Richard Dawkins & PZ Myers

A few friends and I went to see a discussion between Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers hosted by the British Humanist Association. The event was marred slightly by some people protesting about things entirely irrelevant to the talk (see videos below).

A recording of the event is available here thanks to the Pod Delusion: PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins in Conversation.

Perhaps the most annoying thing however is the number of bad/banal questions. It would perhaps have been better to have people write questions down and then select from those ones which are interesting (and ideally related to the talk).

Design vs Chance: PZ Myers

A debunking of the complexity argument for intelligent design. Which in PZ Myers opinion, leaves very little of ID left.

Alternative Expelled Advert

I couldn't not show you this from PZ's blog.

Ben Stein given platform at Vermont

It seems that a certain university has invited Ben Stein to speak. Giving this man a legitimate platform to speak from is clearly ludicrous. So do as PZ and others have done, and write them a letter. PZ even gives the addresses to send them to. I have enclosed my letter below.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have been following the story of your decision to invite Ben Stein to talk at your institution. This move is frankly a disgusting insult to the scientists at your institution, as well as scientists the world over (myself included).

To give a man with such views a legitimate voice at an otherwise excellent university is wrong and I find it deeply disturbing.

You are belittling the efforts of your own scientists' work, my work, and the work of everybody else who has made a bona fide contribution to furthering our knowledge of our world.

Regards,

Obama vs Fundamentalist Christians

The woolly thinking surrounding this has already been debunked by PZ Myers.

Vegetables Proof of Inteligent Design (?)

As PZ Myers said, I really don't see how citrus fruits resemble human mammary glands. I still find it amazing that people can be this deluded!

The video is originally from GodTube (yes, really), which a mine of information coming from those challenged by coherent thought.