Twice a month the Colorado Springs City Council begins their meetings with prayer. Councilwoman Judy Noyes feels this can be offensive and would like to have prayer replaced with a moment of silence. Personally, I think having someone offer prayers before the City Council meetings start is a great idea. The City Council needs all the divine help that it can get. The question to ask is: Are they praying to the right gods? We want our city to be successful, prosperous, and well protected.

As promoters of rational thought and critical thinking skeptics frequently rely upon published scientific research findings. But did you know that most published research findings are wrong? How can that be, and what implications does that have for the general public?

American fundamentalist Christians are notorious for trying to force their religious beliefs upon public schools. Even our fundamentalist president tries his best to force his beliefs upon the public by vetoing bills that offend his personal morals and by controlling what can be published by government scientists. In an odd case of role reversal an Irish elected official is now the one promoting creationism and an American Congresswoman is actually attacking the religious right.

Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell believes the earth has been visited by aliens from outer space. Not just once, but many times. In fact, I can only assume Dr. Mitchell is convinced that after traveling at least 30,000,000,000,000 miles through space at near the speed of light one of those alien craft had a pilot so amazingly incompetent that he/she/it crashed their super duper little flying saucer straight into planet earth. Where? Why at Roswell, of course. Maybe the poor little alien pilot fell asleep from exhaustion after dodging all those nasty asteroids, comets, and planetessimals and totally missed seeing our pale blue dot. Perhaps aliens really aren’t so intelligent after all.

Did you know the scientific method is nearly obsolete?  Now that scientists have access to petabytes of data scientists no longer need to hypothesize, model, or conduct tests. Correlation is more important than causation. It's amazing! Everything you ever learned about the scientific method is passé.

Will the introduction of Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States make news? 

Late on June 9, 2008 the Honorable Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush. for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors associated with the 9/11/2001 attacks, numerous violations of the United States Constitution and US and international law.

 

Thank you to everyone who assisted, attended, considered, participated in or responded to April 23, 2008’s “Are We ‘One Nation under God’” debate co-sponsored by the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs and Focus on the Family. 

Were the conspiracy theorists right? Did the UK have a pact with aliens? Did they borrow technology from crashed UFOs? Was Margaret Thatcher being secretly controlled by an alien implant? Now the truth is out. The Ministry of Defense in the UK has just declassified their previously secret UFO files. What amazing secrets did they reveal?

One of the hallmarks of skepticism is its use of critical thinking to provide a rational and non-biased evaluation of ideas. When a claim is made; such as, the invention of a cold fusion device or a perpetual motion machine, it has to be tested and also confirmed by independent sources. Until then, a skeptical attitude is prudent, if not required for rational thought. Scientific testing often leads to harsh and critical analysis. A scientist is not being hostile or arrogant when he tries to replicate an experiment and publishes results that contradict the original theory.