1. What is the role of free will to an atheist?

Comment #98454 by stevieb on December 13, 2007 at 4:02 pm

didn't einstein settle this a century ago with relativity? if when you are in time depends on where you are in space, as well as your speed through spacetime, then haven't our choices "already" been made?

2. The joining of church and state

Comment #88713 by stevieb on November 18, 2007 at 4:15 pm

>He has ... I saw it at the library the other day. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/37b7kl

I know! ;-)

3. The joining of church and state

Comment #88539 by stevieb on November 17, 2007 at 3:33 pm

nice article- maybe dershowitz should write a book about the declaration of independence... then journalists could mention that when quoting him...

4. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #76099 by stevieb on October 4, 2007 at 5:41 pm

any audio-only versions available for us who like to listen at work?

thanks,

-steve

5. Could these books be part of the problem?

Comment #61116 by stevieb on August 3, 2007 at 5:53 pm

the public shouldn't need "atheism for dummies" any more than "not believing in santa for dummies". how about "thinking for dummies" or "logic for dummies"?

the counter to these "X for dummies" and "complete idiot's guide to X" is the "intelligent person's guide to X". the catalog is not as broad as its competitors, but it does include atheism (see my above post)

-steve

6. Could these books be part of the problem?

Comment #60952 by stevieb on August 3, 2007 at 7:05 am

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Persons-Guide-Atheism/dp/0715632299/ref=sr_1_1/102-8997046-0978566?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186149887&sr=8-1

7. 4 page German spread on The God Delusion

Comment #52515 by stevieb on June 27, 2007 at 7:06 am

the germans will probably not have too much trouble associating it with "imagine" by john lennon.

8. 4 page German spread on The God Delusion

Comment #52315 by stevieb on June 26, 2007 at 5:47 pm

they left out an important reviewer quote:

"Wenn dieses Buch die Welt nicht verändert, werden wir alle total beschissen worden." - Penn (Penn & Teller)

while I don't think penn & teller are known so well in germany, it's still an awesome quote.

9. 4 page German spread on The God Delusion

Comment #52314 by stevieb on June 26, 2007 at 5:41 pm

Ausgezeichnet! Hoffentlich wird auch bald etwas von Sam Harris auf deutsch erscheinen!

10. The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms

Comment #51693 by stevieb on June 24, 2007 at 5:56 am

can someone create or link to an audio-only version? i want to listen at work...

thanks,

-steve

11. Dobson and John MacArthur fantasize about the downfall of America

Comment #48705 by stevieb on June 8, 2007 at 6:48 pm

lesbian sex? if it weren't for lesbian sex, what would religious conservatives watch in their convention hotel rooms?

12. Should Science Speak to Faith? A dialog between Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins

Comment #47305 by stevieb on June 4, 2007 at 3:33 am

sorry to jump off-topic for a second, but can someone explain to me how to submit something to be posted on this site? there's nothing listed in the "contact" section

thanks, and i did, in fact, read the above article, and enjoyed it a lot. krauss' ideas about engaging the other side are intriguing to me; i feel much the same as Richard, and am always willing to entertain well-reasoned arguments from our more magnanimous colleagues.

-steve

13. Londonistan Calling

Comment #39688 by stevieb on May 11, 2007 at 2:21 pm

hitchens was on npr today; don't know how else to post the link:

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/05/20070511_b_main.asp

14. Anderson Cooper interviews Christopher Hitchens

Comment #39360 by stevieb on May 10, 2007 at 12:08 pm

nice to hear the title of the book pronounced with the correct syllabic emphasis, "God is NOT Great;" this refers back to the Islamic "God is Great."

-steve

15. Sam Harris in conversation with Oliver McTernan

Comment #38724 by stevieb on May 9, 2007 at 4:07 am

if anyone has either these two audio files or the hitchens/sharpton available as mp3s, i'd be grateful for the chance to listen to these on my portable player. i tried the method described in the sharpton thread (linux here :-)) but ran into a roadblock:

steve@darwin:~$ mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://helix.nypl.org:554/live/070507/070507.ra
MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing rtsp://helix.nypl.org:554/live/070507/070507.ra.
Resolving helix.nypl.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: helix.nypl.org
Resolving helix.nypl.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server helix.nypl.org[65.88.89.105]: 554...
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x53
rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x4d
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)

that's it for the tech support stuff here. if you have any solution for me, send me a private message; thanks!

-steve

16. Massachusetts Atheists?

Comment #20366 by stevieb on February 2, 2007 at 2:43 am

we've looked into this before; there weren't any legislators who were interested in pursuing this, especially with the gay marriage issue so much in the public eye. In addition, American Atheists didn't think it was a wise exertion of energy when no one takes the law seriously anyway.

we're still looking for someone who lives in lowell to help fight the recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the city council meetings. I've sent a few articles to this site, but they were not put up.

-steve
lowellatheists.blogspot.com