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>
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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 MoreCNN 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.
Read Morehitchens answers the question: why be against religion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Y3YgQfR3sEM&feature=endscreen hitchens summary of the insanity of religion (with tony blair) —— why the dog? 1. it’s cathartic to talk this out. 1. One should grant to another the understanding about wanting to be heard, and to be understood. 1. (if you’re LDS) i might say, for […]
Read MoreWe completely miss the opportunity to understand ourselves and others if we don’t demystify the topic of sex. So let’s talk about sex. i’ll try to keep this short; it’s a big topic why is it that in one discussion after another about sex… that everyone ignores, or perhaps doesn’t consider the fact that sex […]
Read More sexWho is the voice in your head? Is it just you, or is God there too? One must realize and acknowledge, before talking with a religious person, that the conversation will be supervised by a powerful voice in the believer’s head that will often oppose reason and work invisibly against the person’s ability to think […]
Read MoreRead this at my funeral (the whole thing – not just the quote below), as a last message to the biggest crowd i can muster. 😉 www.samharris.org/site/full_text/afterword-to-the-vintage-books-edition/ What we need is a discourse about ethics and spiritual experience that is as unconstrained by ancient ignorance as the discourse of science already is. Science really does […]
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