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December 2012

  1. Most important cats of 2012
  2. Republicans are greedy jerks
  3. Quote of the week: Peter Atkins on woo and faith
  4. Amazing photo: Soyuz approaches the International Space Station
  5. Kerfuffle! Keith Kloor won’t stop biting the leg of atheism
  6. Happy New Year!
  7. “Have you ever had to kill one?”: Doonesbury continues the War on Christmas
  8. A terrific popular article on the evolution of whales
  9. New York Times: where were the humanists after Newtown?
  10. Swag
  11. Caturday felid: Ketzel the composing cat
  12. Islamic “justice” in Mali
  13. The hottest place on Earth
  14. I’ve reached the New Testament!
  15. The wonders of space
  16. Keith Kloor lumps me with Dawkins as sneering, strident, and simplistic
  17. The owl and the pussycat, part deux
  18. Krauss on God and Newtown
  19. I can haz one of these, plz?
  20. Guest post: Is the Pope a Catholic?
  21. Joint post: Chicago’s Field Museum endangered by unwise budget cuts
  22. Sophisticated Theology: a graphic demonstration
  23. Pittsburgh creationist identifies mysterious animals from the Bible
  24. Peter Higgs, the Boson Man, takes out after Richard Dawkins for the usual reasons
  25. Nice try!
  26. Somebody right this wrong!
  27. Doonesbury: more on the War on Christmas
  28. Boxing day footwear
  29. The Christmas NYT: faith everywhere
  30. The world’s cutest rodent
  31. Why science and faith are incompatible: my talk in Edinburgh
  32. A Doonesbury Christmas
  33. Felix navidad!
  34. Happy Koynezaa!
  35. Richard Carrier takes the Christ out of Christmas
  36. Holiday photos
  37. Christmas Eve footwear
  38. Religion dying off: “Nones” are world’s third largest “faith”
  39. Has it really come to this?
  40. Let’s arm the firemen now!
  41. A dreary day in Chicago
  42. Wacky Rabbi Sacks: Religion is here to stay because of evolution
  43. It’s Christmas in Europe
  44. Country music week: Grand Finale
  45. NYT’s best books of the year
  46. Christian leader David Barton: “Whatever the government’s got, we’ve got to have the same thing.”
  47. What the Second Amendment really confers
  48. More dreadful accommodationism at HuffPo
  49. Favorite cat video of the year?
  50. Caturday felid duo: the cat with 17 lives, and Brad Pitt channels Henri
  51. Industrial Country
  52. Mob kills man for buring Qur’an
  53. Wonders of Life by Brian Cox – with added Eric Idle
  54. Lawrence O’Donnell excoriates NRA official
  55. Priest gets into hot water for telling kids that there is no Santa
  56. We’re still here!
  57. Cat contest ends in ten days
  58. Country music week: Day 6
  59. Moar Ediacara – the rangeomorphs of Mistaken Point
  60. Henri V: “The worst Noël”
  61. Adam Gopnik writes on gun control again
  62. Say it ain’t so, Christiane!
  63. This week’s weather
  64. Country music week: Day 5
  65. Three easy pieces: creationists pwned
  66. Prestigious science organization hiring someone to make nice with evangelicals
  67. A Grimm Google doodle
  68. The enigmatic Ediacaran biota just got more enigmatic. Or did it?
  69. Country music week: Day 4
  70. The Pope’s tweets are BORING
  71. William Lane Craig weighs in on the Newtown shootings
  72. Crafty Peruvian spider builds its own decoy
  73. Country music week: Day 3
  74. Our gun culture
  75. Kaitlin Roig, heroine; John Lott, moron
  76. Using evolution to chill a cat
  77. The Piltdown Hoax at 100
  78. Country music week: Day 2
  79. The stupid gets worse: gun organization blames anti-gun lobby for school shootings
  80. Evangelical Christianity on the wane—or not?
  81. Most amazing photos of 2012
  82. I weep for America
  83. Country music week
  84. Someone doesn’t understand free will
  85. Islamic creationism: London debate on Islam and evolution cancelled because of Muslim student opposition
  86. Spiders: dimorphic, mimetic, and fluorescent
  87. Caturday felid: High-jumping tabby
  88. Hitch died a year ago
  89. Let the apologetics begin
  90. “MOOC”s on critical thinking at Michigan State and on genetics and evolution at Duke
  91. Schrödinger’s Kitteh
  92. Friday footwear
  93. New report on discrimination against nonbelievers
  94. A marvelous spiny ant
  95. I get email: Coyne’s Converts’ Corner
  96. This ain’t your Ground of Being
  97. A dream
  98. Rabbi defends nativity scene on public land
  99. The panoply of nature: more bizarre flies
  100. Oliver Sacks debunks near-death and out-of-body experiences, as well as religious “revelations”
  101. Neurotic sleight of hand
  102. Moar roolz
  103. Moar footwear
  104. Uncle Eric on scientism
  105. The Pope finally tweets
  106. Marine mammals should not be entertainment
  107. Try this at home folks!
  108. Who wants a friendly cross-eyed cat?
  109. It’s 12/12/12
  110. The world’s wonders, and “Sophie’s choice”: a request for readers
  111. Poar Carl
  112. A Marshall McLuhan moment with creationist Paul Nelson
  113. Festive zoological make-up for the holidays
  114. Frank Bruni touts secularism in the New York Times
  115. Jeweled caterpillar becomes gorgeous orange moth
  116. There is no virtue in faith: Dawkins on why religion is bad
  117. Is evolutionary psychology worthless?
  118. More denialism of a science-religion conflict
  119. Monkey in furs loose in Ikea
  120. Riding the leviathan: how the blue whales noms
  121. Oy vey! Freeman Dyson pronounces individual selection to be “fashionable dogma”
  122. Sir Patrick Moore, BBC astronomy presenter, dies aged 89
  123. Does science refute God? A debate
  124. The stuff that theologians believe!
  125. Messi breaks the record!
  126. Caturday felids: treadmill cat and a honking big cat
  127. Evolution cover boy on a science magazine
  128. The folly of “The folly of scientism”
  129. Loopy accommodationist statement of the month
  130. Camel noms tot
  131. Morning, Chicago
  132. Atheists win 67% of Tony Blair Faith Foundation film prizes
  133. Another antiselectionist, Stuart Newman, surfaces at PuffHo
  134. Marijuana legalized for personal use in Washington State
  135. Simon’s cat goes ice fishing
  136. The Pope’s first tweet!
  137. Belief in miracles increasing in U.S.
  138. Egypt is on the way to becoming Iran
  139. BBC’s Science Club with Dara O Briain
  140. Fish vs. man
  141. Fog, Lake Michigan
  142. James Shapiro, in his attempts to forge a new evolutionary paradigm, is reduced to going after my commenters
  143. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Bristol Christians
  144. Bill O’Reilly: Christianity is not a religion, but a philosophy
  145. How parasites manipulate hosts
  146. Fermat’s last kitten
  147. Addendum: cat contest
  148. Dreadful science journalism: Time Magazine’s nomination of the Higgs boson for “Person of the Year” is five sentences long, each one wrong
  149. The Jesus Christ cricket: it jumps from the water
  150. A bunch of us go after Nicholas Wade’s accommodationism in the New York Times
  151. The Pope tweets!
  152. Even more unbelievable: Bristol University Christians ban women from speaking
  153. Rupert Sheldrake peddles his woo to Americans
  154. “If you’re bored, you’re doing something wrong”: Dawkins and Gervais discuss religion and science
  155. Birds of paradise: photos and a great video
  156. Why can’t they ever spell?
  157. First use of OMG—in 1917!
  158. My own autographed book
  159. So much wrong: a reader’s comment:
  160. Unbelievable!
  161. James Shapiro gets evolution wrong again
  162. Awww. . . a scorpion mom protects her kids
  163. Just-so stories: why spiders don’t have necks
  164. Caturday felid: On the Origin of LOLcats, or the Preservation of Favoured Felids in the Struggle for Noms
  165. We have a winner!
  166. Templeton pays 12 people to discuss whether the universe has a purpose
  167. Cool animals: Ctenophora and Cnidaria
  168. A cat

