Richard Robertson

5 Billion years.  Isn’t it funny that we look to measure the lifetime of the universe, based on the number of times an insignificant star in an outer spiral arm has been circumnavigated by the third of eight planets in its orbit?

Reg, I loved Ozymandias from the first time I read it.

I can’t think of anything mantra-like, but some kinds of anxiety can be cognitively understood and soothed over time. It’s quite natural to fear the dark, since we still have the same genetic makeup we had long ago while facing survival challenges, e.g. with predators about. I suspect you know cognitively, i.e. common sense wise, that most…[Read more]

Matt wrote:
the lack of threaded conversations

I, too, wish we could display nested threads, although not as much as I use to wish. AZ “flat” style presentation is more linear in time, and much easier to follow when all one wants to do is catch up on what’s happened since they were last here, in an overview kind of perspective. The one thing I…[Read more]

That’s the question, though. Is there sex in heaven?  Where’s @michael17 when you want him?

I want to know if there is sex in heaven. Nobody has ever answered me on this one.  I know in Allahs place there’s sex, because of the promise of 72 virgins – although after a while, you’d run out of virgins.  Unless they re-virginate over night. So much to think about. But really, does anyone have any idea if the Christian heaven includes sex…[Read more]

Thank you for that, I had to favorite this topic. Awesome summary of how myths can evolve in culture from sun worshiping (esp. during culture-wide agricultural and language development) and then into humanized dieties, and finally into one human-like deity (monotheism).

Until now I’d been over-thinking about possible neuro-based, unconsciously…[Read more]

Woman and her small son in a taxi, headed out somewhere. The taxi takes a route via the red light district with several working girls available

Little Boy :- Mommy, Mommy, who are those women under those red lights?

Mom :- Oh they’re just ladies, dear

Taxi Driver (turning over his shoulder) :- Go on, tell him the truth!  They’re whores, that…[Read more]

Welcome, Sean!

And good job on your profile pics. I should improve my own, something like that.

Hey Sean, welcome to Atheist Zone!  Check out Reg’s Sunday School, a weekly treasure trove of delight!

We have adult children who have their own children in some cases. In order to avoid clashing invitations with other sides of family, we invented Cranksgiving. We choose a Saturday somewhere between Christmas and Thanksgiving, and combine the traditional turkey dinner with all the gift giving.  This year it’s 15th Dec.  And somehow ‘Cr…[Read more]

Here’s the best lecture yet I’ve seen on how to respond to creationists. If you don’t want to watch the whole 80 minute video (which imo is good in every minute, by the way), we jump (below) into when Dr. Donald Prothero presents encyclopedic evidence for transitional species:

michael17 wrote:
[..] it does not jive with the original manuscript

That was just a first draft.

David Philpot, welcome to AZ, and +1 on your first posts! (I rarely say that last part.)