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Reg The Fronkey Farmer commented on Nelson's blog post 'Sunday School MAY 12, 2013'"Kudos to Sean Carroll for not accepting research money (bribes) from the JTF. I am in complete agreement that there can be no reconciliation between static religious beliefs and progressive Science. All the Christian cults I know of will regularly…"
Simon Paynton commented on Nelson's blog post 'Sunday School MAY 12, 2013'"Thanks for this gold dust: "There's no question but that there's a risk in making moral decisions: you could be wrong. So how do you deal with moral risk?" That guy John Danaher is a true philosopher. Everything he…"
Sagacious Hawk commented on Nelson's blog post 'Sunday School MAY 12, 2013'""What do conspiracy theories, religious belief, and cells the help clean our bodies of toxins have in common?"
The mystery of how identical twins develop two different personalities.
These have no links... and I REALLY want to read them."
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Sunday School MAY 12, 2013
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Angry with some skeptics' insistence that the skeptical movement should leave religion alone, that science can say nothing about supernatural claims, PZ Myers announces his divorce from the skeptic movement. Jack Scanlan…
Continue Sunday School MAY 5, 2013
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Prompted by a recent piece in The Guardian touting Sir David Attenborough's plans to speak in favor at an upcoming conference on the subject, the "aquatic ape theory" is on people's lips again. PZ Myers smacks the theory around. Twitter had fun with it, using the …
Continue Sunday School APR 28, 2013
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Just beginning to understand how it evolved, sleep remains one of biology's mysteries.
Just when do babies become conscious?
Woo peddlers are crying "censorship!" at TED's recent actions done to prevent the promotion of pseudoscience under their banner. Steven…
Continue Sunday School APR 21, 2013
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Why do people pretend that religion isn't responsible for creationism?
This scientist is able to turn your hand invisible with a simple trick.…
Continue Sunday School APR 14, 2013
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Hemant Mehta highlights some of the answers given to the question asked of a few writers by the New Statesman, what can atheists learn from religion?
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- At 7:22am on February 17, 2013,
Dennis Smith said… For some reason I don't seem to be getting the email notifications for Sunday School any more.
- At 11:49am on November 30, 2012,
Reg The Fronkey Farmer said… Hi Nelson. Here is a story from Ireland which is going viral. It is about a child with stage 4 cancer and the song to raise funds for her. Elton John has gotten involved too. Whatever the ending it is still a good story that even floors this hardened Atheist. A different approach. You might like to add it to your Cancer Stories as I could not find a direct link. It would also (imo) make a good sunday school link for Empathy and Alturistic behaviour. I would not ask anyone directly to buy the song. btw if the child should die all or any remaining refunds are to be donated to research.
- At 8:59am on October 14, 2012, Reg The Fronkey Farmer said…
- At 3:06pm on October 4, 2012,
Dan Marshall said… That makes sense. Honestly, I could probably read several books a week if I stopped wasting so much time online. I barely ever play video games, but I do watch TV from time to time. ;)
- At 3:00pm on October 4, 2012, Dan Marshall said…
Sooooo... you're saying that you either own a flying DeLorean or a Time-Turner then, yeah? Either that, or you're a robot. How do you find the time to read that many books?!
- At 2:44pm on October 4, 2012, Dan Marshall said…
Embarrassingly, I have not had a chance to start any of those books yet. I've been working on writing at least 500+ words each day, so that's been keeping me busy. I also work for a testing company in the testing sector, so you can imagine that this is a very busy time of year for us. I'm sure I'll be done making excuses soon, let me see if I can think of one or two more...
- At 2:39pm on October 4, 2012, Dan Marshall said…
Pffft... Damn atheists always want proof for extraordinary claims!
- At 2:33pm on October 4, 2012, Dan Marshall said…
YEAH! I'm one of the cool kids now! :P
- At 12:30am on March 29, 2012,
Estella B Perkins said… Hi Nelson, Thanks for the welcome!
- At 10:16pm on March 26, 2012,
Lisa Heap said… You're fast! And thanks for the welcome.
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