Yowza, Avicenna has joined FtB. In case you weren’t already following him, he’s a godless British Indian medical student, so we get the combination of a science-based perspective and outrage at the absurdity of religious propositions. Go forth and read!
Yowza!?
Avicenna? Wasn’t that an early Islamic /
ArabPersian astronomer? (Plus more apparently.)(Checks wikipedia – yup :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna
Also a lunar crater :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna_(crater)
Albeit a Farside one.)
Cheers PZ, I’ll check it out.
unless I’m missing something, he still isn’t showing up in the blog roll to the right
If you have read Pratchett’s “Small Gods” you will know there are *much more* than a million gods, but they need a critical infusion of faith to take off.