Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
FOX News: Atheists Meet With White House
February 27, 2010 on FOX News with Sean Hannity and Mike Huckabee
Wonders of the Solar System - Trailer - BBC Two
Airs March 7, 2010 at 9PM on BBC Two
In this spell-binding series, Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on Earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the Solar System.(via Derren Brown Blog)
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Danish Daily Appologises for Muhammad Cartoons
February 26, 2010 on Russia Today
A Danish newspaper's apologised for offending Muslims over its printing of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad five years ago. It sparked fierce protest in the Muslim world and intense debate about freedom of speech. The Politiken newspaper says its apology was part of a settlement with a Saudi lawyer representing eight Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.
President Gaddafi Calls For Jihad Against Switzerland
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The 'Dead Will Wake Up' Mission - Kenya
February 22, 2010 on Kenya Citizen TV
In a bizarre incident faithful of the believers of kingdom seekers fellowship church in Nakuru are for the third day engaged in unending prayers for the resurrection of two leaders of the church who died in a road accident last Tuesday. The church overseer William Kimani has been categorical that the country is on the verge of great revival and there is still hope that the leaders will rise from the dead. However he says that if they will not have resurrected by Thursday, then they will be laid to rest at Nakuru north public cemetery.(Thanks Sangura)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
BBC - Generation Jihad - Episode 3
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Aired February 22, 2010 on BBC Two (Episode 3/3)
Peter Taylor investigates what Britain is doing to counter the threat of violent extremism. In 2010, 140 million pounds will be spent to win the battle for the hearts and minds of young Muslims, but the policy risks alienating many in Britain's Muslim communities. With unique access to a man who came face to face with al-Qaeda and the inside story of how police managed to thwart would-be suicide bombers, the programme examines the biggest single threat to national security.Episode 1 - Episode 2
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Delegate Bob Marshall: Disabled Children Are God's Punishment for Abortion
February 18, 2010 at an anti-Planned Parenthood Conference in Richmond, Virginia
(via Right Wing Watch)
Maddow: Christian Ignorance Revives Discrimination in Virginia
February 22, 2010 on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow
Monday, February 22, 2010
Brit Hume Reaffirms His Advice to Tiger Woods on Christianity
February 22, 2010 on FOX News with Bill O'Reilly
Archaeologist Claims Biblical Accuracy Supported by New Find
February 22, 2010 on ITN News
Archaeologist claims ancient fortifications found in Jerusalem support the accuracy of the bible's narrative
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Five Minutes With: Professor Brian Cox
Posted February 20, 2010 on BBC News
Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in exactly five minutes in a series for the BBC News website.(via RichardDawkins.net)
This week, physicist and presenter Professor Brian Cox talks about the excitement of working on the Large Hadron Collider, his science heroes, how his taste in music is ageing, and he gives a beginner's guide to the Big Bang.
Halal Meat Controversy in France
February 21, 2010 on Al-Jazeera English
Halal meat, or meat slaughtered in line with Muslim tradition, is at the centre of a political controversy.See also: Are Muslims Eating Halal in Canada?
Quick - a fast-food French restaurant chain - is testing out a new niche market, withdrawing all pork products from the menu and serving only halal meat in some of its branches.
Experts say that with more than 5 million French Muslims who are potential customers, Quick is targeting a booming market: the $7.5bn halal business.
But the mayor of Roubaix, a French town near the northern city of Lille , has launched a law suit against the food chain, arguing that it constituted "discrimination" against non-Muslims.
Iranian Scientists Clone Goat
February 21, 2010 on Al-Jazeera English
Iranian scientists have cloned a goat and plan future experiments they hope will lead to a treatment for stroke patients.
