Dr. Chaos suggested that I might enjoy The Waking Up podcast by Sam Harris, because, while he is very vocal about his atheism, and I am very vocal about there being no way to be sure there is no God, that he reminded her of arguing with me.  I did.  It was a hoot ( Read more... )

From today's The Straight Dope ( Read more... )

Went to an all-day at the Smithsonian over the weekend, as taught by Bart Ehrman: The New Testament Forgeries. Carmichael Auditorium, because he drew a bigger audience.

Here is Professor Ehrman signing a book for my sweetie:

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Ah, I had forgotten the pleasures of watching some guy publicly wank, and Matt McCormick drops his pants for us:

Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 8:15 PM ( Read more... )

Oh, I got a message from Yahweh or God or Allah or someone cosmic and hairy? He/She/It had a little extra time and was browsing the intarwebs for fun, and, apparently, He/She/It reads really fast and was disturbed by the massive wasteful duplication in a certain type of discussion/wank. He/She/It had a message, which I am passing along to you ( Read more... )

"There is an invisible floating dragon in my garage" is the proposition.

Atheists reverently pull that argument out as if is were made of gold, as if it was the ultimate proof the non-existence of God. Here I am going to comment upon it, because atheists don't want, usually, to hear my comments, having already made up their collective-but-proudly ( Read more... )