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Sunday, October 12th, 2008If religion makes you more honest…
…why is it that the most corrupt countries are also the most religious? An earlier post describes evidence that religious beliefs can affect honesty. Implanting subliminal religious messages, and making people feel like they are being watched by supernatural entity, both can act to make people behave more honestly.
But there [...]
News and Links for Atheists: SNL’s Vice Presidential Debate
Monday, October 6th, 2008Behold! Tina Fey is Sarah Palin.
I was going to embed the link here, but the code doesn’t quite work for some reason. Still, I had to give you a taste, so here’s the link via Defamer.
Tina, you rule.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008The Ignored Atheist Vote
As the presidential candidates come together to discuss faith and issues of morality — at Saddleback last week and at the Democratic National Convention this week, there’s a large contingent feeling excluded. American atheist and agnostic voters are increasingly feeling left out of the debate or flat out ignored and taken [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008Richard Dawkins Lecture at UC Berkeley
Enemies of Reason: Available now on DVD!
Flat-Earthers Defending Biblical Authority from Satanic Science
Guess what? Military funds mind-reading science
Johann Hari: We need to stop being such cowards about Islam
This is a column condemning cowardice – including my own. It begins with the story of a novel you cannot read. The Jewel [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008Seven reasons why people hate reason
From religious fundamentalism to pseudoscience, it seems that forces are attacking the Enlightenment world view – characterised by rational, scientific thinking – from all sides. The debate seems black and white: you’re either with reason, or you’re against it. But is it so simple? In a series of special essays, [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup
His books sell in their millions, his TV programmes are rapturously received, and he’s appeared in Doctor Who. Not bad for a 67-year-old academic. Now Richard Dawkins, scourge of creationists, is championing his Victorian hero
Karadzic ‘worked in Serb clinic’
Captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was living in Serbia’s [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008Austin Cline’s Mailbag: Feel The Love!
Have you ever let yourself be confirmed by the spirit that he lives? Sometimes it’s just easier for people not to believe in a God, then they think they’re the only one they have to answer their consequences to. I have a friend who was an athiest because of that [...]