Chris of Mixing Memory rips into the usual suspects for analogizing atheist activism with the women's suffrage movement. I have basically taken a sabbatical from these SB intramural debates about religion, Creationism, etc. So I'll let you comment over there. But, I will offer that I've never been jumped for being an atheist, but I have for being a "sand nigger." So I hope people will maintain some perspective....
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Jerry Coyne then: Rules for life:
If two friends tell you the same thing about yourself, it's probably true.
Jerry Coyne now: thinks the several friends saying the same thing about him must be wrong:
more Gnu Atheist-bashing from fellow atheists... inspired by Michael Ruse's rants equating Gnus…
Happy Belated Evacuation Day! Here are some links for you. The sciency stuff:
There's been some interest in a guy named Michael Egnor who said some silly things about evolution. The Mad Biologist chimed in too. Afarensis used Egnor's IDiocy to have a very nice discussion about tooth decay.…
We New Atheist types are used to having hyperbolic claims leveled against us. A while back author Ron Rosenbaum, writing at Slate, wrote “And some of them [the New Atheists] can behave as intolerantly to heretics who deviate from their unproven orthodoxy as the most unbending religious Inquisitor…
Nick Matzke has taken exception to my criticism of Mary Midgley, and has posted a rebuttal. Well, maybe. Probably not.
Eh, I've read most of Midgley's books and articles, I don't think you [The Unpublishable Philosopher] or PZ getting her at all.
The short version of what she's saying is that…