November 2012

  1. Readers’ cats: Charlie, a Scottish felid
  2. Autographed books on the way
  3. Giberson tries to clarify the causes of creationism, but just gets deeper into the muck
  4. Good news: British government withholds funding from religious schools that don’t teach evolution as a fact
  5. Amazing illusions
  6. Friday felid: cat interrupts weather report, gets minute of fame
  7. The amazing mimicry of frogfish
  8. The Irish vote down abortion to save a mother’s life
  9. Ceci n’est pas un blog
  10. Neil deGrasse Tyson tilts back towards atheism, touts a purposeless universe
  11. Delicatessens!
  12. Jaws: great white shark noms rubber seal
  13. I have landed!
  14. Nicholas Wade’s ridiculous prescription for curing creationism
  15. Fun biology facts: the world’s longest animal
  16. 100% of the world’s most famous atheists recommend this site
  17. Island in the sky
  18. E. V. Rieu revealed!
  19. Statisticians 51, Pundits 0
  20. Fife and St. Andrews
  21. The value of “stridency”: a creationist becomes a biologist
  22. Matthew Cobb on BBC Radio 4—NOW
  23. Not pareidolia: The rhino that was cooked
  24. Cheetahs on the hoof
  25. 2 Luxury Teacakes and other English noms
  26. Felid Face of the Day
  27. Simon’s cat goes nuts
  28. Edinburgh
  29. E. V. Rieu and Chekhov: an apology
  30. The Better Angels of Our Nature?: Black Friday
  31. Caturday felid: video of blind kitten wins Friskies prize
  32. Popular press wildly overblows “gene for humanity”
  33. Migrating birds seen on US radar
  34. I get email
  35. Uncle Karl defends ignorant young-earth creationists like Marco Rubio
  36. Cat anxiety dream
  37. Happy Thanksgiving!
  38. Even moar travels, food and drink
  39. Thanksgiving football: Messi vs. Müller
  40. Victory for first amendment: judge rules that Santa Monica can ban nativity scenes
  41. Cat regularly catches bus in Dorset
  42. How The Wasp Got Her Handle
  43. Pope embarrasses church again, says Catholics should accept the Virgin Birth
  44. Even moar fudz
  45. Science class in Louisiana, ctd.
  46. Fudz yesterday
  47. How the Beetle Got His Handles
  48. Science class in Louisiana
  49. Creationists create mimetic “Science Friday” show; real one files lawsuit against them
  50. Two further notes on England
  51. BBC creates new YouTube channel on nature shows
  52. Two kittehs
  53. The return of The Infinite Monkey Cage
  54. A website of bouncing cats
  55. Marco Rubio: not a scientist
  56. Now that’s a tee-shirt!
  57. I have landed
  58. Unintelligent design
  59. Caturday felid: synchronized skydiving cats
  60. Video panel today on Hitchens’s last book, and a CNN interview with Carol Blue
  61. Two legs good, 750 legs better!
  62. An atheist sermon
  63. Peregrinations
  64. U.S. school science standards pronounced “dismal”
  65. The Catholic Church is odious
  66. Steve Pinker on how to write science
  67. Indian textbook denigrates meat-eaters on Biblical grounds, claims carnivores are dishonest, lying sex criminals
  68. Guest post: Abortion and the Savita Halappanavar affair
  69. We get revenge: the FFRF sues the IRS for failure to enforce tax laws on churches
  70. Phraseology
  71. Frida Kahlo and her house
  72. A Christian brainwashes two-year-olds
  73. Apropos of child abuse . . .
  74. U.S. tax authorities ignore illegal political activities by churches
  75. How to fight hate speech: with clown power!
  76. O Canada!
  77. Because I can. . .
  78. Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., 1940-2012
  79. Fall footwear: toad-trimmed boots
  80. A priest goes after scientism (again)
  81. Why is one sex mimetic rather than the other?
  82. Pastor feel that Obama’s election will summon the Antichrist
  83. I feel like this when I’m shaving
  84. Islamic school in Toronto off the hook for brainwashing children
  85. Outside my office
  86. A planthopper with sex-limited mimicry
  87. A tweet from Matthew
  88. Caturday felids: two science-related cat LOLs
  89. Maddow’s and Stewart’s takes on Republican lunacy
  90. The 2012 Edge question, and a note on green sea turtles
  91. It’s the day after Carl Sagan’s birthday
  92. I’m ruined!
  93. The decline of America
  94. Don Prothero recounts his experience with the creationist road trip
  95. Editing your comments
  96. Even more reason why it’s good that Obama won
  97. Darwin for Congress!
  98. The world’s smallest d-g
  99. A few photos for the road
  100. Shermer and I disagree on the “supernatural”
  101. My doctor has a book
  102. Thank goodness!
  103. How the Aztecs killed their victims
  104. A new movie soaked in faith
  105. One lesson from this election
  106. Moar photos
  107. Today’s message for my fellow Americans
  108. U.S. retains strong belief in miracles
  109. Teotihuacan
  110. World’s rarest whale seen for the first time
  111. Two photos
  112. It’s over
  113. Ants in the snow
  114. We all believe in the same god
  115. And another. . .
  116. Sunday in Mexico City
  117. Tired of the election? So’s Abigael.
  118. How to get rid of religion
  119. A flock of tadpoles
  120. Evening snack, with bonus canids!
  121. Fuds and meeting
  122. Drawing a fly in eight seconds, or eight steps, or 6.5 minutes…
  123. Caturday felid: Russian cat circus
  124. Michael Shermer’s talk in Mexico, and a note on the possibility of a god
  125. What price The Right Stuff?
  126. A chat with the director of Henri, Le Chat Noir
  127. I have landed in Mexico
  128. Flash Anzan: an amazing new number game
  129. Foods ‘n’ stuff in Mexico City
  130. Theologians explain the suffering caused by Hurricane Sandy
  131. Breakfast in Cambridge, MA
  132. Two instantiations: good and bad politics
  133. Great book on paleontology, really cheap this month!
  134. Stuffed polar bear for sale on eBay. Buy now, only £28,750.00

October 2012

  1. Henri 4: The Haunting
  2. Find the cat (note: comments on this one disabled)
  3. Jesus and Mo do Halloween
  4. Happy Halloween!
  5. A free journal issue on experimental evolution
  6. Where’s moggie?
  7. Sean Carroll assesses the Stockbridge workshop
  8. Loosen those wallets
  9. Simon’s Cat in “Fetch”
  10. Sports special: soccer expert lists the best players, games, and goals ever
  11. Roolz: embedding videos in comments
  12. Free articles on the genomics of adaptation
  13. Free speech on campus in peril
  14. Cats
  15. Giant spider attack
  16. My presentation on Free Will
  17. Moving Naturalism Forward: my summary
  18. A funky ant
  19. Hurricane Sandy? No worries, folks!
  20. The Origin of Species by Means of Electric Kool-Aid, or the Preservation of The Right Stuff in the Struggle for Life.
  21. Guardian column praises CERN for accommodationist meeting
  22. Nullius in verba, plentius in print
  23. Thomas Friedman is pro-life!
  24. I have landed
  25. Caturday felid: A bad week for kittehs—Berkeley study shows fur-color discrimination, and TSA screws up again, losing tabby
  26. A Sophisticated Theologian asks if God is part of the material universe
  27. Interim report: Moving Naturalism Forward Meeting
  28. The Voyage of the Beagle – on Twitter
  29. Caturday Felid II: Simon Gato
  30. The Republican platform in one image
  31. A new book on nature and “The drive-by Dawkins diss”
  32. Women voting Republican
  33. Bike-riding kitteh
  34. Newborn tapir receives mouth to proboscis resuscitation
  35. Earliest record to be played tonight for first time in 134 years
  36. Homosexuality will lead to enslavement of humanity by ducks
  37. A first-time comment: why are we obsessed with religion?
  38. 415 million year-old millipede turds
  39. Giant arthropods, then and now
  40. Still another Republican puts his foot in his piehole about women’s reproduction: says pregnancies resulting from rapes are “gifts from God”
  41. Road trip with the boys!
  42. Winners: Nikon “small world” photography contest
  43. Why New Atheism is supposedly worse than the Old
  44. An echidna puggle called Beau
  45. First (and second) episode of Dawkins’s new television series
  46. Autographed books, etc.
  47. Italian scientists sentenced to jail for failing to predict earthquake
  48. Da roolz—again!
  49. Beluga imitates human speech
  50. President Morsi shows his true colors
  51. NSFW, but true
  52. Fall at the U of C
  53. New Atheism scares a Christian because it’s too optimistic
  54. Einstein’s anti-God letter goes for $3 mil+
  55. Peregrinations
  56. Dialogue 2
  57. George McGovern died
  58. Anti-science in American politics: two must-read articles
  59. Op ed
  60. Caturday felids: cat vs. feeder and kitteh tower
  61. Carnivorous thingie in the deep sea
  62. Christian physicist Ian Hutchinson criticizes scientism
  63. Dialogue
  64. Review of binders on Amazon becomes politicized
  65. Romney’s tax plan explained—finally
  66. Speciation observed – again
  67. Self portrait
  68. All’s well that ends well
  69. Another Republican doesn’t understand female reproduction
  70. More Non Sequitur on religion and creationism
  71. Upcoming peregrinations
  72. Readers’ cats: McCoy and Seve (and the violin)
  73. Winner: BBC wildlife photograph of the year
  74. Sensor problems
  75. British Scouts ban atheist child
  76. Librarians classify creationist books as “religion,” not “science” (except at my school)
  77. The talking tui
  78. Seeking camera advice
  79. Kittens teach physics
  80. Why do cats purr?
  81. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ metaphor
  82. Sarah Silverman goes after new “voter fraud” regulations; is criticized by rabbi for being unmarried and childless
  83. Peregrinations: back home
  84. Romney and Ryan want to kill more Americans
  85. BioLogos suggests that much of the Bible is metaphor
  86. The man who span to Earth
  87. Google Maps goes underwater
  88. Origin of the Urf
  89. Scientists debate philosophers and theologians at CERN—but why?
  90. Putting our DNA clocks back
  91. Vienna: excreta
  92. Man jumps from edge of space while millions watch
  93. You call that a schnitzel? Now this is a schnitzel!
  94. Philosopher Thomas Nagel goes the way of Alvin Plantinga, disses evolution
  95. Two animal LOLz
  96. Lunch, fudz, cats, birds
  97. Todd Akin joins other Republican chowderheads: claims that evolutionary biology isn’t science
  98. If you’re Portuguese. . .
  99. Two stunning photos
  100. Mittagessen
  101. A special treat for two readers
  102. Kenneth Miller: five books against creationism
  103. Caturday felids: Vienna
  104. Sam Harris takes down the heaven-experiencing neurosurgeon
  105. HuffPo blogger makes case for ESP
  106. Curious gorillas gaze at a caterpillar
  107. Planet of the viruses
  108. 50th anniversary of the LED + 2 days
  109. Pharoah’s snake in a vivarium
  110. Lance Armstrong masterminds blood-doping scheme
  111. The Argument from Tabbies
  112. Beluga whales to be captured, jailed
  113. WEIT available in the UK via Kindle
  114. Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  115. Conspiracy road trip with creationists: Noah’s Ark and other LOLz
  116. Mars – in 3D!
  117. Yesterday’s lunch
  118. A few random photos from Lisbon
  119. Communicating science
  120. ‘”Nones” on the rise’ in US
  121. Tasting port in Porto
  122. Medicine and Physiology Nobel nabbed by a Brit and a Japanese (and a digression on birds)
  123. The only cat in Portugal
  124. Politician disses embryology; embryologists promptly win Nobel prize
  125. Victor Stenger reminds us that theistic evolution is not scientific evolution
  126. Book launch, Portugal
  127. OMG: Newsweek touts the afterlife as real
  128. Perambulations: Porto and the Douro
  129. Darwin is alive!
  130. David Barash goes after free will in the NY Times
  131. What’s the matter with embryology?
  132. Cheerleaders fight for “right” to display religious slogans at games
  133. Guide to the One True God: final version, with posters for sale!
  134. Your (American) tax dollars at work
  135. Olivia recites a poem
  136. Professor Ceiling cat is ALIVE
  137. The longer Michael Ruse at Aeon magazine
  138. “Shadowland”
  139. Basement cat analogies
  140. Evolution: Making Sense of Life
  141. Caturday felid: the world’s grumpiest cat
  142. Interview on Portuguese radio
  143. Cat with shadow cat
  144. An inordinate fondness for beetles
  145. William Lane Craig argues that animals can’t feel pain
  146. How did the debate go?
  147. 32 asynchronous metronomes fall into line
  148. Things are getting better
  149. What I ate yesterday
  150. The National Trust excises creationism at the Giant’s Causeway exhibit
  151. A photo (and fudz)
  152. A belated reply from Francis Spufford, who defends his faith
  153. Wallace finally gets on line
  154. Michael Ruse disses new atheism again, whines about his mistreatment, and makes mistakes
  155. BioLogos goes all Natural Theology
  156. Slim’s Jam
  157. A bunch of cat cribs
  158. A tramp at home – footage of Mark Twain

