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I BELIEVE IN "ATHEIST WISDOM"---and proud to say so
Started this discussion. Last reply by Cheryl Aug 27, 2011. 11 Replies 0 Likes
On Atheist "pilgrimages" ---namely, visiting sites associated with the great men and women who helped raise atheism from obscurity. What suggestions can be made?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jim DePaulo Jun 27, 2011. 6 Replies 1 Like
How can this happen in 21st century America?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Sep 15, 2011. 32 Replies 1 Like
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MADHUKAR KULKARNI replied to Dr. Terence Meaden's discussion 'ORIGIN OF ATHEIST PRIDE' in the group ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN
Lilium Mitchell
With intelligence comes great responsibility. We need to be the example.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on the above points, but the atheists have to realise this. responsibility and the need to be an example for…
Lilium Mitchell replied to Dr. Terence Meaden's discussion 'ORIGIN OF ATHEIST PRIDE' in the group ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN
I agree with everything you have said. We do have the advantage of having the most accurate information due to the scientific method.
But I agree with Allan as well. In my opinion, because of the knowledge we have, we should stand in awe and…
Dr. Terence Meaden liked arnab banerjee's discussion 'how to make india atheist'
Dr. Terence Meaden replied to arnab banerjee's discussion 'how to make india atheist'
These are worthy aims, Arnab Banerjee.
Setting aside the first thoughts that it will be so difficult, a start should be made---especially to find a rich supporter and benefactor.
Follow, too, the practical work of Robert Bwambale in Uganda who…
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Hi Terry, thanks for the welcome and invite. :)
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Thank you for the warm welcome Dr. Meaden.
Napoleon Bonaparte commented on Dr. Terence Meaden's group 'ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN'
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- About Me
- “Gods are all in the mind. They are the imaginations of wishful thinkers who do not think enough because they have not learned enough. In short, gods exist only inside the head, and not outside of it.” Terence Meaden. Atheistweb 17 February 2008
A declared atheist since the age of 6 when I discovered the deception that is Father Christmas. By the time I was 7 or 8, I was convinced that the biblical stuff coming my way, chiefly through school, was largely mythical and therefore nonsense too. The bible was nothing but a collection of largely unlikely stories either fabricated or exaggerated and with only a few being possibly factual.
As a boy, I was soon deeply interested in the true ORIGINS as with cosmology, stars, Sun, Earth, Moon, Evolution, Life and Humanity. With the passing years as a freethinker in a Christian school and being a deeply curious enquirer, I had come to conclude that Jesus was probably a historical figure about which little was truly known, but about whom much had been grossly exaggerated—and that indeed a complex mythology had built up about this man and his ordinary parents.
By contrast, I respected and admired the discoveries of all the scientists, and that in them dwelt the real truths about our world and the universe.
So by the age of 14 I was determined to be a scientist or archaeologist.
At 15 I told the teachers that I hoped to do archaeology at Oxford but I was not allowed to try because Ancient Greek (not taught at my school) was then a requirement of the entrance examination. So I did physics and mathematics for the entrance exams age 17.
In my Oxford college I was at once dismayed to find a high number of evangelical Christians among the non-scientists. How could these people swallow the nonsense of superstitious dogma with which they had been fed? What made them prostrate themselves before scenes of human torture and make out they were drinking the blood and eating the flesh of Jesus!? What weakness of the brain had allowed otherwise bright children to be indoctrinated thus? Of course, the answer was that they had been ‘got at’ when very young, first by their parents and then by school and church.
Posts at Oxford, Grenoble (France) and Dalhousie (Canada) where Associate Professor of Physics.
Founded the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) in Britain 1974. Editor The Journal of Meteorology 1975 to 2002. By 1983 I was studying archaeology again, and got degrees at Oxford to M.Sc. level.
Married, French wife: 1 son, 2 daughters, 6 grandchildren.
Special interests: Archaeology, astronomy, atheism, classical music, commonsense, cosmology, evolution, languages, low temperature physics, meteorology, Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments and beliefs, palaeontology, physics, prehistory, solving Stonehenge, storms, tornadoes. I am also a diarist.
I offer my sincerest thanks to my parents for sparing me from the time-wasting world of the irrational beliefs that constitute religion and religious practice.
In Atheist Nexus on 15 September 2008 I founded the group ORIGINS which discusses fundamental origins from the Universe to Life, from simple cells to humans and their beliefs.
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science”. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man.
“Disbelief is the only solution to the religious paradox. Unfortunately, many men and women are not rational enough to understand—they will not listen. Years of indoctrination have seen to that. Each shelters with friends and relatives inside their cocoon of belief, and close all ears to what is impregnable criticism.
It is fundamental that atheists do not believe in gods for the straightforward reason that there aren’t any.
Gods exist only inside human heads.
Religion is but a human fancy. It is as simple as that.” Terence Meaden: July 9 2008 Atheistweb
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<b>The Towering Strength of Science versus the debility of dogmatic religion</b>
The Towering Strength of Science
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Millions of atheist scientists and other rational freethinkers know full well, through the application of unbiased commonsense and the results of millions of complex experiments and the calculations of astute experimental and theoretical physicists, that we humans inhabit a tiny part of what is a vast godless universe of immense age; and that we have good reason to infer that gods exist nowhere but in the imaginations, stories and lies of faith-driven men.
So how can bible-believers seriously defend their ever-shrinking part of the world against the supreme logic produced by elite scientists when there is no case to answer? Why are there faith-believers at all?
A principal reason is that once the fictions of faith get into people’s heads it is difficult to be rid of them. Indoctrinated when young, they indoctrinate the young of their own and of others, and the cycle of merciless irrationality continues.
These dogmatic bigots never let go—and that is because they never listen, their minds are already made up, and they are incapable of understanding and absorbing new knowledge no matter how thoroughly well-tested and proven the latter may be.
If freethinkers could only reason with the religious, there would be no religious.
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Lord Byron: “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves”.
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Only freethinkers and scientists see the universe clearly and correctly for its materiality and man’s place in it as an evolutionary accident but a marvel nonetheless.
Religionists sink inside the mental quagmire and nightmare of their own making for it is philosophically incontestable, when the evidence is well presented and the listener has a high enough level of intelligence and freedom of thought, that gods exist nowhere but inside people’s heads—and that is that.
Terence Meaden. 27 August 2008. Planet Atheism/ Enlightened Observer
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Burnt Toast: Atheist Sees Image of the 'Birth of Earth' in a Piece of Toast
Posted on August 26, 2011 at 5:30am 7 Comments 2 Likes
Atheist Sees Image of the 'Birth of Earth' in Burnt Toast
Yes it’s true.
This genuine picture was photographed in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England by science atheist Dr. Terence Meaden earlier this month.
He could barely withhold his excitement.
“I was having breakfast when this piece of ciabatta toast got burnt,” he said. “Suddenly I was aware that the pattern of light and darkness across the toast resembled what could have been…
Continue Origin of the term WINTER OF DISCONTENT as used for British Industrial strife from 1975 onwards
Posted on March 19, 2010 at 5:30am 3 Comments 0 Likes
ORIGIN OF THE TERM “THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT” as used for BRITISH INDUSTRIAL STRIFE FROM 1975
(Extract from the Editorial of The International Journal of Meteorology January 2010…
Continue A nerdy test
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 4:34pm 15 Comments 0 Likes
I came across this test a few minutes ago, so I had a go.
Today is the first anniversary of founding the "Origins" group
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 4:30pm 9 Comments 2 Likes
Today 15th September 2009 is the first anniversary of founding “Origins”.
I had joined Atheist Nexus in August 2008 and soon thought that a group discussing the ideas and problems of “origins” of any kind, whether real (through responsible scientific research, discovery and rational contemplation) or fallacious (as with unproven beliefs including the fraudulent religions and other swindles, impostures, deceits and hoaxes) would be helpful.
There have been 175 discussion… Continue
I had joined Atheist Nexus in August 2008 and soon thought that a group discussing the ideas and problems of “origins” of any kind, whether real (through responsible scientific research, discovery and rational contemplation) or fallacious (as with unproven beliefs including the fraudulent religions and other swindles, impostures, deceits and hoaxes) would be helpful.
There have been 175 discussion… Continue
Happy Darwin Day to everyone today 12 February 2009
Posted on February 12, 2009 at 6:00am 7 Comments 4 Likes
200 years ago, on 12 February 1809, was born Charles Darwin—who grew and matured to become one of the world’s truly great scientists.
“If only everybody in the world would avoid contact with religionists and their fictions,
and instead be educated from childhood with facts from the realm of science,
we would have a better, happier world of people believing in the truths of evolutionary science,
who would smile as much at the stupidities of pathetic… Continue
“If only everybody in the world would avoid contact with religionists and their fictions,
and instead be educated from childhood with facts from the realm of science,
we would have a better, happier world of people believing in the truths of evolutionary science,
who would smile as much at the stupidities of pathetic… Continue
Comment Wall (2,434 comments)
- At 7:09pm on February 10, 2012,
Ralph Smith said… Hi Terry, thanks for the welcome and invite. :)
- At 6:31pm on February 10, 2012,
Josh Hill said… Thank you for the warm welcome Dr. Meaden.
- At 6:47pm on February 8, 2012,
Alan Macdonald said… - Thanks for the props.
I like your first sentence fragment " ...rationality, truth and peace.".
I agree with the concepts and the priority.
Alan
- At 10:40am on February 8, 2012,
Mark Schwab said…
Hi Terence,
Thanks for the welcome-I have been looking for some place of rationality, for a change.
- At 10:28pm on February 7, 2012,
Barbara Gavin said… Thanks for the welcome. I discovered this site at a very busy time for me so I won't be active right off but I have definitely got it bookmarked and am anxious to poke around more. :^) So far I'm really impressed.
Barbara
- At 5:08pm on February 7, 2012,
David Philip Norris said… Thanks for the add, Terry, and the kind words.
- At 8:39pm on February 6, 2012,
Peter said… Thank you, Terry...most appreciated! Peter
- At 3:57am on February 6, 2012,
Jared Scheib said… Thanks for the welcome!
- At 2:37am on February 6, 2012,
Ron Pugh said… - Hi Dr. Terrance,
Thanks for the warm welcome!
- At 2:29pm on February 5, 2012,
Earl Speer said…
Thank you, for taking the time to welcome me. I have just been exploring the site for now. I need to see where I fit in.
On most blogs, and forums, I tend to be hated, and some (theists) are openly hostile to me, which I revel in (:
Can you steer me where I can chat with anti-theists... I know I am in a very small group of atheists.
I look forward to reading your blogs...
Best to you, and your family, Dr. Meaden
- At 12:37am on February 3, 2012,
Fahad Al said…
- Highly appreciated Dr.Terence . Thanks for the invitation .
- At 11:54pm on February 2, 2012,
Durruti said…
Hi there, thanks for the welcome.
But I find it a bit awkward to debate or discuss when there's no theists available.
- At 4:50pm on February 2, 2012,
Brian McLinden said…
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Terence:
I made a minor amplification of my profile.
How do you locate newcomers as they first come into the site?
Brian
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- At 4:25pm on February 2, 2012,
Brian McLinden said…
Terence:
Yours is the first outreach I've experienced since joining the site. I'm reading your biographical posting and roaming around through the forum. Thanking you for your cordial welcome,
Brian
- At 1:54pm on February 2, 2012,
Marco Conti said…
Thank you terry for the warm welcome. I have already joined the group and I am looking forward to participate in its activities. Origins is indeed one of my favorite subjects and I am looking forward to participate and learn as a member of the group.
- At 1:22pm on February 2, 2012,
Nancy McIlrath said…
Thank you for the welcome and encouraging words. Just started back to college after 25 years so I am busy (working full time and as a single mom I am helping to put my daughter through UC Berkeley) but hope to comment and participate as much as possible.
- At 1:26am on February 2, 2012,
Reads said…
Dear Dr. Terry, thank you for welcoming me to your group. I'd love to participate. I've been wanting to connect with rational atheist groups and discuss evolution, origins, life and to make some like-minded friends. I'll be coming in full swing over the weekends on the groups.
My name is Sudha by the way, reads is my email nickname.
Thank you,
Sudha (readsrd)
- At 1:25pm on February 1, 2012,
Eve Anderson said… Thank you for the invitation to be a part of your group. I would love to participate. This week is going to be somewhat busy (understatement) through the weekend, so I probably will not connect again until the hecticness abates. Enjoyed reading your profile.
- At 10:20am on February 1, 2012,
Basava Raju Dupam said…
Thank you Doctor
- At 9:16pm on January 31, 2012,
KIM BATEMAN said… ihave an athiest card here in australia
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