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All reasonable news fit to print. This blog is an avenue to publish all the interestingly rational and irritatingly irrational things found in the wide world of the computer internet. |
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Intelligence Squared Debate: Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics
Intelligence Squared Debate: Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics
Aired November 7, 2009 on BBC World
"The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world?
A new debate, presented from London by Zeinab Badawi
It stands up for the oppressed and offers spiritual succour to billions say the Church's supporters. But what about the Church's teachings on condoms, gay sex and women priests, ask the detractors.
Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdecombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry."
From Telegraph:
"The voting gives a good idea of how it went. Befor
Three Views of Carl Sagan
Three Views of Carl Sagan
On the occasion of "Carl Sagan Day" we proudly present this wonderful video with a bit of patina, as it is from the year 1999:
"In this Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series talk at Caltech from 1999, three science biographers take an illuminating look back over the life and legacy of one of the 20th Century's most celebrated astronomers.
First, Michael Shermer analyzes Carl Sagans career to test common claims (such as the idea that Sagans popularizing interfered with his scientific research). Shermer reveals the true nature of the so-called Sagan Effect.
Then, William Poundstone (author of Carl Sagan: A Life in the Co
The first Kiva Lending Team to reach $1,000,000 in loans is the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freet
The first Kiva Lending Team to reach $1,000,000 in loans is the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious!
Read more at: http://www.kiva.org/about/inside/2009/10/07/first-kiva-team-to-reach-1-million.html%20?utm_source=jg&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=jg_$100%20Million%20Edition%20|%20News%20from%20Samoa%20|%20Kiva%20is%20Hiring!%20(240752588)&u
Bad Faith Awards 2009: the polls are open
Bad Faith Awards 2009: the polls are open
Read more at: http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2009/11/bad-faith-awards-2009-polls-are-open.html
The Bad Faith Awards 2009 of the New Humanist -magazine are now up for grabs and YOU can decide who receives the higly valued prize this year. Last year, erstwhile US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin walked away with the prize, polling a staggering 33 per c
'Why Evolution Is True' by Jerry Coyne, AAI 2009
'Why Evolution Is True' by Jerry Coyne, AAI 2009
Jerry Coyne explains 'Why Evolution is True' (also the title of his excellent new book) at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 conference, sponsored by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
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