In a piece explaining why he won’t take Templeton money, Sean Carroll says why promoting godlessness is important. It’s how the universe works, something quite fundamental to how science operates. Think of it this way. The kinds of questions I think about—origin of the universe, fundamental laws of physics, that kind of thing—for the most …
Category Archive: Atheism
May 09 2013
Who is joining me in Romania?
It’s going to be a great conference on science, education, and human rights (and that’s precisely what my talk will be about: science as a human responsibility and ethical obligation). You should all come! Don’t you want to visit Bucharest? I might get lost in that building.
May 08 2013
Gene Mims and the mysterious missing point
Some Christian dorkasaur named Gene Mims has an argument for silencing atheists. It’s about unicorns. Unicorns Stay with me for a moment and I think I can give you a better understanding to my perplexity concerning atheists. You see I do not believe in unicorns. You may and that is surely your right, but I …
May 08 2013
Sometimes, unity gets in the way of integrity
I’m getting the impression that Jamy Ian Swiss also kinda pissed off Greta Christina.
May 07 2013
The tent metaphor gets a workout
Ophelia reports that CFI, at least, has the right idea. ANY large group who feels like they have a particular beef with religion (or pseudoscience, or other wacky beliefs) has a legitimate interest in addressing that problem as a group. At CFI-L.A., we’ve hosted Black Skeptics, Spanish-speaking atheists, gay and lesbian humanists, and others who’ve …
May 06 2013
What’s the harm of “Mission Drift”?
Greta Christina has a good post up about the common defense against broadening the approach of an organization, the plaintive whine against “mission drift”. I’ve never quite grasped the point: if you’re a largely volunteer organization with only a minimal paid organizational structure, as is true for most skeptic and atheist organizations, it’s relatively painless …
May 02 2013
Substitute “atheism” for “religion”, and it still works!
Sad, isn’t it, that even when we get rid of religion, we still have to ask this question. I suppose we also need to change “sacrifices” to “sex toys”.
May 02 2013
Today is the National Day of Reason
We live in an unreasonable country, so I don’t expect that the National Day of Reason will get as much attention as the idiocy of the National Day of Prayer. But apparently we’re not supposed to pray today. Big change for all of you, I know. But here’s a suggestion: usually we just sit quietly …
May 02 2013
What point would a protest have if it didn’t piss someone off?
This well-written article in The Atlantic remarks on a familiar tactic. It’s about the Femen, the topless jihad, and Amina, and the complaints an annoying number of stodgy critics have made. You know the ones: the people who demand that all arguments be respectful, and insist that there are proper channels for debate, and protests …
Apr 30 2013
We don’t know everything, but we know enough
Sean Carroll explains the sufficiency of physics. Magic disproven with Feynman diagrams! Wait, I saw this talk at Skepticon, and I think it was close to an hour long. They’ve edited down to 10 minutes? And it still makes sense? This bodes ill. I fear they’re going to take my talks now and distill them …
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