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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins

Orbital Sunrise

The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital sunrise. Polar mesospheric, or noctilucent ("night shining"), clouds usually are seen at twilight, following the setting of the sun below the horizon and darkening of Earth's surface. Occasionally the station's orbital track becomes nearly parallel to Earth's day/night terminator for a time, allowing the clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight because of the station's altitude. This photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting, sun at center right. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. The station was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The orbital complex was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent "sunrise" located almost due north. A similar unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, terminator position and seasonal position of Earth's orbit around the sun allowed for this striking imagery of over the Southern Hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA
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One Month Left To Enter CFI’s Campaign For Free Expression Video Contest!

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Check this out. I got this email from the Center For Inquiry about their Free Expression Video Contest: The right to freely express oneself is vital in a modern society. We would like you to tell the world why. As part of the Center for Inquiry’s Campaign for Free Expression , our Public Service Announcement [...]

News And Links For Atheists: From Hitchens on Cancer Diagnosis-”Why not me?”

Monday, August 9th, 2010

VIDEO: Hitchens on cancer diagnosis: ‘Why not me?’ AUDIO: Atheist Experience Podcast They talk about this somewhat disturbing article at length in the podcast, which discusses the (supposed) agnostic views on atheism. Note that the article’s title and subtitle go as follows: An Agnostic Manifesto-At least we know what we don’t know. Yes, kind of [...]

News And Links For Atheists: Love Me, Love My Belief

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Love me, love my belief An increasing number of couples, married or not, are ensuring they don’t let faith, or the lack of it, come between the sheets and their lives … As an atheist who’s married to one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I’ve been there. Not sure if I appreciate the author’s representation of Dawkins [...]

News And Links For Atheists: Q&A Adventures In Democracy

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

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Humanize Yourself In Four Steps When Evangelists Objectify You

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Want to know one thing that many atheists and ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses have in common? Dealing with aggressive evangelists who objectify us (or who want us to play our assigned role in their idealized conversion scenario). Whether they realize it or not, many evangelists tend to pigeonhole others into categories that are easy for them to [...]

News and Links For Atheists: Ghost Hunting Technology

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

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News And Links For Atheists: A God Delusion Video

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

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