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Dr Wigler suggested the missing cluster is a 27-gene grouping on chromosome 16. Most people have two sets of the cluster – individuals with autism have only one, or just fragments of the second, the researchers say. Now Dr Wigler’s colleague, Alea Mills, has found the deleted gene cluster not only plays a role in [...]
Archive for October, 2011
I Don’t Really Give A Fuck About Tone, Per Se
October 11th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke In my ten posts of tips for reaching out to religious believers this past week, people have repeatedly gotten the idea that I was fretting about tone. But I wasn’t. I never used the word and it never even crossed my mind to do so. I am concerned with the truth and with the good. [...]
I Am A Rationalist, Not A Tribalist.
October 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Over the course of the last week, I published a series of ten commandments tips for atheists reaching out to religious believers. In truth most of those values are ones I could have written with minor modifications to be commandments tips for simply being a good person. Now, some people have objected in various ways [...]
Don’t Say A Word About Occupy Wall Street
October 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Until you have read Stephanie’s post on the topic, by far the best and clearest explanation of what is going on, what the protesters have explicitly expressed are their demands, and the shamefulness of the media’s coverage, which I have come across. Your Thoughts?
Audiences And Approaches
October 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Our friend Crommie has written a post basically saying that he recognizes that it’s a good thing that there are people like me who write with religious believers in mind but that it’s also okay for him to write in a way that is indifferent to whether he offends them. He justifies his approach basically by [...]
Love Religious People (Tip 10 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers: 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. 5. Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence. 6. Don’t Demonize Religious [...]
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Tags: "Love The Religious Hate The Religion", "Love The Sinner Hate The Sin" 
10 Comments »Be Unapologetic, Rigorous, Patient, And Gracious With Religious Believers (Tip 9 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers: 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. 5. Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence. 6. Don’t Demonize Religious [...]
Both Refute The Best Counter-Arguments YOU Can Think Up And Create Gestalt Shifts (Tip 8 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. 5. Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence. 6. Don’t Demonize Religious [...]
Atheists And Stories
October 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Dana has a terrific post countering the simplistic inference that just because we reject the Jesus story as true, we atheists must be incapable of appreciating stories. She explores what’s wrong with this idea numerous of interesting ways. Money quotes: I’m a Gnu Atheist, my darlings, which means I’m one of those hardcore majorly-atheistic atheists, and I still [...]
Penn and PZ on Libertarianism and Atheism
October 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Adam Lee of Daylight Atheism has had a much deserved opportunity to move his blog to the site of Big Think, which features video interviews from the most popular and cutting edge public intellectuals of our time. Adam got the chance to lob the first question asked of Penn Jillette in a new interview at the site. [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Politics, Politics, PZ Myers, PZ Myers Tags: Penn Jillette 9 Comments »Colbert on Whether Being Gay is a Choice
October 8th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Being Gay Is Not A Choice, Colbert Report, Herman Cain, The View 11 Comments »Take Philosophy Seriously (Tip 7 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 8th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. 5. Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence. 6. Don’t Demonize Religious [...]
Everything Is A Remix: The Matrix
October 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A nice job of illustrating one film’s myriad visual and narrative allusions to prior films and other visual media: Everything Is A Remix: THE MATRIX from robgwilson.com on Vimeo. If only there were some way to bring so vividly to life a literary or philosophical work’s connections to all that has gone before it. (via) [...]
This Is What It Will Come To If You Don’t Support Kids’ Educations By Giving To Donors Choose
October 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke PLEASE GIVE to Donors’ Choose, an organization that lets you directly fund the educational projects of teachers in underserved schools where the kids’ education is not guaranteed! The link, again, is on the right hand side of the blog. If we don’t give to the kids, we’re going to be seeing scenes like the ones [...]
Don’t Demonize Religious People’s Motives, Focus On Their Objective Harms (Tip 6 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. 5. Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence. 6. Don’t Demonize Religious People’s Motives, Focus On Their Objective Harms Sometimes religion [...]
It’s Hard To Remember All Your Students
October 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I won’t feel so bad in the future when I can’t remember one of my eighteen hundred or so former students comes up to me and I can’t remember his or her name (though I always remember the face): Dr. Thomas Freeman remembers that moment more than four decades ago in Atlanta when he pointed [...]
Freethought Blogs Is So Awesome We Broke The Internet Yesterday
October 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Or that’s the way I like to see our servers crashing constantly yesterday because of our insane amounts of traffic. I apologize for the inconvenience to Camels With Hammers readers and appreciate any persistent refreshing efforts you may have made to read the site. We may be down again, on purpose, for reasons of upgrading [...]
HAPPY YANKEES ELIMINATION DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!1!
October 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s the happiest holiday of the year!!! CONGRATULATIONS TIGERS!!! It’s an early Yankees Elimination Day this year! Brings back fond memories of 2006 to see the Tigers celebrating at the Yankees’ expense again! Savor the schadenfreude, fellow Yankee-haters, the world is a beautiful place! Your Celebrations?
Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence (Tip 5 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious People)
October 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. 5. Help Break The Spell Of Religious Reverence. Religious people are often on a hair-trigger to be offended. And they will [...]
Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs (Tip 4 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious People)
October 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. 4. Clarify What Kinds of Evidence Warrant What Kinds of Beliefs. Many theists love to argue for the necessity of a generic “source [...]
Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe” (Tip 3 of 10 For Reaching Out To Christians)
October 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3. Don’t Tell Religious Believers What They “Really Believe”. All beliefs imply other beliefs. Some things religious believers happily assert as true have possible implications which are dark, disturbing, foolish, and/or in [...]
Make Believers Stay On Topic During Debates (Tip 2 of 10 for Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Top Ten Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers: 1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. Religious believers debating atheists often have a machine gun style of shooting arguments our way. “How could everything just come from nothing? You really think this is all there is? How can [...]
Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid (Tip 1 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)
October 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Back in February, I wrote my Top 10 Tips For Reaching Out To Atheists, designed to help Christians (and other religious people) engage atheists in ways that are respectful to them and honest with them and with themselves, and therefore hopefully fruitful for both sides. In a series of posts (fully listed at the end [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Faith, Faith, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion 44 Comments »Confidence vs. Self-Confidence (And The Will To Power)
October 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Greta has a meditation up today on the topic of seeking new adventures, doing things you don’t think you’ll like, and generally expanding your horizons. It reminded me of something I think and say a lot but don’t think I have yet recorded on the blog. And of course, everything I think and say has [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Nietzsche, Nietzsche Tags: Confidence, Self-Confidence, Will to Power 1 Comment »
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