Ep. 14 The Enlightenment Show:Flu Shot/Vaccine Denial, Obama the Anti-Christ?, Prop 8

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Intro: Andy’s Colbert impression!
Leo gets a flu shot from infectious disease specialist Dr. Pamela Kelly.  They discuss Flu and Vaccine myths.
FreeThinker’s Toolkit: David Hume on the problem of miracles.
Blogger Heads: Examine Obama is the anti-Christ videos.
FreeThought Today: A discussion on politics including Prop 8 [...]

More like “guidelines”, really.

I found myself rereading a part of Richard Dawkins’ rather succinct book The God Delusion today; specifically, the chapter entitled The ‘Good’ Book and the Moral Zeitgeist, pages 263 and 264.  Dawkins briefly mentions a common list of “New Ten Commandments” he searched for on the internet.  He then goes on to add some personal [...]

Wieners, in buns, no condiments.

A sort of a religious parable although I don’t think many people would see it as such. Here’s a video of a classic skit by the Rev. J. Huber from the fine folks at Nimpsy. It’s been a favorite of mine for a long time now. Video after the fold.

Happy Thanksgiving

I’d like to share a note of inspiration from one of the most important authors of the humanist canon.
A HUMANIST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
by Robert Green Ingersoll
When I became convinced that the universe is natural–that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the [...]

Are you as moral as god?

Oh my gosh! This video is awesome. What a great way to use the power of new media to get your message across in a non-threatening and humorous manner. Thank Dawkins we aren’t all this moral. Hat tip to Pharyngula.

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November Sunday Coffee Klatch

Apologies for the late notice, this took a bit of schedule wrangling to firm up the date. Our second FreeThought Fort Wayne Sunday Coffee Klatch is coming up this Sunday, November 23rd at the Friendly Fox on South Wayne. This is just a relaxed, informal meet-up for the group to enjoy some fine coffee, good [...]

Ten Most Wanted Promoters of Pseudoscience

I am a skeptoid fanboy. I will admit it. The podcast is a great resource for the beginner skeptics out there.
The recent October 28th podcast covered his list of the 10 most wanted celebrities who endorse harmful pseudoscience. Now I must specify that he does not want these people to be hurt or harmed, he [...]

What’s the harm?

There have been many questions posed to me over the years by believers; some good, some bad.  There are also many of the same old chestnuts that make their regular appearance in my conversations.  Today I’d like to kill four of those birds with one answer.  And they are:

Why not believe in God?
What’s the harm [...]

Origins of Life

The Museum of Science at Boston has built a helpful interactive website exploring Abiogenesis.  Explore the current hypothesis of RNA beginnings to build information and reproductive systems from nucleic acids. There are viruses that use only RNA to reproduce today.  For us, RNA is an intermediate step from DNA-to messenger RNA to transfer RNA to [...]

Liberating the Founders

A couple weeks ago I heard an excellent program on NPR about the separation of church and state. On Sundays at 4PM local, Krista Tippett hosts the show Speaking of Faith.
On the October 30th show, Krista Tippett interviewed Steven Waldman (here) who runs the BeliefNet.com website. Steven Waldman speaks ostensibly about his book Founding Faith however he [...]