The female goat, named Hana, was born early on Wednesday in the city of Isfahan in central Iran.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Bill Gates on Energy: Innovating to Zero! | TED
February 2010 on TED
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Friday, February 19, 2010
CPAC Speaker Condemns CPAC For Hosting Gay GOP Group
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Q&A: Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the Atlantic Monthly, discusses his current paperback, "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything." The book was a New York Times Bestseller and a finalist for The National Book Award. Program from Sunday, April 26, 2009.(via RichardDawkins.net)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Slimed the Movie
SlimedtheMovie.com
Also available on Youtube
An atheist park ranger and a bible salesman find themselves in an unlikely partnership, thrown into the wilderness, where they stumble upon a sinister and slimey conspiracy that threatens to destroy not just the woods – but the entire world.(Thanks to Eric Manche and Jeff Nitzberg)
In this low-budget sci-fi/horror/comedy feature, writer/directors Eric Manche and Jeff Nitzberg take you on an epic journey into a mad world where humanity is at odds with itself, mysteries and horrors are around every corner and a killer wave of toxic slime is always one step behind.
Featuring slapstick violence, religious indecency, incomprehensible stupidity, epic laser gun battles, depressed wizard cats, puppet super-villains and exploding children – Slimed will make laugh, scream and cry... possibly all at the same time.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
BBC - Generation Jihad - Episode 2
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Aired February 15, 2010 on BBC Two (Episode 2/3)
In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how young Muslims radicalised over the internet formed themselves into a terror network that spread across three continents. Aided and abetted by two young fanatics in Britain, these cells plotted major attacks in Europe and America - culminating in a plan to explode three enormous truck bombs which, it was claimed, would dwarf the London bombings of 7/7.ve adopted a faith that they believe compels them to stand apart from Britain and its values.Episode 1
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Simpsons - Lisa the Skeptic
UPDATE: Video bandwidth exceeded - Watch on Photobucket
From Season 9, Episode 8
(via Atheist Movies)
Dad Faces Jail For Taking Daughter To Church
February 16, 2010 on ABC News
From Huffington Post:
Joseph Reyes, who baptized his 3-year-old daughter without his ex-wife's permission, could see jail time after a Cook County judge granted his ex a temporary restraining order barring him from exposing the child to any religion other than Judaism.
With an already ugly divorce and custody battle turning even uglier, Reyes was arraigned Tuesday on charges he violated the temporary restraining order when he invited television crews along as he took his daughter Ela to Holy Name Cathedral on Jan. 17.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Richard Dawkins: Framing Charles Darwin
February 13, 2010 on ForGoodReason.org
Richard Dawkins talks about Darwin Day and communicating with the public about Darwinism, and which should be the highest priority: evolution education or widespread skepticism about the supernatural, including theism. He denies that he is strident. He explores concerns over immorality that may fuel opposition to Darwinsim. He explains how creationists are like Holocaust deniers. He describes the benefits of accepting the theory of evolution. And he details lines of evidence for evolution, such as those coming from molecular biology.(via RichardDawkins.net)
Sam Harris Picks a Fight with God
February 15, 2010 on Southern California Public Radio:
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According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, an amazing 92% of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit—even one in five of self-identified atheists believe in a higher power. Ardent secularist Sam Harris isn’t deterred by those numbers, and in fact has made it his life’s mission to force the faithful to question their religious faith—Harris would even argue that the future of civilization is dependent on it. Questioning commonly held assertions and wisdom found in the Bible; seeking out debates with theologists across the spectrum, from Judaism to Christianity to Islam; and all but picking a fight with God, Sam Harris takes his secular crusade to Patt’s microphone.(via RichardDawkins.net)
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Child Preacher Delivers a Speech on Children's Love of Martyrdom on Egyptian TV
February 5, 2010 on Al-Rahma TV - Transcript
Russian Engineer Designs 'Doomsday Pod'
February 14, 2010 on Al-Jazeera English
A Russian inventor has designed what he says is the key to human survival in the event of an apocalypse.
It's an armoured pod that Evgeny Ubiyko says can house around four people for days and endure extreme temperatures, including lava.
To him, the contraption is a modern day Noahs Ark.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Toddler Forced to Recite Koran
Aired January 1, 2010 on Al-Nas TV
Egyptian Man Brings 3-Year-Old Daughter to Tears, Forcing Her to Demonstrate Her Koran-Reciting Skills Live on TV
BBC Horizon: To Infinity and Beyond
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Aired February 10. 2010 on BBC Two
By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems.(via Atheist Planet)
Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. This is the story of infinity."
