Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality
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Explaining science’s magic to the young
“The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True,” which will be released [Today]in the United States, is a book about science, Dawkins says, and “not anti-religion.”
In his book, he intends to show that “the magic of reality is the fascinating wonder of reality shown through science.” . . .
Dawkins is a Big Bang guy who rejects the question, “Who — as in God — made it?” “It’s not a sensible question,” he says. “It’s like asking, ‘Why are mountains jealous?’
And as the interview ends, he has one final request. “Tell them,” he says, “that this is a science book. Not an anti-God book.”
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Quote: Lucretius from “On the Nature of the Universe”
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BCE – ca. 55 BCE)
Roman Poet and Philosopher
Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind
Not by the sun’s rays, nor the bright shafts of day,
Must be dispersed, as is most necessary,
But by the face of nature and her laws.We start then from her first great principle
That nothing ever by divine power comes from nothing.
For sure fear holds so much the minds of men
Because they see many things happen in earth and sky
Of which they can by no means see the causes,
And think them to be done by power divine.
So when we have seen that nothing can be created
From nothing, we shall at once discern more clearly
The object of our search, both the source from which each thing
Can be created, and the manner in which
Things come into being without the aid of gods.
Quote: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945)
32d President of the United States (1933–1945)
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Why Are Religious Conservatives So Scared of Gay Sex?
What gives with all the hatred for gay people coming from conservatives, even as the rest of country is beginning to get over long-held prejudices? Part of it is just straight-up protectiveness of heterosexual privilege . . .
It’s common for conservatives to suggest that accepting homosexuality means accepting pedophilia, because they see both as outrageous perversions instead of making the distinction between non-consensual and consensual behavior . . .
The hostility toward sex for pleasure hasn’t prevented men in red states from becoming the biggest consumers of porn.
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The Occupy Wall Street Library
This is a picture of the Liberal revolutionary movement
Occupy Wall Street Library.
Has anyone ever seen a picture of a Conservative reactionary movement
Tea Party Protest Library?
I didn’t think so. Why is that?
America is a laughing stock, here’s why!
Religion is not the solution to our problems; religion is the problem!
The Atheist Experience: Faith Is Not A Virtue, Faith Is Gullibility!
Every Sperm is Sacred {Monty Python’s Meaning of Life}
Richard Dawkins Versus Homophobic Christians
Always Question Authority 