Sunday School JUL 17, 2011
hey guys, another Sunday, another edition of Sunday School. :)
so, first off, i've just finished locking down our next contest. this giveaway will be for a signed copy of John Loftus' new anthology The End of Christianity. there will be 3 winners. details, including dates are soon to follow. follow me on Twitter or connect with me on G+ to get the details as soon as they're available. in the meantime, do check out some of the contributors to the anthology that we've already had on the show-- Richard Carrier, Matt McCormick, Valerie Tarico, and Robert Price. and stay tuned for our upcoming show with another contributor Hector Avalos. (and we're recording this coming week with another contributor Jaco Gericke for a show to air later!). of course, don't miss our chat with Loftus himself.
then, tonight we have our interview with noted skeptic and host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, Dr. Steven Novella. Greg and Dr. Novella talked about how to overcome our innate biases and errors of reasoning and judgment in order to be better skeptics. fantastic stuff. don't miss it!
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alright! links!.................
do read this great Psychology Today article on why atheism will replace religion.
John Wilkins tries to add some clarity to the whole semantic argument about what "atheism", "theism", and "agnosticism" actually mean. here's the first part, and the follow up.
says Michael Ruse, "[I]ncreasingly I cannot for the life of me see why any decent human being would want to be religious, and increasingly I think one should be ashamed to be religious."
well right on. but then why is Ruse an accomodationist pushing his latest book on how religion and science are compatible? Jerry Coyne wants to know.
Jason Rosenhouse asks where he can find the good theology that theists allude to. and follows up with a second post.
a few weeks back Carl Zimmer posted a piece on the existence of a fourth domain of life. now he posts to discuss questions about whether indeed there is reason to think there is a fourth domain at all.
ever wonder what the future of our galaxy will look like to strangers looking at our Milky Way from other galaxies?
what does it mean to say Muhammad existed?
lots of atheist transhumanists out there. here's a neuroscientist's view on why the singularity is way off.
psychics need to stop pretending they can solve crimes...
RNA reactor could have served as a precursor to life
fish fins and mouse feet controlled by the same ancient genetic switch.
journalist gives his thoughts upon watching the last shuttle mission. great stuff!
an algorithm confirms about the bible what scholars have know for decades
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Comment by Douglas Dagger on July 17, 2011 at 3:50am -
Awesome! Thanks Nelson.
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Comment by Eoganacht on July 17, 2011 at 6:16am -
As always, great stuff.
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Comment by Robert Karp on July 17, 2011 at 8:01am -
\Sunday School/ !!! Great articles!
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Comment by Dennis Smith on July 17, 2011 at 8:58am -
"Ontario has two state-supported school systems, secular and Catholic." WOW, really?? I had no idea!
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Comment by Dennis Smith on July 17, 2011 at 9:05am
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"This in itself might make you a bit tense, but as I say, live and let live. I don’t think you would want to allow religious leaders to come in and run things, but if the kids want to do it, why not? It is much the same as the kids getting together to play a pickup game of basketball. I don’t want to pray or play basketball, but that’s just me." Really? Setting aside a room where Muslims can pray several times a day is "much the same as" getting together to play basketball? One is a religious activity, dictated by the religion just as much as the exclusion of women having their period (which BTW is also taught in the Bible, women who are "in their blood" are "unclean"). The other is a secular activity, open to everyone, dictated by no one. There is a huge difference! For the school system to actually make provision for a religious activity is an issue, or would be in the US.
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Comment by James on July 17, 2011 at 3:19pm -
Thanks for another interesting class!
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Comment by Patrick Scherr on July 17, 2011 at 4:18pm -
@Dennis Smith
I'm pretty sure most Canadian provinces have the same Secular and Catholic school divisions, both supported by the governments. Canada is just awsome (ish) like that.
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Comment by Andrew Viceroy on July 17, 2011 at 7:18pm -
This week's lighter load gives me a chance to catch up on some of those previous 25+pg PDFs from previous weeks (nor can you just read 1 part of a Danaher post) sitting on my desktop! Thanks again.
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Comment by Nelson on July 17, 2011 at 8:21pm -
haha! yeah, with so many of the usual contributions coming from those that were at TAM this week there was a lighter load. :)
thanks for the comments guys!
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