Sunday School

Of course it is important to listen to both sides of “the debate“.

I went to see the Titanosaur one month after the exhibit opened.

This did nothing to cure me of my secret crush on Alice 😉

Alice Roberts is a treasure and a great educator. In a way young people have such great resources if their families would just allow them access. I remember the struggle to learn back in the 60’s. When I went missing my poor Mom knew to check the library first, the little local museum second and then the ocean pier where everything from bottlenose…[Read more]

The publication “Scientific American” has some great editions that can still be purchased. Here and Here.

I enjoy telling racists that we are all descended from Africans, especially the Christian ones. There is more research to be done on this topic but I too am fascinated with the story of human evolution.

This is funny.

There are plenty of vid…[Read more]

a set of community norms that evolved because they were useful.

Then she’s not so far off what I said.  Norms are standards to be upheld, and we are governed and monitored in that direction, by the community and by ourselves.

Since Homo sapiens emerged, seven or more human types inhabited the planet. Today, we’re the only ones left. It’s an odd time in human evolution.

Now that is an understatement. I am fascinated by our fellow extinct humans. The fact that white Euro Christians are the ones with Neanderthal contributions is well…delightful.

Christians would say, it’s also monitored by God, the ultimate voice of conscience.

That is irrelevant to a science based topic.

She just claims, moral sentiments = having a conscience.

I read it that she claims moral sentiments are a set of community norms that evolved because they were useful.

I couldn’t get on with Patricia Churchland’s ideas.

How your brain invents morality.

I think she doesn’t specify how the conscience gets into our heads.  She just claims, moral sentiments = having a conscience.

I think there is a governing and monitoring going on.  The conscience is tied up with the human sense of “ought” – the conscience says w…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!!

 
“One day when I was praying, it suddenly occurred to me that I was talking to myself.”

 
― Peter O’ Toole

Pity Aron Ra did not get to debate Ken Ham instead of Bill Nye. You need to know the Bible myths and Science, not just Science, to debate a Creationist.

I can imagine that pretty easily, LOL. I am following his YT vlog battle with inmate number 445556 or something like that.

Atheist Ireland organize guest speaker events and Aron Ra came to Dublin again in March 2016 to give a talk in a city hotel. It was well attended and we went to the lobby bar after the talk as he wanted some real beer, namely cold pints of Guinness.

Some background: I had first met him when I was debating with Muslim apologist Hamza Tzortzis at…[Read more]

OK, pull up a stool and I will go to the bar…..back in a few minutes.

I don’t recall..lets hear !

Did I ever tell my Aron Ra drinking story?

I’d like to enjoy a beverage while listening to Aron Ra someday.

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!!

When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.

Jimmy Carr.