Hilarious animated short by Tim Minchin

The church, in its ignorance of and hostility to evolution (and science in general), is passing up one of its greatest opportunities to apprehend the very God it claims to represent. This irony is due to a terrible case of what may be called “small-god-ism” and is, unfortunately, encouraged by much popular theology. This theology [...]

You make a false distinction between “politics” and “science,” one based on argument and the other on “objectivity.” They are of exactly the same form, conducted in exactly the same way, by exactly the same people. Both are done by humans, humans who want. Whatever truth is out there is barely detectable through the mist [...]

Sometimes I wonder whether we’re all living on the same planet. It’s not uncommon that I’ll catch stares which suggest that I just stepped out of a flying saucer while I attempt to engage in conversation with terrestrial life forms – surely I’m not the only one to have trouble relating (and perhaps I take [...]