1. In God's Name

Comment #184059 by Algebratheist on May 23, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Great stuff.

Anybody know if there will be video of this Dennett debate? :
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2275308,00.html

2. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #150551 by Algebratheist on March 27, 2008 at 5:19 am

Great. Thanks.

Good work, not only on this but on everything, Josh.

3. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #148987 by Algebratheist on March 24, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Awesome. When will the whole discussion come out?

4. There Are No Ghosts in Your Brain

Comment #121671 by Algebratheist on February 4, 2008 at 12:30 am

Rational_G "Any reason to think the qualia problem won't be eventually solved by neurobiology?"

Neurobiology may be reducing a LITTLE too far. (Don't worry, you're no where near the realm of those quantum quacks.)
Search youtube for "Phantoms in the brain"
its a BBC video about V. S. Ramachandran. (he also has a book by the same name.) He's already distinguishing between "unconscious vision" and conscious vision and unconscious and conscious experience in general (ie. qualia) Pay specific attention to the man with blindsight. He's basically a partial zombie (in the philosopher's sense). Also, way back in 1991 in Dennett's "Consciousness Explained," he had a chapter segment called "Blindsight: Partial Zombiehood?" That's a good read too.

5. Interview with Michael Behe

Comment #61688 by Algebratheist on August 6, 2007 at 10:59 am

WOW. a breath of fresh air for those disappointed in Lehigh University can be found here: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/news/evolution.htm

6. Interview with Michael Behe

Comment #61167 by Algebratheist on August 4, 2007 at 2:23 am

Damn, Dr Benway and Aidan86 already got it.

7. Interview with Michael Behe

Comment #61166 by Algebratheist on August 4, 2007 at 2:21 am

"if you take away the parts of the mousetrap all you have is wood, a piece of metal, and a spring and there's no other possible use for any of that stuff"

LOL!!! Brilliant mockery. If any of you here have seen the Ken Miller video on youtube "The Collapse of Intelligent Design," then you know the uses of the "wood", "spring", etc. such as the type III secretory system. Ken Miller states, "The parts of this supposedly irreducibly complex system actually have functions of their own." Of course, paperweights don't become mousetraps though...

8. Don't eat at the Outback Steakhouse on Route 3...

Comment #58976 by Algebratheist on July 26, 2007 at 8:38 pm

what...the...fuck

9. Town Hall Seattle: God Is Not Great

Comment #57167 by Algebratheist on July 18, 2007 at 12:47 pm

Wow, an hour and 15 min. from Mr. Hitchens. As was said of the recent Sam Harris video; these guys say the same things over and over but i love it and i can't get enough of it!!

10. Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World

Comment #56182 by Algebratheist on July 14, 2007 at 10:23 am

theres one thing new about harris: his hair.

he's still great.

11. Hitchens on Falwell

Comment #42065 by Algebratheist on May 17, 2007 at 2:51 pm

what did he mean by "Chaucerian" fraud? Obviously pertaining to Chaucer, but how?

12. Jerry Falwell's God

Comment #41371 by Algebratheist on May 16, 2007 at 2:49 am

"And now Jerry Falwell's dead. Good riddance."

lol

13. Pop Tech Lecture

Comment #36391 by Algebratheist on May 1, 2007 at 3:08 am

great lecture. funny, he slipped up and said an "astronaut" killed the dinosaurs.

14. 12 Year Old Girl Prodigy Paints Pictures of God

Comment #18761 by Algebratheist on January 22, 2007 at 8:09 pm

a lot of prodigies have or end up having severe mental disoreders like schizophrenia, artistic temperament etc

15. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #15988 by Algebratheist on January 4, 2007 at 5:24 am

why hasnt he been diagnosed with schizophrenia yet?

16. A Christmas thunderbolt for the arch-enemy of religion

Comment #14768 by Algebratheist on December 25, 2006 at 12:56 am

Dawkins has NEVER said that religion is the ONLY root of evil! Dawkins knows Communism, tribalism, nationalism, etc etc etc are other roots! Dawkins just thinks (rightly) that religion is the only one that cant be criticized. this guy needs to watch the Beyond Belief session with Dawkins, Harris and 2 other guys whose names fled me. its the later one where Harris speaks first.