September 2012

  1. Geckos comiendo cheerios – con genética
  2. Interview with a man with a magnificent obsession
  3. Harcovers of WEIT available again
  4. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ontological Argument
  5. Recommended new movie: “The Master”
  6. Roots of Ecology
  7. Whaddizit?—the answer.
  8. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ ineffable God
  9. Caturday felid: how the king cheetah got his stripes
  10. Gertrude Himmelfarb analyzes New Atheism—badly
  11. Henri parle de la politique
  12. Doonesbury goes after HuffPo
  13. A nod from Dawkins
  14. Creationist #3: One error after another
  15. Whadizzit?
  16. Oh noes! Robin Ince broke his Charles Darwin mug!
  17. 50 years on: Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
  18. Amazing paper sculptures of animals
  19. Followup chat on gender bias against women scientists
  20. Sean Carroll sparks debate at HuffPo about whether God has a role in the universe
  21. Muslims disapprove of film-related violence while other Muslims push for anti-blasphemy law
  22. What is this?
  23. RIP Andy Williams
  24. CNN discusses Hell, for crying out loud
  25. A Sokal-style hoax by an anti-religious philosopher
  26. Great nature photos: 50 entries in National Geographic’s 2012 photo contest
  27. Last day for free autographed books
  28. I peregrinate on Yom Kippur
  29. The 2012 IgNobel Prizes
  30. A frightening video of Muslim academics and scholars defending their faith
  31. Another creationist drops by to show that there’s no evidence for evolution
  32. Catnip Madness!
  33. My lecture on evidence for evolution: highly compressed!
  34. Do crows, like humans, have a concept of “hidden causal agents”?
  35. Stray cat: a love story, part 2
  36. Salman Rushdie’s new book, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s reaction
  37. Caturday felid: Why cats pwn dogs
  38. New study shows gender bias in science against female students
  39. Cognitive dissonance: cats and politics
  40. We’re screwed (maybe)
  41. Tonsorial tabby
  42. Thank you!
  43. A marine mystery solved (and a bit about birds)
  44. A creationist weighs in
  45. What is Islamophobia?
  46. Near-perfect camouflage
  47. Stray cat: A love story
  48. Women strike back: some good news about Islam at last
  49. What’s “new” about New Atheism?
  50. Squeeee – Quito the baby Tamandua
  51. Guest post: a teser on Mars
  52. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ The Onion ‘n’ Kenan Malik
  53. 230-million-year-old arthropods in amber
  54. What you missed (but it’s not too late!)
  55. OMG: Jesus was married!
  56. Sam does it again
  57. Liliger bred in Siberian zoo
  58. An anti-Islamic and an anti-Semitic film
  59. Genetics lesson?
  60. More religious child abuse
  61. Bounty raised on Rushdie
  62. Daily Mail screws up with two-headed pelican.
  63. Nagel reviews Plantinga in the NYRB
  64. A heartwarmer for Monday
  65. A huge water geyser on Saturn’s moon helps make the rings, and a bonus eclipse from Mars
  66. Π in the sky!
  67. Dromaeosaurs on parade
  68. R. Joseph Hoffmann blames P. Z. Myers, Eric MacDonald and me for murder in the Middle East
  69. We all worship the same God: version 1.2
  70. A visit to the grave of W. D. Hamilton
  71. Help support major secular organizations—just by voting!
  72. A victory for evolution in South Korea
  73. Giant spiders attack Philadelphia
  74. Caturday felids twofer: barking cat and the world’s most intrepid kitteh
  75. Child abuse in Australia
  76. Britain’s Chief Rabbi calls Richard Dawkins a “Christian atheist”
  77. Amazing aerials of Africa
  78. RIP Hal David
  79. Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Egypt ‘n’ Libya ‘n’ Yemen
  80. Horseshoe crabs aren’t really “living fossils”
  81. Dershowitz claims that Germany’s ban on circumcision is anti-Semitic
  82. Noisy tigers for the Friday win: a baby Sumatran tiger and adults nomming
  83. Republicans at it again: birther conspiracy revives in Kansas
  84. The world’s second chillest cat
  85. A Nature editor defends the value of woo
  86. Steve Pinker discusses free speech, political correctness and taboos
  87. Weekly Mars rover report
  88. Video Q and A with Mohamed Noor about genetics and evolution
  89. Sexual selection in ancient animals
  90. Candy corn Oreos
  91. Jesus and Mo on the ineffability of God and the “humility” of believers
  92. Professor Ceiling Cat haz a sadz
  93. Michael Ruse advises the faithful on how to see the evolution of humans as inevitable
  94. BWPA Wildlife Photography winners
  95. Uncle Eric on scientism and ways of knowing
  96. “We all worship the same god”
  97. Thanks to readers for donating to DWB (and where you live)
  98. A gorgeous species of mollusc
  99. Nice work if you can get it
  100. Paleobiologist Simon Conway Morris gives evidence for God from evolution
  101. Two takes on miracles
  102. More apologetic gymnastics: John Haught explains why Christianity comports with cosmology
  103. Chicago: Gathering storm
  104. Carol Blue on Hitchens
  105. Baggini vs. Krauss on science, philosophy, and morality
  106. Clouds got in my way
  107. Caturday felid: kitten abuses patient Doberman
  108. Why is quantum mechanics like the Trinity?
  109. Dawkins on creationism and evolution: a CNN interview
  110. The last perambulation of an ancient arthropod
  111. Charity show for Doctors without Borders show now on the air
  112. Curiosity update
  113. Guest post: Templeton gives $1.7 million to harmonize God with nature’s “randomness”
  114. Another philosopher proclaims a nonexistent “crisis” in evolutionary biology
  115. Gorilla taught to grasp its own mortality
  116. Federal investigation concludes that Marc Hauser fabricated data
  117. A review (not mine) of Hitchens’s Mortality, and a brief word on wine
  118. Time to pony up for Doctors Without Borders
  119. Astaire Week: A coda—Fred’s favorite
  120. Hump day footwear
  121. Templeton uses its wealth to debase philosophy
  122. A prominent psychiatrist (and creationist) responds to Bill Nye
  123. Huge hermit crab migration
  124. Eddy Nahmias: apostle for free will
  125. I get email: an insane response to my views on free will
  126. A gynandromorph cardinal: one half male, the other half female
  127. Ken Ham responds to Bill Nye’s anti-creationism video
  128. Dawkins speaks on The Life Scientific
  129. Hey, kids! A free homeschool course on accommodationism, courtesy of the Faraday Institute, Cambridge University, and the Templeton Foundation!
  130. Dawkins on “The Life Scientific” tomorrow: BBC Radio 4
  131. 8-year-old Brit finds $65K piece of ambergris
  132. Creationists respond to Bill Nye’s pro-evolution video
  133. Venus, the amazing split cat
  134. Swell insects from Mozambique
  135. Caturday felid: The Internet Cat Video Film Festival, a reader report, and the winner!
  136. There’s no such thing as bad publicity: Giberson disses my theology at HuffPo
  137. Denisovans are us

