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Posted on: January 10, 2007 6:07 AM, by PZ Myers
Janet says it is National Delurking Week 2007— if you've been reading Pharyngula but haven't been making comments, this is the thread where you're supposed to make your existence known and say hello. The rest of you chatterboxes should sit back and let someone else have a turn saying something.
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Hello from London. I did not realize I was lurking - but I quite fancy the idea. I will use it as an answer to the constant question "What are you up to at the moment?"
Posted by: Lucy | January 10, 2007 6:15 AM
Hi folks. Thanks for this great blog PZ, it's replaced slashdot.org as the first place I visit each time I go on the 'Net. Says something on my evolving interests. I wouldn't mind some more science though, in addition to all the great other stuff, and particular molecular biology.
Posted by: Ole | January 10, 2007 6:17 AM
Hi from England (sunny Weston-super-Mare), been lurking here for well over a year, probably 2 actually. Would love to comment but don't really have the time to be honest. Came here looking for anti-creationist ammo and stayed; learning loads, science, biology, godlessness, even cephalopods!
Keep up the good work PZ, i'm sure there are many lurkers who frequnet the site but don't feel up to posting comments.
Posted by: diehard_TH | January 10, 2007 6:32 AM
i lurk via rss.. but i comment too, sometimes. great blog.
Posted by: toomanytribbles | January 10, 2007 6:32 AM
Hello there. I think I've picked a medical nit or two, but not more. I mostly read via RSS.
Posted by: Therese Norén | January 10, 2007 6:33 AM
I'm a Canadian slacker who toils all winter long, so I can retire every summer and spend all my days in a hammock, drinking beer and reading books. As you can guess from that amazing, long term style of thinking, I'm too dumb to actually do science, so I just read things like this to make sure I don't become too horribly uninformed.
Also, if you go here and search for "I Crush Everything", it's a nice song about the sad life of a giant cephalopod. Enjoy.
Posted by: Gordon S | January 10, 2007 6:40 AM
Hello from the sunny, balmy city of Ottawa!
I posted once to wish you and your family a merry non-religious Christmas, PZ, but otherwise, I've been lurking for months. I'm just awful about lurking.. I'm really shy on the internet.
Posted by: linda | January 10, 2007 6:42 AM
Yikes! You found me.
I confess: longtime lurker, science dabbler, out atheist, socialist, feminist, and, amazingly, employed by military dependents'school.
That's my story.
Posted by: Monoglot | January 10, 2007 6:49 AM
Greetings, also from Ottawa. Although I've made a few comments lately, I'm more of the lurking, camouflaged type.
Posted by: Evolving Squid | January 10, 2007 6:51 AM
No way am I delurking.
Posted by: Jim Donovan | January 10, 2007 6:53 AM
Hello from London. If I had the time I'd love to comment but I don't.
PZ keep up the good work we're all in this together:
Bigots
Posted by: martu | January 10, 2007 6:54 AM
Hello from Virginia! PZ rules - I've been a reader for over a year now. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: ronbailey | January 10, 2007 6:55 AM
Bollocks!
Posted by: Jim Donovan | January 10, 2007 6:56 AM
I read daily, this is one of my favorite atheist blogs because there are frequent updates and always something interesting to ponder. Also, is it weird that I am fiercely proud of your daughter?
Posted by: Amy | January 10, 2007 7:01 AM
Seem to be a lot on here from the UK.. well I'm another one. Keep up the good work!
Jamie
Posted by: j4mie | January 10, 2007 7:04 AM
Hello again, PZ.
I've been continuing to read (mainly via RSS) but I'm struggling to find any time to contribute to discussions. As Phunicular (of PhaWRONGula) I'm lucky if I manage a post per month.
I guess I'm effectively now a lurker.
Posted by: Virge | January 10, 2007 7:07 AM
Hi, from Italy.
I read PZ each days and usually love him :P
But I've voted for BA at the latest contest becouse my girfriend want absolutely PZ on the next calendar, possibly on a very sunny months :D
Posted by: Antonio | January 10, 2007 7:07 AM
Good morning from Fort Lauderdale, PZ is a new hero of mine, this is the first site I check each day.
--TD
Posted by: Traffic Demon | January 10, 2007 7:09 AM
Hi from a usually-lurker in beautiful Bethlehem, Pennsylvania! I love the blog and read it daily--and I credit you with my new interest in biology. I'm a neophyte, but slowly learning a little bit.
Posted by: MorpheusPA | January 10, 2007 7:11 AM
Hello from Birmingham, UK!
I read every day but I think I've only posted two comments. (Three now!) Fantastic blog, keep up the great work.
Posted by: Despard | January 10, 2007 7:13 AM
Greetings from (an altogether too warm) Bavaria! Long time reader, (I think) first time poster. Remember kids, stop and think: What would a pirate do?
Posted by: Carolus Hereticus | January 10, 2007 7:13 AM
Hello from Missouri. I've been reading for a long time and make occasional comments, but after PZ speaks, what is left to say?
Posted by: pablo | January 10, 2007 7:15 AM
Sorry for the biblical-ish handle (I just like the sound of it I swear). A liberal atheist from NZ, but based in Dublin, Ireland. Your blog is a great way to start, fill, and end the day. Nice work, keep up the cephalopodly stuff.
Posted by: agogmagog | January 10, 2007 7:18 AM
In order to de-lurk one needs something to say. This is not difficult.
Having something that is worth saying is more difficult.
Posted by: Ian Findlay | January 10, 2007 7:19 AM
I've been a regular reader for a few months. Have been sharing the cephalopodic bounty with my daughter.
This is maybe the third time I've posted a comment at a blog.
Over the years I've done most of my lurking (and non-lurking) on Usenet groups...
Posted by: Pat K | January 10, 2007 7:19 AM
Hello from Bexley, OH! Thanks for the great blog, PZ.
Posted by: Nick | January 10, 2007 7:21 AM
Greetings from (thankfully I'll soon be moving permanently) Florida.
The only area in which we disagree is that, in my opinion, wings, talons, and big, nasty beaks trump tentacles any day . . . but yours is still the first blog I read every day.
Posted by: NatVisions | January 10, 2007 7:22 AM
Thanks for taking on the creationists, PZ. You provide good insights to their motives and motivations.
Posted by: KS theist and proud of it | January 10, 2007 7:27 AM
Hi from Holland. I wear wooden shoes when I'm gardening, which I rarely do btw ;-).
Posted by: skblllzzzz | January 10, 2007 7:27 AM
/delurk
Greetings and salutations from Baton Rouge, LA.
This part of the country rather tests my atheism. It isn't hell, but I'm pretty sure I can see the gates from here.
Thanks for the site, the intelligent arguments, the laughs and the hope, PZ.
/relurk
Posted by: duquesne_pdx | January 10, 2007 7:30 AM
Hello again, PZ.
I've been continuing to read (mainly via RSS) but I'm struggling to find any time to contribute to discussions. As Phunicular (of PhaWRONGula) I'm lucky if I manage a post per month.
I guess I'm effectively now a lurker.
Posted by: Virge | January 10, 2007 7:30 AM
I'm another (mostly) lurker from FL.
Hi. And thanks for the good blogging.
MikeG
Posted by: MikeG | January 10, 2007 7:31 AM
Another hi from the heart of Holland (Utrecht). Pharyngula fills most of my lunch hour. It's a great way for a humanities person like me to learn some science.
Posted by: muiltje | January 10, 2007 7:32 AM
Hello from Stuttgart, Germany! I have been reading you for a little over a year now. Between you, Jason Rosenhouse and Ed Brayton I have started to de-calcify my 47-year old brain and gotten the synapses firing again. Thanks for putting out such a great blog!
Posted by: satcomguy | January 10, 2007 7:34 AM
Hello from a perennial lurker in Madison, WI. Your blog is on my "daily read" list, PZ.
Posted by: Ben | January 10, 2007 7:35 AM
Long time lurker from Saskatchewan, Canada. I started at the JREF, was led to Orac, and then ended up here over a year ago. I spend a significant percent of my work day reading this blog, but I've never commented. And I probably won't comment ever again... I like lurking. Anyway, thanks for the excellent blog, PZ!
Posted by: Miltiades77 | January 10, 2007 7:35 AM
Greetings from Auckland in New Zealand. I enjoy reading Pharyngula and check it most days. As an atheist drowning in a sea of Christians (I'm an engineer) I find it provides a form of sanctuary where people say sensible things and make reasoned arguments. I also like to stock up on ammo for my next encounter with "them."
Posted by: ScienceBreath | January 10, 2007 7:36 AM
If I must.
Posted by: Robert N | January 10, 2007 7:41 AM
Hello from sunny (yes, even today!) Athens, Greece. I began reading Pharyngula, Randi, Skeptico and Respectful Insolence long before I started blogging, and I dare say you people have definitely been an influence to the right direction.
We need more active critical thinkers out there...
Posted by: cyrusgeo | January 10, 2007 7:41 AM
Hello from France !! Also very sunny, with 16°C, which is completly abnormal...
And to go on with comments of a previous post, Armaggedon was not the worst film, that was ID4 ! At least some parts of Armaggedon were funny, if you were not too demanding (or if you were drunk or something)...
Posted by: nat | January 10, 2007 7:46 AM
I am an atheist from Cleveland, OH.
Dr.Myers, many thank you for this blog and your work in general. Use the information I get from this blog to bug theists around me. Adds to illusion of purpose in my life :).
Posted by: ILYA G | January 10, 2007 7:50 AM
But, butt, but, I ain't dressed just yet. Could I like get into trouble for exposing myself? I mean, like, someone could call the PO-leese or sumpin...
I read daily and I think I've dropped a vocal bomb or two just to let you know I've been here. Then again, I could be incorrect with that idea.
I'm a bit dangerous until I've finished my second cup of coffee
So far, I'm still working on the first one but good morning to all readers. ~:o)
Posted by: Saboma | January 10, 2007 7:51 AM
Hello form St. Louis, MO...
Posted by: rlrr | January 10, 2007 7:57 AM
Hello from sunny Bulgaria (which should not be sunny at all at this time of the year). Birds are singing, the bears suffer insomnia and hedgehogs are frolicking around instead of sleeping. But Scienceblogs will tell you that's far from OK.
Thank you, PZ, for the good reads, the positive thoughts...even for raising my level of tentacle appreciation.
Posted by: Hipparchia | January 10, 2007 7:58 AM
Hello from sunny (won't last for long) Oxford, UK!
Amazed by the number of fellow Brits that seem to be lurking here. Love the blog, and lurk about two-three times a day. Might try to summon up the courage to comment again another time.
Posted by: Luce | January 10, 2007 8:00 AM
Science Goddess here... Retired university professor, teaching part time at community college (I've come to appreciate you more and more, PZ). Started volunteer work in public schools, mostly due to the appalling ignorance of science out there. Hmmm... let's see: amateur pianist, organic (semi) gardener, good cook, 2 dogs, 1 husband.
Occasionally I post, but mostly am grinning with satisfaction at the erudition I find here.
Thanks, SG
Posted by: Science Goddess | January 10, 2007 8:04 AM
Hola professor
I'm just another liberal heathen.
Posted by: irishkorean | January 10, 2007 8:08 AM
And another hello, this time from near Edinburgh in Scotland. Been reading you since your "award-battle" with the Bad Astronomer - the pair of you are a true credit to the world of rational thinking! Here's hoping science becomes the dominant religion...
And back to my RSS-based lurking I go.
Posted by: Iain | January 10, 2007 8:09 AM
Greetings from sunny Durban South Africa. I've been a lurker for more than 2 years. Great blog! I've learned much. Also, it's nice to know there are kindred unbelievers out there in the big wide world. I think PZ must be one of several clones. How else to explain how he can find the time for all he does?
Posted by: Bryson T | January 10, 2007 8:10 AM
PZ, been reading your site for a year now, and it's always enjoyable. I agree with you far more often than I do not. Between you and Orac, ScienceBlogs has been my favorite site for a while now...keep up the good work!
Posted by: JohnA | January 10, 2007 8:12 AM
Hiya!
Another reader from Germany here. I've been reading your blog for 3 or 4 months now, but never commented. Given that the only possible comments I could have given are variations of "Yeah! Just what I would have said... If I was smart enough to think of it and not too lazy to blog," and "Interesting, but way too far outside my field of expertise for me to contribute anything," and "That's very... uh... tentacular," I just thought that wouldn't really be a good use of your web space and bandwidth.
Posted by: Sebastian | January 10, 2007 8:14 AM
Hello:
I guess I'm a delurker too! (Add that to the list of words I never heard before). The blog is great, and I've been a reader for about a year now and just wanted to say hello.
Posted by: Brian C | January 10, 2007 8:17 AM
If we delurk can we still be considered lurkers?
Memphis TN is where I exist for what that is worth.
Posted by: LJ | January 10, 2007 8:23 AM
And from a mountain top in Tennessee, I lift my veil of seclusion to add to the acknowledged numbers of the enlightened.
Posted by: TomDunlap | January 10, 2007 8:24 AM
Hello from a developmental biology institute out here in western japan. whenever i stare down a microscope a can't help but feel a sense of wonder. you accurately convey this feeling, with a passion that all microscope jockeys share.
Posted by: kobebloke | January 10, 2007 8:24 AM
Have not commented in a long time.
Now that that is over, I can go back to my normal self.
Posted by: Jim | January 10, 2007 8:27 AM
I'm propably the most big delurker. I have readed this blog two or three months. I like to read it, and that is all. (I like Loom and "Good math" wery much too.)
I think my comments are not "needed" And my english is..not so good(I try allways be polite to myself.)
I am sorry, but I am student (Polytechnic, Agriculture) and locally noisy "negative agnostic" (God is not a scientific question at all, so I "don't comment", but if somebody sey "yes or no" *with axe* I say "no".) from Finland. We "Finns" are quiet and stubborn little bastards. (OK, I am not wery small, and IRL not_so_quitet) :)
Posted by: Tuomo Hämäläinen | January 10, 2007 8:29 AM
De-lurking mollusc fan from Melbourne, Australia.
Pharyngula kick starts the conversation at morning tea.
Posted by: Snail | January 10, 2007 8:30 AM
Frequent lurker in Milwaukee. Thanks for all the great thought-provoking posts!
Posted by: Jen | January 10, 2007 8:31 AM
Another UK atheist lurker. I come here for optimism that sense will prevail. I learn a lot, too.
Posted by: Steve | January 10, 2007 8:35 AM
I lurk via RSS, and have to say that I love your blog. Im an Atheist, Socialist, and I love Biology. I live in NH.
Posted by: syagru1s | January 10, 2007 8:36 AM
Freequent lurker from Cincinnati, which is way too close to that damn creationist "museum" Hammy-Boy is building. Anyone up for a pitchforks and torches kind of event?
Posted by: Tom | January 10, 2007 8:37 AM
Roar! LBS Physics and Mathematics dual major at Michigan State with a guilty thirst for evolutionary biology. I also turn towards Dr. Robert Pennock's shrine (err... office) a few times a day in worship. It's located inside my dorm, anyway.
Posted by: Michael Saelim | January 10, 2007 8:41 AM
hello from Austin, TX live music capatol of the world. i'm an RSS feed user so i don't usually even see the coments.;-)
Posted by: bill thater | January 10, 2007 8:43 AM
greetings from Venice, Italy
Long time lurker, I'd like to thank you for what I've learnt and enjoyed so far and blame you for the my loss of productivity at my office...
Posted by: Gaga | January 10, 2007 8:43 AM
Hello from Oxford. I found your blog through the article on discrimination against women in the sciences. Indeed, I lifted all your sources for an entry of my own...
Posted by: Milan | January 10, 2007 8:45 AM
De-lurking in Chicago. I love your blog and read it every day, but I don't have the expertise to comment on most of the posts and would rather not add an idiotic comment that shows my ignorance. Relurking now...
Posted by: Kristin | January 10, 2007 8:46 AM
I'm down in Cincinnati, like Tom, and have been "lurking" since I was linked from Slashdot a while back. Never took any "real" biology, but I live for the Friday Cephalopod!
Posted by: Nate | January 10, 2007 8:46 AM
Hi All,
Long time lurker, few time poster, avid fan.
Posted by: Ryan Kitchel | January 10, 2007 8:49 AM
Hello and thanks for the great effort.
I'm a greek lurker, visit your blog daily (almost). You've been a great inspiration for us. Keep up the good fight against religious and right-wing metaphysical intolerance!
As an aside "spam" here, in quasi-theocratic Greece, with its well-stated union of Church and State, the greek blogging community has its own share of trouble with our own brand of ultra-nationalists (who are aligned with the eastern orthodox fundamentalists, BTW)...
http://blog.dontkissthefrog.net/2007/01/07/greek-aggregator-shuts-down-service-because-of-legal-threat/
Posted by: penguin_witch | January 10, 2007 8:50 AM
I think I'm the closest delurker to Morris (in the physical sense) since I live in St Paul. I have very infrequently commented, but I read every day and greatly enjoy it. Biology was never my strong science (BA in physics from UMTC) but I find it fascinating and wondrous.
I'm an atheist who has become more comfortable being out through reading this blog.
Thanks PZ.
Posted by: gravitybear | January 10, 2007 8:54 AM
I'm a daily lurker here. Love the site and get loads of interesting info.
Posted by: giscindy | January 10, 2007 8:56 AM
I'm speechless
Posted by: ppb | January 10, 2007 8:57 AM
This is the only blog that has a bookmark on this lurker's google Personalized Home. I like the anti-god pro-science comments and the random quotes.
Posted by: BobC | January 10, 2007 9:00 AM
Delurking from Brasil
Posted by: Hugo | January 10, 2007 9:01 AM
enjoying the lurking. raining and windy in amsterdam.
Posted by: PhDwannabe | January 10, 2007 9:03 AM
Hello from Liverpool, UK
Thank you for an excellent blog, PZ. I greatly appreciate and support the way in which you defend science and reason against the forces of irrationality.
Posted by: John H | January 10, 2007 9:06 AM
Hi from the Netherlands. Visiting your blog is a daily routine for me (and also lurking). Your blog is a great read, although the science is sometimes way over my head.
Posted by: Erik | January 10, 2007 9:07 AM
Just broke the seal with this comment. I'm an avid Dkos reader and posted a Pharyngulan link on Dkos about 50K copies of "An Inconvienent Truth" being rebuffed (it hit the recommended list). An agnostic by age 16, with a gradual build up to being an atheist for sure now at 31. Married last year with a completely secular (no God) ceremony, closest thing was a quote from MLK.
And with my Barnes and Nobles gift certificate that I got for x-mas, went out and bought four books. The first one, which I'm presently immersed in, "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", "At the Water's Edge", "Darwin's Compedium" and "The God Delusion".
/back to lurking
Posted by: N8 | January 10, 2007 9:13 AM
Hello. Wasn't that fun? Time to go back to lurking.
Posted by: Grimmstail | January 10, 2007 9:16 AM
SOMETHING
Posted by: G. Tingey | January 10, 2007 9:17 AM
Wow. Feeling the need to make a second comment. Shouldn't delurking week coincide with Groundhog Day?
Posted by: Grimmstail | January 10, 2007 9:18 AM
With so many good comments, and a few bad, I usually have nothing to add. Like this thread for instance...
Posted by: DouglasG | January 10, 2007 9:25 AM
Oh, second thoughts ...
If I expose myuself, in public, won't I get arrested?
Posted by: G. Tingey | January 10, 2007 9:28 AM
Hola. Thanks for all the great blogging. It's my haven here in religious, conservative Texas.
Posted by: Scrapefoot | January 10, 2007 9:31 AM
Hello from Portland, Oregon. I have been lurking for the past few months. I go to this site every day and enjoy the posts. I like reading the posts about godlessness.
Posted by: Rebecca | January 10, 2007 9:32 AM
I guess it's safe to stick my head out, way down here near the hundredth comment. I've actually commented once before, in the 2 years I've been lurking: I'm the one who thinks calling one's self an atheist concedes too much to the God-people. My home is Texas, my politics is libertarianism, my undergrad education was in classical piano performance and biology, and I make my living now as an otolaryngologist (i.e., ear, nose and throat doctor) in private practice. Clearly, I need to keep a low profile. Carry on, PZ!
Posted by: eardoc | January 10, 2007 9:33 AM
*waves* from the UK. Greetings to all you lovely people.
Posted by: WillEyedOney | January 10, 2007 9:36 AM
I'm a long time creationism-hater from the time I saw Ken Ham and Henry Morris give a seminar. I was 16 then and 30 now. I read Pharyngula every day I'm on the Internets. Keep up the good work PZ - there are thousands of lurkers like me who appreciate your blog in silence.
Posted by: Dave | January 10, 2007 9:38 AM
I can't believe so many of you fell for this right-wing trap sure to end only in your phones being tapped and your mail being gone through with eventual arrest and detention for years without being told what you are being charged with and subjected to subtle torture routines thru daily naked humiliation only to be released somewhere in Europe with no chance of ever returning to your home country because alas they have denied your citizenship. Surely you could have seen this coming people! Wait........Oh crap.....Allah be merciful.
Posted by: MG | January 10, 2007 9:39 AM
Hi from Gough Island!
There's not a hell of a lot to do here, so I spend a lot of time on the internet.
I work at the Weather station.
http://home.intekom.com/gough/
Have to go now. Wednesday it's my turn in the barrel!
Posted by: Gonsalo Alvarez | January 10, 2007 9:40 AM
99% lurker, 1% commenter from the Bible Belt in Memphis TN.
Thanks for the intelligent thought provoking writing.
(and no, my name isn't my religion. it is just my name, thankfully)
Posted by: Christian | January 10, 2007 9:45 AM
Hallo, PZ, and PZ'ers. PZites? PZians?
Good blog. I approve. Good enough to keep me coming back to lurk day after day.
Though sometimes I feel guilty about liking calimari so much.
Texas as well here, liberal, more inclined towards mathematics, but with a relatively staunch belief and fascination in science.
Carry on, carry on.
*goes back to lurking*
Posted by: Foxy | January 10, 2007 9:45 AM
I'll add a third hello from Ottawa, Canada (apparently the atheist centre of Canada, must be why we are having such a warm winter!)
But I originally hail from Auckland, New Zealand, so "Hi" to all you Kiwi god-botherer-bashers that are still there!
I found Pharyngula accidentally through a google search, I believe, and it's been on my first check list for since then.
Posted by: ColinB | January 10, 2007 9:46 AM
Someday, I'll actually make it over to the 331 and buy you a beer for all this fun!
Posted by: Norm | January 10, 2007 9:53 AM
Hi from a law student in Charlottesville, VA!
Posted by: CL | January 10, 2007 9:55 AM
Generally I just support people in email, but how can I resist National Delurking Week?
Great blog, very edjumacational for this geology student to learn more about the squidgy stuff. And I used the word "squidgy" advisedly, since I love me them cephalopods.
Okay, gotta go get my lurk on.
Posted by: dhacat | January 10, 2007 9:58 AM
Thanks for the chance to de-lurk. Long time reader from Wisconsin, living in Decatur, Alabama. Go Badgers!
Posted by: JC | January 10, 2007 10:04 AM
Hi, I'm a daily lurker from Germany and a material science student. Consider it your fault that I can't seem to stay out of debates about god and science these days, especially at parties with a high percentage of philosophy students and beer. Funny how that works. ;)
Posted by: Kat | January 10, 2007 10:08 AM
Hi from Alabama. I'm a traffic researcher working on a PhD and I found you through Bitch, Ph.D. Considering the prevailing cultural attitudes towards science and religion in Alabama, reading your blog is a breath of fresh air :) Thanks!
Posted by: shara | January 10, 2007 10:16 AM
Hello from Denver. I believe we have your snow...
Posted by: Patrick | January 10, 2007 10:20 AM
Hello from Savannah, GA.
Long time lurker. Thanks for the great blog PZ. It is one of my first reads each day.
Posted by: Ed | January 10, 2007 10:25 AM
Greetings from germany! I have been lurking quite a long time now, and will do so. I like your blog very much, both for snippets on biology and the mashing of cretins.
I study physics, and I think Kat has a point. I was able to involve people into discussions on religion on parties, too. I think I annoyed some of them ;)
Posted by: Klaus Albers | January 10, 2007 10:25 AM
Hi, I'm Brett (aka idragosani), a software engineer & musician living in the DC area. I have commented a couple of times, but read more than I post. I tend to run my mouth more on the IRC channel these days. :-) I've been following the creationism/evolution (and the wider dominionism agenda) since I was in high school mumblety-mumble years ago and is about the only thing I am activist about.
Posted by: idragosani | January 10, 2007 10:26 AM
Greetings from Seattle. I'm another long-time lurker, originally drawn here by Jim Lippard. I'm an Internet Atheist from way back (check the alt.atheism archives), and about 5% of my blog postings are tagged "Atheism". Even though I've been in the USA for 26 of my 56 years, I still consider myself an expat Brit.
While I agree with most of your positions, I'm actually most interested in the science postings, because I learn more new stuff from them. After all these years, most of the creationist and religious-apologetic stuff just leaves me with a sense of déjà vu.... (But that doesn't mean I don't occasionally rise to the bait.)
Posted by: Geoff Arnold | January 10, 2007 10:38 AM
Lurk every day. Very much enjoy the blog. I've posted once or twi