1. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165585 by tman on April 21, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Being raised jewish myself. I am glad that Richard addressed this issue.

I am very disappointed that the jewish community is not directly answering to the this misinformation, anti-Semitism and revisionist history about the holocaust.

This makes me very proud of the atheist community, which I am part of.

Compasion rather that contempt is the right approach.

Thank you Richard for educating this person.

2. Yoko Ono, Filmmakers Caught in 'Expelled' Flap

Comment #162393 by tman on April 16, 2008 at 9:06 pm

First post!

Somebody please start suing them!

3. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #159300 by tman on April 11, 2008 at 11:09 pm

That made my night. Too Funny.

4. Hitchens vs. Hitchens

Comment #158015 by tman on April 10, 2008 at 1:26 am

Can someone please post the entire thing in one downloadable movie???

5. Expelled Overview

Comment #149471 by tman on March 25, 2008 at 4:38 pm

I have tipped off the the http://www.adl.org/

This revisionist history should be addressed by the jewish community.

6. Oklahoma: One Step from Doom

Comment #141059 by tman on March 9, 2008 at 11:31 pm

BUUUULLLLLLSHIIIIT!

Well there you go want a "real" education you have to move! This better be protested and in the news.

What were they thinking. It's science class. Ummm how can we make our state look ridiculously stupid.

7. Richard Dawkins' US Tour begins this week

Comment #139982 by tman on March 6, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Yeah felt the same way AndyD. wow you even got the same book signed as me. lol "Real" fans get UtR signed not the TGD like the masses.. LOL just kidding. great time though. I'm really glad ASU didn't embarrass herself with any stupid question form a the audience. THe questions were are pretty good. most could be answered if you've the Atheism Tapes.

8. Richard Dawkins' US Tour begins this week

Comment #139975 by tman on March 6, 2008 at 9:47 pm

Just met Richard Dawkins! Great Talk....I was star-struck.

For those of us who have seen all his past videos and talks, It's a condensed version of everything up till now. The first 20 rows were quieter than the rest of the entire audience , probably b/c they've have heard all the jokes and are big fans. I wanted to him to sign my copy of Unweaving the Rainbow. With his famous quote. "Science is the Poetry of Reality" Which is a really beautiful saying. But all I got out was, would you sign my book "science is the peo..." he said no signed my book and with a picture of the top of his head and me smiling. Not even sure he noticed my "A" pin. Oh, well felt a bit let down, but I suppose I build up those moments to much.

Crowd was huge, he even mentioned that was the biggest audience he spoke to yet. Looking forward to the post of video. On the hole, great event. Geeked-out. Got my book signed. Met the Professor in real life. I'm gonna go have a drink and relax from all the excitement

9. Richard Dawkins' US Tour begins this week

Comment #139452 by tman on March 5, 2008 at 9:48 pm

See you tomorrow Richard! Looking forward to it.

I've got my 9th row Tempe ASU Gammage seats!

Welcome to ASU Richard Dawkins!

10. Sam Harris debate with Rabbi David Wolpe

Comment #107930 by tman on January 5, 2008 at 3:26 pm

how can we save this video???

11. THE FOUR HORSEMEN - Available Now on DVD!

Comment #99415 by tman on December 16, 2007 at 3:26 pm

I want to see these guys chat next.....




Richard Dawkins

Steven Weinberg

David Attenborough

Louis Wolpert

12. THE FOUR HORSEMEN - Available Now on DVD!

Comment #99405 by tman on December 16, 2007 at 3:08 pm

Really cool.. But too much Hitchens. More Dawkins. Hitchens just wants to be provocative. It seemed to end a bit abruptly. Maybe due to the tape and not the proper end of the discussion.

13. Bah, Hanukkah

Comment #94619 by tman on December 6, 2007 at 4:14 am

Now about his article....


I question his motives on this one.... Too easy of a target, even jewish people would agree that Hanukah is not really that important and is only elevated because of Christmas and business.

Our objective to raise the awareness of reason, is not to abolish all rituals even if they are false. Intense intelligence and cold hard logic are not great social binders. Slapstick humor for example everyone can laugh at. That's the point of accessible rituals. This is major party pooper talk.

I respect these issues as an anthropologist. Though, they are false. I believe we can respect devotion even though it my be false. " You worked really hard at that!, but it doesn't work."

14. Bah, Hanukkah

Comment #94598 by tman on December 6, 2007 at 3:16 am

WOH WOH WOH!

Hitches isn't an anti-semite. But Don't criticize people for call others out on it. It's alive and well in the US. I was raised jewish (not any more) but I've encountered a surprising amount of anti-semtizem first hand. It's odd and scary and for real.

15. Sherri Shepherd needs to go away now

Comment #94550 by tman on December 6, 2007 at 1:23 am

I know we all like joking how stupid this is and believe me everyones jokes are great! Keep'm coming, but in all seriousness the rationalizations that say "she serves as a warning" are jokes too.

After we all catch our breaths from laughing.... This isn't really funny, but quite sad. It not sad that she is on national television or that she's so uneducated or even that her representation doesn't help christians or the black community. All these factors are diminished by the fact that she is spreading false information to the public.

It's not funny because of the viewers (thousands of them). This is irresponsible on the part of the network, because this is beyond dumb and goes uncorrected.

16. Bad Faith Awards: Vote for the winner now

Comment #94507 by tman on December 5, 2007 at 8:55 pm

D'Souza is the King Douche. Vote for this shit head. He is polluting the public sphere with soo much disinformation. It's a crime.

17. 'Growing Up in the Universe' now available free online

Comment #88577 by tman on November 17, 2007 at 11:23 pm

Thank you RD nice move.

18. Allan Gregg interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #87360 by tman on November 12, 2007 at 1:19 am

Woh woh woh! dismiss philosophy!?!? Are you mad?

I studied my undergraduate as a philosophy major and loved every-minute of it. I went to grad school afterwards , but that's besides the point. Most people posting here are pretty smart so don't put theology in the category of philosophy and throw them out, it's not the same. All those great arguments that every one like to use for and against religion and god. Well philosophers developed them.

Philosophy is the edge of science and the intellectual pursuit of truth. The smartest professors in universities are philosophy professors. Here's why it's fundamentally important......

Philosophy figures out chains of reason and there implications.


We postpone judgement to entertain concepts in order to explore. Say one chain might be what god is like another might be god doesn't exist. another might be if there were multi-verses (many universes)

exploring these chain of reasoning one can look it up and find the implications of their thoughts at the moment (the works all ready done by very smart people). Most people are discovering for themselves not for humanity, it's likely someone all-ready thought it before you.

Philosophy is valuable even if it tells us what chains of reasoning are not true real or possible. It is another avenue that is crossed off in the pursuit of understanding the world.

19. God Talk on 'The View'

Comment #73423 by tman on September 25, 2007 at 1:51 am

Someone please repost the video!!!!!!!!!!