Hey everyone! I’m finally back in good ol’ West Lafayette. Flights went well and I have a couple stories to tell, but right now I’m just going to enter a vegetative state and skim through my 250+ blog posts I’ve accumulated. Oi. Look for real posts later tonight or tomorrow.
Though on a semi-real note, I need something from you guys. I’ll be in Alaska from June 24th to July 5th to attend the American Society of Mammalogists meetings and to go hiking. I have no idea how much internet access I’ll have – it’ll probably be somewhere between limited or absolutely none. I want to prepare some posts before I leave so you don’t have a big drought, and I don’t want to just post silly videos.
This is where I need you. Let’s have a little Q&A session. Either comment here with a question you’d like me to answer, or email me at jmccreig(at)purdue.edu with “Blag Hag” in the title somewhere. You can ask whatever you want no matter if it’s atheism/biology/blog related or something absolutely random. I figure you guys haven’t known me for very long, so there’s a lot you can ask. I’ll pick my favorites to answer. Don’t be afraid to be silly or philosophical, but also don’t expect me to dole out my credit card number or something.
Or if this is totally lame, I guess you can just ignore my blog from June 24th to July 5th. But I hope you won’t do that!
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Jaki
June 17, 2009 at 7:13 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Will do!
Jaki
June 18, 2009 at 2:13 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Will do!
Michael
June 17, 2009 at 7:29 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
OK, guess I'll start. You describe yourself, presumably tongue in cheek, as a "perverted atheist". I do think there is a special relationship between naturalistic thinking (inc. atheism) and sex positivty: how do you see the relationship? Have you encountered much sex-negativity in atheists that's an underlying hangup from their religious days (or the religious tone society is drenched with anyways)? What's your best counter to the related fundie claim that we're all atheists to just "satisfy our sinful lusts"?
Michael
June 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
OK, guess I’ll start. You describe yourself, presumably tongue in cheek, as a “perverted atheist”. I do think there is a special relationship between naturalistic thinking (inc. atheism) and sex positivty: how do you see the relationship? Have you encountered much sex-negativity in atheists that’s an underlying hangup from their religious days (or the religious tone society is drenched with anyways)? What’s your best counter to the related fundie claim that we’re all atheists to just “satisfy our sinful lusts”?
Philip
June 17, 2009 at 11:42 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Clearly you are misinformed Michael.Fact: Evangelicals have the best sex.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Beliefs/Story?id=2813078&page=1
Philip
June 18, 2009 at 6:42 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Clearly you are misinformed Michael.Fact: Evangelicals have the best sex.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Beli…
Michael
June 18, 2009 at 5:00 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well I guess good ole Ted Haggard sure did!
Michael
June 18, 2009 at 12:00 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well I guess good ole Ted Haggard sure did!