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religiousragings:

Questions No One Knows the Answers to

Wonderful little video.  :)

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deconversionmovement: Lawrence M. Krauss on A Universe from Nothing Krauss talks about science, Obama, Dawkins, Hitchens and the awesomeness of the universe. Lawrence M. Krauss may not be a household name at the level of colleagues like Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, but that may well change with the publication of his latest book A Universe from Nothing: why there is something rather than nothing. In it the US-born (and periodically Canberra-based) theoretical physicist, professor and author of The Physics of Star Trek explains, in entertainingly clear terms, how the latest research into astronomy, cosmology and quantum physics makes it theoretically possible for a universe to pop into existence, thereby giving the first non-philosophical answer to the question “so, why is there a universe at all, exactly?” Read More

deconversionmovement:

Lawrence M. Krauss on A Universe from Nothing

Krauss talks about science, Obama, Dawkins, Hitchens and the awesomeness of the universe.

Lawrence M. Krauss may not be a household name at the level of colleagues like Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, but that may well change with the publication of his latest book A Universe from Nothing: why there is something rather than nothing. In it the US-born (and periodically Canberra-based) theoretical physicist, professor and author of The Physics of Star Trek explains, in entertainingly clear terms, how the latest research into astronomy, cosmology and quantum physics makes it theoretically possible for a universe to pop into existence, thereby giving the first non-philosophical answer to the question “so, why is there a universe at all, exactly?”

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fuckyeahsexyatheists:

Sam’s lecture at CalTech a few days ago.

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Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell

christiantheatheist:

Introductory note: Russell delivered this lecture on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall. Published in pamphlet form in that same year, the essay subsequently achieved new fame with Paul Edwards’ edition of Russell’s book, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays … (1957).

As your Chairman has told you, the subject about which I am going to speak to you tonight is “Why I Am Not a Christian.” Perhaps it would be as well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word Christian. It is used these days in a very loose sense by a great many people. Some people mean no more by it than a person who attempts to live a good life. In that sense I suppose there would be Christians in all sects and creeds; but I do not think that that is the proper sense of the word, if only because it would imply that all the people who are not Christians — all the Buddhists, Confucians, Mohammedans, and so on — are not trying to live a good life. I do not mean by a Christian any person who tries to live decently according to his lights. I think that you must have a certain amount of definite belief before you have a right to call yourself a Christian. The word does not have quite such a full-blooded meaning now as it had in the times of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. In those days, if a man said that he was a Christian it was known what he meant. You accepted a whole collection of creeds which were set out with great precision, and every single syllable of those creeds you believed with the whole strength of your convictions. 

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theperplexedobserver:

The Most Astounding Fact (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.

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Your chosen religion has us born as reprobates, guilty before we’ve taken a single breath, responsible for things we’ve never done yet offers instant, undeserved forgiveness for the most horrible of crimes and punishes people who’s only crime is disbelief. Forever. It advocates slavery, denigrates women, curses homosexuals, orders the stoning of unruly children, sanctions wars of extermination, condones human sacrifices and poisons every mind it touches. It includes only one unforgivable crime: disbelief. Is that just?
Matt Dillahunty - on the Christian system of justice (via doubtingmarcus)

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deconversionmovement:

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence

http://www.ted.com Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

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