I thought Dawkins did well. He calmly dealt with O'Reilly's points and we have O'Reilly granting that he can't prove Jesus with Dawkins mentioning Zeus, Thor,...
Jim, I hate to quibble details, but the "or" highlighted below is WILDLY optimistic. I'll get Friedman's book ASAP. Sam In a message dated 5/31/2008 9:53:36...
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What we have here is discourse between a scholar and a pig. Did you expect the pig to learn manners? Sam In a message dated 5/31/2008 9:56:49 P.M. Central...
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The only consolation is that after twenty years of painstaking research, even the Bush Administration finally had to give way to the overwhelming flood of...
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Jun 1, 2008 2:28 pm
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Stumbled across this site while fishing in an biology professor's site. It has a huge library of well organized and described links: ...
Liz, I agree with much of what you write. However, I'd like to point out that claim that higher interest rates cause higher inflation is mistaken. On the ...
Heh, heh. You've got no argument from me there. But it is a great example of why we need "better" spokespeople for science. PZ Myres was saying just that on...
Thanks Clay, great links. dave. ________________________________ From: Reason-Omaha@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Reason-Omaha@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Clayton...
From NYT: June 1, 2008 Happy Fairgoers, Worried Biologists By John Tierney <http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/author/jtierney/> The skies opened Saturday...
Two paragraphs from a Washington Post story on border crackdowns: " ...historically, immigration violations have been processed by U.S. adminisÂtrative...
This is creepy. Do ya think we can just nuke the South or somethin'? I'm really tired that red state blunderland. More reason to start taxing the churches!...
Who is he? A Muslim: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp A liar: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp A racist:...
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Jun 2, 2008 10:06 pm
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Can't buy warming After reading a May 29 Midlands Voices piece on global warming by Camellia Watkins of Sierra Club Omaha, I would like to ask a few questions...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR200806 0201743.html NASA's own watchdog: Agency misled on global warming By SETH BORENSTEIN ...
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13860?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn13860 Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals 22 May 2008 Kate...
Humph! Not a single science book in the whole collection. And pretty thin on philosophy or history. Clay ... -- Clay Farris Naff Executive Director, Lincoln...
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html <http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html> The Largest Atheist / Agnostic Populations Top 50...
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive...
Of all the irrational cliches out there, the one that irritates me the most is "The end doesn't justify the means." The truth is that only an END can justify a...
I was going to put the lie to this piffle, but someone called Matt D. did it better than I could have with the following post to Miss Reason's blog: "I cured...
I'm forwarding his request from the Sierra Club in hopes somebody who is NOT planning on going to the Holland lecture will go to McFoster's and participate, if...
Jim Bechtel
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Dear Brothers & Sisters of REASON. You know, me, (Ray Z) has a bone to pick with the Bush Aministation to re-activate the US Navy's Fourth Fleet. I have...
Found this on Martin Sheen's webpage, The San Francisco Board of Education has just voted unanimously to make Addicted To War a supplemental text book to be...
Great! Important stuff! Congrats! ... SEnator ... program, ... for ... years ... allowed ... but ... obsolete. ... childhood, ... to ... a ... prelude ... ...
I have that book. I had my daughter read it when she was in grade school. Thom Hartmann has a really cool political graphic novel out as well. There are some...
Sen. Chambers weekly (live) broadcast is on Cable Televison Chanel 22, every Tuesday, at 9:0 P.M. It is re-broadcast every on Cable Television,...
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