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So what goes on in my world? I’m actually quite busy – Becky is down to visit for a few days tonight, and I am very glad as an unexpected bank charge, just as mysterious as the last set, has cleared me out and i am now flat broke. I will get to the bottom of it and as before get it refunded, but it’s deeply frustrating as you can imagine. Continue reading
There’s probably no Forum – Now relax and enjoy your Life: Richard Dawkins on changes at the forum
OK, OK, I know I said I would not write on this tedious topic any more. But the despondency of this morning at seeing a lot of hurt unhappy people and musing over ‘rationalist’ websites ability to explode has no turned to mild good humoured amusement. Richard Dawkins managed to cheer me up – not because I agreed with him or anything he says on this topic, but because it was good old bellicose belligerent Dawkins coming out fighting, and because know we know not to blame Josh. PZ Myers has washed his hands of the matter, not wanting to get dragged in, but Richard has posted on his forum (shame nobody else can!)
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=110356 Continue reading
Posted in atheism, Science
Tagged Andrew Chalkely, atheism, Atheist forums, Eureka Zone, Guardian online, Gurdur, Hackenslash, Hannah Devlin, Josh Timonen, New Atheism, Pharyngula, PZ Myers, rationalskeptics, RDF, Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins forum, RichardDawkins.net, Ruth Gledhill, the interwebs are serious business, Times Online
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Death of an Atheist Forum; the lessons of history
Following the bizarre collapse of the Richard Dawkins forum, I posted this on the excellent Rationalia and Thinking Aloud Forums. It will be my last blog entry on atheist forum politics 😦 I am after all not actually an atheist!
OK, I think I’m giving up on the whole atheist forum thing. I’ll tell you why, then move on to other topics tomorrow…
Firstly, I am still shocked, saddened and miserable about the demise of the wonderful RichardDawkins.net/forum. The problem is I have seen it ALL before, and not so long ago. If I thought this was Josh Timonen’s fault, or Dawkins, I could just laugh and move on, and help fight. The thing is I can’t any more. It’s something fundamental and deeper. Continue reading
Posted in atheism, Debunking myths, Religion, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged American Atheists, atheism, Atheist forums, atheist politics, Darat, IIDB, Internet Infidels, Internet Infidels Discussion Board, JREF, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, New Atheism, Old Soul, Rants n Raves, Rational Response Squad, rationalia, rationalia.com, RDF, RDFRS, Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins Foundation, RichardDawkins.net, Secular Web, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Thinking Aloud Forum, tsig
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Earth Our Home: The Board Game of Life on Earth
Welcome to Earth: our Home!
For the Richarddawkins.net science writing contest this month I decided to do something a bit different, and so I have designed a board game… if you are brave enough you can print it out and play it, and if you do please please do tell me how it went! Feel free to modify or improve it as you see fit.
You can see the board, counters and some of the cards here on this article, but if you want to print and play the game, and I really hope you will, then you will find it easier to download the printer friendly zip files and print the files in there which are configured for A4 card or paper. Continue reading
Posted in Games, History, Science, Unclassifiable!
Tagged board game, board games designed by CJ, Evolution, evolution board game, evolution board games, natural selection, natural selection board games, Richard Dawkins forum, richard dawkins forum science writing competition, RichardDawkins.net, science writing contest
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Damning Darwin: The Perils of Myth-making in the History of Science
There are very few things less enticing to the British public than the sight of CJ in the bath. While occasionally Marmalade the lunatic kitten comes to balance precariously on the edge of the bath tub, and watch the great pink hippo wallowing in the foaming waters, human beings seem to find the mere prospect revolting. So I apologise in advance for calling this scene to your minds, and hope you have not recently eaten. Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, History, Science
Tagged A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Alfed Russel Wallace, Alfred Wegener, Andrew Dickson White, Asa Grey, Bathtub Fallacy, Charles Darwin, conflict myth, Damning Darwin: Mythmaking in the History of Science, Damning Darwin: The perils of Myth-making in the History of Science, Darwin Online Project, Henry Morris, history of science, John Van Wyhe, John William Draper, JR Lucas, Lord Kelvin, Lysenkoism, Persecution Complex, RichardDawkins.net, Samuel Wilberfore, Science writing, Science Writing Competition, TH Huxley, Wicked Stupid Opponents Fallacy
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Richard Dawkins Forum launches monthly Science Writing Competition
While I don’t have as much free time as I would like these days, the forum at http://forum.richarddawkins.net/ remains one of my favourite places to hang out on the net, along with the JREF forum and UK Skeptics. My beliefs … Continue reading
The Second Sermon of the Rev. Jerome
More silliness from the Dawkins forum, from my series of sermons. This one was much misunderstood at the time!
In this, the second of my Sunday sermons, I would like to take a moment to thank you all for the stunned silence which met my first sermon. At least I would like to think it was stunned silence — I suspect in reality it was either utter indifference, or an unwillingness to sit through a lengthy exposition. With these thoughts in mind I will now ask Mr Grimble on organ to play “Anarchy in the UK“, and for us to reflect deeply on the moving sentiments of that 20th century divine, the Rev. J. Rotten. Continue reading
A Logical Argument for Existence of God(s) or Goddess(es)
ad a bad day. today Beast came over and we had an enjoyable discussion on increasingly bizarre plans for “better faster cheaper” space exploration – NASA’ s current strategy in case you have not heard the phrase, culminating in a discussion of ideas for building a cheap Brunel-era tech space elevator, and I read some stuff Beast brought over on the development of the mammalian brain, and got very excited about the morphology of Eocene Lemurs. The gas man failed to show, but I slowly went down with a feverish cold and feel rubbish, and not at all with it. Therefore as I feel rough I shall attempt to offer something not too ambitious in the way of posts tonight – my old attempt at a logical proof of the existence of God seems a good start… Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged A Logical Argument for Existence of God(s) or Goddess(es), Better than Life, Cosmological Fine Tuning, Dave Sivier, Lord Rees, Make Love Not Warcraft, Paul Davies, RichardDawkins.net, Simulation Hypothesis, The Matrix, thinsg unemployed people with colds write about when feverish, What We Still Don't Know
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Walking in Nature, Admiring the Designer’s Handiwork
My headache was such tonight I finally gave up on writing, and went out walking. It is a bitterly cold night, and my face is raw. I walked as I do through Nature, admiring the handiwork, yes the Design; the staggering variety of form, texture and shape, the fragile ephemeral beauty of Nature’s dance, the rhythm of the scurrying life forms. The designs startled, enthralled, and confused me – at times I could see no real purpose in them. The night was filled with colours, a vast prismatic spectrum of shining jewels – yet I could not see why I would be able to perceive them at all? I am glad I can, humbled by their splendour, and the little green goblins which bade me cross the road shone like burning emeralds across the cityscape, but why can humans see so many colours? Is it a by product of some other evolutionary process? Mystery! Can a God creep in here, into this nest of incomprehension? Continue reading
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The End of an Era: Richard Dawkins forum to close
Unfortunately I popped over to RD.net to see what was going on, and found that an announcement had been made that the forum is to close. It will remain live for 30 days to allow us to retrieve anything we want to save: given I had written over 10,000 posts (7,000+ remain after an earlier purge) and I guess many million words as I am not known for my brevity, that will prove immensely difficult. Given that the search has not worked for months, in order to protect other parts of the website and keep the bandwidth manageable, well it will be next to impossible. Continue reading →