17. A Christmas thunderbolt for the arch-enemy of religion

Comment #14767 by Algebratheist on December 25, 2006 at 12:50 am

jesus titty fucking christ. there is no god!!!!!!!!!

Another impersonation:
Richard, you are not my child. You have not accepted Christ as your saviour therefore to the lake of fire you go. that is all.

Yet another impersonation: Richard, I am the Totem Pole of a large tribe. You have not recognized me. Therefore you must be hung in the forest upsidedown for 10hrs. If you survive you have a second chance. (who knows if this tribe really exists)

FUCK!

18. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12393 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 4:29 pm

yeah ill be on later to talk more. bye

19. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12390 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 4:24 pm

i gotta go guys. have fun debating objectivity. it could go on forever. fight the good fight.

20. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12381 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 4:06 pm

some of this sounds post-structuralist

21. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12371 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:54 pm

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ein.html
link to einstein's brain

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/wome.html
interesting link that sexists should visit

22. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12365 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:47 pm

intelligence**

23. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12363 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:46 pm

smaller in volume i think too..let me reread where i read that

24. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12360 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:44 pm

yes i read that too but ironically his brain was actually smaller (in weight) than average ("Junk Science" by Agin). that hurts the "brain size = intelligents argument" for all the racists and sexists that use it to justify their oppression

25. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12354 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:39 pm

yeah the Jonathan Miller and Steven Weinberg is good too

26. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12352 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:38 pm

logicel, in the God Delusion he calls it Einsteinian Pantheism (p.19) and says "pantheism is sexed-up atheism" (p.18)

27. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12351 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:34 pm

no i havent heard of nonlocality.
the pan in pantheism doesnt mean chaos it means all. "all is god"

28. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12346 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:24 pm

vardu, i agree. smolin and many others have criticized string theory for that

29. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12344 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:23 pm

like Dr. Harris, i believe we CAN learn from the eastern religions....the western ones...not so much haha

30. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12342 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:21 pm

i think dawkins called what im referring to as an Einsteinian "religion" perhaps Einsteinian Pantheism or Naturalistic Pantheism.

31. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12339 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:20 pm

of course we are, in a very literal sense, one with the universe. was it Carl Sagan that said "we are all made of stardust"? im an atheist but i have what can only be describes as "spiritual" or "mystical" feelings when i think about stuff like that.

32. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12337 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:18 pm

philosophy of mind is very complicated and i am definitely not an expert but you should check out dan dennett, steven pinker, john searle, ray kurzweil

33. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12335 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:14 pm

i agree with sam harris that we can have "spiritual" experiences (which are now being explained at the level of the brain) that change our day-to-day perspectives. susan blackmore also practices zen meditation but does not consider herself a buddhist.

34. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12334 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 3:10 pm

sounds interesting. did he formulate it with any religious or spiritual implications in mind?

35. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12330 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:55 pm

hm...never heard of him. ill check him out. thanks.

36. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12326 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:47 pm

you should check out Smolin vs. Susskind on the idea of Cosmic Natural Selection and fecund universes

37. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12325 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:45 pm

all i know about it i learned from wikipedia and we all know wikipedia is shit

38. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12323 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:41 pm

don't know much about the implicate order besides the idea of wholeness. could you summarize it and/or why it animates you?

39. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12320 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:30 pm

so what about science did you want to talk about cuz ill talk

40. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12317 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:25 pm

i think if dawkins had longer to talk he would have made more sense to the audience. any body watch the Beyond Belief sessions? they were so great.

41. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12312 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:20 pm

sorry for the personal attack, godismyhobby, i just dont know why you felt inclined to mock me

42. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12309 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:17 pm

dawkins has always been into atheism, its only now that he can talk about it publicly

43. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12306 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:15 pm

short for christian, assholes

44. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12298 by Algebratheist on December 11, 2006 at 2:07 pm

all those xian audience members arguments were just appeals to emotion

45. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12146 by Algebratheist on December 10, 2006 at 7:24 pm

Sri,
i completely agree.
Janus,
youre referring to weak atheism and i do agree with you there, but i dont think a strong atheist can convert to theism. If he/she does then he/she never really understood why he/she was an atheist in the first place.