RichardDawkins.net

Comment #150588 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 6:31 am

Dr Benway and Steve Zara : OK - you've both convinced me.

Comment #150581 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 6:19 am

Dr Benway

By raising everyone's consciousness regarding problems of interpretation, we undermine this spurious authority.

That's one of those affirmations that "feels" right, but I'm wondering how this plays out in real-life situations. Examples, please?

Steve Zara

We may need to talk to them in their language, on their territory, to help moderate their behaviour.

Agreed. (This is also a fundamental principle of sound sales technique, but that doesn't detract from its worth in any way.)
Elsewhere, this has been called "spiking their guns"!
I don't question the possible usefulness (you say "we may" ) of a sort of "Hermeneutics for Atheists" guide book. But "the political importance" in "social authority"....?

103. Fleabytes

Comment #150574 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 6:10 am

Geoff :

it's when debating with this group that the bible becomes an effective "weapon" for "our side" (scare quotes necessary!).

So you're saying that we should be familiar with the bible and other holy books, AND with the various interpretations going around, in order to use them as evidence to enlighten and convince the group of believers who are not aware of "these problems"?
Please confirm that I have read you correctly - then I will continue.

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

104. Fleabytes

Comment #150563 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 5:46 am

Dr Benway

If God exists and has communicated His will to humans, and those humans have written their understanding of His will in scripture, that's not something we can ignore.

And if God doesn't exist, then that's something we can ignore?
Then you talk about "escape routes" and "shaky presumptions" as if they concerned us, as atheists. Surely, having once decided that God doesn't exist, then interpreting what humans have said in his name is hardly our problem.
Yes, ok, it can be useful to know what various theist groups are saying about their particular revelations. But would that not also imply that we need to study their theology as well as their hermeneutics?
Richard Dawkins has been heavily criticised for not knowing enough about theological thought, and his reply to that criticism is perfectly satisfactory for me.

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

105. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150500 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 2:56 am

Diacanu

What's the alternative?

A better tactic?

Or, silence?

My excellent young friend, for once, you are completely missing the point. I was not talking about what should or should not be done. We were just describing what is going on, and trying to interpret it correctly.
That's all.

106. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150481 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 1:45 am

Once again, Steve Zara has said it all.
Steve, I know that realism and pessimism often look similar, but you're right in your interpretation of blog behaviours.
It's like this use of the word "global", which I find a little dumb. Because of the nature of the Internet, if I want to post a photo of my breakfast on my blog, well, I can claim that my breakfast went global!
Also, I sometimes wonder if people realise that the "globe" is not entirely English-speaking. While English is often the favoured common language for internet communication, there is a different world out there.
Watergate was a scandal that "went global". Sporting events "go global". 9/11 was intensely global.
But a shitty little creationist film, and an expelled biologist?
This is a true case of what Steve says :

What can happen with this kind of campaign is almost a belief in magic - that if people wish for something hard enough by posting the way they see the future, then it surely must turn out that way!

(My highlighting)
Oh, and I suppose I can now claim that my opinions have "gone global".

107. Fleabytes

Comment #150459 by Richard Morgan on March 27, 2008 at 12:29 am

Dr Benway

I find the question of how one interprets holy writ very important.

OK. You're not alone in this. How is it important to you?

108. Fleabytes

Comment #150157 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Yes - good question!
Coo-ee!
Paula!
Where aaaaare you?
We neeeed you.

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

109. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150149 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Bon anniversaire, mon cher et admirable
Richard DAWKINS

110. Fleabytes

Comment #150015 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 11:56 am

clodhopper (who is any thing but)

why is this problem not resolved by a definitive revelation on the subject?

Are you blind and deaf?
Talking about a "definitive revelation" there are absolutely piles of them to choose from! What's your problem - you want another one just for you?
(While you're working on that one, let's have a nice cuppa together. How many lumps of sugar in your Broken Pekoe Cyanide?)

111. Fleabytes

Comment #149888 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 10:16 am

al-rawandi

Anything that would kill you, but it obviously won't if you believe in Jesus.

So - if I believe in Jesus poisonous substances don't exist.... for me. And if they don't exist for me, how can I test the....
Oh, forget it!
I'm happy to take you word for it on that one.
Guess I'll just take the Chef's Special Brew for today - with sweeteners, not sugar. Jesus will protect me against poisons, but he remains silent on cholesterol!!

