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Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Ok Hits: 157 Comments: 0 Big Think: Penn Jillette's Bullshit Detector Big Think: Penn Jillette's Bullshit Detector According to atheist magician Penn Jillette, the most important thing is to feel about things you should feel about -- and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about the speed of light or evolution and you should not think about love. You should feel "I love you," you should think about reality. Transcript -- You know, my bullshit detector works first of all...if there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. I don't question bad news very much. I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot. Now, I was taught -- I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me. But when I want to believe something, that's when I want to question it the most. That's when I have to be the most careful. And I feel a little bit disingenuous with that answer because I don't think I any longer want to believe in God. My friend, who I miss very much, Hitch, Christopher Hitchens, said that wanting there to be a god was like wanting to live in North Korea, to give away all of your freedom. And for someone who loves freedom and loves people, I don't think you should hope for God at all. So I guess my detector on God is that whenever someone uses what they feel as evidence instead of what they think as evidence or what they can prove as evidence, I'm very, very skeptical. The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about -- should feel about -- and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about the speed of light or evolution and you should not think about love. You should feel "I love you," you should think about reality. And when someone says they feel the universe was created by a God, that's nonsense, just like saying, you know, "I've thought about it and maybe I should love you." Don't mix those two. And a lot of people seem to think that -- that feeling cheapens the science, that if you feel something it cheapens it. And there's not enough said about how it cheapens the emotion. You know, if you're spending your time feeling that the earth was created, instead of... by intelligent design, you should be spending your time feeling love, feeling compassion, feeling generosity and loyalty and all the stuff you should feel in your heart. Even anger, even disappointment. But that doesn't change the world. You should think about the world and feel about your heart. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd Mar 19, 2013 11:55 PM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 1516 Comments: 0 Receding Moon Proves Young Earth:Debunked Receding Moon Proves Young Earth:Debunked Again, Potholer54 provides flawless documentation in debunking Hovind(s). The Hovinds, Kent and Eric, try to show that the Earth can't be old because the moon is receding. Once again, a clear breach of the 9th Commandment that lands poor Eric with a Golden Crocoduck nomination. Both Hovind videos are listed in the Golden Crocoduck nominee 2012 playlist SOURCES: "Geological constraints on the Precambrian history of Earth's rotation and the Moon's orbit" -- George E. Williams, Reviews of Geophysics 2000, doi:10.1029/1999RG900016 The changes to lunar recession due to tidal configuration are discussed at: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moonrec.html User: spam_vigilante Aug 17, 2012 5:28 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: Ok Hits: 437 Comments: 0 Skeptic: Michael Shermer Skeptic: Michael Shermer Whether they're intelligent design advocates, psychics, or 9/11 truthers, Skeptic Magazine's Founding Publisher Michael Shermer says the world is full of people who believe weird things. Shermer sat down with Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh at Libertopia 2010 in Hollywood to discuss why self-help gurus aren't the key to happiness, what the New Atheist movement hopes to accomplish, why liberals accept evolution but not free markets, and why he switched from global warming skepticism to acceptance. Approximately 9 minutes. Music by Bjorn Fogelberg (Magnatune Records). User: Pantufas Dec 8, 2010 3:16 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 548 Comments: 2 End of God? Horizon Science & Religion End of God? Horizon Science & Religion BBC4 21 September 2010 As the Pope ends his visit to Britain, historian Dr Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science. From the creationists of America to the physicists of the Large Hadron Collider, he traces the expansion of scientific knowledge and asks whether there is still room for God in the modern world. The relationship between science and religion has been long and troubled: from the condemnation of Galileo by the Catholic Church in 17th century Italy, through the clashes between creationism and evolution in 20th century America, right up to recent claims that the universe does not need God. Delving through the rich archive of programmes from Horizon and BBC Science, Thomas Dixon looks at what lies behind this difficult relationship. Using original footage from 1925, he tells the story of John Scopes, a Tennessee teacher who was tried for teaching evolution. He sees the connections between religion and American politics in the story of a more recent court case -- the trial of Intelligent Design. He looks at what happens when new scientific discoveries start to explain events that were once seen as the workings of God, and explains how some of our most famous scientists have seen God in the grandest laws of the universe. Finally, he finds intriguing evidence from brain science which hints that belief in God is here to stay. User: spam_vigilante Sep 22, 2010 6:05 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Ok Hits: 274 Comments: 2 Why Common Design Common Designer = FAIL Why Common Design Common Designer = FAIL Intelligent Design advocates claim that when we see similarities between organisms, common designs, they must be evidence of a common designer. Here I show why this catchy little phrase fails miserably. Intelligent Design is built on two pillars: Irreducible Complexity, and Design. I have previously shown that evolution predicts the IC systems will evolve. Here I disprove the concept of design. Is life designed? Actually, yes. But the designer is not an intelligent supernatural being, life is sculpted by the environment through natural selection. Mother Nature and Father Time are the designers of life. To download this video copyright free please go to: http://www.mediafire.com/?yjznkx5yzel Please Note: there are some prokaryotes with what resemble simple organelles, while some eukaryotes do have genomes almost completely devoid of introns, but those are the overwhelming minority. And remember to always, Think about it. User: wadadde Jun 23, 2010 2:37 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Ok Hits: 588 Comments: 1 Leonard Susskind Rejects Intelligent Design Leonard Susskind Rejects Intelligent Design Stanford University theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind rejects the idea of "intelligent design" as a theory for the origins of the universe. Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/23/Leonard_Susskind_-_The_Black_Hole_War User: JesusFlysSouth Apr 6, 2010 2:52 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2303 Comments: 12 The Indelible Stamp of Our Lowly Origin The Indelible Stamp of Our Lowly Origin Clips: Planet Earth PBS NOVA Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial Human Animal Darwin's Dangerous Idea Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life Life of Mammals National Geographic - Ape Genius Yann Arthus Bertrand - Home TEDTalks: Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man What Darwin Didn't Know Quotes: Mike Huckabee Ken Ham David Attenborough Desmond Morris Steven Pinker Kenneth Miller ...and venomfangX and GEERUP Music: IBM 1401 Processing Unit - J?hann J?hannsson (www.johannjohannsson.com) User: RabidMadness Feb 9, 2010 9:57 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 330 Comments: 0 Ken Miller: The Wedge of Truth Ken Miller: The Wedge of Truth Biology professor Ken Miller of Brown University explains Philip Johnson's PR strategy of framing intelligent design with God, and the theory of evolution with atheism. Miller discusses Johnson's book "The Wedge of Truth", and explains how for most religious people, there should be no contradiction whatsoever between science and faith. According to Miller, not even the idea of a divine creation is incompatible with evolution. Johnson is the founder of the intelligent design movement. Miller is both a practicing Catholic and an advocate of teaching the theory of evolution and not intelligent design in America's schools. User: loqi Nov 9, 2009 7:15 PM
Permanent Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Amazing Hits: 644 Comments: 0 Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute A hypothetical dialogue between Gordon J. Glover and the official spokesperson of the Intelligent Alien Intervention Institute on Science NEWS. They discuss the Academic Freedom legislation that recently became law in Louisianna and how it might also help various theories of Paleo-Contact to be taught alongside mainstream archaeology in the public science classroom. Hint: this video is a parody mocking Intelligent Design theory and the Discovery Institute. User: spam_vigilante Oct 15, 2009 5:01 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Good Hits: 439 Comments: 0 High Stakes Intelligent Designing High Stakes Intelligent Designing God and Lucifer play Texas hold 'em over the intelligent design of the human reproductive system. User: loqi Sep 24, 2009 1:49 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 445 Comments: 0 Neil deGrasse Tyson-Intelligent Design? Stupid Design Neil deGrasse Tyson-Intelligent Design? Stupid Design Some Design!"-Christopher Hitchens This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. The term suggests that some entity, endowed with a mental capacity far greater than the human mind can muster, created or enabled all the things in the physical world that we cannot explain through scientific methods. An interesting hypothesis. But why confine ourselves to things too wondrous or intricate for us to understand, whose existence and attributes we then credit to a superintelligence? Instead, why not tally all those things whose design is so clunky, goofy, impractical, or unworkable that they reflect the absence of intelligence? And what comedian designer configured the region between our legs-an entertainment complex built around a sewage system? Stupid design could fuel a movement unto itself. It may not be nature's default, but it's ubiquitous. Yet people seem to enjoy thinking that our bodies, our minds, and even our universe represent pinnacles of form and reason. Maybe it's a good antidepressant to think so. But it's not science-not now, not in the past, not ever. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Religious fundamentalists may deny that evolution exists, but in the natural world it is religion that does not exist. -John Maisey of American Museum of Natural History Sep 23, 2009 10:01 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 573 Comments: 1 Ray Comfort Intro Ed. Ray Comfort Intro Ed. "Origin" Into School Kirk Cameron discusses his organization's plan to introduce a revised edition--revised by Ray Comfort--of the "Origin of Species," originally written by Charles Darwin 150 years ago into 100 colleges and universities around the country. This special edition will have intelligent design and the Christian Gospel included in the introduction, and will address what Comfort sees as weaknesses, flaws and problems with the theory of evolution. It will address Darwin's other beliefs. It will include other scientists that believed in God. It will also address what Comfort sees as problems arising from the book's legacy. Book for sale here. http://www.livingwaters.com User: BoogeBoogieston Sep 21, 2009 10:05 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Good Hits: 334 Comments: 0 Creationist Thought Creationist Thought The Evolution of Creationist Thought, by Robin Ince. Ince talks about Creationism and Intelligent Design. From the show "Comedy Cuts" aired 2007/03/15 on ITV in the UK User: Pantufas Sep 8, 2009 12:22 PM
Headline Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Amazing Hits: 3626 Comments: 3 Why Do People Laugh @ Creationists Part 30 Why Do People Laugh @ Creationists Part 30 Following Casey Luskins flapping on the video Challenging the Discovery Institute to Discover, Luskin has earned himself the honor of being the subject of Why do people laugh at creationists Part 30. The Discovery Institute has all but abandoned intelligent design (the rebranding of creationism- see video) as a lost cause, they even go on record saying they dont think it should be taught in schools! They initially set up a peer review journal of their own (Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design) but abandoned it after they got called out on the lineage of intelligent design to creationism. Luskin helped set up intelligent design and evolution awareness clubs, but stated that the management believed the designer was the God of the Bible, and then happily goes on camera and states that intelligent design has nothing to do with religion, despite all the diagrams he has connecting the two on the IDEA webpage. What really astounds me about these guys is they have utterly lost, and yet they dont have the dignity to accept that they were wrong graciously. Instead all you get is a bunch of bitter misfits doing their best to sow disinformation and throw as much mud as possible but for what gain? All I see is a bunch of jerks committing spiteful intellectual vandalism for their personal gratification. Really what do these people hope to gain by pretending there is controversy where none exists? User: spam_vigilante May 30, 2009 9:35 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 13736 Comments: 35 Penn and Teller: Intelligent Design Penn and Teller: Intelligent Design Penn and Teller examine the difference between Evolution and Intelligent Design. Long run time. From the show Bullshit. User: ghost_dog5150 Feb 9, 2007 11:30 AM
 
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