Is there a case to be made for irrationality?

An introduction to my upcoming exploration of logical fallacies using both classic examples and arguments of the day

This is amazing.  I’m appalled (though not surprised), but then again I never asked myself the question when I believed this way.

This is awesome.

Today I got a tweet (via @EveDestiny) from @DanielFlorien:
Ask God, “What is the distance from the earth to the sun?” and you get silence.  Google, however, answers instantly.

Oh, man…  I had this all written out, and then the discussion was closed!  I couldn’t let it disappear, since I can never write the same thing twice.  So, this will be my notepad.

I was about to tweet the following today:
An uneducated atheist is useless.
Then, I paused.

October 22, for all you date-watchers, is the expected return of Jesus Christ.  Well, of course, it depends on what your definition of “is” is.

So, here’s a thing.  Today, one of the people I follow on Facebook posted the following update:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” – Charles Darwin
One of his other followers posted this (almost eerily) prescient followup:
“…to argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.”  – Thomas Paine, The Crisis
Then, as if by plan, a theist …