Secular Movies and Documentaries [Archive] - Page 2

snaggletooth

04-28-2009, 08:06 PM

ATHEIST BOOK PACK THREE
Once more a few duplicates in here, but many are new. Just how the pack was posted....

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Bertrand Russell-
Is There a God?
The Problems of Philosophy
The Theologian's Nightmare
Why I Am Not a Christian
Am I An Atheist or Agnostic?
Political Ideals
A History of Western Philosophy

Richard Dawkins-
Science Delusion and The Appetite for Wonder
Postmodernism Disrobed
Extended Phenotype: But Not Too Extended
Hall of Mirrors
A Scientist's View
Children Must Choose Their Own Beliefs
Darwin and Darwinism
How Evolution Increases Information in the Genome
No Faith in the Absurd
Stop Respecting Religion
The Information Challenge
The Know-nothings, The Know-alls, and the No-contests
What's Wrong With the Paranormal
Why I Am a Secular Humanist

Russ Kick-
50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

Sam Harris-
An Atheist Manifesto

Bill Bryson-
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Christopher Hitchens-
God Is Not Great

Chad Docterman-
Why The Christian God is Impossible

George H. Smith-
Atheism: The Case Against God

Gora-
Positive Atheism

Raymond Converse-
Atheism as a Positive Social Force

Stephen Hawking-
A Brief History of Time

Stuart Sim-
Empires of Belief

Stephen Jay Gould-
The Evolution of Life on Earth
Genesis vs Geology
The Return of Hopeful Monsters

John Maynard Smith-
The Origin of Altruism
Recombination in Animal Mitochondrial DNA
Evolution of Altruism
The Games Lizards Play
The Logic of Animal Conflict (Evolutionary Game Theory)

Isaac Asimov-
The Threat of Creationism

Edward O. Wilson-
The Biological Basis for Morality

John Patrick Michael Murphy-
Hitler Was Not An Atheist

Theodosius Dobzhansk-
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution

G.R. Morton-
The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism

Ernst Mayr-
80 Years of Watching the Evolutionary Scenery

Kathleen Hunt-
Horse Evolution

John S. Wilkins-
Evolution and Philosophy: Is Evolution Science?

Lenny Flank-
The History of Creationism

Douglas M. Joseph-
Hobbes' Atheism

Douglas Futuyma-
Evolution and Complexity

Ronald De Sousa-
Why Think? The Evolution of the Rational Mind

Alvin Plantinga-
Theism, Atheism, and Rationality

William R. Jeffrey-
The Development of Cavefish Eyes

Arthur D'Adamo-
Science Without Bounds

John Draper-
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

Karen Armstrong-
A History of God

Brian Greene-
An Elegant Universe

Douglas Adams-
Is There an Artificial God?

Thomas Gilivitch-
How We Know What Isn't So

Karl Popper-
Logic of Scientific Discovery

Nick Trakakis-
The God Beyond Belief

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snaggletooth

04-29-2009, 06:38 PM

DARWINS SECRET NOTEBOOKS

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After the first Galapagos journey, Darwin wrote down his ideas in a series of notebooks whose content was kept hidden for years. Evolutionary biologist Armand Marie Leroi reopens Darwin's journals to retrace his adventure and to piece together the true story behind one of the most revolutionary scientific breakthroughs of all time.

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snaggletooth

04-29-2009, 06:42 PM

The Voyage of Charles Darwin

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This old BBC mini series dramatizes Darwin's life and his Beagle voyage. It's a VHS rip, so don't expect amazing quality but worth a watch.

Each episode is approx. 190 MB and you can get them separately.

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trelos

04-29-2009, 07:07 PM

Excellent posts! Thank You!

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 05:00 AM

Thanks Trelos. Glad you liked them. Will try to add at least one thing each day. Be it secular/non-theist directly, or the reason those of us became that way - science. ;)

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 06:26 PM

My Cat Is A Christian

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__RYt_VkiI :D:D:D

(yes, its a wind up)

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 06:36 PM

Bracing for Islamic Creationism

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Early in 2007, biologists and anthropologists
at universities across the
United States received an unsolicited
gift of an 850-page, colored Atlas of
Creation, produced by a Muslim creationist,
Adnan Oktar, who goes by the pen
name of Harun Yahya (Science, 16
February 2007, p. 925). The atlas was a
timely notice that, although the last couple
of decades have seen an increasing confrontation
over the teaching of evolution in
the United States, the next major battle
over evolution is likely to take place in the
Muslim world (i.e., predominantly Islamic
countries, as well as in countries where
there are large Muslim populations).
Relatively poor education standards, in
combination with frequent misinformation
about evolutionary ideas, make the
Muslim world a fertile ground for rejection
of the theory. In addition, there already
exists a growing and highly influential
Islamic creationist movement

http://helios.hampshire.edu/%7EsahCS/Hameed-Science-Creationism.pdf

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 07:03 PM

Thought Id stick this in as it costs a fortune to buy (see here: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Ancient-Religions-John-Hinnells/dp/0521847125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241114005&sr=1-1 ) and it also documents the hundreds of religions (none of which I affiliate with of course) across the world since human time began. None are any more valid than the next of course, but to someone like me, its nice to read a book on religion as merely a human construct for man to try and understand the physical world around him at the time concerned. Youd think we'd have all wised up by now though, wouldnt you. 8-)

