I don't know. We were down from about 6 pm last night until about 9 am this morning. This crash coincided with an unusually intense flurry of spam and some other problems (including some random characters appearing in some of the posts). I'd like to think that we were hacked by the White…
Teen pregnancy is down. Is it because of those abstinence pledges? As indicated in this article from the BBC News, "88% of those who make the pledge break the pledge, so it must be down to condoms and safe sex education." The Guttmacher Institute recently released its own survey showing…
From today's press conference at the White House: Reporter: Slides from a prewar briefing show that by this point, the U.S. expected that the Iraqi army would be able to stabilize the country and there would be as few as 5,000 U.S. troops there. What went wrong? Tony Snow: I'm…
One of our earlier posts concerned the efforts of evangelicals to relegate early hominid fossils to the back room of Kenya’s National Museum. That post recently drew this comment from James Davenock:
It seems that many here could simply replace the name Sam Harris, with Jesus, Newton or Sullivan in their writings. Many keep quoting others in an attempt to get their point across rather than just trying to get their point across. You could say “Dave, I admire Jesus’ viewpoints” or “Dave, I admire Sam Harris’ viewpoints” or “Dave, I admire Newton’s viewpoints”. . .
The difference between Science and Religion is Science has a process by which to prove its ideas while Religion does not and requires you to simply accept or excommunicate. I have found the same smugness in both religious and science types and that is a bit disquieting.
The wise man first says “I do not know”
I started responding to James Davenock’s comment at the location of that earlier post, but it grew long enough to justify posting at this separate location.
Davenock raises a good point. I suspect that there are many non-believers out there (all of us, some of the time), who “hero-worship” people like Richard Dawkins just like many theists hero-worship James Dobson or Jesus. You can quickly spot these folks by their writings, which essentially amount to “Way to go, Charles [Darwin]!” Or “Way to go, Jesus!” This lack of thoughtful content is no more informative than the rote prayers …
Today ABC's Martha Raddatz asked Bush whether Iraq was embroiled in a civil war. Bush: "It's hard for me living in this beautiful White House to give you an assessment, a first hand assessment . . ." Bush continued on: I haven't been there. You have, I haven't. But I…