Chris Willett: So how badly should Dr. Dawkins have been molested before he would, in your estimation, understand what it’s like? Duh. To such a degree that he has been traumatised by it. The fact that a proposition in an elevator has been conflated with sexual assault only serves to make the Skepchicks’ newfound hate […]
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“The campaign – a first for MAC – is using the term ‘Screwed’ to sum up the impact on young drivers if they lose their licence,” Mr Kenyon said. “More than 3,000 South Australian learner and provisional drivers have lost their licence in the past year due to unsafe driving behaviors…that’s way too many. “The […]
Agreed, mostly. I enjoy seeing the exchange of ideas on blogs in comment sections. The people commenting and arguing with one another probably don’t change their minds very often, but those observers who haven’t publicly declared their position are free of the compulsion to defend said position when called on it and might actually think […]
Yes, atheists such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were such great humanitarians. That’s a wonderful argument. The Spanish Inquisition and Salem witch trials only claimed about 2000-3000 lives if I remember correctly — a tragedy to be sure, but nowhere near the scale of the Shoah, the Gulag, or the “killing fields”. Slavery […]
Sorry Martin of July 7, but I agree with Martin of February 14. I remember PZ Myers’s post on this same issue, and I respectfully disagree with his (and your) noble attempt to redefine the word ‘atheist’. If I must label myself, it is as a humanist, since humanism encapsulates a broader range of values […]
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Noone is paying attention to any of my posts not related to elevatorgate right now, so you probably missed today’s article on naked mole-rats, who live for an eternity and never get cancer. Well, there is one substance that has actually been associated with a reduction in cancer occurrences in humans in the past, and […]
Adams says the goal of her “Real Housewives” DVD, due out later this month, is helping women juxtapose real-life issues with Christian teaching. She says that teaching includes women’s obligation to attempt to sustain relationships that have endured extra-marital affairs and other hardships. “Because we live in a media-driven society, telling these age-old stories of […]