112. Fleabytes

Comment #149872 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 10:06 am

Steve Zara

It is important for societies to understand that. It is nothing to do with atheism. It is about how we survive the presence of religion.

I've just been listening to David Robertson criticising Richard Dawkins for not knowing enough about theology. What you are saying here seems (only seems, mind you) closer to Robertson's point of view on the question than RD's.
Please explain where I'm getting you wrong, otherwise I'm going to have to go and drink arsenic-laced tea at Al-Rawandi's Corner Tea Shoppe.
(Or was it sulphuric acid or instant coffee or some such evil potion?)

113. Fleabytes

Comment #149856 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 9:56 am

Steve Zara

I think it is one of the most important issues of all.

You think it is important for atheists to try to understand how people come to their various decisions concerning the interpretations of ancient holy texts?
I can imagine that it would be important for different Christian groups to try to understand how the "others" arrived at their conclusions, but for atheists, hermeneutics-bashing seems rather trivial. Rather like shooting elephants in a barrel or whatever the expression is...
And the approach adopted here, has become demeaning and childish.
On the other hand, if you wanted to explain indescribable higher-level systems, that, I would find extremely interesting.
And useful.
Srsly.

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

114. Expelled Overview

Comment #149844 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 9:46 am

Christopher Davis

(Barnes & Noble does not have a loitering policy).

Brother, you should go to Brazil! The bookshop I go to in Vila Velha (E.S.) has low tables and arm-chairs between the bookshelves, and if you sit down with a book, a pretty girl rushes up with a cafezinho and a piece of chocolate.
There's one other good thing about going to Brazil - but I can't remember it for the moment...

115. Fleabytes

Comment #149837 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 9:40 am

OK guys, I think you've all proved how smart you are pointing out the difficulties of interpreting ancient texts.
Don't you think it's time to pass onto more adult argumentation now?

116. Fleabytes

Comment #149807 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 8:46 am

When you think of all the books published to help us understand Shakespeare - and your salvation doesn't even depend on understanding Hamlet or Much Ado About Nothing.

117. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #149782 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 8:19 am

Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from diabetic ketoacidosis, an ailment that left her with too little insulin in her body, and she had probably been ill for about 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

So for a month they watched their little girl suffer in order to play mind games with their faith. because it is clear that these parents were more concerned with THEIR relationship with the ALMIGHTY than with their daughter's suffering. That is what is so horrible about this kind of murderous stupidity. "We're going to cure our daughter by praying." The proof of this self-centred approach is in their reaction : " apparently they didn't have enough faith." Doctors couldn't intervene, God wouldn't - so it was all down to the parents magic words - prayer.
THAT is why their other children should be removed. The parents are likely to believe that their faith will be stronger next time. Letting the first daughter die was just a sort of spiritual warming up.

118. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?

Comment #149578 by Richard Morgan on March 26, 2008 at 12:31 am

Aaaargh! 2-dimensional space!!!
Aaargh!

EDIT : COFFEE!!!!!

119. Expelled Overview

Comment #149557 by Richard Morgan on March 25, 2008 at 11:26 pm

Styrer

Where my argument may fall down - and I repeat my real wish to see this film broadcast as widely as possible - is in over-egging the level of flat-out condemnation the film will receive from rationalists all over the globe.

Let us not exaggerate, my dear Styrer! Most of the globe will never even hear about this shitty little film.
On a global level, this is all a very tiny storm in a minute tea-cup...
Talking about tea...

120. Sue Blackmore debates Alister McGrath

Comment #149541 by Richard Morgan on March 25, 2008 at 9:58 pm

memphis matt

I am always fascinated by McGrath's ability to say so many words, so eloquently, but without any content whatsoever. Does he actually say anything during these debates?

That is what preaching is about. It is often very similar to hypnotic trance induction - soporific repetition which ends up anaesthetizing certain critical functions, a certain vigilance, which allows ideas to sneak into the mind unnoticed ...more or less.
McGrath is just giving another sermon here. Why not? Do what you're good at!
Appear to embrace the opposition, then when it has its guard down, kick it in the goolies.
Make strong affirmations using formulae to make them sound humble , "It seems to me...." (I know i'm right but you can't accuse me of arrogance or complacency because I humbly used the word "seem".)

Use the word "interesting" in the same way you use it to describe your daughter's first attempts at cooking a moussaka.

