Category: Weirdness
Wouldn't you know it: when advanced theo-scientists in Iran discover a dangerous principle, some godless American turns it into a Doomsday Weapon. The first test-firing is to occur on the 26th of April. I plan to be cowering in my...
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Category: Godlessness
Adam Savage gave a talk at Harvard where he beautifully laid out the logic of a godless universe. Here's a short sample, but really, it's worth reading the whole thing: The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:08 AM • 88 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
You've got to read this interview with Nawal El Saadawi. I like everything about her. She still refuses to tone down her work. "I am very critical of all religions," she says. "We, as women, are oppressed by all these...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:54 AM • 224 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I have to join with my colleague Revere in saying that I am pro-abortion. Furthermore, I find the willingness of the devout anti-choice mob to distort the evidence so appalling that I would not join with them in anything....
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Category: Godlessness
It's a month gone, but now ABC has a summary (and you can go straight to the MP3 here)....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:05 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
The Huffington Post now has a post up from some guy named Rory Fitzgerald reacting to the suggestion that the Pope be arrested for crimes and conspiracies of his organization by urging that Richard Dawkins be arrested for "atheist crimes"…such...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:02 AM • 108 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
We had a fun evening on Friday—a crowd of a few hundred people sat down to consider the problem of a morality at the University of Chicago. At the front of the room we had Bob Bossie (a very...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:19 AM • 369 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has won a significant court case: the National Day of Prayer has been declared unconstitutional. The judge made a cautious and conservative judgment, but you know the right-wing is going to freak out. Crabb wrote...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:51 PM • 192 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Lots of people send me essays they've written, asking if I'd like to post it on Pharyngula. I usually don't, simply because I'd be inundated (so don't take this as an invitation!), and in most cases, those people ought to...
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