The stars are so very far away. Further than you and I can fathom. Could they be within our reach? Stars are lonely but we might visit them to slake their thirst for humanity. Would this help? Doubtful. A star’s life is a solitary life. Burning slow like a candle or popping like an old [...]
Wow. This is really good.
A while back I linked to a hilarious, unintentionally of course, video were some idiot used a banana to prove that creationism is true. Now to go with the banana we can see how a lowly jar of peanut butter proves evolution false.
What a bunch of total morons. And to think that someone that likely [...]
Sam Harris has written an excellent essay for the LA Times. The following quote has been circulating and is in itself brilliant:
Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.
This fragment nicely summarizes his argument:
The problem is that [...]
Imagine that you are, in an instant, decomposed atom by atom to your core set of information. Then this information is sent to another location (nearby or faraway it does not matter) and reconstituted. Your original body was destroyed during the reading process and then a new body was created during the writing process.
1) Is [...]
Richard Dawkins did a special for the BBC called The Root of all Evil. I doubt that there is any TV network, broadcast or cable, in the US that will ever actually show it so as a public service here is a link to it on YouTube.
[UPDATE: Buy it here.]
YouTube pulled the videos…
I consider myself a Libertarian however I have rarely found an ideological reason to align myself with the supposed conservative party the Republicans. This article highlights just one (of millions) of the reasons why the Republican version of conservative is insane and ultimately bad for us all.
This video “proves” that god exists by using a banana, and yes that is Kirk Cameron on the right.
I am currently reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I quite like it, though I do not think that I am exactly the target audience for the book. By this I mean that I am already firmly entrenched on the side of reason and science over faith and religion. In his introduction Dawkins states [...]