Even More FB Finds... Discussion Even More FB Finds... 3 Likes When 10 Million Africans Died Of One King's… A discussion from Joan Denoo led me to read (in quotes, via Audible, unabridged) "King Leopold's Ghost".  by Adam Hochschild.  I've been reading the book for a few weeks, and now finished it.   The… Discussion When 10 Million Africans Died Of One King's… 2 Likes Everybody Draw Mohammad Day, Who's playing? Well me, for a start. see here Please stand up for free expression, it is under attack even in the "free world"."tolerating intolerance is nothing more than cowardice." Discussion Everybody Draw Mohammad Day, Who's playing? 2 Likes Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish It’s easy to forget that global warming doesn’t just refer to the rising temperature of the air. Climate change is having an enormous, if less understood, impact on the oceans, which already absorb… Discussion Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish 2 Likes Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philos… Tamar Gendler, Department of Philosophy Chair at Yale University, Cognitive ScientistWho gets what and who says so? These two questions underlie and inform every social arrangement from the resolutio… Discussion Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philos… 1 Like Cheating with Science 6 Ways Scientific Studies Can Trick You As it turns out, scientific studies with phony findings are not as uncommon as they should be. And far too often, bad journalism results in the uncritical repo… Discussion Cheating with Science 3 Likes Rossby waves - what happens in the Arctic do… It's Eerie -- The Global Climate Disaster Is Happening Right Now... and Humanity Is Just Pretending It's Not Happening What we are seeing, here and now, is the transformation of the atmospheric physi… Discussion Rossby waves - what happens in the Arctic do… 3 Likes St. Anthony Falls Bridge, Minnesota Discussion St. Anthony Falls Bridge, Minnesota 1 Like Cicadas taste like asparagus Cicada Recipes: Bugs Are Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Food Those of us in Eastern US have a noisy exuberance of free food till July. Blanched, boiled, or candied, cicadas are a healthy snack, experts say. .… Discussion Cicadas taste like asparagus 1 Like Origins of Religion in the Paleolithic Age Here's what I've been reading about the history of religion. Paleolithic is the old Stone Age wikipedia, the history of religions.  All pics here are from wikipedia, due to public domain, and links… Discussion Origins of Religion in the Paleolithic Age 2 Likes Two Reasons Why Martin Luther Fails Any Test

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Blog Two Reasons Why Martin Luther Fails Any Test 5 Likes Interactive US hate map 'Geography of Hate' Maps Racist, Homophobic, Ableist Tweets Before you move to a new area you might want to check this map based on geotagged tweets. I zoomed into  my state, PA, and found it corresp… Discussion Interactive US hate map 2 Likes Nietzsche: "Christianity is the Worst Catast… Yes, and then again, no.  It is one central, crucial concept in Christianity that I find abhorrent, anti-hominid, and an abomination unto MY lord, DNA-nature-reason.  In words attributed to a superno… Discussion Nietzsche: "Christianity is the Worst Catast… 1 Like DAWKINS ON POPE BENEDICT Discussion DAWKINS ON POPE BENEDICT 1 Like Avoid false prophets Discussion Avoid false prophets 2 Likes Hope springs?

I'm done. I quit. I give up. Besides, it's too late. It's hopeless, despite the "springs eternal" cliche.

After 13 years of being a bachelor, living the solitary life and all, I thought I'd…

Blog Hope springs? 2 Likes Why Climate Change isn't an environmental is… Ryan L Cooper explains, in 5 minutes, that environment is too narrow a category to contain climate change. It's more like throwing out our instinct for self-preservation. Discussion Why Climate Change isn't an environmental is… 2 Likes Responding to Believers' "Difficult" Questio… Hello. I noticed this article by a British doctor asking Atheists "Twenty Questions Atheists Struggle To Answer." I always enjoy a challenge so I answered them and emailed the following letter to him… Discussion Responding to Believers' "Difficult" Questio… 7 Likes What is your view of Agnosticism ? Here's my take on it. Agnosticism is illogical and refutes itself. Agnosticism and agnostics characterize God as unknowable, ineffable, incomprehensible to all attempts to understand him. This doctri… Discussion What is your view of Agnosticism ? 3 Likes Psalm 14:1 PSALM 14:1 - "The fool says in his heart there is no God." Non-believers hear this charge frequently from Christians, and it carries about as much credibility as "I know you are...but what am I?" I… Discussion Psalm 14:1 3 Likes SCIENCE FINDS GOD! Suppose, just suppose that science finally finds the god! If this happens, then how will you recognize him to be god? Will you ask him to perform miracles? Will you ask him how he created the univer… Discussion SCIENCE FINDS GOD! 2 Likes