Archive for July, 2007
Eckhart Tolle In My Mail
I received the following email from a former CUT member recommending I read the latest (2005) Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth. I think the ...
Join the World Community Grid
An effortless way for Humanists to make a lasting contribution to human progress is through donation of spare CPU cycles. So far, hundreds of thousands of ...
Druggists Sue Over Morning After Pill
(CBS/AP) Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill. In a lawsuit filed in federal court ...
Think Outside the Bottle
Think Outside the Bottle
A new activist organization to raise awareness of worldwide water issues. From their front page:
The United Nations warns us that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s ...
Reefer Madness…Again
Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40%
A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing ...
Save Us From Our Cyber Selves
Via Slashdot, this item about Linden Labs shutting down all gambling activity within online community Second Life. The long arm of American law now reaches around the ...
Gwen Shamblin’s ‘Weigh Down’ gets a wet kiss from CNN
Gwen Shamblin's PR department must be celebrating. Score! A heartwarming story from CNN about Maggie and Andy Sorrels, a couple who lost a combined 580 ...
Pope acquiesces to evolution, climate change
H/T Religious Freaks
Pope: Creation vs. Evolution Clash an 'Absurdity'
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries — particularly the United States and his native Germany — ...
Church May Erect Cross-Shaped Cell Phone Tower
At Bible Christian Fellowship Church, there is a proposal to develop a 100-foot cell phone tower that would be disguised as a cross and provided by Verizon. Not everyone in ...
Margaret Somerville’s Other Ways of Knowing
Margaret Somerville's Other Ways of Knowing from ottawacitizen.com
Reason is the primary "way of knowing" in science and it is fundamental to the scientific method that produces scientific knowledge. ...
An Utterly Faithless Rush
A fantastic performance by Rush last night, July 23, 2007 at the Hollywood Bowl! Best Rush show ever for me. The Black Sun contingent at the ...
Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution
Since roughly 83% of the world's population claims some form of religious adherence, the fact that many of those 5 billion or so adherents do good ...
Religion reporter quits beat over religious fraud
AS the stories piled up, I began to pray with renewed vigor, but it felt like I wasn't connecting to God. I started to feel silly even trying. ...
The Devil’s Advocate
It's coming up on the 10th anniversary of the release of one of my favorite films of all time. I was reminded of this by a ...
Sayonara, BBQ
A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home. ...
The Kingdom of Reason
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom of reason. Everyone who lived there understood the principles of logic and only based their conclusions on the ...
Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe’s Hell on Earth
Zimbabwe has scrapped a scheme allowing fuel purchases with foreign currency, removing one of the few remaining ways for people to acquire petrol in a country struggling with a crumbling ...
NPR : Saudi Government Curbs Religious Police
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has ordered the controversial religious police in the conservative Wahhabi kingdom to stop detaining or interrogating citizens suspected of violating Islamic law. The decree comes as ...
IOT Part 4: The Misanthropy of Religion
Independence of Thought series Part 4: The Misanthropy of Religion
In The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, there's an appendix called Donald E. Brown’s List of Human ...
Too sexy for my bus, woman told
"Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman named Debora C. told Bild newspaper. "He opened the door and shouted at me 'Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look ...
If you want to be Surgeon General, be homophobic, uninformed and evasive
The last Bush Surgeon General was muzzled, and the new candidate is woefully uninformed (or more likely just dodgy). To add insult to injury, here is his 1991 paper condemning ...
Planet Humanism
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Death the only escape for many Islamic extremists
THE windowless room inside the girls' madrassa was charred, transformed from a seat of religious learning to an inferno by the suicide bomber who detonated his charge as Pakistani commandos ...
Atheist ‘Metaphysics’ and Religious Equivocation
The diagram represents the "Knowledge Paradigm" of science. It says simply and visually:
We have a very limited scope of knowledge. Everything we do know about ...
Sun’s activity rules out link to global warming
Direct satellite measurements of solar activity show it has been declining since the mid-1980s and cannot account for recent rises in global temperatures, according to new research. ...