The Howard Hughes Medical Institute offers free dvds which contain lectures on various topics, from AIDS, to evolution. More info here: http://community.livejournal.com/richarddawkins/43079.html I just ordered 5 DVDs and a magazine

This was posted in the richarddawkins community earlier and it's just too funny not to share: Atheist Sees Image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast :D

YES! YES! Thank you, Gary Kamiya. This article should be posted on every LiveJournal community, and all LJ members should read it. You regular readers know that I have encountered at least one extremely rude, obnoxious, cynical, and malicious bully on every single LJ community where I have posted. Usually more. Whether it's _scientists_ , runners , ljdemocrats , atheism...

Sorry for the verbal overdose. Last one today. miketroll , in the U.K., wrote me : I suspect the U.S. is beginning to see the trend towards secularization that was already rolling in Europe decades ago. Britain is an extremely secular society in spite of the percentage of nominal Christians. (People still give the "Church of England" response to pollsters merely to end the discussion....

Ganked from richarddawkins LOLTheist: Blasphemy is Teh Funneh

I read about this on the richarddawkins group on livejournal. Sherri Shepherd, a new co-host on The View, did not know whether the earth was flat or not. What's an idiot doing on a Barbara Walters show? So, was this the picture she considered in her flat brain? And here's that portion from The View:

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (Paperback) by Richard Dawkins (Collaborator), Neil Gaiman (Collaborator), Russ Kick (Editor) crossposted to richarddawkins

Richard Dawkins' new documentary series, The Enemies of Reason was on TV in the UK earlier this month. For those of us who live without the BBC, here are the links to both episodes on Google Video. This series is a lot better than Richard Dawkins' last doco series, The Root of all Evil? Slaves to Superstition The Irrational Health Service Links x-posted to richarddawkins and ...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mark_ang_070825_diseased_and_fanatic.htm by Mark Angelo Cummings Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Tell A Friend Extremes are rather dangerous, not knowing when to stop or even realizing that we have gone way to far, is the cause of major problems. There is a specific compound in our brain which creates a chemical reaction; this reaction...

Wrote just yesterday. I heard about it throught richarddawkins http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-lostfaith21jul21,1,6066494,full.story?ctrack=1&cset=true WHEN Times editors assigned me to the religion beat, I believed God had answered my prayers. As a serious Christian, I had cringed at some of the coverage in the mainstream media. Faith frequently was treated like a circus...