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* In his recent book, "Reinventing the Sacred," Kauffman has launched an even more audacious project. He seeks to formulate a new scientific worldview and, in...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 2, 2008
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[1] 10 Arrested In Acid Attack On Afghan Girls Several Confess To Attacking School Girls; Government Calls Attack "Un-Islamic" ...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 2, 2008
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Acid attacks on school girls is un-Islamic, un-Christian, un-Hindu, etc. What religion in the demon haunted world would consider this to be a good thing? ...
Joe Needham
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Dec 2, 2008
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No matter how they try not to say it, they still think atheists have meaningless lives without God. This dude wants us poor atheists to call nature God now?...
Anne
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Dec 2, 2008
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... From: "James Scott Taylor" <james.adela@...> To: <carlsagan_currentevents@yahoogroups.com>; <skeptics-forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday,...
Anne
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* Acid attacks on school girls is un-Islamic, un-Christian, un-Hindu, etc. What religion in the demon haunted world would consider this to be a good thing?...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 3, 2008
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A New Picture of the Early Earth http://littlelink.webtrouble.com/?jhBI * In a new analysis, published in the current issue of the journal Nature, the zircons,...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 3, 2008
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Good point except atheists like Stalin and Mao killed between 12 and 20 million people. What about the atheist leaders in Cambodia who killed millions? It is...
Joe Needham
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Dec 3, 2008
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... Well, true, but that's the human condition. We all age, and then we die. It's just a fact of life. What would be sad is if we didn't have younger people...
William C. Garthright
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Dec 3, 2008
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... Then why call it "God." Where's the sense in that? I agree with you. Why try to reconcile science with superstition? I've got more respect for the...
William C. Garthright
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Dec 3, 2008
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... "Un-Islamic"? From what I hear, this has become a common kind of attack on women in many Islamic countries. Why aren't people rioting* about this kind of...
William C. Garthright
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Dec 3, 2008
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"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." -Kurt Vonnegut, American...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 5, 2008
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http://littlelink.webtrouble.com/?QLPC Amusing baby Jesus Xmas gift-giving take on "A Colbert Christmas" where Willie Nelson sings. Elsewhere in other Magi...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 5, 2008
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Colbert Christmas: Toby Keith Sings about atheists taking Christmas http://littlelink.webtrouble.com/?gVRV Amusing "shock and awe" doings per the secular...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 5, 2008
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On 12/4/2008 11:11 PM, James Scott Taylor wrote: [snip] ... I don't know why he didn't mention it, but the point is that communism includes atheism. Freeing...
Eric Carlson
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Dec 5, 2008
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... * How Many Were Killed by Communists in the Name of Atheism & Secularism? Stalin, Mao, Other Communists Killed Millions on Behalf of Atheism ...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 6, 2008
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* WIKIPEDIA: The dominant forms of communism, such as Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and Trotskyism are based on Marxism, but non-Marxist versions of communism...
James Scott Taylor
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2002: Beginning in 1992, a series of tax laws combine to create large tax credits for certain Hummer buyers. By 2002, the New York Times reports that, thanks...
James Scott Taylor
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[1] Why the stories about Obama's birth certificate will never die http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/05/birth_certificate/ * You might think these...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 6, 2008
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[1] Colbert and the woolly mammoth http://vodpod.com/watch/1208477-colbert-and-the-woolly-mammoth COMMENT: Colbert is pretty science with-it with his science...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 6, 2008
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* Good point except atheists like Stalin and Mao killed between 12 and 20 million people. What about the atheist leaders in Cambodia who killed millions? * It...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 6, 2008
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* Good point except atheists like Stalin and Mao killed between 12 and 20 million people. What about the atheist leaders in Cambodia who killed millions? ...
James Scott Taylor
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Dec 6, 2008
4:19 pm
13441
So this article and myself are in agreement that people aren't killed in the name of theism either. Hence it is neither theism nor atheism that is the...
Eric Carlson
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Dec 6, 2008
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... You make a lot of good points, and I admit I was in error claiming that all communism is atheist. Indeed, the early Christians were more or less...
Eric Carlson
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Dec 6, 2008
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... About theism not being the problem, allow me to remind you of a few quotes: I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By...
Walter Hecker
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Dec 6, 2008
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Hence, subsets of theists, like those you mention, perform horrendous acts in the name of God. In comparison, specific atheists, like those mentioned, perform ...
Eric Carlson
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Dec 6, 2008
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... I wouldn't agree with this at all. Religious sects only exist because of their religious convictions and in many cases these religions believe in killing...
Lloyd Davidson
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Dec 6, 2008
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I haven't time to discuss all this, since I'm writing and checking a final while a student is taking it, but . . . On 12/6/2008 5:36 PM, Lloyd Davidson wrote: ...
Eric Carlson
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Dec 6, 2008
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Dear Eric, The problem with your argument is that while some forms of Marxism claim to be atheistic, no Marxist has ever claimed, so far as I am aware (please...
Lloyd Davidson
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Dec 6, 2008
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In the discussion of theists vs atheists and who's killed the most people according to their beliefs, I'd like to understand what "belief" in atheism is....
Anne
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