1. Richard Dawkins receives the Deschner Prize

Comment #78947 by david hartley on October 15, 2007 at 1:53 pm

No... the scientific line. And unless you have qualifications, your personal view really does not count.

oh my dear fellow...say it aint so joe....my papa is bigger than yours...

2. Richard Dawkins receives the Deschner Prize

Comment #78937 by david hartley on October 15, 2007 at 1:14 pm

(...Gore, gawd bless 'im, is part of the crucial fight back, and WE ATHEISTS should be pulling with him,

The global warming debate has many parallels with other debates. 'Teach the controversy', say the Intelligent Designers. 'Lets have a debate' say the global warming deniers. It seems the SAME kind of approach to me - try and convince the scientifically ignorant public that there is disagreement amongst experts where there really is none.


Anyone disputing climate change, who doesn't have a Phd in climatology and several well received peer reviewed studies on the subject is in exactly the SAME position as a fundamentalist christian imagining they have anything relevant to say on the subject of evolution.)


...the party line.

3. Richard Dawkins receives the Deschner Prize

Comment #78924 by david hartley on October 15, 2007 at 12:16 pm

I think the debate is important; too many people are trying to shut it down.

agreed.



"The people whose consciousness is being raised may be given information they most desperately lack and need, may be given moral support they need. But the process nearly always means that the pupil gets only the propaganda the instructor approves of. "Raising consciousness," like "commitment," like "political correctness," is a continuation of that old bully, the party line".

4. Griffin's 'offensive' Emmy speech to be censored

Comment #69721 by david hartley on September 12, 2007 at 11:40 am

yes yes generally think the 'jab' by kathy griffin is a good thing...come on these 'beliefs' are funny surely? ( well for a moment ignoring the poison they exude..erm)

the laughter may make some closeted atheist feel a bit more at ease...or are we to take the comments as seriously as bill donahue would like us?

5. Fears Grow Over 'Mega Mosque'

Comment #57416 by david hartley on July 19, 2007 at 9:11 am

wise words in comment 24

it makes me very uneasy seeing articles from this paper printed on here considering its usual 'anti immigrant' rabble rousing...there is an agenda here which is not do with atheism.

6. Floods are judgment on society, say bishops

Comment #53672 by david hartley on July 2, 2007 at 1:27 pm

i also heard the radio 4 item on the bishop of carlisle...my take was the spokesman for the bish wasnt really backtracking but just trying to bury the controversy under a heap of theo-gibberish...i wasnt entirely sure whether grayling was responding 'live'..he did sound too damn polite...well it was radio 4....im so embarrassed..im carlisle born....

7. Man to die over insult

Comment #47106 by david hartley on June 3, 2007 at 3:01 am

i have mailed the muslim council of britain this artcle and asked for their views.
i am not holding my breath.

8. Beggars belief: Robin McKie on The God Delusion

Comment #47102 by david hartley on June 3, 2007 at 2:46 am

comedy=good.

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9. Blasphemy Challenge on FOX

Comment #19708 by david hartley on January 29, 2007 at 11:14 am

hm ive emailed john kasich..i know...i know...probably a waste of time.

anyhow awaiting a response of some kind.

as regards fox news at least there is some exposure for atheists on this channel...it would be interesting to compare their level of coverage with the BBC for example..?

10. Richard Dawkins on the Mike Dickin Show

Comment #13560 by david hartley on December 18, 2006 at 11:26 am

mike dickin has gone up in my estimation (still uncertain about some of his other views)
some of the callers are scary but also vulnerable and lost.
does anyone else feel well......pity?

hope that doesnt come across as arrogant...