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POPSNut Case Extrodinaire I haven't had the displeasure of coming across Allen Ball before and for that I'm grateful. Seldom have I met someone who is so bigoted and hateful as this individual. His solution to all the woes of this country. Christianity. Of course it's his own, right wing version. What a sanctimonious ass-hat.
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POPSEvidence vs Dogma This clip pretty well sums up the point. Fundamentalists simply don't realize how abjectly stupid they sound when they constantly parrot the religious right mantra that evolution is "only a theory". No matter how often they hear that they are wrong in their use of the word theory they keep on trying to use the same old tired argument. They truly are ignorant in the manner in which they ignore what is being said. As the article clipped say, they literally stick their fingers in their ears and go la, la, la. How pathetic.
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POPS10 New Items You Absolutely Should Not Miss Mark Morford, has done it again. Keeping us abreast of the hottest and latest nefarious news items we humming beings in all our odious perversionistic manipulations can conjure up. Ya gotta love the guy. Read all 10 fiery perplexities here: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/alangrayson.html
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POPSOpinion: Do you believe in miracles? “Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.” Marguerite De Valois
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POPSRichard Dawkins - The Virus Of Faith An intellectual approach to religion. "People sometimes say "There must be more than just this world, than just this life?" But how much more do you want? We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones, most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here in my place, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara, if you think about all different ways in which our genes could be permuted You and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are priveliged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world." - Richard Dawkins ------------------------------------ I'm sorry if you're religious. I'm not sorry if I've offended you. I'm just sorry if you're religious.
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POPSThe Case for God: Karen Armstrong (review) <<<Armstrong's new book is shaped as a response to these two distortions. She wishes to remind us of the mystery of God. Her sympathy is with the great Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians who have denied that any human attempt to put the divine into words will be accurate. We are simply too limited to be able to know God; our apprehension must hence be suffused with an awareness of our provisional and potentially faulty natures. She writes: "He is not good, divine, powerful or intelligent in any way that we can understand. We could not even say that God 'exists', because our concept of existence is too limited.">>>
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POPSScience, Reason & Religion: Eagleton v 'Ditchkins' <<<Eagleton is not anti-science or reason. He merely points out that science has produced Hiroshima as well as penicillin. And liberal rationalism, in addition to its many undoubted triumphs, has provided the intellectual underpinning for exploitative capitalism and the wanton destruction of the environment on an unprecedented scale. Indeed Eagleton is stronger on reason than Ditchkins, for he thinks carefully about what his opponents say whereas Dawkins & Co prefer knockabout rhetoric to serious engagement with mainstream religious thought. This is, then, a demolition job which is both logically devastating and a magnificently whirling philippic. Ditchkins, he says, makes the error of conflating reason and rationality. Yet much of what seems reasonable in real life turns out not to be true. And much that is true, like quantum physics, seems rationally impossible. >>> (from review)
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POPSTesting Ireland's new blasphemy law Ian O'Doherty's blasphemous statement: So, here we go -- Catholicism is a cannibal cult which eats its leader, Jews who believe that God wants them to settle in the Holy Land are deranged lunatics, Muslims who wants to install Islamic law are nothing but fascist terrorists and Scientologists are nothing but a bunch of brainwashed weirdos who have been suckered by the malicious rantings of a failed science-fiction writer. Alright lads, I'll see you in court.
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POPSMarxist Atheist Attacks "New Atheists" Good to see the Young Turk has entered late middle age intact and with mind as sharp as ever. This is a great article/interview. Terry Eagleton knows his stuff, and any thinking Christian or atheist will be at home with him. "Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate" by Terry Eagleton is published by Yale University Press
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POPSDaniel Dennett on Evolutionary Theology You've got to love these typical Dennett-style skeptical questions. Full report by Daniel Dennett on the "Darwin Festival in Cambridge", funded by the Templeton Foundation, via PZ Myers blog: Pharyngula.
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POPS[UPDATED] There'll be no tent for God at Camp Dawkins Further One of my dominant motivations, passionately expressed in The God Delusion, is an abhorrence of childhood indoctrination, of atheism just as much as of religion. It is in this spirit that the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has made very modest contributions to Camp Quest. Lois Rogers' traducing of both Camp Quest and me is, alas, par for the course for religiously motivated journalists. Fortunately, I am not the litigious type, but an apology would be nice.
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