Friday Link Dump 5/24/13

Good one Andy

GIVE

• CRISIS RESPONSE: OKLAHOMA | Foundation Beyond Belief
• Atheists Giving Aid – Oklahoma Tornado Relief | We Are Atheism
• How Can Atheists Help in the Aftermath of the Oklahoma Tornado?

RELIGION

• The Supreme Court Agreed To Hear A Case Today That Will Probably Nuke Separation Of Church And State
• Pope at Mass: Culture of encounter is the foundation of peace Stop being reasonable Pope!  Can’t you see that I am trying to hate you?
• Atheist State Lawmaker Quotes Carl Sagan Instead of Doing Prayer Before House Session
• Pastor Punches Girl in the Face Relax, it was his daughter and I’m sure she deserved it.
• Rightwing Tory rebels call on peers to reject gay marriage bill
• GOP Lawmaker Botches Bible to Punish Poor  
• Campus Crusade For Christ ‘Pamoja 3′ Conference Incites Hatred Against LGBT Community In Africa
• Faith healing or foul play? 2008 cliff fall victim sues Bethel students This makes me ill.

SCIENCE

• Black-hole powered jets plow into galaxy
• Scientists Able To Slow Aging In Mice By Modifying The Brain’s Hypothalam​us Bow to your immortal rodent masters.
• Planck Space Data Yields Evidence of Universes Beyond Our Own
• Is the Brain No Different From a Light Switch? The Uncomforta​ble Ideas of the Philosophe​r Daniel Dennett There’s a Fox news joke in here somewhere.
• Groundwate​r isolated for eons
• “Overview” – A Short Film by Planetary Collective

CULTURE

• Boy Scouts to allow gay youths to join Still no gay scout masters.  Or atheists.  I’m expecting tons of Christian love to pour out about this decision.
• Stemberger: Gay Boy Scouts Are 'Not Going To Be Equal, They’re Going To Be Segregated' This took all of two seconds to find.
• Dentsply given "Wake-up Call" by Community, Faith-base​d, Environmen​tal & Internatio​nal Groups: Phase Out Mfg. Mercury Fillings
• Gay Rights Rally Is Attacked in Georgia This refers to the Georgia below Russia not the Georgia below Tennessee.  But it could have gone either way.
• Big-cat sightings: is Britain suffering from mass hysteria?
• Facebook’s hate speech problem
• The IRS Asked a Pro-Life Group to Explain Its Prayers Outside Planned Parenthood, Which is Now a Scandal  
• Topless Women in Public Not Breaking the Law, Says NYPD  Freeeeeedom!
• eck: CNN Interview With Atheist Tornado Survivor Was a Set-Up Because a liberal conspiracy is much more plausible than an actual atheist.

LH

LH Podcast Episode 19 featuring Troythulu: Snarkitudinousity

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The Left Hemispheres Podcast Ep. 19 feat. Troythulu: Snarkitudinousity

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Friday May 17-Special Guest Troythulu

Friday Link Dump 5/17/2013

Sorry, Blogger fucked me. Two hours of work lost.  No FLD this week.  Bloooooogggggggerrrrrrrrr!

Friday Link Dump 5/10/13

LH

The Left Hemispheres Podcast Ep.18-Jimmy Madison and the Logical Positives

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• Answers In Genesis, That "Science' Quiz & Quotes Too Stupid Not To Share
• Jesus Camp Preacher Becky Fisher Still At It

SCIENCE

• Bioteeth From Stemcells Will Regrow Complete Tooth, Superior to Implants
• Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
• American English Dialects
• Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays No, it’s just Thor fighting the Silver Surfer.
• Soldiers' faces predict aggression, military rank & number of children
• RoboBee Robot the Size of a Quarter Shows Off New Flight Skills Bow to your new miniature overlords.
• I won’t take money from Templeton: Science and religion can’t be reconciled
• Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say
• Did Earth And The Moon Get Their Water From The Same Place?
• 6 Horrifying Animal Kills Science Didn't Think Were Possible
• Babylon's hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder  
• Is Science Just for White People?

ATHEISM/RELIGION

• Cardinal Dolan: Gay Catholics With ‘Dirty Hands’ At Mass Should Be Arrested For Trespassing Why why WHY do these people want to call themselves Catholics?!?
• 500 Questions about God & Christianity | A light-hearted look at hard questions
• Elizabeth Smart and the Case Against Christian Abstinence Education I can make a case against abstinence education with a single word: teenagers.
• Statement Regarding Military Religious Liberties by the Southern Baptists This sounds reasonable...and yet somehow insidious.  
• “Faith is not a virtue”: a Q-and-A with Peter Boghossian
• Free Arabs - BREAKING Wanted for atheism!
• Bestselling Turkish Writer is receiving death threats, after she took her veil off
• Laughing in Purgatory: Report from: Atheism, How to Fail as a Social Movement Conference
• Fabio Martinez Castilla: Abortion is Worse Than Child Rape, Says Mexican Archbishop

CULTURE

• Diversity at Fox News Shocker
• MIND: Playing for All Kinds of Possibilities “Imaginative play influences the development of abstract thought.” This is the reason I don’t feel the need to discourage a belief in a Santa myth (or a Jesus myth) in my son.
• Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware But...I heard on Fox News that America has more brown people than ever.  That doesn’t make sense.
• The Frogman drops the hammer on "misandry"
• Minnesota set to allow gay marriage after House approves bill Number 11.  Let’s make it happen.
• Zeitgeist, the movie Debunked
• Romancing The Hopeless: Ambivalence and Attachement in Film and Real Life Look up Robert Desnos
• Age of consent should be 13, says barrister Excuse me while I vomit.
• Arkansas school cancels entire graduation after being asked not to pray So the adults throw a tantrum to show their 12 year-old children how to handle being told “no.”  Well played.

