1. PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS

Comment #208253 by EEguy on July 10, 2008 at 7:01 pm

I have added my e-mail. I met PZ last week and really enjoyed the conversation.

2. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150279 by EEguy on March 26, 2008 at 4:33 pm

I'll add myself to the chorus of hundreds here.

Happy Birthday Richard!!!

3. A match made on RichardDawkins.net?

Comment #128369 by EEguy on February 16, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Congratulations to the both of you! I have enjoyed reading your comments for some time now and I wish you both happiness and courage.

4. Man and God

Comment #103419 by EEguy on December 25, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Paula -
I am a little different than some of the other posters. I was raised liberal by a father who was a former divinity student and lost the faith, and by a mother from the deep south who (having been brought up in an orphanage) never got any. As a result, I have never been religious. I would guess that the 40% might be a bit low. I live in a very religious area, and have found that to get along with all of my co-workers it is best not to mention religion at all. Another interesting phenomenon I have discovered while working at an engineering company is how my co-workers compartmentalize so well. There is no supernatural intervention allowed for the cause or solution to engineering problems, but it is allowed in the origin of life and the stories of the bible. Anyway I feel definitely part of a small minority having never been religious.

5. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96661 by EEguy on December 10, 2007 at 7:59 pm

Excellent response (#96623), Atticus_of_Amber.

Father Morris wrote:
"I write this open letter to you with the intention of expanding and involving others in our discussion."

I think Atticus has involved him/herself very admirably.

6. A question of belief

Comment #80055 by EEguy on October 19, 2007 at 6:57 pm

All in all, a pretty good summary of the current situation. Tim Egan also gives us some hope that the USA is very very slowly changing. I can't blame the politicians for their professed "faith"--it's a necessary condition to get elected. It's what they actually do after winning that counts.

7. Review of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Response to the God Delusion

Comment #67090 by EEguy on September 1, 2007 at 8:09 pm

Thanks Mango.
I've always liked Dean Martin also. However, I think scottishgeologist wins the current avatar award.

8. Review of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Response to the God Delusion

Comment #67082 by EEguy on September 1, 2007 at 6:58 pm

But it is faulty logic to conclude that this is necessarily the fault of the set of ideas being traduced. I attended a primary school where the strap was still applied. Does it follow that I should not have attended primary school? Is psychiatry a bad thing because schizophrenics were once made to take bromide?

9. The Gullible Age: Review of 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #61574 by EEguy on August 5, 2007 at 8:32 pm

I hope the show will also be available in America (perhaps as a video podcast download? or sold on i-Tunes? hint, hint, hint). My TV satellite service has a channel called "BBC America" but it doesn't seem to show any good science programs.

10. New age therapies cause 'retreat from reason'

Comment #61570 by EEguy on August 5, 2007 at 8:07 pm

I agree with Dr. Benway, Corylus, Goldy, JohnBStone, Cycik, and others--this stuff is all related. I have always been an atheist, but I learned about skepticism and rational thinking from Isaac Asimov, Stephen J. Gould, and Carl Sagan. Today's group of experts: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Steve Novella, PZ Myers, Orac, James Randi, Michael Shermer, etc. have increased my knowledge and strengthened my resolve. Believing without evidence is the core of most of the past and current ills of humanity and it should be attacked on all fronts including "woo-woo" medicine. Sticking with just atheism is acting like a "one-issue" political candidate.

11. OUT Campaign Launched, 'Scarlet Letter' Shirts Now Available!

Comment #59545 by EEguy on July 29, 2007 at 1:15 pm

WOW!
Everybody's here! I'm suprised to see this all-star lineup on such a minor quibble, but I enjoy it anyway. Glad to see PZ here. Yorker: Welcome back; I missed your comments.
My two cents: I won't wear one because I almost never wear slogans (the ol' alma mater being the exception). Everyone should do whatever you think is best. Variety is good. Do what you thinks best furthers the cause.

12. Evangelicals See Dilemmas in G.O.P. Field

Comment #54658 by EEguy on July 8, 2007 at 11:31 am

Many of those people don't seem to realize that the election is for a person to run the Executive Branch, a large bureaucracy, and not for a Sunday school teacher. Any intelligent voter should weigh many qualifications and not just the candidate's religion. That attitude in the last two elections is how we ended up with "the worst president ever". This is just another small example of how religion poisons things.

13. In the know

Comment #50207 by EEguy on June 15, 2007 at 5:24 pm

First Post:

"These books fly off the shelves for the same reason that people flock to American mega-churches. They are being told what to believe."

I never got the impression that RD's and SH's readers are told what to believe, but rather "consider these facts in opposition to common beliefs and religious arguments". The intent is to get you to think for yourself about the makeup of the universe by examining the evidence.