Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions Some insightful and straight forward answers to common questions From the WSJ Blog: blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/22/does-god-exist-ricky-gervais-takes-your-questions/ Excerpt: Q: In your piece you write, that “Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know.” In fact, mainstream scientific thought has sometimes been wrong, and […]
Read MoreEasy to understand evidence for a common ape-like human/chimp ancestor. One of thousands of collaborating pieces of evidence, but this one is very conceptual. Whip it out anytime a creationist starts preaching. …from the human genome, we can see our origin. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/dK3O6KYPmEw” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Read MoreChristopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder, January 26, 2009 “…I can assert; i can ask you to consider that the person in charge of this is … very incompetent, very tinkering, very capricious, or very very cruel. I think that our moralities are innate, our ethics are innate to us, as […]
Read Morei heard on tv once, the personal-financial pundit Susan Orman say to a person, “You can’t do that.” …speaking to someone about their desire/choice to give donations to a deserving organization. Her point was (to this person) if you don’t have the means, if you aren’t earning enough to care for yourself, then you can’t […]
Read MoreI have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that God is a fabrication of man. The bad news is that it will cost you to learn that this good news is true. …(Cost you time, study, some friends, family associations, labor to un-learn and then to acquire true principles of […]
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Hume’s Maxim. This is priceless. I wish to hang it in my study. source: On Miracles by David Hume
Read MoreImagine yourself being pitied by an old man in church for your belief in evolution. Imagine a 9-year-old kid speaking from the pulpit about how some crazy person tried to teach him that the earth was created from an explosion. It was anti-science day at church. It was pitiful. Nobody corrected anybody. They never do. […]
Read More testimony meetingIs it fear of the voice inside one’s head that keeps religious people from learning about facts contrary to their beliefs? Imagine if a muslim (or a catholic, or methodist, or jew) were reading this. You as a [insert your religion here] can clearly see that THEY are off a bit, right? Imagine having […]
Read More David HumeCNN PRODUCER NOTE TXBlue08, a mother of two teenagers in Texas, blogs about raising her children without religion. She said she shared this essay on CNN iReport because ‘I just felt there is not a voice out there for women/moms like me. I think people misunderstand or are fearful of people who don’t believe in […]
Read MoreJoe is asked advice from an audience member who wants to be the chaplain for the sport. He gives a playful response that makes clear that he has a healthy understanding of our need for religion.
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