Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends! :) 'Preciate you guys stopping in so we can recap the week together!

Fill the hole in your soul by checking out the latest episode of the Think Atheist Radio Show! When I learned about God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World I thought it'd be a great opportunity to hear some actual facts about this dark part of history that is the responsibility of religion. For instance, did you know that The Inquisition was still doing its thing into the 20th century? I didn't! The author, Mr. Cullen Murphy, spent 20 years with The Atlantic Monthly, serving as Managing Editor, before he became the Editor-at-Large for Vanity Fair magazine. The author previously of The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own and Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, in this, his newest book, he puts The Inquisition under the microscope. What were the conditions that gave rise to it, was there one inquisition or several, was The Inquisition always about heretics, how many people died at the hands of The Inquisitors?

And if you missed last week's interview with physicist and author Dr. Lawrence Krauss, dry your tears! Just as with all of our past shows, it's still available! Hear Dr. Krauss discuss his new book, A Universe From Nothing! You can stream or download the show at any time from the archive or from our iTunes page! Stream it on the computer, burn it to CD for the car, listen while at the gym on your iPod. Don't let the terrorists win!!

Alright, let's give you some links!

Edge magazine asked scientists what they thought was their favorite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation. 192 responses as of this moment, and they're fascinating!

William Lane Craig points to a set of criteria that indicate that the New Testament can be relied upon as history. Do they hold up?

How would Jesus vote? Christian politics in the state of lost causes.

Ever hear the one about how the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year? Yeah, that's a myth.

Morality is relative, but not subjective. 

Evolution: The Rise of Complexity.

Used to dealing with denialism and denialists tactics when it comes to evolution, The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is branching out into climate science.

Florida legislators want to pass a bill promoting school prayer.

In atheists we distrust: subjects believe that people behave better when they think that god is watching over them.

John's Gospel, the gospel of hate?

Into the mind of the Neanderthal.

Jerry Coyne was called unsophisticated for his ideas about free will. He replies with some interesting points.

How do atheists find meaning in life?

Why a classic psychology experiment isn't what it seems.

Unsafe abortions rise as contraceptive funding is cut.

Remembering things that never happened. On the reliability of memory.

Why do so many people have trouble believing in evolution?

What happened before the Big Bang?

Climate change disbelief and the collision between human and geologic time.

Secular Coalition for American flunks more than 50% of the US House of Representatives.

"Atheism 2.0"? What in the world?

Does the thrifty use of neural resources in the brain make better minds?

Can DNA self-replicate?

The misunderstanding of memes (pdf): The biography of an unscientific object (1976-1999)

The top 400 highest-income filers paid only 18% in taxes, in many cases well lower than your ordinary worker.

Kentucky's governor arranges to cut taxes by about the same amount as he's giving to a bat shit crazy creationism theme part in the shape of the "actual" ark.

A comprehensive review of the causes of global warming.

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Comment by Rich on January 22, 2012 at 3:08am

Yay! Learning is fun.

Comment by Barry Eckert on January 22, 2012 at 4:14am

Ever hear the one about how the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year? Yeah, that's a myth.

Usually, in the US, it's the day after the first Tuesday in November.

Comment by Eoganacht on January 22, 2012 at 4:20am

As aways this is the icing on my weekend. Thanks

Comment by Barry Eckert on January 22, 2012 at 4:32am

Oy.

“I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [my grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”  Montopoli, Brian, “Newt Gingrich Warns U.S. at Risk of Atheism and Radical Islam,” CBS News, March 29, 2011; http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20048494-503544.html; retrieved December 19, 2011.

If this country ever does grow up and become a secular atheist country, radical Islam won't be any more welcome than radical Christianity, of which Newt is an exemplar.

Peasant: Oh, she turned me into a newt!
[Bedevere gives him a disbelieving look]
Bedevere: A newt?
[Silence]
Peasant: Well, I got better.
Comment by The Wholely TV Set on January 22, 2012 at 5:39am

This is a very interesting line of communication. 

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends"

How that is being understood (received to be posted) can be known about completely.

Comment by The Wholely TV Set on January 22, 2012 at 5:54am

This is also interesting.

"Fill the hole in your soul"

This is referring to something called unity or bucket groupings. What is being understood as a hole would be similar to an empty coffer (collection plate) and what exists as a filled hole or bowl is comprised of continuous understanding life and the life of the experience of interest. This is called an Always Knowing System and it is what replaces information receiving systems that are nervous (some refer to them as computers or brains that can tell themselves something that then is done, said or written externally). Related to endings, what an existence can tell itself ends and is only occurring in the middle.

As is said here, hole is interested in whole. Shadows picked up and placed perfectly inside what is concave results in the experience of Perfect Morning Glory.

Comment by Albert Bakker on January 22, 2012 at 9:24am

You're the anti-vaccines guy who believes HIV is nonsense, heart surgery unnecessary, General Relativity rubbish and Einstein a fraud right? It would have surprised me, and I might have found it slightly unsettling to be honest, if you weren't intent on being silly on this subject too. This is not the platform for your soapbox though.

Comment by The Wholely TV Set on January 22, 2012 at 10:01am

Ian,

If LSD is something you understand an interest in you can understand it completely, if it is available to you in your area. Tripping is a temporary experience and truthfully not interesting to anyone. My only experience with that has been in pre-school...you know bullies on the walk home to kids that see and know and are not doing and saying life. Have you experienced yourself in Germany by the way? I am understanding your existence with that life. We will always be interested together when you can be seen doing and saying what you love.

Vacationing is a good trip when your existence (your infrastructure, your immediate environment and the way you are caused to move) is able to support that as a perpetual experience. This means there is nothing happening not the same as before related to what you would understand as your chemistry.

Comment by Gary Bergeron on January 22, 2012 at 11:46am

The Philosophy of Cosmology link was very interesting and thanks for the introduction to Atheism 2.0, I almost choked on my coffee, thinking about the unparallelled compartmentalization that must take place to put Atheism 2.0 to work in a reasonable mind!

Great links, Nelson, as always, thank you!

Happy Weekend, everybody! :)

Comment by Barry Eckert on January 22, 2012 at 11:49am

@Ian German is a pretty sensible language, so wholely's comments probably couldn't be even expressed in that language.

Vacationing is a good trip when your existence (your infrastructure, your immediate environment and the way you are caused to move) is able to support that as a perpetual experience.

Urlaub machend ist eine gute Reise, wenn Ihre Existenz (Ihre Infrastruktur, Ihre unmittelbare Umgebung und die Art, wie Sie verursacht werden, um sich zu bewegen) im Stande ist, das als eine fortwährende Erfahrung zu unterstützen.

Hmm. No help there.

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