51. If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural

Comment #46154 by doodinthemood on May 30, 2007 at 11:51 am

Was this peer reviewed? Because it seems that nowadays newspapers only take investigations that aren't.

52. A Look at Regent University

Comment #46147 by doodinthemood on May 30, 2007 at 11:37 am

Frightening.

53. Christopher Hitchens at Politics and Prose

Comment #46071 by doodinthemood on May 30, 2007 at 6:17 am

There should be more examining of the Jesus as Myth idea. In literature and debates.

54. Dawkins' Christmas card list

Comment #46069 by doodinthemood on May 30, 2007 at 6:12 am

"In communism, the answer is a completely centralized authority who must use appalling physical force to bend humans into submission to a life that is antagonistic to their very nature, that is, one entirely void of self-interest."
In Stalinism, yes. In fact your whole post seemed to be referring to Stalinism rather than Marxism. When Marx was writing, he made specific models based around Berlin and Manchester, because he believed these would be the first cities to become communist, and that it would be spontaneous. Marxism is not a set of instructions to revolt, take power and enforce communism. It is an ideology of what will passively happen and emerge. By encouraging a revolt, Lenin went against the basis of Marxism. By maintaining the system dictatorially, Stalin did also.

55. Hitchens and Prager Debate

Comment #45995 by doodinthemood on May 30, 2007 at 1:40 am

I don't know if Hitchens had been allowed to prepare for this show or something but he came across as a genius. Could pull names and statistics from almost any point that could be raised.

It must get frustrating though how interviewers of this kind just ask questions that the interviewee has already answered in their book.

56. The Dawkins delusion

Comment #45865 by doodinthemood on May 29, 2007 at 12:28 pm

"I am tired of that pun"

It's not even very good.

They could surely do better:

Dawkins and Devil - The odd collusion
Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens on God - the squad's confusion
Dawkins on theologians - Roughshod seclusion

But no, it's always "the dawkins delusion"

57. Dawkins' Christmas card list

Comment #45848 by doodinthemood on May 29, 2007 at 11:44 am

To say that Stalin killing people is a discredit to Marxism would imply that Hitler killing people is a discredit to capitalism. Neither is true.

And as someone who isn't keen on animal research, I would like to say that I recognise the effectiveness of it, but would pursuade that the reason of this is because of a lack of will to continue research into alternatives. Rather than disrupt animal experimentation, I think that supporting alternative ideas which could, with time, overtake animal experimentation for effectiveness is preferable.

58. The Dawkins delusion

Comment #45841 by doodinthemood on May 29, 2007 at 11:36 am

I wouldn't say Dawkins doesn't understand the weak-faith majority so much as he just ignores them. It seems pretty obvious why an ultimate father figure would be comforting, but in a threat to society, all these people really pose is that they are the majority that constantly feeds faith and thus allows it to produce fundamentalists.

Apart from that, there seems little to say about them.

59. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #43658 by doodinthemood on May 22, 2007 at 7:47 am

When did calling someone an intellectual become an insult? I've noticed it a few times in atheist debates. What's up with that? And how should one react?

60. The Creation Museum: Prepare to believe

Comment #40982 by doodinthemood on May 15, 2007 at 9:25 am

How did the guy from answers in genesis get the money to do this?

61. Richard Dawkins' lecture at the State House Convention Center

Comment #40407 by doodinthemood on May 14, 2007 at 8:48 am

I was about to ask if there were many props. There seem to be numerous occasions on which the audience bursts into seemingly inexplicable spontaneous laughter.

62. Richard Dawkins' lecture at the State House Convention Center

Comment #40386 by doodinthemood on May 14, 2007 at 8:17 am

Hurray! something to listen to until I find out why my semi-melted ipod has stopped working.

63. Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off

Comment #39818 by doodinthemood on May 12, 2007 at 3:30 am

A reasonable debate, though I feel the RRS could swat up on evolution a bit more. I was looking forward to a dawkins-style hammering when the "crocoduck" was produced, but it unfortunately never came. In all other aspects, I think they presented the case well though, and certainly the most telling moment was, when faced with the question of the creators creator, Kirk and Ray just looked blank and said "I think they can work it out for themselves"
Bottom line:
Would have been a whitewash with more swatting, but they still managed to defeat flimsy theistic arguments.

64. World's most prominent atheist takes on the Biblical God (and other topics)

Comment #39249 by doodinthemood on May 10, 2007 at 8:15 am

Mindless religion like this almost makes me want more intellectual theologians...

65. 'God Is Not a Moderate'

Comment #34784 by doodinthemood on April 25, 2007 at 8:36 am

This was a brilliant debate. Both Harris and Sullivan were clearly very thought through and sincere and proposed their arguments with much linguistic ability. If there are any more like this, I would be more than willing to pay money for a published book of them - All books currently show only one perspective, and there is much need for one in which both sides of the argument can be portrayed reasonably.

66. Growing Up in the Universe: 2-Disc DVD Set

Comment #29166 by doodinthemood on April 2, 2007 at 1:05 am

I never saw the initial broadcasting of lectures on the BBC, but am slightly confused by your marketing for this. Is it for children or for all ages? How insightful would I find it, as a teenager who knows a reasonable amount about evolution and science?

67. Interview: Jerry Coyne

Comment #28803 by doodinthemood on March 31, 2007 at 1:58 am

The arguments he put forward were rather basic - more suited for a creationist audience than an evolutionist audience.

Anyone know where the rest of the shows in the series are? Or have they not been broadcast yet.