Sunday School NOV 6, 2011
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Who wants some links?? :)
Religious schools deny atheist groups permission to form driving them underground.
Researchers create billion year old bacteria, trace its evolution.
Why evangelicals believe weird things
The Christian Right and the rise of American Fascism
Why near-death events are tricks of the mind.
Jerry Coyne debates Catholic theologian John Haught. Both men agreed to the debate being filmed. After the debate Haught refuses permission for the video he agreed to be shot to be released. What appeared to be the entire internet mobilized to shame Haught into granting permission. Haught relents after posting a justification for his having refused that was equal parts false and counterproductive to his own position. Video gets posted (post debate Q&A too). People watch... ask... collectively...., WTF?
Congress voted to affirm "In God We Trust" as the national motto this week. Sigh. Secular Coalition of American founder Herb Silverman commented in The Washington Post while Michael Shermer commented in the LA Times. Both worth a read.
Physicist Brian Greene did a print Q&A with Scientific American upon the airing of his new PBS NOVA special that aired this week.
An introduction to cellular evolution.
Could we detect extraterrestrials from their night time lights?
We may be witnessing the first global conflict where people are aligned by conscience and not religion or nation state.
World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space
We're now seeing the biggest jump ever in the gases that cause climate change.
In a frankly unbelievable move given their long history with Catholicism– even given the Catholic church's disgusting behavior– Ireland this week closed their embassy to the Vatican citing the economic waste but clearly intending to make a statement.
Skeptic Ben Goldacre: "What eight years of writing the Bad Science column have taught me: Pulling bad science apart is the best teaching gimmick I know for explaining how good science works"
10 ways to resist preaching to the choir. Particularly agree with #1
Are there mysterious forces lurking in our atoms and galaxies?
Fossil eyes show wraparound 3-dimensional vision half a billion years ago
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Tags: Ireland, Vatican, atheism, church-state, climate-change, constitution, cosmology, establishment, establishment-clause, evolution, More…
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Comment by Gary Bergeron on November 6, 2011 at 11:27am -
Thanks for the great links this week, Nelson! I always learn something new here every week and I appreciate your time and effort to gather up all this info for us. Have a good weekend! :)
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Comment by Andrew Viceroy on November 6, 2011 at 1:01pm -
I. want. that. book! This is the one... I just watched Rosenberg and Flanagan converse on Philosophy TV http://www.philostv.com/owen-flanagan-and-alex-rosenberg/ and I want both their books... even though I have no time to read them because of Nelson ;-)
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Comment by Nelson on November 6, 2011 at 1:02pm -
Haha! I accept full responsibility... :)
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Comment by Andrew Viceroy on November 6, 2011 at 3:46pm
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It's called a "laser"
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Comment by Andrew Viceroy on November 6, 2011 at 3:52pm
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Let me get this right, Ireland is giving the Vatican the finger?
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Comment by Nelson on November 6, 2011 at 3:57pm
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So it would certainly seem... Crazy right?
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Comment by wyocowboy on November 6, 2011 at 6:52pm
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the author of American Fascits: The Christian Right--does not like atheist. He has a book tilted "When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists"...he also stated in the interview that he is a christian and the American Fascists are those of the extreme religious right not evangicals. I wont trust him.
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Comment by Andrew Viceroy on November 6, 2011 at 7:49pm
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@ Nelson. There's a joke in there somewhere...
@ wyocowboy. That ed. seems old, as he talks about Bush being pres. I thought Hedges was an atheist, but a hardcore accomodationist and so liberal on his religious views and privacy views as to put all his eggs into the "shut up about your religion- it's not PC" basket. I may be wrong... see Hedges v Hitchens debate on youtube
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Comment by Andrew Viceroy on November 6, 2011 at 7:56pm
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Okay, he's a unitarian universalist! SOooo, he's an atheist who doesn't realize it yet.
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yes most likely Andrew and he at least states he is not an athesit...when you watch the youtube of him on his new book American Fascists he appears to be athesit and so I watched another of his youtube videos and he stated he is a christian...maybe he's to scared to say he is an atheist...who knows what is going on deep in his mind?????
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