I can explain his other techniques if anybody is interested.
But beware the preacher who seems to have nothing to say. If you believe that - he's succeeded beyond your wildest dreams.

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

EDIT : I've posted a "cleaned up" version of Sue Blackmore's proposition - I've edited out all the "ums"! You'll find it in the standalone player on the left of the page with the Lava Lizard's Music.

121. Sue Blackmore debates Alister McGrath

Comment #149133 by Richard Morgan on March 25, 2008 at 6:49 am

Sally Luxmore

He sounds like the worst kind of sanctimonious and soporific preacher.

Exactly!
And for an insomniac like myself, such a voice is a real god-send.
You complain about the "dying fall": why are you comparing his voice to :

... it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour.

But I know what you mean.
All the same, our scientist friends with their "uuuums' and "errrrrs" still irritate me. And I like hearing what they have to say!!!
EDIT : Sally, have you checked out my composition/montage "The Quote miners lament"? It could have been composed for you! Chose a moment when you're feeling calm.

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

(First item in the independent standalone player - scroll down, right hand column)

122. Sue Blackmore debates Alister McGrath

Comment #149078 by Richard Morgan on March 25, 2008 at 4:57 am

I do wish people who speak in public would learn to avoid "ums" and "ers" every fifteen seconds!! I find it very irritating.
McGrath is the superior public speaker/preacher. Much more pleasant to listen to.
Pity about what he actually says.

123. Fleabytes

Comment #149036 by Richard Morgan on March 25, 2008 at 2:49 am

Quetz the man : Thank you for explaining the misunderstanding. As I spend 98% of my time speaking French, and equal parts 1% Portuguese and 1% English, sometimes I say things in English as I would have done in French. "Aujourd'hui j'ai soixante-deux ans." would have conveyed the sense of "Today, at the age of 62..."

EDIT : But it will be Steve Zara's birthday tomorrow, the 26th. Don't tell him I told you.

124. Fleabytes

Comment #149034 by Richard Morgan on March 25, 2008 at 2:39 am

Thank you all so much for your kind birthday wishes.
Will you be doing this again on my birthday on August 17th?
I am quite overwhelmed with emotion - birthday wishes five months ahead of the date. (Note : how can I handle the cognitive dissonance? Pray about it? Good idea.)

125. Fleabytes

Comment #148995 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Dr Benway : oh shit, you're right again.
It's 05h29 here in France. Perhaps I should just go to bed.
Enjoy the music.

http://www.myspace;com/fleabytes

126. Fleabytes

Comment #148993 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 9:22 pm

Dr Benway

See, I wouldn't use the term "religionites." That strikes me as needlessly in-group/out-group.

This kind of comment "pushes my buttons", Dr B., but only because you're absolutely right. (This does not help me with my feelings in inadequacy!)
Also I'm a little surprised that a pathology would push your buttons. Or do we need to define the differences between "pathology" and "unpleasantness", "neurosis" and "nastiness"? Perhaps not.
Of course, in the last analysis, you and I know that it's almost all to do with "personality characteristics". But you seem to be forgetting that, apparently, the "abuse" we are talking about here is at least using religion as a "front burner concern". It is one thing to say that a person's unsatisfactory early relationship with his mother is behind all the "f***" words he uses when talking about theists, but since here we are in debate and not in therapy, it should not be surprising that some of us feel uneasy about the invective and "abuse" that seems to characterize some posters.

EDIT : I am assuming that your expression "pushes my buttons" means the same thing as "gets up my nostrils" used to mean in late 20th century England. (I've been in France since 1984 so language may have evolved since then.)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

127. Fleabytes

Comment #148982 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 8:26 pm

Dr Benway - I find your bluntness a little sad. Are you suggesting that the aggressiveness and ridicule that recurs here is expressed by people who have suffered at the hands of religionites in the same way that others have suffered from being robbed, raped or beaten?
That could have been true in my case - I'm afraid I have a visceral hatred of Mormonism and Christian Evangelical Fundamentalism. And some days I could hiss and curse and spit along with the best of them.
Do you also really believe that mikejswalker is worried about having his reputation sullied? I wonder where you would get that idea from? If not, I find you are being atypically unkind
There again I suppose we all have our bad days...

128. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148978 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 8:12 pm

Dr Benway

Perhaps I'm not the same person now as then.

