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They tried to teach my baby science…

2008 12 05 Quinn Comments (0)

Confirmation bias

All of you religious nutters out there probably believe you’ve known this for some time, but I’m discovering that atheist/agnostic students can be just as unreasonable, pig-headed, irrational, rude, lazy and just plain stoopid as any given believer. As a regular participant in a atheist/agnostic discussion forum at my university, infantile debates are raging on [...]

2008 10 22 Quinn People Comments (0)

25 years later…

I came across the last of these 3 images today, and was struck by the fact that I could remember the entire narrative of the Christian tract it came from - and also that I could still recall, more than 2 decades later, how afraid I was at the time. Today, it all seems so [...]

2007 12 17 Quinn Comments (1)

a better future…

On a track from Heathen, David Bowie demands “a better future”, and after watching Jesus Camp yesterday, I’m inclined to agree with him. The movie isn’t great, as the basic message could have been conveyed in an 45-minute documentary rather than a feature-length film, but it still serves as a powerful reminder of the insidious [...]

2007 12 10 Quinn People Comments (0)

Pascal’s Wager

thanks to onegoodmove:

2007 12 10 Quinn Headspace Comments (0)