Dan Arel

When I got a chance to interview Neil deGrasse Tyson two weeks ago I mostly asked him about Cosmos and science denial, but as the interview wrapped up, I realized I had time for one last question, so I asked him about speaking  at Apostacon this year and discussed briefly the importance of spreading his scientific knowledge.

I asked him a question that was sent to me by my good friend Joshua Kelly who wanted to know what scientific discovery had basically rocked Tyson’s world.

via Neil deGrasse Tyson on what scientific discovery shocked him the most.

Ken Ham is still lying about the Ark Encounter.

Ham continues to push the lie that the genocidal theme park is not hiring, when this blog has shown countless times that they are in fact hiring for a full time position for the project and are discriminating against potential employees in doing so.

The images below show the position in question, again, showing that employees must sign a statement of faith and that the job is also a ministry to spread the word of God.

via Ken Ham is still lying to the public about The Ark Encounter discrimination.

Science denial is a major epidemic in the US, public policy is suffering while the Republican Party refuses to accept climate change, religious groups are fighting to inject creationism into the classroom all the while the country’s scientific literacy falls behind the rest of the industrialized world.

However, we are wrong to say that science denial is a problem only coming from the right, or so says astrophysicist and host of the popular Cosmos series, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who sat down with me for a one-on-one interview, and when asked about the right’s constant denial of science and how we can address it, he brought up a different issue:

via Neil deGrasse Tyson on liberal science denial and GMOs.

As discussed in a previous post, Ken Ham has denied that the Ark Encounter is hiring any employees, yet lists a job on the Answers in Genesis (AiG) website for an Ark Encounter Position.

via The dishonesty continues from Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis.

I am not one to get wrapped up in celebrity deaths, mostly because I find people mourning someone they never knew to be really weird, but sometimes you find a celebrity that seems to have touched so many and their death brings a lot of sadness to the world.

Robin Williams is one of those people. His acting, his charity work, and his public life (that he let people see) was simply fantastic, a talented comedian and dramatic actor, an avid cyclist and a passionate philanthropist, I think many childhoods were touched by his life.

Now there are a few ways to remember someone like Williams, as shows in here by Richard Dawkins in a heartwarming piece in TIME Magazine by remembering a chance encounter with the star that will remain with him forever.

via Atheists talk about depression and Robin Williams, while some get it all wrong.

So earlier today I caught wind that Ken Ham would be appearing on a radio program called CrossTalk to discuss the “attacks” on this new project The Ark Encounter.

Now Ham and myself have had some good back and forth already, see here and here for some history, but this is the first time I was able to speak to him “in person”.

I was dumped onto the air a bit at random so I scrambled to get my thoughts together and asked Ham to defend some of the comments he has made, like telling everyone that the theme park would not be receiving any money from the state for it’s development but then saying the state would pay the park a “fee” for the tourism they bring in.

via Ken Ham took his dishonest rhetoric to the radio and I called in.

Ken Ham keeps insisting that I am anti-Christian because I don’t believe in his ludicrous myth that a genocidal flood killed everyone on the planet except Noah’s select few and a handful of animals.Sorry Ken, but even my Christian parents told me that was a fairy tale when I was growing up. But of course, you will pull a no-true-Scotsman fallacy and claim they cannot be Christian if they deny your interpretation scripture, but I digress.

via The dishonesty continues as Ken Ham responds, but only to cry persecution.