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Blah blah blah… It only took 11 months to get around to, but the fifth episode of the Stupid Evil Bastard Podcast is finally available for your listening enjoyment. In this installment we tackle a number of suggested topics and a shit load of tangents because that’s the way we do things around here . . . → Read More: The Stupid Evil Bastard Podcast Episode 5 is now online! If you wish your prohibitions and rules to be based upon reason, then you should look more to adopting etiquettes and manners than to adopting religious morals. The rules for which fork to use, or for what constitutes polite conversation, typically employ more logic and evidence in their creation and defense than do any church’s . . . → Read More: [SEB Guest Post] A Late Night Thought on Prohibitions and Rules We’ve all heard the argument that you can’t prove a negative from various True Believers™ in Gods, UFOs, Big Foots (Feets?), etc.. It’s a common bit of folk logic, but is it true? Philosopher Steven D. Hales argues that it is not in a small essay titled You Can Prove a Negative: It is widely . . . → Read More: Steven D. Hales: You Can Prove a Negative. It’s a very simple question and one I’ve asked a number of believers over the years, but have yet to get any kind of a reasonable answer. For reasons I’m not entirely sure of it’s been kicking around in my brain the past couple of days so I thought I’d take the time to write . . . → Read More: Why would God bother at all? I like to think I’m a fairly sophisticated fellow, but there are certain topics that make me feel like a Neanderthal. Fashion is one of those topics and the other is modern art. Take, for example, the following picture of an art “installation” that is up for the 2008 Turner Prize: Click to embiggen! Cathy . . . → Read More: I’ll never understand modern art. Got the following missive this morning: From: John Kraft Subject: Give up materialism Taking comfort in religious peoples misunderstandings is not noble or intelligent Its simply selfish. It is like making fun of a child for not understanding that which adults do. By continually trying to show how dumb these people are you are being . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: “You have won, its time to move on and deal with greater questions.” Someone sent me a link to this blog entry at some random weblog that appears to be a new variation on the popular Evil Atheist Professor versus the True Believer student chain letter that’s been making the rounds for years. Previous versions were much shorter and attributed the student as being Albert Einstein, but this . . . → Read More: God vs. Science. I found an Interesting discussion on the blog Puritan’s Sword. Rather than an inane, emotional discussion “from the heart”, the Christian owner of the blog has engaged a couple of atheist guests in a debate that at least attempts to be reasoned. My favorite atheist guest there so far is “Jody” with her charming short . . . → Read More: Grounding for atheist ethics [Ed’s Note: The following was sent to me in an email by Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D. as a possible submission to SEB. I present it to you in full and unedited for your consideration.] In the beginning the Earth was without form, inanimate objects lay dormant, chemicals worked their magic; then the miracle of a single . . . → Read More: Progress: Man’s Greatest Mistake Not being of a Conservative bent myself I don’t make a habit of reading National Review Online unless I catch wind of them having a particularly interesting or outrageous article. This one falls into the interesting category as it’s a FAQ of sorts put together by columnist John Derbyshire in which he explains his religious . . . → Read More: NRO’s John Derbyshire no longer calls himself a Christian. |
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