I know I’m not covering any new ground here, in fact, this post contains a number of links to other sites that cover this very topic. I will however tell you why I’m writing this. I have 8 and 10 year-old boys. One of the things that I am trying to do is help them [...]
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ChristianityToday.com contributor, John Wilson, proposes his Top 5 Books on Atheism, some of which I have never heard of. Damn, my reading list gets longer all the time.
I don’t normally ask for comments since I am content with disseminating information and letting those who stumble upon my blog wander off through the various links.
Having said [...]
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The Herald has a brief editorial, God and the cosmic Big Bang, that rightly criticizes some comments that Richard Dawkins has made against Stephen Jay Gould. I have to agree with the author since nothing bothers me more than this kind of selective belief. In question is the comment by Dawkins of Gould, “I simply do [...]
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Previous to the Colbert Report last night, Jon Stewart had Alan Wiseman, author of The World Without Us, as a guest. I will repost when the video shows up on the Mother Load.
Also check out the link to the book’s website, there are a bit corny “Your house without you” animation and better but too short [...]
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Dr. Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine was on The Colbert Report last night. The video isn’t on ComedyCentral yet but I will re-edit when it is. I think Shermer did a good job getting in some information about 9/11 conspiracies, moon landings and UFO-ology. He even got a good plug for science in as well, [...]
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I just posted on Hitchens recent talk and noticed the following debate between Hitchens and Marvin Olasky. Hitchens opening arguments are very well rehearsed but there are always interesting arguments brought up by the other speaker and during the Q&A periods.
Provided in convenient 10 minute nibbles.
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Christopher Hitchens gives another great talk. This time @Google, see it here at YouTube.
When you get to about the 37:10 mark he is asked a question where someone questions the accuracy of some of his observations, specifically (here’s the leadup and the question, this is not an exact quote but it’s pretty close),
“You say that religion [...]
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Christopher Hitchens has written an article, Fighting the “Real” Fight, over at Slate.com regarding the “foolish myths about Al-Qaida in Mesopotamia”. Mr. Hitchens is an incredibly smart man unfortunately he still holds on to this foolish belief in the validity of the War in Iraq.
I can’t help but cringe when I read this article. Maybe I [...]
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Cool article, Pan and the Nightmare, in Dreamflesh (found via Disinformation), about the connection between the “wild Greek god of nature to the liminal experience of waking dreams”. Reminds of the chapters Carl Sagan dedicated to sleep paralysis (and related phenomena) in the Demon-Haunted World. Well, crap my reading list just got longer.
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I don’t know how much good this does but someone, Biologists Helping Borders, is making a point to reshelve Intelligent Design books in the Religious section and not in the Biology section of Borders. Good luck with that.
Found via Kottke.org
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