August 2012

  1. Francis Spufford strikes again: defends his faith against atheism
  2. The New York Times reviews Hitchens’s final book
  3. Do big cats like Marmite?
  4. Friday LOLz: hamsters go nuts
  5. Pigliucci decries scientism, argues that science needs philosophy, and that most of us are doing it rong
  6. A vegetarian owl
  7. Larry Moran reviews Shapiro’s anti-Darwinian book; and another new anti-evolution book is about to appear
  8. The new issue of Cell
  9. Astaire Week Grand Finale: Four easy pieces with Ginger Rogers
  10. A letter to atheists from a believer
  11. Chicago, early morning
  12. Big response to Bill Nye’s attack on creationism
  13. Wildlife pictures of the year
  14. A fish with genitals on its head
  15. Curiosity sends nice high-res photo from Mars
  16. The Science Guy goes after creationism
  17. Da roolz—again!
  18. Fred Astaire Week: Fred and Cyd Charisse
  19. Catholics proclaim complete harmony between science and their faith, trot out Aquinas again
  20. Kitteh contest: Mingus
  21. Seventeen beheaded by Taliban for mixed-sex dancing
  22. A big insect saved from extinction
  23. He landed where?
  24. Fred Astaire Week: Fred and Rita Hayworth
  25. 1969: Men on the Moon
  26. Lampreys deep-six their genomes during development
  27. More Islamic lunacy: mentally handicapped girl imprisoned for (maybe) burning a page of the Qur’an, faces death
  28. Fred Astaire Week: Hatrack dance from “Royal Wedding”
  29. Caturday felid: a soporific video
  30. The last Hitchens book (and a memoir by Carol Blue)
  31. BioLogos lays out the tenets of theistic evolution
  32. Fred Astaire Week: Caturday surprise
  33. RIP Neil Armstrong
  34. Playboy interview with Richard Dawkins
  35. Yet another failed attempt to argue for free will
  36. Film: The descent of the Mars rover
  37. Beetle of the week
  38. Fred Astaire Week: I Won’t Dance
  39. The journal Nature explains why science is, like religion, based on faith
  40. Animal photo of the year: Lions at sunset
  41. Portrait of an apostate pastor
  42. Curiosity’s first drive on Mars
  43. Fred Astaire Week: Nice Work if You Can Get It
  44. The TSA does it again
  45. Mass migration of stingrays
  46. You need this shirt
  47. James Shapiro goes after natural selection again (twice) on HuffPo
  48. Fred Astaire Week: a guest post and “Puttin’ On the Ritz”
  49. Boot weather!
  50. What do animals know of death?
  51. Kentucky Republicans realize that they screwed up: students will have to learn evolution!
  52. Is Markuze back?
  53. Storm over Chicago
  54. Fred Astaire Week: One for My Baby
  55. More cool mimicry: a ladybug-mimicking spider
  56. Is reductionism wrong?: a philosopher weighs in
  57. An anniversary for evolution
  58. Fred Astaire week: Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails
  59. Darwin’s Ghosts
  60. Astaire Week: Begin the Beguine
  61. Kenan Malik on religious freedom
  62. Caturday felid: kitteh scores big on Fruit Ninja
  63. The weird, twisted Catholic cult of suffering
  64. Peter van Inwagen explains why God is hidden
  65. That annoyingly gapful fossil record
  66. Cretaceous crocs crunch critters
  67. Contemporary croc crunches croc
  68. A new group of skeptic blogs
  69. Atran and the Wilsons vs. the rest of us: the Chronicle writes on the “religion wars”
  70. A gorilla never forgets
  71. A disturbing cat video
  72. Another very Sophisticated Theologian explains why animals have to suffer
  73. Kitteh contest: Jade
  74. Peregrinations
  75. Julia Child’s 100th today
  76. More interspecific play: lemur vs. kangaroo
  77. A species discovered on Flickr
  78. Seven seconds of fun
  79. Atheist-community auction for Doctors without Borders
  80. A Sci Am essay: Are humanities scientific?
  81. Plantinga on why he believes in God, dislikes the New Atheists, and finds naturalism and evolution incompatible
  82. Snake cakes beat pakes
  83. Zooming in on life
  84. An amazing dolphin video
  85. Guest post: Pigliuicci defines the “community of reason”
  86. Sophisticated Theology: Plantinga explains why God makes animals suffer
  87. A manifestation of Ceiling Cat
  88. Penis snake?
  89. Eric MacDonald on accommodationism
  90. Lion about
  91. New laws allowing physician-assisted suicide opposed by doctors and Catholic church
  92. Caturday felid: how do falling cats right themselves?
  93. Science writing: lite and wrong
  94. Do both science and faith produce truth?
  95. Rover’s camera and a lovely panorama from Mars
  96. The outrageous subsidies to religion in America
  97. More mimicry: beetles mimic flies
  98. Caracal kittens FTW
  99. Another setback for secularism in America
  100. Fastest mammal on the planet: cheetah sets world speed record
  101. Guest post: NASA, atheism, Mars, and God
  102. Cool NASA dudes
  103. Dawkins on Drosophila (my 4,000th post!)
  104. Again: Is there poetry in the Old Testament?
  105. A stunning image from Mars
  106. RIP Robert Hughes, Marvin Hamlish, Judith Crist
  107. Basement Cat
  108. “Science is the refuge of the mediocre”: Steve Jones on “The Life Scientific”
  109. What kind of computer does the Mars rover use?
  110. Where does morality come from? A demonstration with monkeys
  111. New graphics on Mars rover
  112. More behavioral similarity between humans and apes
  113. Chi-town is Jam Town
  114. Curiosity: it’s only just begun
  115. A misguided priest goes after Dawkins and New Atheism, mistakes science for “feeling”
  116. Another Mars-related tweet
  117. I have cat!
  118. Still another Mars-related tweet
  119. Relive the moment: the landing of Curiosity
  120. RIP Chris Marker (1921-2012)
  121. My only Olympic post: Mo Farah wins the 10,000
  122. Darwin right again: the inner ears of sloths are highly variable
  123. The Mars rover Curiosity lands tonight; watch it!
  124. Mars rover on the way: live “blogging”
  125. Caturday felid: The world’s bravest kitten
  126. Guest post: The five most awful atheists. Orly?
  127. Mark Vernon on Richard Dawkins, evolution, and scientific “myth”
  128. Paula Kirby on why many American Christians aren’t “Christian”
  129. A crazed baby goat
  130. The mother lode of evolution videos
  131. I get email from people with anger management issues
  132. Are “best-of” polls bad?
  133. There must be peanuts
  134. George Harrison: “Something”
  135. Guest post: journalists fume while nonbelievers chip away at religious privilege
  136. Templeton gives a philosopher $5 million to study the afterlife
  137. Sight and Sound’s 10-yearly poll of best movies
  138. The history of art in graffiti
  139. RIP Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
  140. Creationist news
  141. Sam Harris offers “Lying” for free
  142. What’s with the Olympics?
  143. KittenCam from The Scientist

July 2012

  1. Guest post: the conflation between atheism and secularism
  2. Jonah Lehrer admits faking quotes; resigns from New Yorker
  3. Make mine a double espresso
  4. The salmon are running at Brooks Falls
  5. More Sophisticated Theology: The world’s worst theodicy
  6. Dog carries cat home
  7. Seven bears a-fishing
  8. Jumping spider shadowboxes
  9. A believer explains where God was during the Aurora shootings
  10. Why global warming is real and we’re causing it
  11. Now’s your chance
  12. Interim Bible report: no poetry in sight
  13. Seven bears a-hunting
  14. Crustaceans in glass houses. . .
  15. Third unanswered question about evolution for BBC Focus
  16. Grizzlies catching salmon
  17. The disingenuous Professor Ruse
  18. Caturday felid: Kitteh is mayor of Alaskan town
  19. Ancient sacrificed children studied for infection
  20. Brown bear + salmon cam!
  21. Another unanswered question about evolution for BBC Focus
  22. Bear cub rescue
  23. Four bears fishing
  24. The Decisive Moment, felid style
  25. A deeply confused lad claims that biogeography isn’t evidence for evolution
  26. My BBC Focus piece: unanswered questions of evolution
  27. Ayn Rand on religion
  28. Runners up in KittenQwest: pictures as kittens and adults
  29. A note on courtesy and posting behavior
  30. An extraordinarily rapid case of speciation
  31. A honking big cat
  32. Andrew Sullivan criticizes Sally Ride for being a closeted gay
  33. Religious “nones” increase in America
  34. A free online course in genetics and evolution by Mohamed Noor
  35. Darwin on the beach
  36. k. d. lang: “Constant Craving”
  37. A new study of polar bears underlines the dangers of reconstructing evolution using mitochondrial DNA
  38. RIP Sally Ride (1951-2012)
  39. Qur’anic double entendre
  40. Harriet Hall on Darwinian medicine: it is a useless endeavor?
  41. Biology miscellany
  42. More Aurora fallout: preachers blame tragedy on atheism, claim that only Jesus-loving victims will go to heaven
  43. P.Z. comes over to the dark side
  44. Sophisticated Postmodern Theology proves a disappointment
  45. Creationists vandalize a park sign for God
  46. RIP John H. Willis, Jr. (1929-2012)
  47. Chicago evening
  48. Rick Warren denies blaming Colorado shootings on evolution
  49. Alison Krauss: “Baby now that I’ve found you”
  50. Caturday felid: KittenQwest contest—Teh Winner!
  51. Was the evolution of humans inevitable? Nonbeliever Michael Ruse helps Christians reconcile evolution and faith
  52. Mass shootings again blamed on evolution
  53. Anne Murray: “Snowbird”
  54. E.L. Doctorow: Is fiction an “other way of knowing”?
  55. Two anniversaries
  56. Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man”
  57. Is the National Trust bailing on creationism?
  58. Hot enough for you?
  59. Don’t forget to vote . . .
  60. Shania Twain: “You’re still the one”
  61. Sort-of guest post: Sean Carroll comments on whether quantum mechanics gives evidence for God
  62. The best Jesus and Mo yet
  63. Zombie ants controlled by fungi and worms
  64. What’s the problem with unguided evolution?
  65. Images in stone and wood prove Hinduism true
  66. Why is America so much more religious than Europe? A local scholar gives a superficial answer.
  67. Another HuffPo blogger fails to understand the conflict between science and faith
  68. KittenQwest: The poll!
  69. Steven Weinberg on the Higgs boson, and a few words on the value of pure science
  70. Patsy Cline: “Crazy”
  71. Religious wackaloonery in Chicago
  72. BioLogos seeks a new president
  73. The Virgin Mary appears in a New Jersey tree
  74. Iran, Greenland, Iceland, and China!
  75. Skeeter Davis: “The end of the world”
  76. Caturday felid: how Dayo the cat (aka “deo88xxx”) got his name
  77. Caturday felid bonus: Higgs the cat explains Higgs the boson
  78. New York Times reviews Sam Harris’s “Free Will”
  79. Dawkins tweets
  80. Google honors Klimt
  81. Quote of the week
  82. Baby pandas at play
  83. National Trust responds to criticism about the Giant’s Causeway exhibit
  84. Fish genus named after Dawkins
  85. Illegal ivory sold in New York
  86. The wildlife of Ottawa
  87. A must-watch video on global warming
  88. “Zeuglodon” on free will at the RDF site
  89. KittenQwest closes today
  90. The peopling of the Americas
  91. Ballooning spiders at the Chicago Hilton!
  92. Amazing reef fishes
  93. Dawkins discusses creationism, the Giant’s Causeway, and the evidence for evolution
  94. Jump of a cat is YUGAMINEE – けしからん猫の跳躍力は歪みない。(ちょっと加工版)
  95. Internet Cat Video Film Festival
  96. A new “Simon’s Cat”
  97. BBC documentary: “What Darwin Didn’t Know”
  98. RIP Philip Tobias
  99. Hitch arrives in Heaven
  100. Three-month-old clouded leopard cubs
  101. What would disprove evolution?
  102. Nature bejeweled
  103. Extinct tortoise rediscovered- sort of- and hope for Lonesome George’s clan
  104. RIP Ernest Borgnine
  105. The chemical ghost of a 120 million year-old bird
  106. Church of England: Floods are punishment from God (for sodomy, etc.)
  107. New Statesman: Creationism at the Giant’s Causeway is a “political problem”
  108. Gregg Allmann publishes a memoir
  109. A new website about evolution and (arrgh!) cephalopods
  110. “The most unconcerned cat on the Coast.”
  111. La route poutine
  112. Recognizing a cat
  113. Stephen Wolfram (and I) on free will
  114. Caturday felid: aqueous cats
  115. Evolution 2012
  116. Guest post: America’s scientists reluctant to admit they’re nonbelievers
  117. O Canada! Part deux
  118. O Canada!
  119. LIVE: PhD defense on climate change, mega-fauna and plants
  120. The REAL creation
  121. U.K.’s National Trust promotes creationism!
  122. Nice photos from MSN
  123. Kitteh contest: Hallie and Max, and a reminder of the KittenQwest contest
  124. Higgs boson found! (probably)
  125. My Little Atoms podcast
  126. Music history about to be made
  127. Elliott Sober argues again that God might have caused mutations
  128. World’s smallest fly found, and oy, is it small!
  129. RIP Andy Griffith
  130. Spain is Euro 2012 victor
  131. The most beautiful Facebook page
  132. Amazing video: first human birth visualized by MRI
  133. Storm over Chicago
  134. An inordinate fondness for Malaysian beetles
  135. Get Fuzzy tackles free will
  136. Dawkins on Al Jazeera
  137. Forty years ago today . . .

