“The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are absolute; that everything that isn’t perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong” - Isaac Asimov.
I like that quote. I also like this quote:
“Science works whether you believe in it or not.” — Herb Silverman
And this one:
“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.” — Voltaire
I’m sure you can see where this is going. Also, I don’t feel like writing this in the third person as seems to be the way.
I’m a 32-year-old software developer originally from South Africa that loves science, tech, cool stuff and Red Bull. I am also a skeptic, an atheist and a woo fighter (which is like a Foo Fighter, only I can’t sing). I am happily married to a fellow atheist who encourages my tech addiction. I guess she is then, by PZ Myers definition, a Trophy Wife. We have yet to spawn another process.
I am a card carrying humanist and rationalist. No seriously. I got the card today, how awesome.
I find the word ‘llama’ amusing.
The llama (Lama glama) is a South American camelid, widely used as a pack and meat animal by Andean cultures since pre-hispanic times. In popular culture llamas are mostly associated with the Incans and Peru.
Hi,
I like your site quite a bit.
I’m an Argentine skeptic and agnostic living in the US (Tallahassee, FL), and given the menacing fundamentalist threats growing all around the world, I’m re-considering the merits of anti-theistic claims. Christopher Hitchens may be right when he claims religion poisons everything.
I have a lovely wife (she still wants to believe in a belief in God, like Dan Dennett would say) and she has given me two beautiful daughters, my only chance to a second life!
I wasn’t always a non-theist, though. Raised Christian by Pentecostal parents, since a young kid I always had difficulty believing ‘literally’ in the Bible, but I was afraid of saying what I thought deep inside my brain to family and friends.
It was after reading books about how archeology debunked the Old Testament, that I became aware of the mythology of it all. Man created god, and not vice-versa. Now it’s all very clear, becasue science explains a lot, and I consider myself so lucky, that my daughters’ minds won’t have to be poisoned with evil bronze age myths… but, it worries me to think what world will our kids inherit, with the atrocities being committed in the name of faith. It’s the only thing that could keep me up at night, and it all began on 9/11/2001 for me.
I’m an Oracle developer working for state government and on my spare time I love to hack Apple products, pushing the limits of OS X Servers.
There a few South Africans in Tallahassee, in fact, I work with one that happens to be a Linux and TCL guru, who does excellent data integration development.
My congratulations to you for the stadiums South Africa has prepared for this Soccer World Cup! Truly works of art and your engineers rock. Those horns are a bit too loud, though.
Keep on writing…
Thank you for your comments, they are appreciated
The God Hypothesis is more of an assertion than an hysptheois. I’m fine with people saying that evolution is a theory. It is. If they understand that the theory offers our best explanation for the variety of organisms on the planet and how they change and have changed over time then so much the better. If they don’t understand that and equate theory with I think that maybe it was aliens who stole the toilet paper then there is a problem with their understanding. I don’t even have an issue with people who say that evolution is wrong. Presumably they are biologists who have come up with a competing theory that explains everything that evolution explains only better. I eagerly await their peer reviewed papers on the subject. If they are an ignorant religitard who doesn’t know that the cosmology isn’t related to biological evolution as a science then they have a problem.
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