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Brad Feaker
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- Collierville, TN
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Life After Christian F...
153 members
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ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIF...
694 members
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Humanists
218 members
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Children of the Damned
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Fundies Say The Darnde...
139 members
Brad Feaker's Discussions
Atheism and youth
Replied Jun 30
Thinking About Sex
Replied Jun 5
The Bad Astronomer
Randi in UK Skeptic magazine
Randi was interviewed for the UK magazine Skeptic, and they've released a two-minute teaser video: That trick cracks me up; it's the very first one I ever saw Randi do live -- it was at TAM 1, IIRC -- and I remember doing it for my daughter when I got back. ...A: Ghouls. Q: What do you call psychic mediums?
[Note: the following quotations are from a news website called Palluxo, and so have not been verified. The misspellings in the quotations make me wonder about just how accurate this all is. Certainly, though, given the characters involved, it's not a stretch at all to think these actions accurately described.] Maybe ...Are we lunatics?
This week's episode of the SETI radio show "Are We Alone" is up, featuring Seth Shostak and me slapping Moon Hoax believers around a bit. It also has fun bits about Full Moon Madness and other lunar, uh, lunacies. Here's the direct link to the MP3, and if I haven't ...No, LRO won’t convince the Apollo deniers
I've been reading a lot about Apollo lately -- the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 is almost upon us -- and of course the Moon is in my thoughts anyway with the advent of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter now snapping away. as it circles our cosmic neighbor. I've done some ...Two carnivals, no waiting
Bored? Looking for intelligent, fun, interesting articles to read when your boss isn't looking? Then have I got the blog carnivals for you! Check out the 110th Carnival of Space, and the 114th Skeptics' Circle, collections of the past week's blog posts about, duh, space and skepticism, respectively. And who knows? Maybe ...TAM 7!
Today I leave on wings of steel to the shimmering mirage in the desert, Las Vegas. The Amaz!ng Meeting 7 starts on Thursday night, and I'm heading out a little early so I can help set up, stuff folders, sweep, carry Jen-Luc's beret, whatever. I don't know how much time ...Science blogging versus journalism
I recently gave a talk at the National Academy of Sciences about science blogging, social networking, and communication in general. I had a lot of fun, and the NAS has posted a podcast about the meeting with some excerpts of what I said (they have a list of older 'casts ...Latest Activity
Gustavo,
I agree - but this is intended for the believer. I have found a quick way to explain to the religious here exactly what I do and do not believe. And living in a community that is 98% Christian I have to explain it a lot I am afraid!
Definitely Love it, it has much of our truth in it.
Although making some kind of bill of rights for atheists may seem as an act of making an "organized religion" when as someone said (sorry, I am bad at remembering names) "Calling atheism a relig...
I absolutely love this. And I love where this discussion is going... I'm so eager for you guys to post more!
Thanks everyone for the positive feedback!
Dr. Meaden - I read the declarations at the IEHU and found them interesting indeed and well worth reading. And the one religion I despise more than Christianity in all it's forms is Islam. It is a brutal...
The marginalisation of atheists---who alone carry the truths of the actual godless universe with them---by backward-thinking American fundamentalists is a disgrace to humanity which clearly has still much evolving to do as regards arriving at unbi...
I think everything resume to this : "I choose to stand in the Light of Knowledge and Reason."
That is the best I have seen. I could use it, with permission of course as a Sermon in my capacity as an ordained minister in the First Church of Atheism.
Rev. Robert Tobin
If Chris didn't - I will ask him if I can...good idea Kitty!!!
Brad Feaker
Profile Information
- About Me
- Just an atheist stuck in the heart of the Bible Belt. I am married (19 years) and a father of 2 kids. I am 49 years old and like to play guitar, read about science (especially cosmology) and should have been an astrophysicist instead of a DBA.
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- University of Tennessee
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- Database Architect
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- 41-50
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- Collierville, TN
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Brad Feaker's Profile | Create Your Badge
All That Remains - Two Weeks One of my favorite guitar players and a friend, Shawn Lane - who passed away on Sept. 26, 2003 - Requiem en pace. This I Believe. I am an atheist. I do not believe in any supernatural deities. I believe in Science, not the death cult superstitions of bronze age nomadic tribes in the Middle East.
I believe in Logic and Reason, and not in vengeful gods that demand unthinking worship.
My "Bible" is the 'CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics' and 'Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers'. My "Concordance" is 'The Pocket Ref, 3rd Edition'.
The symbol of my "faith" is not an ancient torture device, it's a slide rule. The simple three part device that helped build the Brooklyn Bridge, Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building, as well as sending humans to the Moon and returning them to Earth.
Algebra and Calculus are my "liturgy", and Physics is the celebration of all that exists, from the smallest subatomic particle yet to be discovered, to the Universe as a whole.
The "Saints" of my faith are legion. Galileo and Einstein, Sagan and Asimov, Eratosthenes and Fermi, Hawking and Feynman, Dawkins and Darwin, Jefferson and Franklin and Paine, and countless others who have sought and still seek to expand the knowledge of how the Universe works, for the betterment of all, to free the minds of humanity from the shackles of superstition and ignorance, and, finally & simply, "To Know."
I worship no god, nor bend the knee to anyone, man or god.
