The ACLU in Indiana is filing a suit against the State of Indiana on behalf of Mark Studler for offering an alternative standard or specialty license plate and yet does not charge extra for this plate. The new “standard” plates have the phrase “In God We Trust”. Read more here (FoxNews, The News-Sentinel, LA Times)
There have been [...]
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The National Secular Society out of the UK has a brief review of a new book by French philosopher Michel Onfray, In Defence of Atheism. I’ll have to pick this up when I can get a chance.
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Here’s a recent editorial from the Orlando Sentinel, New atheists, ancient argument, that reviews by Richard Dawkins’ and Christopher Hitchens’ new books, The God Delusion and god is not Great, respectively. The author of the review concludes with the following paragraph and I do have to agree with him.
Dawkins seems to think that a world-class [...]
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Atheism according to Merriam-Webster Online defines atheism,
1) a disbelief in the existence of deity 2) the doctrine that there is no deity
The Skeptic’s Dictionary defines atheism much less succintly but does add,
This definition does not capture the atheism of many atheists, which is based on an indifference to the issue of God’s existence.
Why do I bring [...]
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I was poking around the Secular Coalition for America’s website and came across their congressional scorecard (here). They list out certain key votes and then give your representative a + for a correct vote and a - for an incorrect vote. My house representative (Mark Souder - R) has a perfect - vote. No surprise there. He’s a [...]
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I know these have been out there for awhile but I came across this in my saved items. Couple of videos of the sun’s surface.
http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~bruno/APOD/apod.html
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I’d be interested if anybody out there has ever head of the following item and had any good skeptical information regarding them. I haven’t yet found any comprehensive source. Anyway here goes
Somebody by the name of R.W. Wetherill put forth a theory on Nature’s Social Laws/Right Action, Richard W. Wetherill has since died but his [...]
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Skeptico’s blog has a great post, You just might be a Secretard if…, detailing many of the annoying things that followers of “The Secret” and it’s bastard child “The Laws of Attraction” (although apparently related must not be confused with the Law of Gravity).
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I came across this article, Christians and atheists start a calmer dialog, in Christian Science Monitor from May about Christians and Atheists coming together to better understand each other. It features Jim Henderson (the pastor who bought Hemant Mehta’s soul). I think one of the best points made was by Hemant Mehta (friendlyatheist.com).
The more work [...]
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James Randi’s JREF has a great post about one of the swindlers from The Secret called David Schirmer. He was busted by an Australian TV show called A Current Affair.
Here’s David Schirmer’s rebuttal
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