veritas omnia vincit

A Very Pirate Christmas to you all!

http://atheistmovies.blogspot.com/

Some interesting stuff. And it has Penn and Teller, so who can complain, right?

I know America is just as full of right wing crazy as fundamentalist religious crazy, but this ices the cake! http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs

This is one of the AtGoogle talks, and quite interesting. Christopher Hitchins is one of those people who I absolutely agree with on some things and want to beat his head against a wall on others. Here, I'm agreeing ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHN3JtyUXg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM0oBuhTLRI&feature=channel

The ideas presented in this YouTube item concern me for several reasons.

One - it freely conflates intelligent design with creationism. Which is about the only thing I agree with.

Two - the rhetoric spouted - our rights as Americans are being eroded, here's how - with no reflection that the actions listed as 'erosion of rights' are actually recognition of the legal seperation of church and state.

The Gospel Of Christian Atheism

I kid you not.

Must Science declare a holy war on religeon?

This is an interesting article from the LA Times, discussing whether it is productive for 'New Atheists' in the USA to follow Richard Dawkin's 'hardline' approach to faith and science (i.e. there is no place in science for religeon and the scientifically literate should reject all forms of religion) and if science and religion can be compatible.

This early paragraph (answering the question 'who will read Dawkin's latest book') caught my eye: