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Do you know the mind of God so well that you could rule out the possibility that God conceived evolution as the process to bring His design to fruition? […] The truth is that if you are saying that you cannot imagine that a God could be that creative, that imaginative, then aren't you limiting in a very severe fashion your construct of God?
Barry Lynn in "Resolved: That evolutionists should acknowledge creation" Firing Line, 4 December 1997, pp. 36-37.
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Category: Godlessness
Posted on: March 1, 2008 6:10 PM, by PZ Myers
Sunday morning at 9am, on Air America, you'll want to catch Atheists Talk. This week, half the show will be Hemant Mehta, talking about being a friendly atheist or some such nonsense antithetical to the whole atheist enterprise, which revolves around dour nihilism, of course.
The second half will be Kristine Harley and me talking about bad design. Tune in and call in!
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Three people I love to read: I won't miss it!
Posted by: The Science Pundit | March 1, 2008 6:28 PM
Please remind us again in the morning. You know I always forget until I see your reminder.
Posted by: Steve Ulven | March 1, 2008 7:26 PM
The second half will be Kristine Harley and me talking about bad design.
Yeah, you can mention the bacterial flagella, myosin, kinesin,
dynein, dynamin, RNA and DNA poymerases, mitochondria, ribosomes,topoisomerases, the several types of eyes,the inner ear, the brain and the immune system.
Then you can top all that off with the giant design killer:
If there is a God, why do we have hair in our ass?
Posted by: abu el banat | March 1, 2008 7:55 PM
Kristine Harley and *I* talking about bad design. Grammar, PZ.
Posted by: Tom Fulton | March 1, 2008 8:06 PM
Um... no, Tom F. P-Zed had it right. " The second half will be... me..."
Posted by: Anon | March 1, 2008 8:22 PM
Would this be at 8am Mountain time? Or is Minnesota on Mtn time as well?
Posted by: Elin | March 1, 2008 9:13 PM
Minnesota is Central time, so 8am Mountain time is correct.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | March 1, 2008 9:19 PM
That's 9am Central.
Posted by: PZ Myers | March 1, 2008 9:20 PM
Thanks for the reminder for the show. Sounds interesting. Tomorrow I'm going to try typing in a Minnesota zip code and see if I can get the show from out-of-state.
Posted by: Sam | March 1, 2008 9:52 PM
It looks like my city doesn't have an Air America station. The show is at about the time my parents will be making me go to church, anyway. Oh, the irony. I'll look for it at their site some time, definitely.
Posted by: mona | March 1, 2008 10:40 PM
abu,
You might want to read the following:
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/35274458.html
It explains all about the ass hair.
Posted by: Egaeus | March 1, 2008 10:56 PM
Remember, it's not syndicated, just on AM 950 KTNF, not nation-wide. To listen online, type in a MN zip code. 55666 works well.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | March 1, 2008 11:00 PM
Speaking of radio and, ah, bad design, this gives me the opportunity to mention something everyone might get a kick out of.
There's a Christian band called FFH (they're most famous for their rapture song, Fly Away) and one of their songs that I used to hear on the Christian stations from time to time had lyrics that literally go "Well, I don't know that much about astronauts but I know that Jesus cares an awful lot."
Seriously.
Then later on, about astronauts, they say "they step outside and they look around, take a sample and come back down. Have they ever found the meaning of life out there? I don't think so! No, I don't think so!"
Ha, stupid astronauts, wasting their time. How foolish of them, when Jesus has already given us all the knowledge we will ever need.
Posted by: October Mermaid | March 2, 2008 1:09 AM
Posted by: Bob O'H | March 2, 2008 2:02 AM
Is it just me or has PZ gone a little quiet these last couple of days?
Posted by: croor singh | March 2, 2008 2:20 AM
well, he is a professor, and its midterms time. If I had a blog it'd be pretty quiet right now...
Posted by: Al | March 2, 2008 4:59 AM
I managed to tune in by entering a random Min Zip no problem and I'm based in Scotland !
Posted by: McDawg | March 2, 2008 8:33 AM
I didn't know the radio program could be reached internationally McDawg. Awesome!
Posted by: Sam | March 2, 2008 8:52 AM
Yup, listening to the show at the mo.
Posted by: McDawg | March 2, 2008 10:58 AM
Good show. Annoying infomercial afterwards, though...
Posted by: rrt | March 2, 2008 11:24 AM
I missed the show, have really only managed to catch it once in its run so far (when Dawkins was on, and even then I only caught the last 15 minutes or so).
Somebody should tell the producers that some of us became atheists because we don't wanna have to wake up at 9am on a Sunday.
Posted by: K. Signal Eingang | March 2, 2008 3:13 PM
The podcast is up at mnatheists.org.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | March 2, 2008 3:15 PM
I gotta toss in a pedantic bit. "Kludge" far predates the hacker culture. I know it to have been used as far back as 1962 referring to an attempt to fix a problem in an experimental Polaris missile wiring harness with a paper clip and electrician's tape. Same message, but hackers borrowed it.
Posted by: RBH | March 2, 2008 11:34 PM
Great talk, PZ. I learned what a "Kluge" was and thought you had excellent points on the oddities of human memory, male genitalia, or the eyeball. I learned something.
Posted by: James | March 3, 2008 11:00 AM
Good appearance PZ.
Kludge sounds interesting. I'd heard of the term before in an interview with Dr. David Linden when he was promoting his book The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
Posted by: jon | March 3, 2008 1:02 PM