Friday, February 12, 2010
BBC | How Earth Made Us | Episode 4: Fire
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Aired February 9, 2010 on BBC Two
Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history.Episode 1: Deep Earth
Iain explores man's relationship with fire. He begins by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature - a walk right through the heart of a raging fire.
Fire has long been our main source of energy and Iain shows how this meant that the planet played a crucial role in Britain's industrial revolution, whilst holding China's development back.
Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt, crawls through an extraordinary cave in Iran and takes a therapeutic bath in crude oil.
Episode 2: Water
Episode 3: Wind
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Airport Body Scanners Violate Islamic Law?
February 11, 2010 on Russia Today
The Fiqh Council of North America (an association of Muslims who interpret Islamic law on the North American continent) issued a ruling (fatwa) earlier this week that says Muslims shouldn't go through full body scanners since this violate Islamic rules on modesty. Nihad Awad heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and their purpose is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties and to promote justice and mutual understanding.
Glenn Beck's Next Target: Separation of Church and State
February 10, 2010 on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
BBC - Generation Jihad - Episode 1
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Aired February 8, 2010 on BBC Two (Episode 1/3)
Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet.
Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born.
In the first episode, Peter hears from those convicted under Britain's newest anti-terror laws and investigates how some of the most notorious terrorists came to be radicalised. He finds a generation that has shed the moderate Islam their parents brought to this country, and instead have adopted a faith that they believe compels them to stand apart from Britain and its values.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Christopher Hitchens Interviewed by Unitarian Minister Marilyn Sewell
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Maryiln Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and [sic] distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Christopher Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
Read more at Portland Monthly(via Caffeinated Thoughts and Pastor Greg Laurie)
The Placebo Effect
Ben Goldacre, doctor and author of Bad Science, explains what the placebo effect is and describes its role in medical research and in the pharmaceutical industry.(via Skepchick)
Monday, February 8, 2010
Evolutionary Reasons for Celebrity Gossip
Dr. Helen Fisher explains why it is so hard to look away when a well-known celebrity has been unfaithful.
Hitchens and Fry vs. Ann Widdecombe on The Ten Commandments
February 7, 2010 on Channel 4 from the documentary series "The Bible: A History"
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
BBC Horizon: Don't Grow Old
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Aired February 3, 2010 on BBC Two
For centuries scientists have been attempting to come up with an elixir of youth. Now remarkable discoveries are suggesting that ageing is something flexible that can ultimately be manipulated.
Horizon meets the scientists who are attempting to piece together why we age and more vitally for all of us, what we can do to prevent it. But which theory will prevail?
Does the 95-year-old woman who smokes two packets of cigarettes a day hold the clue? Do blueberries really delay signs of ageing or is it more a question of attitude? Does the real key to controlling how we age lie with a five-year-old boy with an extraordinary ageing disease or with a self-experimenting Harvard professor?
Could one of these breakthroughs really see our lives extend past 120 years?
Friday, February 5, 2010
Father Knows Best: How to Discern Between Hallucination, Imagination, and the "Voice of God"?
February 5, 2010 on FOX News' Red Eye with Fr. Jonathan Morris
BBC | Chemistry: A Volatile History | Ep 3 The Power of the Elements
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Aired February 4, 2010 on BBC Four (Epissode 3/3)
The explosive story of chemistry is the story of the building blocks that make up our entire world - the elements. From fiery phosphorous to the pure untarnished lustre of gold and the dazzle of violent, violet potassium, everything is made of elements - the earth we walk on, the air we breathe, even us. Yet for centuries this world was largely unknown, and completely misunderstood.Episode 1: Discovering the Elements
In this three-part series, professor of theoretical physics Jim Al-Khalili traces the extraordinary story of how the elements were discovered and mapped. He follows in the footsteps of the pioneers who cracked their secrets and created a new science, propelling us into the modern age.
In the final part, Professor Al-Khalili uncovers tales of success and heartache in the story of chemists' battle to control and combine the elements, and build our modern world. He reveals the dramatic breakthroughs which harnessed their might to release almost unimaginable power, and he journeys to the centre of modern day alchemy, where scientists are attempting to command the extreme forces of nature and create brand new elements.
Episode 2: The Order of the Elements
Thursday, February 4, 2010
BBC | How Earth Made Us | Episode 3: Wind
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Aired February 2, 2010 on BBC Two
Iain visits Chinguetti, a small town surrounded by the encroaching Sahara desert. Five hundred years ago this was a vibrant transport hub, and its success was due to global wind patterns, which created the desert. For thousands of years the Sahara was a formidable barrier to communication, but Chinguetti was an oasis town on one of the few routes through the desert. All that now remains of Chinguetti's glory days are some magnificent libraries that have survived the ravages of time. Ironically, the same global pattern of winds that helped Chinguetti thrive also contributed to its downfall. At the end of the 15th century, when an unknown Portuguese sailor visited the coast of West Africa, he began the discovery of ocean wind circulation – the trade winds and westerlies. These would usher in an era of European colonisation. The sailor's name was Christopher Columbus.Episode 1: Deep Earth
The winds have shaped the surface of the planet and the environments in which we live, opening up opportunities for civilisation around the globe. In China, Iain explores how the rise of early Chinese civilisation was based on riches provided by the wind. However in Australia it was a very different story. Iain climbs to the top of Mount Connor in the middle of this continent and witnesses the stark bareness of this landscape. The wind has stripped the land of fertile soil, limiting the options for the ancient aboriginal population.
Episode 2: Water
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Daily Show: Children's Cartoons From Hamas
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Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2010 | Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death
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Aired February 1, 2010 on BBC One
One of the world's most popular authors gives the 34th Richard Dimbleby Lecture from the Royal College of Physicians in London.(Tip: TreVelocita)
Sir Terry Pratchett announced in 2007 that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. In his keynote lecture, Shaking Hands with Death, he explores how modern society, confronted with an increasingly older population, many of whom will suffer from incurable illnesses, needs to redefine how it deals with death.
The acclaimed creator of the bestselling Discworld series, he is the first novelist to give the Richard Dimbleby Lecture. His books have sold more than 65 million copies and have been translated into 37 languages.
Terry Pratchett's lecture was read by his friend, Tony Robinson.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
UK Police Warn of Jihad Training for Children
From Telegraph:
Some young children in Britain are being indoctrinated to hate non-Muslims and champion a holy war, according to a new documentary.(via RichardDawkins.net)
"No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training," states one document recovered by police from the North West's Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) during raids.
CTU officers, interviewed by the BBC's Inside Out team for a special programme, show the document and a film they recovered of two children aged about three and six playing with a pistol and Kalashnikov rifle.
The officers say the discoveries are evidence of attempts to radicalise youngsters. The footage, which police believe was filmed in Pakistan, was uncovered on the hard drive of a suspect's computer – though investigators have not revealed when the material was seized.
The video shows a girl and young boy playing with guns, which police believe are real. "What do you do with the weapon?" asks a man's voice. He answers his own question: "I want to kill the infidels."
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Hitler Reacts to Christian Group Sending Solar Powered Bibles to Haiti
From ABC News:
As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti's earthquake victims, a United States group is sending Bibles.(Thanks Stephan)
But these aren't just any Bibles; they're solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time.
The Faith Comes By Hearing organisation says its Bible, called the Proclaimer, delivers "digital quality" and is designed for "poor and illiterate people".
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Dr. Lawrence Krauss' Science & Religion Lecture | Hampshire College
Part 2 (Q&A)
Dr. Lawrence Krauss is Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Initiative, Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative, School of Earth and Space Exploration, BEYOND Center, and Department of Physics at Arizon State University.
He is the author of The Physics of Star Trek, Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth... and Beyond and Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra-Dimensions from Plato to String Theory and Beyond.
http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu
http://origins.asu.edu/
http://scienceandreligion.hampshire.edu/
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