Check the schedule, we start up again at 9am Central with a session on ex-Muslims, by ex-Muslims, with a long informative day to follow. And if you missed last night’s sessions, remember: they’re all on youtube right now to be watched at your convenience.
Get your popcorn ready, and head on over to the schedule: FtBCon begins in a half hour.
Peter Reilly has really been hammering Kent Hovind on his tax issues on Forbes, and now he’s done an interview with him. It’s bizarre. Hovind doesn’t seem to be able to answer any question simply — he always goes flying off on some tangent that gives him an excuse to quote the Bible.
The FreethoughtBlogs online conference starts up tomorrow at 5pm CST with an introduction by the fabulous Debbie Goddard, followed by a fabulous line-up of fabulous speakers that doesn’t stop until 8pm Sunday. I’m going to be a desk-chair-potato most of the weekend, writing up stuff, preparing for a talk, composing an exam, that sort of thing, so this is going to be perfect — I’m going to clear a spot off on my desk, prop up the iPad there, and stream all the talks to entertain and educate me through my drudgery.
That’s one of the nice things about this online con. I can stay comfortably at home, get work done at the same time, and also, if I miss anything good, it will be preserved forever on youtube, so I can watch it on my time. You should flick on through. Check out the schedule, there’s guaranteed to be something you’ll find interesting.
We all had doubts about that economic impact report commissioned by Answers in Genesis for their Ark Park: it was clearly biased towards inflating revenues. Ken Ham goes around claiming that it will draw two million visitors/year, when the Creation “Museum” itself draws an eighth of that, and its attendance is declining. No one should be surprised that an independent assessment predicts much, much lower numbers.
Coming to Minneapolis this August, it’s the Secular Women Work conference. They’re in the planning phases now, and most importantly, in the fundraising stage, so they need our help to get it together. I’ll be contributing this evening, after the secular working woman in my house gets home — we should all chip in what we can!
It’s always sad when a child dies of cancer. Makayla Sault, an 11 year old Ojibwa girl, has died after refusing chemotherapy for her treatable cancer. She claimed to prefer indigenous medicine, although actually it was her parents who insisted on it, and strangely, this indigenous medicine consisted largely of megadoses of Jesus.
But guess who gets the blame for her death?
See note at bottom from Richard Carrier.
This person was very anxious to contact me and get a reply, and sent me a couple of messages on twitter and in email. I gave him a shot. I shouldn’t have bothered.
A Florida county planned to allow religious groups to hand out Bibles in public schools. Atheists planned to take advantage of the required religious freedom to hand out secular material as well, and the school board was unfazed — yeah, go ahead, you can send out your tepid separation of church and state pamphlet while we give ’em a whole book of lurid sex and violence and gay stonings and babies smashed against walls.
But then the satanists offered to send out Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities, a little coloring book, and…
