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Noah’s Ark: God, Giraffes, & Genocide

Thanks to Gordon for the video. Your Thoughts?

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Ibrahim Al-Buleihi, Former Saudi Shura Council Member, Defends Learning From The West

Ibrahim Al-Buleihi on Al-Aabiya TV on February 26, 2010: And here he argues that terrorism is the product of a flaw in Arab and Muslim culture: This is the product of our culture.  They are the product of a culture that believes the other does not deserve to live, and is an absolute enemy with […]

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Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A START

Here’s a meme that came my way through Facebook (thanks Tiffany!):  Go to Newsweek and press the following arrow keys in succession Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right and then the letters B A and ENTER” (you know, like it’s still 1991 and you’re playing CONTRA on Nintendo and you want to be […]

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Atheist Bullies

people had taken PZs post to the extreme of trying to invade this 18-year-old high school student’s personal life with focused harrassment and vituperation on not only an internet comment board, but in person via his personal phone number and *again very, very disturbing* actual physical home/family, as well.

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Random Digits As Math Porn

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Wafa Sultan

The TV appearance that made Wafa Sultan, author of A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam, famous and then criticism of her from the Muslim world, and an interview:

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The Burqa Doesn’t Stop Sexual Harassment

Austin Cline highlights an article about the ineffectiveness of unrevealing clothing in preventing harassment and assault of women in Egypt.  (You may remember that Egypt is also the nation with the recently released ad campaign aimed at getting women to cover up precisely as a remedy to such problems, which bewarethelizards42 perfectly skewered.) Cline quotes from […]

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Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Spin Backfire?

LiberalViewer worries that “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” risked losing control of the message and having the event spun in ways counter-productive to its important aims and in the long run harmful to the cause.  In other words, it might backfire.  He cites FOX News coverage to show an example of precisely this happening: It is inevitable […]

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What Is Science? A New PhD Scientist Explains

Eric Schulze’s USC Commencement Speech as he receives his doctoral degree from the Keck School of Medicine: via Bad Astronomy Your Thoughts?

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Nigeria Choking To Death On Perennial Oil Spills

Horrifying irresponsibility and callousness: “Oil companies do not value our life; they want us to all die. In the past two years, we have experienced 10 oil spills and fishermen can no longer sustain their families. It is not tolerable.” With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40% of all the crude the United States […]

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God’s Apparent Fondness For Blood Drinking and Cannibalism

It’s just about lunch time and if I know God I know what he wants to eat and have you eat…human flesh!  Steve Wells (creator of the indispensable Skeptics Annotated Bible) the other day compiled handy list of God’s commands for blood drinking and cannibalism.  Read the whole post.  Here are just a few, um, “tastes”: […]

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The Epistemological Bias Of “Anchoring”

Jonah Lehrer (author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist) explains: One of my favorite demonstrations of anchoring was done by a group of MIT economists led by Dan Ariely, as they conducted an auction with their business graduate students. (The study was later repeated with executives at the MIT Executive Education Program […]

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Debunking S.E. Cupp’s Claims About Media Atheist Bias

This interesting video treats just a couple of S.E. Cupp’s claims in Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity(which has just a 2-star rating out of its first 28 reviews on Amazon): Your Thoughts?

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Imagining The Closet

A Daily Dish reader writes in to Andrew: A few years ago, I went on a little weekend trip with my Dad, his wife and my husband. My dad’s wife had arranged for us to get lavish accommodation at a beautiful luxury resort, because she is a conference organiser. The only caveat was that for the […]

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Kagan Called A Pro-Separation Of Church And State Opinion Dumb

Secular Coalition for America writes: In a 1987 dissent in the case of Bowen v. Kendrick, Justice Stevens, along with three other highly respected justices, addressed significant problems with a statute which gave government funds to religious organizations which in turn “educated” teens about sex and pregnancy. The justices understood that such a statute would […]

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Dan Barker on FOX News Defends Ruling Against National Day of Prayer

And he nails the case beautifully, replying to the question whether prayer might not benefit some people: And those people can’t pray unless the government holds their hand?  Those people are not free to pray unless the President gets up and proclaims a day of prayer?  This is a country of freedom. The country is […]

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BBC’s The Big Questions: “Does The Law Undervalue Christian Beliefs?”

The video’s poster on YouTube also includes some interesting links for related reading: Foster couple challenges homosexuality laws Christian relationship counsellor sacked after refusing to give sex advice to gay couples Gay couple turned away from B&B by Christian owners Tory MP suggests B&Bs should be able to bar gay guests Your Thoughts?

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Michael Shermer’s “Baloney Detection Kit”

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Frank Schaeffer Reminisces About Growing Up With Fundamentalist Parents

It always bothers me when non-believing apologists for religion, those whom Jerry Coyne dubs “faitheists”, who have what Daniel Dennett characterizes as “belief in belief” claim that religion is either minimally harmless or outright beneficial for the faithful and therefore we should make no efforts to dissuade them of their errors.  The reason I get […]

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Jesus And Mo Watch South Park, Discover Profound Paradox

Put two great religious founders together and let the mysteries emerge: Your Thoughts?

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The Holy Gospel Of The Easter Bunny

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294. Ryan Adams

Dave here, your Camels With Hammers webmaster! Dan asked me to provide todays installment, as it’s one of my favorite artists, Ryan Adams, who I run a fan website and message board for at alt-country.org. Ryan fronted Whiskeytown, one of the most influential alternative country bands during the 90′s, and launched his solo career in […]

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Nothing Left To Prove

Clergy Guy has a great post on his time spent visiting the elderly.  Read the whole thing.  Here’s just his moral, but there’s a lot of fun getting here: Often someone will grab my hand and speak urgently of what they used to do. “I was a policeman for 35 years.” “I owned a ranch.” […]

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306. Aerosmith

Aerosmith are quite simply so much the quintessential ’70s-’80s rock band to my ears that it renders them positively bland, being the formula perfected to the point of having nothing distinctive left.  But that said, I came of age in the mid-90s during their last great revival and so there will always be a set […]

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