June 2012

  1. Caturday felid: Cat answers phone
  2. Sam Harris on spirituality
  3. Bizarre caterpillars
  4. Email: I get schooled about Obamacare
  5. Quote of the week: does “methodological naturalism” prevent science from investigating the supernatural?
  6. More Bible LOLz: God’s Golden Hemorrhoids
  7. The Telegraph blames atheists for the German ban on circumcision
  8. A little mush for Friday
  9. Guest post: Are scientists nonbelievers because of self selection or because science erodes belief?
  10. I (and others) comment on Steve Pinker’s discussion of group selection
  11. John Roberts gives me an infarction: Supreme Court upholds “Obamacare”
  12. Texas officially the dumbest state in the Union
  13. Can science test the supernatural? Yes!!
  14. Bible LOLz
  15. The most children produced by human females versus males
  16. KittenQwest Contest
  17. Kitteh contest: Lucrezia and Luigi
  18. Biblical morality part 2: Killing non-virgin brides and rebellious kids
  19. Religious diet jokes
  20. Did human social behavior evolve via group selection? E. O. Wilson defends that view in the NYT
  21. RIP Nora Ephron
  22. Teenage ducklings
  23. The Bible a source of morality? You’re kidding!
  24. How not to do science journalism: the Guardian screws up the group-selection debate
  25. Sam Harris on death
  26. The demise of group selection
  27. Divine wisdom about hygiene
  28. Egypt is doomed
  29. RIP Lonesome George
  30. Caturday felids: writers and their cats
  31. Landing the Mars rover
  32. Moran v. Discovery Institute
  33. Anniversary: landmark legislation for women’s rights
  34. Rare cloud in Japan
  35. Guest post: Another accommodationist refuses to blame religion for creationism
  36. Henri returns
  37. The Bible is boring and insipid
  38. Bunnies at school!
  39. More blurring between religion and government in America
  40. A miracle whale spouts rainbows
  41. The Aussies go godless
  42. Higgs Boson found?
  43. Best goal so far
  44. Best travel pics, 2011
  45. Deepak generator!
  46. My wisdom tooth
  47. Kitteh contest: Spot and Peanut
  48. Can natural selection create the “perfect pop song”?
  49. Americans find too much religion in politics, see professors as unfriendly to faith
  50. Pastors call for beating up gays and putting them behind electrified fences
  51. A postcard from Switzerland
  52. Nice bird photos
  53. A bat with a stupendously long tongue
  54. Britain’s head rabbi asserts that meaning of our lives must lie outside the universe
  55. Vacuous comment of the week
  56. Caturday felid: yet another klepto-cat, Denis from Luton
  57. Michael Ruse: Heaven and miracles are perfectly consistent with science
  58. A marvel of evolution: the dactyl club of stomatopods
  59. Nik Wallenda walks the falls
  60. Ruse: New Atheists treat Darwinism as a “secular religion”
  61. Wallenda walks Niagara Falls on a tightrope; hopes to bring people to God
  62. Fulsome accommodationism at a pro-science site
  63. Cat walks down fridge
  64. Signs that religion is waning among America’s youth
  65. Are the “gill slits” of vertebrate embryos a hoax?
  66. The ablutions of a mutant rodent
  67. Kitteh contest: Jesse
  68. Robert Wright blames creationism on atheists
  69. Jesus and Mo got talent!
  70. Fruit fly embryo development visualized in real time
  71. Polkie and Beale show that math proves Jebus (and a disquisition on modern natural theology)
  72. Eric MacDonald on religion as a deepity
  73. Suppressed records of “depraved sex acts” by penguins finally released after a century
  74. Hitch redux
  75. A theory that that is consistent with everything explains nothing
  76. A defense of philosophy against the attacks of physicists
  77. Nearly-fledged ducklings
  78. Still more sophisticated theological gibberish from Polkinghorne and Beale
  79. The NYRB reviews E. O. Wilson’s latest
  80. A cat goes to heaven, and moar
  81. Muslim cleric argues that homosexuality is a “well known medical condition” cured only by semen, and that Shi’ites are immune
  82. There is no hope for America
  83. More sophisticated theological gibberish from Polkie and Beale
  84. The pleasure of finding things out: Fred Rogers remixed
  85. We got Greenland!
  86. Caturday felids: Котик vs Кролика, and 寝る猫と遊びたい猫
  87. Guest post: Sigmund pans the movie “Prometheus” (spoiler alert)
  88. The final Venus transit picture
  89. Mantid noms hummingbird
  90. Stupid theology quotes of the day
  91. Readers’ photos: Grizzly and elk
  92. The end of evolution this year? I don’t think so.
  93. Natalie Angier on her God problem
  94. Three stunning views of the transit
  95. A physicist emphasizes the limits of science, calls for humility
  96. A hawk’s first flight
  97. “Timescapes”: a new movie
  98. Kitteh contest: Leroy-Jenkins
  99. Guest post: Francis Collins defends faith, disses science
  100. Oy gewalt: Ecklund gets even more Templeton money to show that science and faith are friends
  101. Readers’ transit pictures
  102. RIP Ray Bradbury
  103. Jaguar cubs and binturong on Conan
  104. No way!
  105. A reader makes trouble for the faithful
  106. Vatican denounces nun who wrote prize-winning book advocating masturbation and not damning gay sex
  107. Tuataras are great! (But they’re not lizards!)
  108. Transit of Venus today!
  109. Norway going secular!
  110. South Korea purges evolution from textbooks
  111. The transit of Venus begins (in Hawaii)
  112. Cat ‘n ducks: some dumb videos
  113. Victor Stenger and Janna Levin on (our lack of) free will
  114. Quote of the week: William James on theology
  115. A passel of powerful photos
  116. We are not amused
  117. Al Sharpton reviews a book about James Brown
  118. A “lifestyle” article on the dead snake handler
  119. A ray of hope about acceptance of evolution?
  120. Colbert interviews Francis Collins in a manger
  121. Ceiling Cat and hiz apossels
  122. Caturday felid: kitten survives four days in car’s exhaust pipe
  123. Evolution acceptance still flatlined in America
  124. Uncle Karl disses evolution for no good reason
  125. God has sent me a toy
  126. A lip-synched marriage proposal
  127. Another stupid piece of antiscientific legislation: sea-level rise
  128. My dinner with Ivan
  129. A petition for open access to citizen-funded science
  130. Mystery of Amelia Earhart solved?

