Archive for March, 2007
The God FAQ
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Here you are, The Official God FAQ. Can’t argue with the answers
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Happy Birthday Richard Dawkins
Monday, March 26th, 2007Happy birthday to one of the most interesting and thoughtful scientists. B-Day links here and here with some especially interesting comments.
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Property Rights
Monday, March 26th, 2007The news media has helped make us all aware of the plight of oppressed women across the globe, especially those in fundamentalist Muslim states that specifically deny basic rights and freedoms to women. What the media generally fails to discuss at any length is the fact that any conservative, fundamentalist belief system tends to degrade […]
Research Resource
Saturday, March 24th, 2007The Skeptics Annotated Bible is a handy reference tool, and good for some entertainment as well.
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From Family Guy
Friday, March 23rd, 2007If you are a Family Guy fan you no doubt recognize and will appreciate this one.
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Here we have it…
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007…final proof of intelligent design.
(The embedded player is flash based and doesn’t seem to play well with Wordpress, so click the linky
Well, I’m convinced. Clearly, bananas we made for humans, and humans were made for bananas.
HT to K man.
UPDATE
After watching the above video, I had to poke around the site GodTube.com to see […]
The Roots of Morality
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007The New York Times (free reg req) has an interesting article on the biological origins of morality. There are many theories on morality, but the least believable is the idea that human morality is the proof that religion (especially Judeo-Christian) is in fact true.
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Imagine
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join […]
Why blame god?
Monday, March 19th, 2007So I was thinking today, why don’t people blame god anymore? Way back when, think Old Testament, people were always asking God, why did this happen, what did I/we do? And no one seems to do that much anymore. You don’t hear farmers asking why there was a drought, or citizens asking why there was […]
A Coming Out Story
Saturday, March 17th, 2007Here is an article on Julia Sweeney coming out as an atheist. Her story in Letting Go of God is very amusing and very well told (also available on iTunes).
The article is especially interesting in pointing out the similarities between ‘coming out’ as gay and ‘coming out’ as atheist. I can’t say that I personally […]
First Post
Friday, March 16th, 2007Welcome to “The New Atheist” - a new blog for people new to or interested in atheism/non-theism. A place to find resources, support, and hopefully useful thoughts.
I am starting this mostly due to a question an audience member put to Richard Dawkins during his presentation at Randolph-Macon Women’s College (Audience questions, readings).
The audience member asked […]
