Monthly Archives: March 2007

Two Aphorisms

Posted on March 31, 2007 by arensb

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra Math is no more about equations than music is about staves and sharps. — me

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Whith-arrrrrr Freedom of Religion?

Posted on March 31, 2007 by arensb

The Asheville, NC Citizen-Times tells the tragic story of a High School student whose religion is being persecuted: being kicked out of school for a day? Bryan Killian doesn’t think that’s a fair reaction to his decision to come to … Continue reading →

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First Newsweek, Now Time

Posted on March 30, 2007 by arensb

Remember the fall of 2006, when the cover of Newsweek featured a story about Annie Leibowitz… except in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, where the cover story was Losing Afghanistan?? See if you can tell what Time learned from that: … Continue reading →

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US No Longer a Christian Nation?

Posted on March 29, 2007 by arensb

James Dobson says presidential candidate Fred Thompson isn’t a Christian: “Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for,” Dobson said of Thompson. “[But] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at … Continue reading →

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LJ Plugin for WordPress

Posted on March 29, 2007 by arensb

I’ve made enough references to LiveJournal users like curvemudgeon and mcoletti enough that I got tired of copying and pasting the standard LJ HTML to link to them. So I did what any good hacker would do, and wrote a … Continue reading →

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Morality for Morons

Posted on March 26, 2007 by arensb

curvemudgeon points me to an article by Steve Alderman in the apparently badly misnamed American Thinker. This is a response to an op-ed in the LA Times by Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a … Continue reading →

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Discovery Institute Doesn’t Think God Loves Them Enough

Posted on March 19, 2007 by arensb

The Mar. 16 episode of Intelligent Design the Future has this blurb: On this episode of ID The Future CSC Fellow, Dr. Richard Weikart, author of From Darwin to Hitler asks, “does Darwinism devalues human life?” Some Darwinists deny that … Continue reading →

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Conservapedia Now Slightly Less Fun

Posted on March 15, 2007 by arensb

Readers of talk.origins may remember Ray Martinez, a particularly dense and combative young-earth creationist. I’d been having fun this past week or so reading his antics at Conservapedia.

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Highest-Ranking Elected Atheist Announced

Posted on March 12, 2007 by arensb

You may recall that a while back, the Secular Coalition for America ran a contest to find the highest-ranking elected atheist [1] in the U.S. Government. Now the contest has ended and the results have been announced.

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Freedom Of Religion and Freedom From Religion

Posted on March 7, 2007 by arensb

This particularly hateful letter, published in the Kenai, AK Peninsula Clarion (registration required; see also here), promulgates a popular misconception: The United States is based on having freedom of religion, speech, etc., which means you can believe in God any … Continue reading →

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