May 2012

  1. Kitteh contest: Moxie
  2. Video: young child sings “Ain’t no homos gonna make it to Heaven”
  3. Attack of the killer falcons!
  4. Big Brother will soon regulate the size of sodas
  5. Philip Kitcher and I discuss “scientism”
  6. Catheist tee-shirt
  7. Another snake handler goes home to Jesus
  8. IDiots once again justify their name
  9. Readers’ wildlife photos
  10. Videos from an ID conference at Biola University
  11. RIP Doc Watson
  12. Orchids mimic simians
  13. Birds may be paedomorphic dinosaurs
  14. Benjamin Carson’s commencement address at Emory
  15. Epic cat fail
  16. Weekend malaise: part 2a
  17. Weekend malaise: part 2b
  18. Weekend malaise: part 2c
  19. Python luring behavior
  20. Tortoise has sex with a shoe—narrated by Attenborough!
  21. Caturday felid: Simon’s cat
  22. Eclipse art: Kelly Houle and Ben Goren
  23. Dennett on atheism denial
  24. Weekend malaise
  25. Mencken week: day 7
  26. Richard Dawkins reviews Ed Wilson’s new book
  27. Kitteh contest: Friday kittens
  28. UCSF enacts policy mandating open-access research, and a related complaint from me
  29. Mencken week, day 6
  30. A new organ discovered in baleen whales
  31. My Evolution paper officially out
  32. Why don’t the faithful debate each other?
  33. Make way for ducklings!
  34. Another cool Google page
  35. People of Cyprus: rise up against Noah’s Ark in your biology textbooks!
  36. Mencken Week, day 5
  37. Government money goes to fund creationism (and athletes)
  38. Eclipse teaser
  39. OMG: Peanuts is atheistic?
  40. Mencken week, day 4
  41. Andrew Sullivan bashes scientism
  42. Snake handling in the U.S.
  43. Readers’ wildlife photos: hawskbill
  44. Mencken week: day 3
  45. Is the Bible great literature?
  46. RIP Donna Summer and Robin Gibb
  47. Eclipse art preview
  48. Mencken week: Day 2
  49. Does theistic evolution differ from Intelligent Design?
  50. A simple way to save billions of dollars
  51. Pre-eclipse sushi blowout
  52. John Loftus is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it any more
  53. Caturday felids: lion snacks
  54. D. S. Wilson goes after New Atheism again
  55. H. L. Mencken: the first New Atheist
  56. High-resolution video of Earth
  57. Eclipse meetup on Sunday
  58. I get email
  59. A new and bizarre illusion
  60. The world’s dumbest lawyer
  61. Readers’ wildlife photos
  62. Attention au chat!
  63. Truefact
  64. He’s not watching that closely
  65. Stasis once again used as evidence against evolution
  66. Ian McEwan gets it right
  67. A cat-themed xkcd
  68. Elliott Sober responds to my challenge
  69. Request: Irish elk
  70. Creationist surgeon to give commencement address at Emory University
  71. We won!
  72. Petition: end unnecessary intubation of cats at U. Va.
  73. Go Man City
  74. Reader’s kitteh contest: Copernicus and Galileo
  75. A sophisticated theologian claims that religion can’t be falsified
  76. A book to anticipate—with a bit of trepidation
  77. Stenger spices up HuffPo again
  78. Houston, we have ducklings
  79. Bargain hardbacks of WEIT
  80. Cat eats melon: seeds, rind, and all
  81. Darwin and Huxley on accommodationism
  82. Congrats to Man City
  83. Is “atheist” like “a-golf-ist”?
  84. A challenge to Elliott Sober about God-guided mutations
  85. The correlation between religiosity and well-being among U.S. states
  86. Holiday snaps
  87. Rosenhouse on God-guided mutations again
  88. Caturday felid: pugilists!
  89. The trouble with “The trouble with scientism”
  90. Starfish walks on two legs
  91. A psychedelic lobster
  92. A video of my talk at Harvard
  93. The most awesome thesis of all time
  94. Squeee: baby bears make a love train
  95. Dembski claims, at BioLogos (!), that Christianity and evolution are incompatible
  96. New survey on international belief and unbelief
  97. OMG: “756 additional authors not shown”
  98. Examples of evolution at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
  99. Victor Stenger continues to diss religion (and theistic evolution) at HuffPo
  100. The Allman Brothers: Whipping Post
  101. Readers’ nature photos
  102. I have a look at Ehrman’s new book on Jesus
  103. Website eclipse meet-up on May 20
  104. A report on my talk at the Harvard Museum
  105. Mohamed Noor profiled in The Scientist, and a note on authorship
  106. In which we co-opt a creationist caricature
  107. More from Jason Rosenhouse on Sober and God-guided mutations
  108. Kitteh contest: Esqui and Gattito Lynus de Gatto
  109. Quote of the day: Mike Aus
  110. Can God create mutations? Elliottt Sober says we can’t rule that out.
  111. The TSA screws up again: makes mother fill up empty bottles of breast milk
  112. We got Greenland!
  113. Bill Clinton reviews Caro’s new volume on LBJ
  114. The mother lode of pro-evolution and anti-creationist videos
  115. Caturday felid: A careful cat
  116. Do Americans reject evolution because it’s a “bad story”?
  117. Note to readers
  118. A nonbeliever’s tale
  119. Ebert’s ten greatest films of all time (and my top 13)
  120. Koch to fund renovation of Smithsonian’s dinosaur hall
  121. Star Wars day: religion and penguins
  122. A poll on whether skeptics should shut up about Christianity
  123. “The Scream” auctioned for $120 mil
  124. Science vs. religion: the outsider test for faith
  125. Why study fossils?
  126. High-altitude studies of the Northern Lights
  127. Readers’ animal photos: Moar owls (short-eared ones)
  128. I give a talk
  129. More theological criticism of atheists: we’re not despairing enough
  130. Today’s shenanigans from the offended faithful
  131. Kitteh contest: Latke
  132. Guest post: another brand of accommodationism
  133. A best-selling book on a child’s trip to Heaven used as an excuse to diss science
  134. It’s not my day
  135. Robert R. Sokal 1926-2012

April 2012

  1. A review of a book about evangelical Christians
  2. Analytical thinking erodes religious belief
  3. Earl Scruggs died
  4. HeronCam!
  5. Jesus ‘n’ Mo tie one on
  6. Sean Carroll on “a universe from nothing”
  7. Is falsifiability a good criterion for a scientific theory?
  8. Sexual selection in action: bird both sings and moonwalks
  9. The discovery of Neptune and falsifiability
  10. Caturday felid: how to curb urinating cats
  11. William Lane Craig disses Stephen Law, cites irrefutable evidence for Jesus
  12. Peregrinations
  13. I get groped again!
  14. Spot the bittern!
  15. Guest post: Was Carl Sagan a militant atheist?
  16. “When you’re in love you want to tell the world”: the Dawkins episode of “Beautiful Minds”
  17. Krauss apologizes for dissing philosophy
  18. Neil deGrasse Tyson: atheist, agnostic, or equivocator?
  19. Harvard can’t afford science journals
  20. A poll on “alternative” (aka useless) medicine
  21. A lovely new crab from the Philippines
  22. Kitteh contest: Spencer and Little Big-foot
  23. Scientology’s fundamentalism
  24. Philosophy catfight!: Pigliucci vs. Krauss
  25. Dawkins on “Beautiful Minds” tonight
  26. Ehrman replies to Carrier at length
  27. Update: cats vs. dogs vs. babies poll
  28. How do we judge whether Jesus existed? A philosopher comments
  29. More hawk stuffz: new chick hatching
  30. An owl is 70% feathers
  31. Andrew Sullivan gets all militant about religion and creationism!
  32. Hawk Cam: chicks in the snow
  33. Vic Stenger’s new book on science and faith (and his take on free will and determinism)
  34. First white orca seen in the wild
  35. The historicity of Jesus: Bart Ehrman responds to Richard Carrier (sort of)
  36. Baby hawks appear
  37. Political catoon
  38. Mysteries of evolution: the narwhal’s “tusk,” or rather, tooth
  39. William Lane Craig and the incoherence of (and prevalence of belief in) Hell
  40. Hawk cam: chick hatching now!
  41. Caturday felid: Stopping a nightmare—do cats dream?
  42. Owl Week ends with reader photos
  43. One last set of owls
  44. Carrier finally responds to Ehrman on the historicity of Jesus
  45. A powerful weapon for atheism
  46. Owl Friday: Great horned owl lesson
  47. Coolest cat alarm clock
  48. Congratulations, Professor Steve Jones, FRS and Professor Russell Lande, FRS!
  49. Matzke doesn’t like creationism blamed on religion
  50. God saves man named Lord from tornado
  51. Thursday owls: hunting
  52. Levon Helm died
  53. Peregrinations
  54. Religion poisons everything, including schoolgirls’ water
  55. My paper on religious and social factors affecting American acceptance of evolution
  56. Owl Wednesday
  57. Charlie Rose’s memorial to Hitchens
  58. Guest post: how do Christians see the social impact of their faith?
  59. Another tribute to Hitch
  60. Owl Tuesday: Great Grey Owl
  61. Scientific retractions increasing exponentially
  62. Big solar flare on Monday
  63. The Templetons give huge donations to anti-gay organization
  64. P. Z. pouts and rages as cats sweep to victory
  65. Quote of the week
  66. Evolutionary ch-ch-ch-changes
  67. Monday owl
  68. Two new biology books
  69. Charlie Rose: Hitchens tribute
  70. Cats vs. dogs vs. babies poll: we have a winner (and cats still rule)!
  71. Readers’ wildlife pictures
  72. Caturday felid: CatCerto
  73. Jon Haidt on religion, self-transcendence, and altruism: are they evolutionary?
  74. “Eurovision is a nightmare for all Muslims”
  75. Readers’ photos: death in Thailand
  76. P. Z. fails to Pharyngulate poll, is humiliated as cats win overwhelmingly (ergo a prize)
  77. John Horgan: a free-will dualist?
  78. Theological desperation move of the month
  79. Robert Caro’s new volume on LBJ
  80. Ruse: creationism the fault of Gnu Atheists who don’t study enough
  81. Eric MacDonald on the historicity of Jesus
  82. Taxonomy humor
  83. HuffPo puts foot in mouth about global warming
  84. Parallel adaptation in fish: same genes used over and over
  85. Guest post. A tough problem for theology: the Resurrection vs. the iPhone
  86. Le chat d’ennui
  87. Poll update
  88. Kitteh contest: Plushie
  89. Dawkins on his debate with Archbishop Pell
  90. Today is starting out fine
  91. The Archbishop of Canterbury tells some lies on Easter
  92. Is philosophy a science?
  93. !!Important poll!!
  94. Brother Blackford responds to me about free will
  95. A NYT profile of E. O. Wilson and his new book
  96. Showdown in Oz: Dawkins vs. Cardinal George Pell
  97. Commensalism?
  98. Happy Easter: Good luck, and thanks for all the Peeps®
  99. Shapiro’s anti-Darwinian book gets panned
  100. A new poll on the politics, religiosity, and well being of Americans
  101. Mike Wallace dies at 93
  102. Caturday felid: kitten vs. baby monkey
  103. Jim Shapiro continues his misguided attack on neo-Darwinism
  104. Did Moses stutter? A scientific investigation
  105. Cat opens freezer door, steals food
  106. Guest post: BioLogos embraces ID
  107. Readers’ wildlife photos
  108. Free Will: Sam Harris vs. Dan Dennett
  109. Church embarrassed by leader’s expensive watch; tries to airbrush it away
  110. An endothermic dinosaur
  111. A movie on thylacines?
  112. A huge feathered dinosaur
  113. Tennessee governor set to sign anti-evolution bill; new monkey trial in the offing!
  114. A Jurassic LOLcat
  115. “Cultural mimicry”: a caterpillar that decorates itself with flowers
  116. The irony—it burns!
  117. Fire in the hole: earliest evidence of human cooking.
  118. More on Bart Ehrman’s new book about Jesus
  119. Sigmund’s excellent eating adventure, with a Francis Collins chaser
  120. Note to readers
  121. Kitteh contest: Peanut and Spot
  122. A modest proposal (not mine): how do we get Americans to accept evolution?
  123. Too windy for you?
  124. A reader describes what will make him accept evolution
  125. Catheist bus poster
  126. David Albert pans Lawrence Krauss’s new book
  127. The death of Pia, a rationalist cat
  128. Political correctness gone wild: NYC wants to ban mention of dinosaurs, evolution, and pepperoni on standardized tests
  129. Unclear antecedents are dangerous
  130. AdBlock is CatBlock today
  131. Darwin got fooled too!
  132. Brother Blackford criticizes my take on free will
  133. Food and fun in the South
  134. Free will detected in prefrontal cortex
  135. Kodak’s April Fool’s joke

