Earlier today, our old pal Dan Marvin, eager for attention as usual, tried to threadjack the comments about the blog meetup following Dawkins’ talk on Wednesday. He implied he’d have a real stumper to ask Dawkins if he could be there, and then trotted out some more silly crap from AiG about the appendix, and …
Monthly Archive: March 2008
Mar 17 2008
Why and How
Many years ago, a Krishna friend said to me, “People often ask ‘why?,’ when what they really mean is ‘how?’” Initially, this statement confused me. But he explained it further. It made sense to me. And since that day, I have adopted his stance. On Yesterday’s show, we had a Christian caller who told us …
Mar 16 2008
Strictly for Austinites
Okay, so everyone’s looking forward to Dawkins’ appearance at UT this coming Wednesday. That will be at 7:00 PM. I suspect it will go about two hours, including Q&A. So I thought that following the talk, unless you’re all going to be a bunch of pathetic gotta-go-to-work-tomorrow candy-asses, we’d have an Atheist Experience Blog meetup …
Mar 16 2008
Christians trying to destroy education altogether in Oklahoma
What do you do when those damn pesky facts keep throwing cold water on your precious, precious Bronze Age superstitions? Why, just rewrite the law so that no facts can be taught in classrooms, ever. This is the goal of HB 2211 — named, with typical Christian-martyr self-absorption, the “Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act” — in …
Mar 14 2008
Expelled = epic fail!
An invitation-only (of course) private screening for Expelled in Florida, held expressly to influence state legislators to support a bogus “academic freedom” bill that’s been introduced to counter the recent ruling that schools must teach evolution, tanked miserably, drawing only about 100 viewers. There’s a report here. It seems no one (least of all lawmakers, …
Mar 12 2008
A truly tragic meltdown
Matthew Murray, the poor messed up kid who shot up his church in Colorado back in December, had a lot wrong with him. Beyond his ADHD, there were overwhelming feelings of rejection, and not belonging. With his brain chemistry so badly screwed up (he was taking medication, but it’s impossible to tell if he was …
Mar 12 2008
Proud of my bud!
Nothing to do with atheism, really, but just thought I’d give a shout-out and high-five to my buddy Kat Feller, who’s enjoying much newfound fame and fortune as part of the cast of the TV Land reality show High School Reunion. They’re plugging her as “The Lesbian,” which I think is kind of lame, because …
Mar 12 2008
Theomatics again
Probably not many of you have long enough memories for this, but one of the very first topics I ever did as a guest on the Atheist Experience TV show was about a concept called “Theomatics.” If you’re familiar with the “Bible codes” then you probably have the general gist of what it’s about. You …
Mar 11 2008
What’s your G.D.I.?
That’d be “God Delusion Index.” Mine is a healthy zero, thanks very much. Now, I’m not exactly sure how this fellow has set up his methodology. I do note that the more absurd a question is, the more points you’re awarded for answering yes. This may not be a, ahem, scientific poll. But I think …
Mar 10 2008
More embarrassing press for Expelled
The more these clowns responsible for Expelled get any press outside the protected confines of the fundamentalist anti-science subculture, the more desperate and dishonest they look. Now the New York Times has published an article about the whole fracas involving Orlando Sentinel reviewer Roger Moore, the absurd press conference and screening he attended where people …
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