There is a wonderful program in place at a bible camp in Massachusetts: the children get phone calls… from God . He tells the kids to proselytize for him, to be just like Jesus, and if they’re really, really good, that he’ll swoop in some day on his magic sleigh and harvest their souls to bring to heaven with him (OK, that last bit is an extrapolation). I like this plan, though.
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Please, do this some more
Roy Peter Clark wrote a book about language which was savaged viciously on Language Log — in other words, the poor guy was publicly ridiculed and his work rudely trashed.
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I thought this wasn’t supposed to happen?
Some good news: the online ‘debate’ between Dawkins and the religion editors of the Times can be read for free.
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Dawkins’ online debate
From the Guardian: Is physicist Stephen Hawking right that physics, not God, created the universe? 81.3% Yes.
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Hawking can’t possibly be right until his results have been confirmed in an online poll
Laplace, Hawking, same difference.
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Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothese-la
A gunman with an explosive device is holding hostages at the Discovery Channel building until they give him what he wants. What does he want?
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Discovery Channel besieged
BigThink has been having a Month of Dangerous Ideas , in which each day they publish a pro and con for a provocative idea, like “Tax Fat People” or “Mandatory Bible Study” (promoted to make people more moral, believe it or not), from which you’d get the impression it was mainly a month of stupid ideas.
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Shouldn’t someone ask the Dakotans?
Here’s a silly poll from Eric Hovind, and we know from experience how it will go: if he doesn’t like the results, he’ll jigger everything around until he gets what he wants.
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A totally futile poll
Yeesh, you’ve dragged me onto the internet to update the nagging thread again, despite the work piled up around me and the ickiness I’m feeling from all these new meds I’m soaking in. Now back to recuperating and writing.
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Episode XCIX: It’s probably not lupus!
Oh, my. Tony Blair seems to have declared war against us . “We face an aggressive secular attack from without.