March 2012

  1. Caturday felid: a farewell to cubs
  2. Stanley Fish misunderstands science; makes it a faith equivalent to religion
  3. Pro-religion writer decries Tennesee’s anti-evolution bill—without mentioning religion
  4. The best food book ever written
  5. Bad science and religion
  6. OMG: Templeton infests my university!
  7. William Dembski got a good job!
  8. Another avian miscreant
  9. Octopus, octopi? Or octopuses? Or octopussies?
  10. Rebutting creationist arguments for a young earth
  11. Robert Wright promotes accommodationism, disses Dawkins
  12. Holy Homer! Simpsons character appears in face of fish
  13. The Dalai Lama wins the Templeton Prize
  14. Spaceships dock
  15. Look at those currents, man!
  16. Cutissimo baby owls
  17. Avian miscreant breaks the rules
  18. Kitteh contest: Neko
  19. For once, British politicians look as stupid as ours
  20. The Academy of Natural Sciences at 200
  21. Evolution vs. wealth
  22. Do tortoises need glasses?
  23. More mainstream atheism
  24. A gift from the wacko rabbi
  25. Peregrinations
  26. Baggini asks atheists to be humble and form a “coalition of the reasonable”
  27. Chris Hayes presents atheism
  28. Caturday felid: the voice of the baby cheetah
  29. New York Times intimidated into suspending anti-Islam ad
  30. Jimmy Carter, wriggling like an eel, cherry-picks the Bible
  31. Not a caterpillar
  32. Philosopher uses a lot of words to say nothing new about theodicy
  33. A birthday and the illuminated “Origin of Species”
  34. Still more religious insanity in Tennessee
  35. Which one of these things is not like the others?
  36. Free DVD on human evolution
  37. I can haz mirakul? Cat survives 19-story fall
  38. The wacko rabbi piles on
  39. A new book on science and theology
  40. Elebenty gazillion Basement Cats audition for a film
  41. We’re all apes, including Dawkins
  42. Guest post: Did Church fathers and Jesus see the Bible as metaphor?
  43. Hawk cam!
  44. More creationist shenanigans—in Tennessee
  45. Kitteh contest: An unknown Florentine cat
  46. R. Elisabeth Cornwell on Republicans’ “War on the womb”
  47. Puzzle
  48. My take on the Chronicle’s free-will pieces
  49. The God issue of New Scientist
  50. Another pastor embarrasses America, but Santorum didn’t clap
  51. The sock equation
  52. Cognitive dissonance
  53. Bart Ehrman says that Jesus existed
  54. Guest post: defending science
  55. Stymied, Michael Ruse criticizes me for liking boots and cats
  56. Winner: nonfiction contest
  57. My piece on free will in The Chronicle of Higher Education
  58. Cool insect photos by Alex Wild
  59. Tests of the supernatural fail again: new study can’t replicate findings of precognition
  60. James Shapiro’s theory of evolution
  61. Washington Times denies that Richard Dawkins is an ape
  62. A bizarre fly
  63. Caturday felid: housecat is surrogate mom to endangered species
  64. Doonesbury 6
  65. Templeton gives big grants to bridge gap between science and Islam and find God in physics
  66. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
  67. Abbie Smith debates creationist Steve Kern
  68. The chickens come home to roost in Texas
  69. Doonebury 5
  70. Guest post: Uncle Karl says atheists are ignorant of religion
  71. Rowan Williams resigns as Archbishop of Canterbury
  72. More reproductive insanity in the U.S.
  73. Japanese hornets
  74. A simple answer to a common creationist question
  75. Doonesbury 4
  76. Dead genes for taste in carnivores
  77. Mutant celebrity bunny crushed to death by cameraman
  78. Now Melvyn Bragg goes after Dawkins
  79. WordPress stuff: signing in
  80. U.S. government allows killing of bald eagles for religious purposes
  81. Black-necked stilts
  82. Doonesbury 3
  83. How can we justify science?: Sokal and Lynch debate epistemology
  84. Jesus ‘n’ Mo on coffee versus beer
  85. Jennifer Wiseman on the compatibility of Genesis and evolution
  86. Best of Five Books, and a contest
  87. Doonesbury 2
  88. Unholy connection between BioLogos and the AAAS, NIH, and the Smithsonian: Science gives evidence for God
  89. Kitteh contest: Sosa
  90. Stenger on science vs. religion
  91. BBC show on free will today
  92. Don’t tease the frog
  93. U.S. senator: God says that there can’t be global warming
  94. Readers’ wildlife photos
  95. Doonesbury tackles abortion
  96. Sean Faircloth talks about Catholicism at Notre Dame
  97. Cat shoes!
  98. Squabble about public prayer—in Britain!
  99. A Hunanese lunch!
  100. Where the readers are
  101. Caturday felid: Cat slap
  102. Guest post: the Vatican says bishops trump theologians
  103. Michael Shermer and Ken Miller debate the compatibility of science and faith at HuffPo
  104. David Sloan Wilson loses it again
  105. Rosenhouse on the faithest Alain de Botton
  106. Battle between a snowy owl and a peregrine falcon—in Chicago!
  107. FFRF tells Catholics it’s time to leave the church
  108. Baby otters for the weekend
  109. New Yorker article on the evolution of altruism and the kin-selection flap
  110. Born yesterday
  111. Tree Rex
  112. Theologian argues for Anglican ordination of women because Jesus might have been a hermaphrodite
  113. Kitteh contest: Newton
  114. Proof that Jesus was male
  115. Yet another reason not to take Templeton money
  116. Wacko rabbi tries to pwn biology and physics; accuses atheists of needing psychoanalysis
  117. Oreos are 100 today!
  118. Crazy rabbi says that atheists are mentally ill for not believing in Creation
  119. Sisyphus penguins
  120. More damage from religion: persecution of child “witches” by African Christians
  121. Anne makes the cut
  122. British cardinal compares gay marriage to slavery
  123. Turkish cats
  124. Free will: what do we do next?
  125. “I’m cuddly, too!”: Purity Bear saves you from secks
  126. A podcast avec moi
  127. Sunday lolz: Mittens vs. Mr. Burns
  128. Caturday felid: crazy Russian cats
  129. Guest post: the BBC and free speech
  130. Why accommodationism won’t work: BioLogos fails to convince a Southern Baptist bigwig
  131. Sam Harris’s new book
  132. Sick baby sloth shaved, slathered with slime
  133. Plantinga: Why God is a necessary being
  134. Post-theology humor
  135. OMG: Alain de Botton has a blog
  136. Miley Cyrus tweets Lawrence Krauss, gets flak from the faithful
  137. Snoring hummingbird!
  138. The sophistry of Alvin Plantinga: does your religion become less credible if you adhere to the faith you were taught?
  139. Moggie pwns bulldog
  140. Oklahomans rally against the “personhood” bill
  141. A giant insect saved from extinction