Jesus Camp Preacher Becky Fisher Still At It

Totally normal and not crazy cult shit. Nope! Anyone who says different is unAmurican!

via Joe.My.God.

The Left Hemispheres Podcast Ep.18-Jimmy Madison and the Logical Positives

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Thursday May 2, 2013

Answers In Genesis, That "Science' Quiz & Quotes Too Stupid Not To Share

The following quotes can be found in an article entitled Intolerant Atheists Viciously Attack Christian School on Answers In Genesis (the creationist site run by Ken Hamm). This is their response to the widely circulated "science" quiz from a Christian school in North Carolina.

Due to the fact that I don't think I need to spend time pointing out the irony of the following statements (that and the fact it is really nice out and I have better things to do) I am simply going to post them and run away laughing. It really should be obvious anyway. If anyone is really confused as why these are ridiculous, please start the conversation in the comment section. If you play nice, so will we.

“They are attempting to impose their belief system (yes, their religion) on the culture.”

How Are Atheists Becoming More Aggressive in America?

• Billboards promoting atheism and attacking Christianity have popped up across the country.
• The American Humanist Association has launched a special website for children to indoctrinate them in atheism.
• An atheist rally in Washington DC last year had a special promotion to encourage kids to attend their atheist camps.
• Atheists have been increasingly using terms like “child abuse” to describe the efforts of Christians who seek to teach their children about creation, heaven, and hell.
• Many atheists claim that children belong to the community, not to their parents.
• Atheists have actively opposed any effort in public schools to even question a belief of evolution or suggest there are any problems with it.
• They are simply not content using legislatures and courts to protect the dogmatic teaching of their atheistic religion of evolution and millions of years in public schools.

 “… government schools have increasingly become, in essence, churches of atheism.”

Not to let a good scare tactic go to waste, of course there is a plea for money. always asking for money:

“As an encouragement to this Christian school, which has been besieged lately, we ask you to contact the Academy through its website and offer your words of support—and also send it a donation as another means of encouragement. Blue Ridge Christian Academy www.brca.us is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization; you can donate with a credit card or through PayPal at www.brca.us (see the right side of the homepage), or you can send a generous check in the mail to this address: Blue Ridge Christian Academy, 424 Hwy. 101, Landrum, SC 29356.”

Friday Link Dump 5/3/13

LH

• From One Year Ago: Agnosticism vs. Atheism - Who Ya Got?

Religion and Non

• The Army’s List of “Domestic Hate Groups”
• Bombers turn up too late for rally
• Fox News guest: Scientific ‘enlightenment and reason’ led to the Holocaust
• Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?
• Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study
• Man angry over Boston bombings breaks jaw of ‘f*cking Muslim’ Iraq war veteran
• Pentagon Taps Anti-Christian Extremist For Religious Tolerance Policy
• What Muslims Around the World Think About Women's Rights, in Charts
• Louisiana counts the cost of teaching creationism – in reputation and dollars
• What Percentage of Philosophers Believe in God?
• Why I'm Not A Fan of Teams Or Religions
• Interfaith: The very name is exclusive
• Mad Michigan Mom Wants ‘Pornographic’ Diary of Anne Frank Banned
• CMU Parade Controversy Over Naked Woman, Dressed As Pope
• Agenticity, Patternicity, Belief
• Mother Theresa's Masochism: Does Religion Demand Suffering to Keep People Passive?
• Is Richard Dawkins a Racist?
• Man stabs choir members at end of church service
• Memo To The Religious Right: You Don't Need The Government To Tell You When To Pray

Culture

Happy May Day, Fellow Workers!

• Fox Rhetoric Echoed In Poll Revealing Belief That "Armed Revolution" May Soon Be Necessary
• Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary
• 27 Delightful Obsolete Words It's High Time We Revived
• What Terrorism Means To Me, A Native American
• CISPA is NOT dead
• Hundreds of Chicago Students Walk Out of Standardized Test
• Were The Tsarnaevs Nuts Or Revolutionaries?
• Where's Fox News When White Right-Wing Extremists Commit Acts of Terror?
• Raymond Buys: 15 years old, dead for not being manly
• White privilege radically changes the appearance of Tsarnaev bros
• The list of members of Congress and over 800 companies who supported CISPA
• Report: Obama Officials Authorized New 'Cybersecurity' Warrantless Surveillance Program, Fresh Immunity Given to ISPs

Science

• Fact vs Theory vs Law vs Hypothesis vs Proof
• Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism
• Sunken Egyptian city reveals 1,200-year-old secrets
• What's In The Color Of A Pill?
• A Cold Harsh Reality For Radio
• 20,000 People Have Already Applied For A One-Way Mission To Mars
• Freakish Pulsar Reaffirms Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
• U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants
• Is evolution missing link in some Pennsylvania high schools?

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