Neil deGrasse Tyson

Admission time: I have a slight man-crush on Neil deGrasse Tyson. Besides being

• An Astrophysicist and science communicator
• Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space
• Host of NOVA scienceNOW on PBS
• Frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Jeopardy!.

The man has an awesome mustache that could lead men into battle in days gone by. Just look at this BAMF

Tyson was offered to be an understudy of Carl Sagan at Cornell University, but turned it down to study at Harvard instead. Today, he keeps Sagan's legacy alive by studying the stars and funneling his knowledge down to the common people. Along with Stephen Hawking and Noam Chomsky, Neil Tyson is one man whose lifetime I consider myself lucky to live during.

Though Tyson hasn't fully come out and said specifically that he is an atheist, here's a video of him ripping apart "Stupid Design" which is a moniker for intelligent design.

'Nuff Said

Fundie Atheists

Here is a point that simply cannot be stressed enough: There is no Such thing as a Fundamental Atheist. Not even Dawkins and Hitchens fit the colloquialism of "Fundie" in a world filled with religious suicide bombers and homicidal maniacs.

Just last week, a man on trial for the murder of several people claimed that his sins would be forgiven because he had "accepted Jesus into his heart." It's still baffling how these people can claim with a straight face that Atheists are without morals.

This past week, in the state of South Dakota, a law has been passing through the state legislature which would make it legal to murder abortion-giving doctors. You can bet your bottom dollar that no atheist would ever legalize homicide under those circumstances.

No wars were ever fought in the name of atheism, atheism was never used to subject the populace, and it was certainly never used to justify unspeakable acts of inhumanity including torture, genocide, and child molestation.

Can He?

Great News Everyone! Apparently God can do anything! I never knew.

And here I was thinking that God was powerless to prevent

• natural disasters
• cruelty
• suffering
• war
• aids
• poverty
• Pandemics
• strife
• famine
• disease
• douchebags
• headaches

etc. But I guess I was wrong this whole time. Thake THAT, Epicurus!

Then again, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is similarly capable of the same things. So it seems that the FSM is the one true god. Praise His noodly appendage!

O'Reilly Meme

Daily process for Bill O'Reilly: Step One, Open mouth. Step Two, Insert Foot.

It seems that O'really? has recently completely failed at a basic science question that your average fifth grader could explain, and in doing so has been made into a meme. The twist was that this question was concerning god's role in creating the moon.

O'Reilly's fallacious argument for justification for his belief in god: "The tide comes in, the tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. YOU [Dave Silverman, President of American Atheists] can't explain that."

Well due to the unfortunate fact that almost everybody who graduated kindergarten could, in fact, explain that, O'Reilly's stupidity has caused him to be made into an advice-dog style meme, with his face and text superimposed over a colorful background.

O'Reilly deserves all the dishonor he receives and then some for his use of a childlike infinite regressive fallacy. I therefore choose to share with you every picture I have saved ridiculing this disgrace to American society.

Yes it was a relatively long post, but I can't help but feel that this man's shame is worth it.

Good Stuff

This has almost nothing to do with atheism, but here's a cool fanvid of House put to the music "Baba O'Reilly" by The Who

In other news, the Atheist Burka was unveiled (pun intended) today:

The Supreme Arrogance