February 2012

  1. More on genes and geography: diagnosing your ancestry from your DNA
  2. Completely inoffensive atheist ad offends a bus company
  3. A great sushi chef hangs up his knife, but a better one persists
  4. Paula Kirby on Dawkins’s “agnosticism”
  5. Are there human races?
  6. Kitteh contest: Darwin
  7. Guest post: The genetics of Christian redemption
  8. Dawkins comes for the Archbishop, and can there be evidence for God?
  9. South Carolina: where atheists can’t be governor
  10. Readers’ photos: cats and birds
  11. The Mormons baptized Gandhi
  12. Sunday Sermon on Sophisticated Theology: Plantinga proves God
  13. Mental health break
  14. Moar mental health
  15. Amazing video: bald eagle acts like a duck
  16. Caturday felid: In-bread cats
  17. James Wood on Santorum’s Earth-wrecking theology
  18. More ludicrous misrepresentations of Dawkins
  19. A new leaf-nosed bat
  20. Ingrate cat
  21. Without a Song
  22. Guest post: Ireland is also more secular than we thought
  23. An Irish comedian discusses evolution and creationism
  24. The Mormons baptize Anne Frank
  25. Love Look Away
  26. Polkinghorne’s empirical evidence for god: math and a comprehensible universe
  27. Eight dead because four Qur’ans burned
  28. John Gray purports to review de Boutton, but really reviews atheism
  29. Video of a very rare whale
  30. What was it?
  31. Neil deGrasse Tyson responds
  32. Jesus the apostate
  33. Lazarus plant: 30,000-year-old flower resurrected from naturally frozen seeds
  34. I get email
  35. Whoops! Faster-than-light neutrinos don’t exist after all
  36. Kitteh contest: Dirk, Arthur, and (now) Gordon
  37. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Take 2
  38. Readers’ photos: a doomed caterpillar
  39. What is it?
  40. More “sophisticated” theology: John Polkinghorne proves that the Resurrection happened
  41. Neil deGrasse Tyson goes all militant
  42. Meowhaus
  43. Telegraph produces expected slur: Dawkins makes money from slavery
  44. Want art with your coffee?
  45. More discussion with Dawkins
  46. And now the Daily Mail . . .
  47. The oldest cat video of all time
  48. A colleague wrongfully disses modern evolutionary theory
  49. The smear continues: Dawkins accused of condoning slavery
  50. Athletic monkey versus tall human
  51. More creationist craziness in Alabama; good news elsewhere
  52. More stupid criticism of Dawkins’s “fumble”
  53. Mr. Deity: “They’re being tortured because I love them”
  54. OMG: Turtle climbing a wall
  55. Nearly all marine fish came from freshwater ancestors
  56. My frog is ALIVE!
  57. Marginalia
  58. People will use any excuse to attack Dawkins
  59. Ceiling Cat is free!
  60. Guest post: Could it be. . . . Satan?
  61. My fractious interview for Skeptiko
  62. A sheep-herding rabbit
  63. Is this the Endtimez?
  64. Alex Tsakiris: woomeister and coward
  65. Kitteh contest: Mei Mei
  66. Gazzaniga on free will
  67. ♥Say it with kittehs ♥
  68. Britain in danger from “militant secularists” 🙂
  69. Darwinian comestibles
  70. Ken Miller manages to analyze America’s rejection of evolution without mentioning religion
  71. Moar proof of Ceiling Cat!
  72. Rosenhouse: Why theistic evolution is implausible
  73. Happy Darwin Day!
  74. R.I.P. Whitney Houston
  75. The Rally for Free Expression
  76. Is your cat making you nuts?
  77. Caturday felid: space cats
  78. Accommodationism Weekend
  79. HuffPo Science section engages in dishonest quote mining
  80. Our Love is Here to Stay revisited
  81. The peppered moth story is solid
  82. Proof of Ceiling Cat
  83. Why do zebras have stripes?
  84. The blind reviewing the bland
  85. Friday squee
  86. Death for tweeting: the insanity of Islam (a guest post)
  87. Chris Mooney, evolution, and politics
  88. “Only a theory” redux
  89. Chilling out underwater
  90. An apology
  91. Evidence for evolution: development of our kidneys
  92. “Only a theory”???
  93. Doonesbury on creationism
  94. Free evolution DVD
  95. Costa Rica: a visit to the Skutch reserve
  96. Kitteh contest: Delilah
  97. “Big Questions” is dead
  98. Court overturns Calfornia’s ban on gay marriage
  99. Lawrence Krauss: accommodationist?
  100. The Guardian touts Sheldrake again: pigeons find their way home, ergo Jesus
  101. Texas kids don’t know enough about fat
  102. Superbowl commercial avec chat
  103. Cat on the pitch!
  104. Guest post: Irish Bishop produces hate speech?
  105. Sunday free will: “pseudo-dualism”
  106. Baggini reports on atheism in America
  107. Caturday felid: two-part squee
  108. The Irish blasphemy law
  109. de Botton backs off the atheist temple, and a flashback to his freakout
  110. More accommodationism at the HuffPo “science” section: Hitchens enlisted to support religion.
  111. Readers’ animal photos: a tawny frogmouth
  112. Obama panders to the faithful
  113. UK Catholics: get your “faith card” now!
  114. Two cheers for stridency: Hitchens defends Dawkins
  115. Dawkins on Nick Cohen, Salman Rushdie, free speech, and the Jaipur literary festival
  116. HuffPo “science”
  117. The unbearable lightness of snakes
  118. Kitteh contest: Kenny
  119. A British journalist gets it all wrong when explaining why Americans reject evolution
  120. A cool picture of camels
  121. Eric MacDonald: why not be strident?

January 2012

  1. News flash: Attenborough proves that shrill New Atheism is on its way out
  2. The Guardian shows its colors: an editorial praising Alain de Botton
  3. Lenticular clouds over Colorado
  4. Do we need group selection to explain human cooperation?
  5. Yosemite
  6. Free will redux: responses at Rationally Speaking
  7. “Liberal” Anglicans support psychotherapy to cure gay people of their “illness”
  8. A recent aurora
  9. Boycott Elsevier
  10. Rupert Sheldrake’s new book: dogs know when their owners are coming home, ergo Jesus
  11. A galaxy is born
  12. Albino hummingbird!
  13. Lost cat
  14. David Attenborough on Desert Island Discs
  15. Caturday felid: bobcat versus rattlesnake
  16. The eagles have landed!
  17. Does the BBC have a science problem?
  18. Is the U.S. Supreme Court Islamophobic and racist?
  19. A temple to atheism, for crying out loud
  20. New creationist shenanigans in Indiana
  21. A snoring dormouse
  22. A cartoon history of evolutionary biology
  23. Pete Enns, BioLogos, and Adam and Eve: why accommodationism won’t work
  24. The pale blue dot
  25. Dolphins and whales: interspecies play?
  26. Morons of the month
  27. The dysfunctionality of America: income inequality, religion, and evolution
  28. More censorship at British universities
  29. Apropos
  30. The Golden Steves: the good alternative to the Oscars
  31. Kitteh contest: Zack
  32. Is there evidence for God?
  33. New and open science: the end of peer review?
  34. An evolution music video
  35. Karen Armstrong wants us all to love Islam
  36. Porky night
  37. Happy Belated Squirrel Appreciation Day
  38. Baseball plagued by lack of free will
  39. 30 famous writers talk about God
  40. A bad week for free speech
  41. Roe v. Wade
  42. Caturday felid: 40 cats as hats
  43. Do we need an atheist religion?
  44. How do boa constrictors know when to stop squeezing?
  45. Reader photos: keas
  46. The remarkable paternal apparatus of the goose, and a note on animal genitalia
  47. News flash: American Protestant ministers overwhelmingly reject evolution, are split on Earth’s age
  48. Do scientists understand science journalism?
  49. “Cat’s Funeral” and Homer’s “wine-dark sea”
  50. Creationist paper in a medical journal
  51. Perpetual motion machine
  52. Kitteh contest: Asherah
  53. Am I unsophisticated about free will?
  54. A tree in Costa Rica
  55. Cache of Darwin’s fossils found
  56. Back from Costa Rica
  57. Moshe Averick is not only a creationist and a liar, but a sexist
  58. Wild gorillas visit a tourist camp
  59. Orangs are herbivores? Think again.
  60. The playful, brainy, and destructive kea
  61. Why are there no freshwater cephalopods?
  62. Opossums do hang out
  63. Jamaican me hungry
  64. Grasses, live oaks, pines
  65. Caturday quiz: name those felids!
  66. Caturday felid: Cat survives gas chamber
  67. Cantilurday viperid: Mexican mocassin
  68. Mississippi Yearning
  69. Snowboarding corvid
  70. A golden cape of spider silk
  71. The water boatman’s song
  72. The most amazing fact: there either are aliens, or there aren’t
  73. Google’s doodle: women have eggs
  74. Soldier bees, super-soldier ants
  75. Maslow’s hierarchy of internet needs
  76. What the books get up to at night
  77. Head of Faraday Institute avers his Christian belief
  78. Who wrote Shakespeare?
  79. The wise Pia
  80. And now for something completely different: trilobites
  81. Yellow cat pwns creationist rabbi Moshe Averick
  82. Four films on Feynman
  83. Another scholar claims that everyone misinterprets the Bible
  84. New HuffPo science section: Uncle Karl praises accommodationism, and bonus review of book by Karl
  85. Peregrinations
  86. Peregrinations, ctd.
  87. Caturday felids: The most important cats of 2011
  88. Templeton funds dubious “Center for Christian Thought” at Biola
  89. What is it like to be a whale?
  90. Origami phoenix: 10 hours, 1361 folds
  91. Rushdie on Hitchens
  92. Andrew Brown goes badly wrong on assisted suicide
  93. Fantastic origami animals
  94. 2011 Jefferson Muzzle Awards for abrogating free speech
  95. Jim Crow died
  96. New children’s book on evolution
  97. A new year of creationist nonsense
  98. Fish mimics a mimic octopus
  99. Kitteh contest: Kermit
  100. Faraday and Templeton brainwash British kids
  101. Quote of the day
  102. U.S. supports UN’s suppression of speech that criticizes religion
  103. Readers’ comments on my free will piece—and my responses
  104. Don’t mess with God
  105. Winner of the Mooney Award for Accommodationist of the Year: R. Joseph Hoffman
  106. Readers’ animal photos, with bonus natural selection
  107. Paul Krugman likes LOLcats
  108. Evolution: the cake
  109. On free will: my new piece in USA Today
  110. Tickling a penguin
  111. Winners: National Geographic photo contest
  112. How’d we do in 2011?
  113. Susan Jacoby’s last column: Jefferson, Hitchens, and the failures of atheism
  114. Lying for Jesus: Humans lived with dinosaurs
  115. Michael Ruse channels Walt Whitman
  116. Bachmann confident that God is behind her

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