And if you're not the same person as you were a millionth of a second ago, we're really up shit creek on the Consciousness problem....
Oh dear...

129. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148972 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Oops - a joke that misfired!
Sorry about that.
Whatever you may be - boring you are NOT. I was just playing on the sound of the name as I would have pronounced it (at 4 in the morning in France)
I confess I hadn't thought about "The China Syndrome....
Do you think that "Expelled" is in the same category?
And since I've been divorced twice, I'm more than used to being skimmed over, so that's OK.
Sorry again.

130. No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film

Comment #148964 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 7:06 pm

People have talked about this film so much now, I woke up after my afternoon siesta today, convinced I had seen the fuckin' film!
There's no way I'm going to deliberately try to see it. It could never match up to the book we're writing about it on the Blogosphere.

131. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148960 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 6:59 pm

MPhil - I'm talking about what you serve your beloved in bed the morning after the night before.

132. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148958 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Honestly, guys, when was the last time you heard about a film making any significant, long-term impact on the way people think about things?
One of the first things I learned about journalism, on the Middlesbrough Gazette back in 1964 was, "Today's scandal is wrapped around your chips tomorrow and in the bin the day after."
If Mathis wants to create buzz in order to make a buck or two, what the heck?
The Zeitgeist is on the move, ten years from now there will be even more atheists walking the streets (of downtown AND and of Academia), Dawkins will be long remembered as a biologist who was an atheist, and films like "Expelled" will have trickled through the cracks in the collective memory and disappeared for ever.
Ten years from now, Steve Zara will still be reasonable, MPhil will still be serving philosophy with the cafe et croissants", Sam Harris will be studying the meditation techniques of Bonobos and Hitchens will have the same accent as he offends the complacent.
I've said it before, it's all part of the global dying spasms of religion.
After all, when you claim to have the Truth, and you haven't - what have you got left to sell besides lies?
Cola and popcorn on the way in, perhaps?
And on the way out...?

133. Fleabytes

Comment #148955 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 6:33 pm

mikejswalker :

I never had to break out. I think you may have been the same?

Today I am 62. I was enabled to "break out" at around the age of 50.
(Thanks to Dawkins, mostly.)
I have been "religious" for most of my adult life, just as I have been married for 34 years.
I have not always had the same religion, and I have not always been married to the same person.
Until I discovered this site I was very angry with religion, its broken promises, its mind-stultifying restrictions, its dickheads.
But I have calmed down somewhat now, under the influence of people like Steve Zara and even Dr Benway.
I use Finale 2006. Lots of dots on lines. And lots of heart.

134. Fleabytes

Comment #148925 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 4:22 pm

mikejswalker : once again : DITTO!
So that means there are at least two of us.
Though I suspect there may be a little wiggle room here allowing for cultural differences.
(I personally could never understand the general glee expressed over someone coining a sniggering-teenager-type word : "fucktard". Though I suspect that for some here, it seriously reinforces the atheist arguments.
Go figure...)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

135. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148896 by Richard Morgan on March 24, 2008 at 1:55 pm

You will not be surprised to learn that I have composed a piece of music to express what I think about all this.
It's called:
"EXPELLED : another hole in their socks."
You can hear it at:

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

It is the first piece in the official Myspace player, but there is a better quality mp3 in the other standalone player -scroll down on the right column.
Even if you are not an official MYSPACE "friend" you can still send me a PM there to tell me what you think. But rebuttals must, of course, be musical.
Send your mp3 rebuttals to :

richard.frabjous@gmail.com

I'll post them all, you can be sure.(If they are better than mine, I will of course sulk, but i'll post all the same!)

136. The death-of-god debate

Comment #148593 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 11:12 am

Keith

Ye Gods, I think I'm going to be sick.

I'm sorry about that. Please forgive me. Since I've turned 60 I often have that effect on girls. It's a little worrying....
Ah, getting old.....

137. The death-of-god debate

Comment #148448 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 5:31 am

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)

NEW! (23/03/2008) 1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers

2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!

BULLSHIT? This composition has already been banned by 18 radio stations in the USA and by most of my family.

3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

138. The death-of-god debate

Comment #148446 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 5:29 am

I do not need God to help me wonder. I am patient and will, if need be, await the contribution of genetics and neurology to our understanding of art.

