Holy land has hundreds of nuclear weapons
Jimmy Carter has confirmed what has long been speculated, that Israel has over 100 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, something that Israel has always refused to either confirm or deny. There are no weapons inspectors in Israel and Israel has never been a signatory of the NPT.
44 – An Atheist Temple
BBC News – Row over Indonesia atheist Facebook post Priority is to protect marriage | Herald Sun No Fetus Can Feed Us | Unreasonable Faith Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 | Video on TED.com
Further Reading
Matt’s Human Morality
Matt Dillhunty (president of the Atheist Community of Austin, co-host of “Non-Prophets Radio“, and “The Atheist Experience”) recently debated Father Hans Jacobse (an Antiochian Orthodox Priest) at The University of Maryland on 16th November. Full video of the event can be found here (although only 6 of the 9 videos have been posted online as…
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Aunt Matilda’s Cake
In the book “God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?” by John Lennox he puts forward the example of Aunt Matilda’s cake to illustrate the limited nature of science. The scenario has Aunt Matilda baking a cake and number of scientists are asked to describe it. A nutritionists might tell us about the carbohydrates, fats, sugars,…
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The Psychology of Everyday Things
Professor Donald Arthur Norman is an expert in the field of cognitive science and is widely considered to be the first to advanced human factors to design theory. He is founder of The Cognitive Science Society and the Nielsen Norman Group, a consulting group on matters of usability which also includes Jakob Nielsen and Bruce…
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Biblical abortion
Mike Lee, the Religious Antagonist, poses some rather curly questions to a group of anti-choice protestors. Just check out their reaction when he starts quoting the bible, although I think he missed an obvious passage: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD…
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The perfect God
I want a god whose ultimate goals which do not necessitate the creation of mysterious suffering and death. I want a god who doesn’t violate causation by causing things to begin to exist from nothing in the absence of time. I want a god who does not give us “free will” then punishes us for…
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Atheism 2.0
“Atheism 2.0” is a 20 minute TED presentation by Alain de Botton in which he proposes a new approach to evangelising atheism. Alain suggests (apparently without evidence) that we have “secularised badly” and we should sift through the rituals, traditions, and behaviours of religion to identify and adopt their efficient mechanisms. “I have come here…
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