QUOTE: Christopher Hitchens / “On Faith”
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Category Archives: Religion
SCIENCE: Dawkinsia / “Sri Lankans Name New Type of Fish After Richard Dawkins”
Sri Lankan scientists have identified a new genus of fresh water fish and named it after the evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins.
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Pethiyagoda, an ichthyologist and internationally acclaimed conservationist, said extensive studies in India and Sri Lanka showed that the level of diversity among such fish was “much greater than previously suspected”.
This was partly the reason that the study group had chosen to name the new genus after the 71-year-old Dawkins, the British author of the anti-religion polemic, The God Delusion.
“Richard Dawkins has through his writings helped us understand that the universe is far more beautiful and awe-inspiring than any religion has imagined[.]”
CATHOLIC SATIRE: Is the Catholic Church Really a ‘Lighthouse’?
There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the clergyman.
~ Victor Hugo
h/t: Planet Atheism
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Spencer Tracy: “Inherit The Wind Spencer”
Scopes Monkey Trial, Part 1
Scopes Monkey Trial, Part 2
CHRISTIAN SATIRE: “Christian Logic in a Flowchart”
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: Friendly Atheiest
SCIENCE: “Higgs Boson: ‘God Particle’ Discovery Ignites Debate Over Science And Religion”
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The Higgs boson explains why particles have mass — and in turn why we exist. Without the boson, the universe would have no physical matter, only energy.
The cosmological implications are hotly debated. Can God fit in a scientific story of creation?
The answer is “no” for Lawrence M. Krauss, an Arizona State University theoretical physicist. He argued in Newsweek that the Higgs boson discovery “posits a new story of our creation” independent of religious belief.
“Humans, with their remarkable tools and their remarkable brains, may have just taken a giant step toward replacing metaphysical speculation with empirically verifiable knowledge,” he wrote.
With enough data, physics would make God obsolete, he said. “If we can describe the laws of nature back to the beginning of time without any supernatural shenanigans, it becomes clear that you don’t need God.”
Religious believers see things differently.
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This much is true: Higgs bosons — which permeate the universe — help us understand how something comes from nothing.
Related articles
- Will the Higgs boson be our last great discovery? (nation.com.pk)
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Father Bernard Lynch / “Secular Europe Campaign”
RELIGIOUS SATIRICAL POETRY: Philip Appleman / “A Simple Explanation for Everything”
CATHOLIC BIGOTRY: Zinnia Jones / “Can’t Even Go to the Park”
RELIGIOUS SATIRICAL POETRY: Bill Moyers / “The Poetry of Philip Appleman” / VIDEO
Bill talks with and invites readings by renowned poet, novelist, and editor Philip Appleman, whose creativity spans a long life filled with verse, fiction, philosophy, and religion. The author of nine books of poetry, three novels, and six volumes of non-fiction, Appleman’s most acclaimed work includes explorations of the life and theories of Charles Darwin. A scholar of Darwin, Appleman edited the critical anthology Darwin, and wrote the poetry books Darwin’s Ark and Darwin’s Bestiary, earning him praise for illuminating the “overwhelming sanity” of Darwin’s thought with clarity and wit. Appleman’s latest poetry collection is Perfidious Proverbs.
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