This article is pleasant reading for a Sunday morning.
And you know what I find truly wonderful? It's the human capacity to experience wonder? And I don't even need to wonder why.
(Look, I've got my qualia, you've got yours, ok?)

139. It looks like Man crucified

Comment #148438 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 4:41 am

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)

NEW! (23/03/2008) 1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers

2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!

BULLSHIT? This composition has already been banned by 18 radio stations in the USA and by most of my family.

3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

140. Orr on Dawkins

Comment #148436 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 4:36 am

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)

NEW!1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers

2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!

BULLSHIT? This composition has already been banned by 18 radio stations in the USA and by most of my family.

3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

141. Orr on Dawkins

Comment #148418 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 3:42 am

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!

BULLSHIT? This composition has already been banned by 18 radio stations in the USA and by most of my family.

3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

142. Two More Fleas

Comment #148417 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 3:40 am

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!

BULLSHIT? This composition has already been banned by 18 radio stations in the USA and by most of my family.

3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

143. Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

Comment #148416 by Richard Morgan on March 23, 2008 at 3:37 am

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!

BULLSHIT? This composition has already been banned by 18 radio stations in the USA and by most of my family.

3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

144. Biology prof expelled from screening of 'Expelled'

Comment #148392 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

145. No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film

Comment #148391 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

146. Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

Comment #148390 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 9:13 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

147. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #148389 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 9:11 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel ï¿½" Bullshit!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes ï¿½" a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

148. Fleabytes

Comment #148388 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED : another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel : Bullshit!
Already banned by 12 radio stations in the USA AND by most of my family!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes : a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track : Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

149. I suppose it's due ('Expelled' review)

Comment #148387 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED â€" another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel â€" Bullshit!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes â€" a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track â€" Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

150. Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God

Comment #148385 by Richard Morgan on March 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm

Excuse me for interrupting this thread.
http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes

MUSIC UPDATE

For PZMyers : "EXPELLED â€" another hole in the sock."

The Myspace dedicated player :

1. We saw the comet.
In "Climbing Mount Improbable", Richard Dawkins mentioned taking his baby daughter out one night to see a comet. He explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and he would not) he wanted her to be able to say, later in her life, that she'd seen it twice. I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this piece of music for Richard and his daughter.

2. Paula Kirby : TNT Truth, not Tales.
Well, it all started with Paula KIRBY, didn't it, this "Fleabytes" business!
3. MPhil : Emfill Rox!
An amazing young philosophical mind. (I asked my son Anthony to compose this piece, being a little unwell myself at the time.)
4. Past Fleas.
RD asked this question :

What would music inspired by the fleas sound like?
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2303,Add-another-flea-to-the-list,RichardDawkinsnet

Something to make them seem ridiculous, pathetic, desperate?

This composition is my answer.

5. Cartomancer : Gunshots and a Wobbly.

I'm chronically tone-deaf to the point where I didn't know what all the fuss was about when Jemini were the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. My beloved teases me mercilessly about it. I tried to come up with some praise beyond "That sounds nice", or "I liked the wobbly bit with all those notes in it" but my abilities fail me utterly when it comes to describing my appreciation of music..

But Cartomancer is one of our most remarkable contributors, and deserved an, er, shall we say, appropriate musical portrait, with recognisable sounds.

6. Steve Zara : Simply SteveZ.
Enough said. Steve has a fine mind, and is totally lovable.

Standalone player (right column)
1. EXPELLED, another hole in the sock.
For PZ Myers
2. Sock on the Stair Reel â€" Bullshit!
3. Past Fleas.
4. Fleabytes â€" a thredley.
This is a medley of themes which expresses my impression of this everlasting thread.
5. Fingerprints, past time. (from The Lava Lizard's Tale.) (Voice : Richard Dawkins)
6. Broken Rings (from The Salamander's Tale) (Voice : Lalla Ward)
7. DIACANU.
(Mike told me himself that he felt that this portrait was pretty accurate. If you don't believe, read his comments!)
8. Bryan English : Bryan of OZ.
One of Australia's finest rock musicians.
9. Hitchindebate.
I composed a spontaneous impression of Christopher Hitches in debate with, well, just about anybody really.
10. The Quote Miner's lament.
11. Weeflea's always right.
Guess who this is?
12. Call me "Richard".
And guess who this is?

Standalone player (left column)
Sound track â€" Fingerprints, past time. (without the voice)

http://www.myspace.com/fleabytes