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Comments by Zzyx1170


9. Evolution and Texas

Comment #96473 by Zzyx1170 on December 10, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Christine Comer was interviewed on NPR Science Friday. You can listen to the 12-minute interview at: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200712071

11. Of Dickens and Darwin

Comment #95460 by Zzyx1170 on December 8, 2007 at 11:54 am

My bullshit detector blew a fuse when I read the words "a postmodern biology emphasizes cellular uncertainty, exhibited by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle."

12. Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan

Comment #87712 by Zzyx1170 on November 12, 2007 at 11:59 pm

Crazymalc said: Why on earth would you need a compass pointing to Mecca?

According to sharia, you're not allowed to fart when facing towards or away from Mecca. All farts must be directed perpendicular to the direction of Mecca. So they need the compass to know when it's safe to fart without going to hell for farting in the wrong direction.

14. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #81458 by Zzyx1170 on October 24, 2007 at 7:00 pm

I placed an mp3 of this debate on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/64966581/Christopher-Hitchens-Debates-Dinesh-D_Souza.mp3

I think Hitchens did as well as can be expected under the circumstances. In this kind of debate, the bullshitters always have an advantage over the rationalists because the BS-ers can throw out more BS in one minute than the rationalists can debunk in ten minutes. Given that the BS-ers and the rationalists both have equal time to speak, the rationalists can't keep up with the rate that BS is generated.

15. FFRF 07 Conference Footage

Comment #81258 by Zzyx1170 on October 24, 2007 at 1:59 pm

I converted the FFRF-07 talks to mp3 files, and put them in a zip archive file on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/64931053/FFRF-07_Talks.zip

The zip archive contains:
FFRF-07_1_Katha-Pollitt.mp3
FFRF-07_2_Julia-Sweeney.mp3
FFRF-07_3_Prof.-Robert-Kimbrough.mp3
FFRF-07_4_Ellery-Schempp.mp3
FFRF-07_5_Matthew-LaClair.mp3
FFRF-07_6_Stephanie-Salter.mp3
FFRF-07_7_Christopher-Hitchens.mp3

16. A question of belief

Comment #80083 by Zzyx1170 on October 19, 2007 at 10:14 pm

Can anyone help me out? I assume Tim Egan is not referring to the scarlet A of the out campaign, so what does the phrase "to wear the scarlet A" refer to?


It's in reference to a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne called "The Scarlet Letter".

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter

18. Richard Dawkins receives the Deschner Prize

Comment #78809 by Zzyx1170 on October 15, 2007 at 1:43 am

I placed an mp3 of this speech on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/62660956/Deschner_Dawkins-Acceptance-Speech.mp3

Congratulations on winning the award, and thanks for such a beautiful acceptance speech.

19. How China Got Religion

Comment #78064 by Zzyx1170 on October 11, 2007 at 5:36 pm

He lost me when he wrote "All human sciences are turning into a branch of cultural studies." I wonder if he has been too long subjected to the rotting influence of post-modernist Humanities. Some association with real scientists could do him a world of good.

20. Ban teachers from religious dress, Quebec group says

Comment #77620 by Zzyx1170 on October 9, 2007 at 10:31 pm

Should a person wearing silly religious garb based on silly religious beliefs be seen as fundamentally different from someone wearing a tin foil hat to keep the CIA from reading their thoughts?

21. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #76751 by Zzyx1170 on October 7, 2007 at 2:37 am

I placed an mp3 of this interview - the complete 11 minutes and 36 seconds - on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/60848077/Dawkins-on-The-Lionel-Show.mp3

23. Christopher Hitchens on BookTV

Comment #67525 by Zzyx1170 on September 3, 2007 at 5:42 pm

For those who want to listen to this on a digital audio player (like iPod), I placed an mp3 of parts 1 through 7 of this interview on RapidShare at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/53257393/Christopher-Hitchens_2007-09-02-CSPAN_01-07.mp3

26. Public Debate on Complexity and Evolution

Comment #61242 by Zzyx1170 on August 4, 2007 at 10:14 am

Could someone who managed to download it please upload it to rapidshare.com/ and post the rapidshare link here?