It appears that a some nutball atheist has committed an act of terrorism. It is easy to imagine what would have appeared on atheist blogs if James Lee, who took hostages in the Discovery Channel headquarters, had issued demands that the station change its programming to provide more “creationist” or other fundamentalist religious programming. A substantial number of atheist blogs would have then written posts saying, “See how evil religion is that it is responsible for stuff like this.” However, it seems that James Lee was an atheist – somebody quite convinced that, on Darwinian and Malthusian terms, we are sewing the seeds of our own destruction and who wanted to put an end to it
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James Lee, Discovery Headquarters Terrorist and Atheist
I saw this article today: Humanists Decry Stem Cell Research Ruling (See: Humanists Decry Stem Cell Research Ruling ) I would like to know what they are decrying exactly. I am a major advocate of stem-cell research. However, I am also an advocate of judges reaching conclusions about what the law says, not about what this or that group wants the law to say.
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Embryonic Stem Cell: Bad Rulings vs. Bad Laws
I saw this article today: Humanists Decry Stem Cell Research Ruling (See: Humanists Decry Stem Cell Research Ruling ) I would like to know what they are decrying exactly. I am a major advocate of stem-cell research.
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Embryonic Stem Cell: Bad Rulings vs. Bad Laws
One of the reasons why atheists are so politically impotent in America is because they allow statements like those of Republican candidate Michel Stopa go unchallenged. (See: The Sun Chronical, It’s a matter of faith “I actually don’t think Barack Obama is a Muslim. I think he is a nonbeliever,” he said….”I have no specific evidence, but I think he’s sympathetic to anybody who is opposed to America and American values.” So, all athiests are opposed to America and American values
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Republican Candidate Michael Stopa’s Anti-Atheist Bigotry Ignored.
Imagine that I present the following research proposal. I am going to bring in people off of the street and pay them some small amount of money to participate in an experiment. In this experiment, I am going to show them pictures of planets and asteroids and ask them, “What is the average surface temperature of that object?” And I am going to record their answers
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The Relevance of Studying Environmental Influence on Moral Judgments
I have written in recent posts that some form of condemnation is legitimate. Somebody who makes harsh derogatory comments about the behavior of another is not necessarily “being a dick.” A lot of harsh and derogatory comments do not meet this standard, however. Some are bigoted or prejudicial.
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Responsible Name-Calling
A couple of posts ago, I suggested that Phil Plait, in his “Don’t Be a Dick” speech, asked the wrong question for understanding the role of insult and condemnation.
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Phil Plait: The Question Not Asked
I have been avoiding the fact that the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” is not a mosque but a community center with a basket ball court, swimming pool, cooking classes, and with the top two floors devoted to prayer. I have done so on the grounds that I do not want to get into suggesting that an appropriate response is, “It’s not a mosque, so then it’s okay.” No
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"The Ground Zero Mosque": LYING hate-mongering bigots.
“How many of you lost your faith because somebody called you an idiot.” Several atheist bloggers have embedded a talk by Phil Plait on how to promote rationalism where this question played a key role in that presentation. Plait expects that most skeptics will say that they were not convinced of skepticism by being called an idiot and proposed that we quit using practices that do not work.
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Phil Plait’s "Don’t Be a Dick" Speech
If there was ever a wrong solution to a non-problem, the Governor of New York has found it. In order to prevent the construction of a Muslim cultural center and mosque to a “less emotionally charged location” he is proposing “providing state funds to help the center find another location.” (See MSNBC.com N.Y
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Taxpayer Funding of a Muslim Cultural Center