. The greatest pop voices of our time. Day 4: Karen Carpenter
  20. What do Tom Johnson and Sarah Palin have in common?
  21. Atheists: STFU
  22. Kitteh contest: Sam (aka Möbius Cat)
  23. Jesus ‘n’ Mo tackle the Ontological Argument
  24. The greatest pop voices of our time. Day 3: Johnny Mathis
  25. A vestigial trait in humans: the arrector pili
  26. Eric MacDonald on natural selection, purpose, and the problem of evil
  27. The greatest pop voices of our time. Day 2: Streisand
  28. Natural selection and evolution: material, blind, mindless, and purposeless
  29. Paris peregrinations
  30. The greatest pop voices of our time. Day 1: Sinatra
  31. Insanity in Texas: guns on campus
  32. Caturday felid: white lions
  33. Mark Vernon on evolution: out of his depth again
  34. Simian hijinks (warning: NSFW)
  35. Italian interview
  36. Jeremy Stangroom criticizes New Atheists for incivility but excuses statutory rape
  37. Kitteh contest: Calvin
  38. British education FAIL: more creationism in schools
  39. No moar creationism in the GCSEs
  40. Cracking Coke
  41. Good, bad, and ugly
  42. A new Chief Mouser on Downing Street
  43. Nature on Templeton
  44. Darwin Day in rural America
  45. Spring footwear
  46. British GCSE biology exam: evolution FAIL
  47. Zuckerman, we hardly knew ye
  48. Valentine felids
  49. Australopithecus afarensis: a “committed terrestrial biped”
  50. A valentine from Darwin Land
  51. The growth of student atheism
  52. No Valentine’s Day in Iran 🙁
  53. Ronaldo retires
  54. Snow bestiary
  55. Obama is still an atheist
  56. Scientology: the newest faith
  57. Happy Darwin Day from our friends in faith!
  58. A lovely goal
  59. Caturday felid: Crazy for You
  60. Postmodern science proves eternal life
  61. Three easy pieces
  62. Let your freak flag fly!
  63. Dawkins: a Protestant atheist
  64. Whose fish is that?
  65. Third eagle egg!
  66. Why evolution is true (but not many people believe it)
  67. Biology updates: snake legs, cat rolling, frog teeth and more
  68. Brief perigrination, with beautiful sentences
  69. The hind legs of whales
  70. Is there discrimination in science against women?
  71. Should we respect the faithful?
  72. Video: eagles’ second egg
  73. They’ve got a little list
  74. Kitteh contest: Lily
  75. Vernon + Midgley + evolution = FAIL
  76. Quote of the week
  77. Ecklund’s still at it
  78. The way it is
  79. What’s new about the Gnus
  80. Some people just don’t get it
  81. The AAAS sells out to Christians
  82. A sure sign we’re winning
  83. Office garden
  84. Egg number two!
  85. Caturday felid: Special treat!
  86. Darwin Day talk
  87. Interspecies love
  88. A mushbrained attack on the Gnus
  89. Rules for life
  90. Friday LOLz
  91. Omg
  92. Another tool-using bird
  93. Houston, the eagle has zygotes!
  94. Video: Laying the egg
  95. Da snow!
  96. Corvid savants
  97. Blizzard boots
  98. A brand new type of accommodationism
  99. Moar on gnus being gnice
  100. Sam Harris replies to critics
  101. Gnus can be gnice!
  102. Kitteh contest: Baihu
  103. World’s oldest person dies
  104. Accommodationist statements by scientific organizations

January 2011

  1. Evolutionary psychology: gender “construction”
  2. Annals of airline security III: TSA approved toy soldier
  3. A confab with the faithful
  4. You suck
  5. The eagles have mated
  6. Another Republican moron: “Where’s the missing link?”
  7. Caturday felids: Official Kittehs
  8. New interview with Christopher Hitchens
  9. How many species of humans were there?
  10. When eagles mate
  11. Cup-pake!
  12. Annals of airline security: Part II
  13. EAGLES!
  14. Nabokov was right all along
  15. EAGLES!
  16. Evolutionary psychology
  17. Kitteh contest: Zen cat
  18. Doc Bill is shameless
  19. We’ve come a long way
  20. Ecklund calls for university scientists to talk more about religion
  21. Eagle cam!
  22. I haz been violated!
  23. Clouded leopards and the species problem
  24. Beim Schlafengehen
  25. Are Western biologists imperialistic?
  26. Darwin’s nightmare
  27. Chris Mooney on birthers
  28. Tuataras and the species problem
  29. Caturday felid: Bafftime!
  30. More Templeton-funded nonsense
  31. Accurancy
  32. More overcharges
  33. Eric MacDonald saves me a lot of work
  34. Flying Friday Felids
  35. Thalis and flying chapatis
  36. The women of Slate take on evolutionary psychology
  37. Blackford reply to Harris’s reply
  38. Peregrinations
  39. Kitteh contest entry: Butter
  40. The smoking gun
  41. Stewart on Palin
  42. Harris responds to Blackford
  43. “The Bible is not a textbook of science”
  44. The Vatican stepped in it
  45. Why BioLogos—and accommodationism—can’t win
  46. Experimental acid trip, ca. 1956
  47. Blackford reviews The Moral Landscape
  48. Holiday felids
  49. Evolutionary psychology for the masses
  50. Caturday felid: biznss kitteh at the onsen
  51. Weekend fortification
  52. Why atheism isn’t a religion
  53. Jazz week: trumpet. Day 5, Bunny Berigan
  54. Hospital bill!
  55. January footwear
  56. I haz a mug!
  57. Jazz week: trumpet. Day 4, Miles Davis
  58. On scientism: BioLogos‘s big meeting, in which Francis Collins embarrasses himself and the NIH
  59. Jazz week: trumpet. Day 3, Dizzy Gillespie
  60. Pigliucci calls out atheists again
  61. Robocop vs. washing machine
  62. Jazz week: trumpet. Day 2, Roy Eldridge
  63. Dogs are smarter than you think
  64. Kitteh contest entry: Millie and Huxley
  65. Jazz week: trumpet. Day 1, Pops (and Bix)
  66. A right to bear Glocks?
  67. He could have used lawn furniture or something
  68. Spam
  69. There are no words for this
  70. You call that a beer?
  71. The violence in Arizona
  72. Sadly ironic
  73. Caturday felid: biznss kitteh
  74. Do we perceive reality? The checker shadow illusion.
  75. “Psychic” paper provokes backlash
  76. “How extremely stupid not to have thought of that.”
  77. Scalia: What rights for women?
  78. A nice cup of tea
  79. Another terse paper
  80. Comment of the week
  81. Eric MacDonald on Adam and Eve
  82. Best webcomic of 2010
  83. Sun, moon, and man
  84. Kitteh contest: another entry
  85. “The bones aren’t there”: Philosopher of religion hangs it up
  86. Nobody’s perfect
  87. More on species. Part 2: Why the BSC solves the “species problem”
  88. Footwear for 2011
  89. Accommodationism at Berkeley/NCSE website
  90. Mooney takes up “spirituality” in Playboy
  91. More on species. Part 1.
  92. Cheap stuff
  93. How many species of elephant? (with bonus rants)
  94. Caturday felid: tubbin’ it
  95. BioLogos continues to embarrass itself with Adam and Eve
  96. Caturday bonus: What really happens when you try to wrap a cat

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