And yet, despite my lack of fawning obeisance to the judeo/christian/islamic deity, I do not rape nor rob nor murder my fellow man or woman. I do not defraud them nor seek to enslave their bodies or their minds. I do not turn my face from them if their beliefs differ from mine, nor do I condemn them if they choose to love someone of the same sex or of a
different "race".
My friends include the gay and the straight, the atheist and the deeply faithful, Caucasian, African and Asian.
I help the less fortunate in this world as best I can, and do not seek to convert them to my way of thought by my actions. I help merely to ease their suffering.
I choose to stand in the Light of Knowledge and Reason.
I oppose the Darkness that is ignorance and superstition.
And I KNOW that, in the end, it IS Knowledge and Reason that will triumph over ignorance and superstition, and triumph over those who would use ignorance and superstition for their own evil and ego-driven ends.
THIS I believe…
© Copyright 2008, Christopher H. Tucker.
Used with permission.
H/T to the CyberGuy and PZ Myers
I believe in Logic and Reason, and not in vengeful gods that demand unthinking worship.
My "Bible" is the 'CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics' and 'Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers'. My "Concordance" is 'The Pocket Ref, 3rd Edition'.
The symbol of my "faith" is not an ancient torture device, it's a slide rule. The simple three part device that helped build the Brooklyn Bridge, Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building, as well as sending humans to the Moon and returning them to Earth.
Algebra and Calculus are my "liturgy", and Physics is the celebration of all that exists, from the smallest subatomic particle yet to be discovered, to the Universe as a whole.
The "Saints" of my faith are legion. Galileo and Einstein, Sagan and Asimov, Eratosthenes and Fermi, Hawking and Feynman, Dawkins and Darwin, Jefferson and Franklin and Paine, and countless others who have sought and still seek to expand the knowledge of how the Universe works, for the betterment of all, to free the minds of humanity from the shackles of superstition and ignorance, and, finally & simply, "To Know."
I worship no god, nor bend the knee to anyone, man or god.
And yet, despite my lack of fawning obeisance to the judeo/christian/islamic deity, I do not rape nor rob nor murder my fellow man or woman. I do not defraud them nor seek to enslave their bodies or their minds. I do not turn my face from them if their beliefs differ from mine, nor do I condemn them if they choose to love someone of the same sex or of a
different "race".
My friends include the gay and the straight, the atheist and the deeply faithful, Caucasian, African and Asian.
I help the less fortunate in this world as best I can, and do not seek to convert them to my way of thought by my actions. I help merely to ease their suffering.
I choose to stand in the Light of Knowledge and Reason.
I oppose the Darkness that is ignorance and superstition.
And I KNOW that, in the end, it IS Knowledge and Reason that will triumph over ignorance and superstition, and triumph over those who would use ignorance and superstition for their own evil and ego-driven ends.
THIS I believe…
© Copyright 2008, Christopher H. Tucker.
Used with permission.
H/T to the CyberGuy and PZ Myers
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The evil that men do...
I just watched a show on the National Geographic channel called 'Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell'. It is one of the saddest things I have ever seen in my entire life. The scale of the Holocaust and the banality of evil were driven home like nothing I have witnessed. My father was a WWII vet who fought in the North Atlantic and South Pacific theaters. Just when I think I understand WWII something like this comes along and lets me know that I do not really understand it at all. And there are still place… Continue
Posted on June 28, 2009 at 11:17pm —
An interesting idea from physicist Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin is a physicist, on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He recently published an article in Physics World about the numerous theories of a 'multiverse' in cosmology being at best misguided. Overview via PhysOrg:
Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member… Continue
Posted on June 4, 2009 at 7:00pm —
Comment Wall (40 comments)
- At 4:40pm on June 29, 2009,
Vickie said…
- Nice to meet you!! I live in the bible belt also! I love your choice of music on your profile.
- At 12:59am on June 26, 2009,
heretic said… - like ur music!!!!!!!!!!1
- At 8:38pm on June 22, 2009,
Enzo Kastner said… - Thanks! I seem to have stumbled upon this group already! I've already been to a few meetups. Definitely appreciate the thought! Hope to meet you at one of them soon!
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Ban this Phrase: Not Available in All States
With apologies to Billy Mays, why do advertisers and marketers use the phrase “Not Available in All States”? This phrase, submitted by a reader, has the total opposite meaning than what it should have ...
Wow! They have a nice website! Looks like a great place to live! And there's a picture of an actual house!
heavens above is excellent for the ISS and shuttle. Also for the flares. You enter your co-ordinates and it will tell you when and where the flare will be the brightest. Use google earth to get your co-ordinates. the larger the negative number, th...
It can't be your time of the month. Are you mad because a house fell on your sister?
I couldn't agree more.
Is that avatar of you as rough trade in a gay bar, with your arm on the juke box? It looks like leather.
Thanks for the perspective, Josh.
oh, NO! a little bit of Jesus in your pocket, there, Bud?
Reading this post was bitter-sweet for me. Just this morning I talked to my brother as he was waiting to board an airplane bound for Peru. There he'll be helping to drill water wells in poor villages as a member of an Xian missionary group.
He is...
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Day 4 downloading. Watching Day 3 tonight.
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