Good Old Neon

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2004/feb/16/...6-113955-2061r/ Tons of interesting, often disturbing stats can be found here as well - http://religions.pewforum.org/ Perhaps you should wait until you actually see the movie before you judge what may not, in fact, be a misconception.

Well, you knew it had to happen, here we have the right manufacturing a controversy that will surely be used to dampen the damage Palin will undoubtedly do the GOP ticket tomorrow night - any and all failures on her part will be placed squarely on the moderator, Gwen Ifill. So fucking sad and predictable. The irony is, is that in all likelihood, Ifill will be a bit more forceful with Biden to make up for any imagined liberal bias - Ifill is a consummate pro. Controversy brews up around VP debate moderator Ifill http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/01/gwen.ifill/index.html

Ummmm.....ok, I agree, it is ridiculous, but probably for different reasons....anyways.... The following interview with Maher was just posted on Salon, and I couldn't agree more - I have bolded the interviewer's questions: I guess that brings us to the topic of "Religulous," which I read as this effort to get agnostics and atheists out of the closet in American society. That's certainly one of the goals. I don't use the word "atheist" about myself, because I think it mirrors the certitude I'm so opposed to in religion. What I say in the film is that I don't know. I don't know what happe

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My point, is that it matters not that individual scientists believe in god - is what I was getting at. Science, as a whole, is entirely agnostic on the subject of god, regardless of what a few individuals may believe.

As noted previously, the mere suggestion that you believe there is a plan at all strikes me as deeply arrogant. Your making an assumption for which no evidence exists - and even if it did, what makes you informed enough to believe you could peer into the mind of god and decide it has a plan?

Science is rational; scientists are not Category: Science Posted on: September 3, 2008 11:41 AM, by Razib Just a small point. I do not believe scientists are particularly rational people as compared to the normal human. Because the average scientist has a higher IQ than the average artist I am willing to grant marginally higher rationality to an average scientist. Their ability to decompose and abstract any given conceptual system is greater. That being said, the contrast between the disciplines of art and science are far greater than those of individual artists and scientists. Why? Be

I could interpret lightning as evidence of god

Because outside of a few texts written by man, not a single shred of evidence for the existence of god exists

I received one, though I think my wife may have tossed it. I

BLAMMOS, an until now unknown to me indie band out of San Franscicso has recorded a tribute to DFW

Where did your idea of god come from

If only that were true - you might find this interesting. http://religions.pewforum.org/

And, we're off....

Sort of, after much thought (mostly having to do with McCain choosing a running mate who appears to believe that the earth is anywhere between four and six thousand years old, not to mention the mind numbingly dumb responses she

"I'm not an atheist. There's a really big difference between an atheist and someone who just doesn't believe in religion. Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. But I'm not an atheist, no." I believe there's some force. If you want to call it God... I don't believe God is a single parent who writes books. I think that the people who think God wrote a book called The Bible are just childish. Religion is so childish. What they're fighting about in the Middle East, it's so childish. These myths, these silly little stories that they believe in fundamentally, that th

As MrRain

From scienceblogs.com

Hmmmm

It is beyond frustrating - perhaps they would be willing to read the following article from Sam Harris, writer and atheist: When Atheists Attack A noted provocateur rips Sarah Palin

"When you're born in the world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat." - George Carlin More so now than ever.

What an amazing achievement, how many other people can claim they

Ha, the irony, I didn

Well, yeah, but I don