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B. F. Skinner's published paper: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/

Not quite. It was the angle that I hit the sandy bottom. Keep your zombie jesus crackers, and genocidal rape-loving skygod please.

It's not. A cause/effect relationship does not directly extrapolate to god. If you're a seagull, and you drop a shell on a rock and it pops open, the ability to establish a cause/effect relationship in one instance is beneficial. Of course, if you show the seagull that if it stands on one leg...

Awwwwwww. How cute. Mauihund went off to call us monkeys in the "I once..." thread. I'm touched. But we're actually primates of the ape variety. Monkeys are a separate evolutionary branch.

I once dove off the top of a docked fishing boat into murky water, stood up and found out the water was only 3 feet deep, and couldn't understand why my neck wasn't broken.

Religion wants us to stand with the munchkins and bow down to the Wizard. Science teaches us to look behind the curtain.

If you want answers that make you continually question the way the world works, you turn to science. If you want answers that demand you not question them, you turn to religion.

No, it's human nature for a child, during its formative years, to accept the things it is taught by adults. Dawkins addresses this with the example of a child told by its parents "Do not go to the waters edge or the crocodile will eat you." If the child was a purely rational (but not...

Guess what happens if you don't teach children to believe in Santa Claus. They don't believe in him. Can you guess what happens if you don't teach them to believe in God? If God makes them, why doesn't he instill the belief in them from the beginning? Atheism doesn't convert. It's the natural...

Tracked down the chart on their website and clipped it from the PDF. Nice and clean looking now :) Thanks for posting the original. I was looking around for something like this.

My old high school Medieval History professor talked about the Flat Earth Society in one of his classes. He described them as what we would now call "Poes", satirists of the fundamental viewpoint. I got the impression he was a member, or at least had been one, by the enthusiasm he had about...

Research does appear to be leaning that way: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18245513

http://history.howstuffworks.com/historians/cannibalism.htm Excellent article. Read it while enjoying a nice, juicy "hamburger".

Dear Abby, The sad thing is, not matter how many gifts I send myself, flowers, furs, cars... I just can't get myself to swallow. Signed, Salty Dog

And now for a brief musical interlude, starring Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron 90_sYazHoas

Imagine if you could galvanize all pot users in North America into action, not to press for the legalization of marijuana, but to lobby actively for the Prohibition of Alcohol. And at every media opportunity point out that if marijuana is to be considered a big enough threat to society that it...

There's no planet X. Astronomical observations are very exacting, and the gravity wells of massive objects, even if they are on the opposite side of the sun from us would perturb the orbits of other objects within the system as they move closer. Nibiru is only found on crackpot and conspiracy...

The word theory... It does not mean what you think it means. In science a theory is arrived at by observation of evidence, testing, and experimentation. To the religious, a theory is a guess. But to the religious a cracker can be the flesh of a resurrected dead guy. My bet's on science.

Europe has a metric shitload of atheists (that's about 1/4 of a fuckton). But Europe doesn't have a lot of people in comparison to the rest of the world. Countries with lower education tend to have high religious stats. So you've got Asia and Africa totally padding the other half of the world...