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Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 6

Penn Gillette interviews Richard Dawkins.

Penn Jillette has been the larger, louder half of comedy-magic team Penn & Teller for over 30 years.

Little Johnny comes home from school 100 years from now.

Johnny: High mom, high dad.

Mom: High Johnny. How was school today dear?

Johnny: It was okay. Eddie Wisnall came to class with a toad from the creek near his house, I got a B on my math test and, oh yeah, the school nurse told me I have a brain tumor in my frontal cor, cort….

Dad: Cortex. It’s your frontal cortex. It’s the part of the brain where you do your higher level thinking and planning.

Johnny: Is that serious then dad?

Dad: Sure is Johnny. If we let it grow you’d be unable to think things at all. Come into the kitchen and I’ll get rid of it for you.

Mom: The pills are next to the coffee. I used one today for Mrs. Bennett next door.

Dad: Here Johnny, take one of these and drink this.

Johnny: Thanks dad. I sure am glad my thinking wont be messed up.

Dad: I agree. Did you know that just 100 years ago people tried to stop pills like these from being invented?

Johnny: No! Why dad? That is crazy.

Dad: It sure is Johnny. Well there were these people, lots and lots of them in fact, that thought that the world was run by magic.

Johnny: Magic?! How come dad?

Dad: Well Johnny, there were what we call “religious” They thought that the world and everything in it was created and run by an invisible creature and that this creature wanted them to live their lives a certain way and one of those ways was to stop scientists doing research into what are called “Stem cells”


To be continued……..

Richard Dawkins Foundation Introduction.

Visit richarddawkins dot net for more information on this exciting new foundation!

"The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance. We even have to go out on the attack ourselves, for the sake of reason and sanity. But it must be a positive attack, for science and reason have so much to give. They are not just useful, they enrich our lives in the same kind of way as the arts do. Promoting science as poetry was one of the things that Carl Sagan did so well, and I aspire to continue his tradition." - Richard Dawkins ... (more)

Do We Really Need Bad Reasons To Be Good?

By Sam Harris October 22, 2006

THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the “moral values” of conservative Christians. While this possibility is regularly bemoaned by liberals, the link between religion and morality in our public life is almost never questioned. One of the most common justifications one hears for religious faith, from all points on the political spectrum, is that it provides a necessary framework for moral behavior. Most Americans appear to believe that without faith in God, we would have no durable reasons to treat one another well. The political version of this morality claim is that our country was founded on “Judeo-Christian principles,” the implication being that without these principles we would have no way to write just laws.

Read more ......


Thanks to OneGoodMove

I love the "Box of Chocolates" analogy.

America?

Keith Olberman on the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Very sad stuff!

It's 8:30 long watch here...

Thanks to Crooksand Liars

This post is just for Technorati.

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Tri County Times hotline submission.

This was posted on the hotline submission page of my local paper the Tri County Times.

"WHEN YOU CAN explain how a caterpillar decided it wanted to fly and turned itself into a butterfly, I'll start listening to your theories of evolution."

I don't blame the people who think that things like this are a valid argument. They have been completly failed by their schooling. America has a mostly useless school system.

My reply was:
WHEN YOU START using your brain for thinking and not simply as a repository for stupid statements I'll explain evolution to you. It's really quite simple, very beautiful and requires no fictitious characters.

George W. Bush: Worst President Ever.

Richard Dawkins BBC Interview.

At the outset of this interview Richard Dawkins says "After 6 years of Bush, America is ready for an attack on religion"

I'm british living in America and because of Bush I have felt compelled to start this website and attack religion. Go Richard!

George Carlin - 10 Commandments.

Homer The Ape.

Where on the spectrum do you fall?

1. Strong theist. 100 percent probability of God. In the words of C. G. Jung' I do not believe, I know.'

2. Very high probability but short of 100 percent. De facto theist. ' I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe in God and live my life on the assumption that his is there.'

3. Higher than 50 percent but not very high. Technically agnostic but leaning towards theism. 'I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in God.'

4. Exactly 50 percent. Completely impartial agnostic. 'God's existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable.'

5. Lower than 50 percent but not very low. Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism. 'I don't know whether God exists but I'm inclined to be sceptical.'

6. Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. 'I cannot know for certain but I think god is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.'

7. Strong atheist. 'I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung "knows" there is one.'


I am probably a 6.
I want to say 7 but to me the whole point of being an atheist is not believing in something for which there is no proof. This also means that there is no proof there isn't a god also.

However I life my life as a 7 (or even an 8 or maybe a 9!!)

It's not fascism when we do it.

Talk of the Nation on NPR, October 6, 2006

Talk of the Nation, October 6, 2006 · In his new book, The God Delusion, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says fundamentalist religion "subverts science and saps the intellect." Dawkins discusses religion, the teaching of evolution and creationism in science class, and his call for atheists to "out" themselves.

Guest:

Richard Dawkins, Author, The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Listen here...

Why do Atheists care about Religion?

Atheist clothing and stuff.

The Atheist slogan that says it all.

If you're not an

ATHEIST

you should be!

Homer proves that there is no God.

What is really interesting in this clip from the Simpsons is Flanders response to Homers proof that there is no God.

It is exactly what would happen. Reality and truth are annoying impediments to religions strangle hold on our society.