John R. Hinnells, "A Handbook of Ancient Religions"

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| 622 pages | PDF | 7,2 Mb

Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over. This Handbook provides a vivid, scholarly, and eminently readable account of ancient cultures around the world, from China to India, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, and the Americas. It examines the development of religious belief from the time of the Palaeolithic cave paintings to the Aztecs and Incas. Covering the whole of society not just the elite, the Handbook outlines the history of the different societies so that their religion and culture can be understood in context. Each chapter includes discussion of the broad field of relevant studies alerting the reader to wider debates on each subject. An international team of scholars convey their own deep enthusiasm for their subject and provide a unique study of both popular and 'official' religion in the ancient world.

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snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 07:17 PM

Another very expensive book ( http://www.amazon.com/reader/0471657328?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib_dp_pt#reader-link ) and one which is very topical at the minute given the whole "swine fever" thing going on.....

Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases

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Editorial Reviews

Review
"This is a fascinating book…feels more like a series of musings and reviews as opposed to an encyclopaedia." (Doody's, February 2008) "The overall quality and timeliness of the scientific content is superb." (CHOICE, February 2008)

"Thought-provoking book will be valuable addition to academic health sciences and public health library collections." (American Reference Books Annual, March 2008)

Product Description
Discover how the application of novel multidisciplinary, integrative approaches and technologies are dramatically changing our understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases and their treatments. Each article presents the state of the science, with a strong emphasis on new and emerging medical applications.
The Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases is organized into five parts. The first part examines current threats such as AIDS, malaria, SARS, and influenza. The second part addresses the evolution of pathogens and the relationship between human genetic diversity and the spread of infectious diseases. The next two parts highlight the most promising uses of molecular identification, vector control, satellite detection, surveillance, modeling, and high-throughput technologies. The final part explores specialized topics of current concern, including bioterrorism, world market and infectious diseases, and antibiotics for public health.
Each article is written by one or more leading experts in the field of infectious diseases. These experts place all the latest findings from various disciplines in context, helping readers understand what is currently known, what the next generation of breakthroughs is likely to be, and where more research is needed. Several features facilitate research and deepen readers' understanding of infectious diseases:

Illustrations help readers understand the pathogenesis and diagnosis of infectious diseases
Lists of Web resources serve as a gateway to important research centers, government agencies, and other sources of information from around the world
Information boxes highlight basic principles and specialized terminology
International contributions offer perspectives on how infectious diseases are viewed by different cultures
A special chapter discusses the representation of infectious diseases in art

With its multidisciplinary approach, this encyclopedia helps point researchers in new promising directions and helps health professionals better understand the nature and treatment of infectious diseases.

(http://hdtv.innoebooks.net/)

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RapidFire25

04-30-2009, 07:43 PM

yeah. stop the christian..heil Satan

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 07:49 PM

I hope thats not what this thread seems to infer. Satan is a myth. Jesus/God is a myth. Heil the unicorns, dragons, yetis, flying spagetti monster. Makes as much sense to me :D

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 07:55 PM

Einstein: His Life and Universe audiobook

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Walter Isaacson,"Einstein: His Life and Universe" (Audio Book)

350 MB

“As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings Einstein's experience of life, love, and intellectual discovery into brilliant focus. The book is the first biography to tackle Einstein's enormous volume of personal correspondence that heretofore had been sealed from the public, and it's hard to imagine another book that could do such a richly textured and complicated life as Einstein's the same thoughtful justice. Isaacson is a master of the form and this latest opus is at once arresting and wonderfully revelatory. --Anne Bartholomew
”

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snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 08:17 PM

BBC - RELIGION AND ETHICS - ATHEISM

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/atheism/beliefs/reasons_6.shtml

Im just posting this link in case anyone wonders why this thread swings between Atheistic leanings and scientific information etc. To most non-believers, science is the replacement for what ancient man once thought was "God's" doings. Secularist/Atheist/Humanist beliefs are now based on the available evidence we have today, and most things that were once explained away by an attribution to some sky spirit, are now being explained with scientific proof. Hopefully the BBC page link above will show the connections to explain this thread. :unsure:

Ps. The page is available in a printable version in case you want to keep it.

snaggletooth

04-30-2009, 08:30 PM

Celtic Mythology

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Catherine Bernard , Celtic Mythology
Enslow Publishers | ISBN 0766022048 | 2003 | PDF | 3.5 MB | 105 pages

Celtic myths and legends were not first transcribed to manuscript form until the early Christian period. However, the people setting the stories down were Christian monks. The monks, of course, had their own agenda for Britain— to convert the Celts from paganism. Many of the original pagan elements in Celtic myths were either deleted or rewritten with a Christianized slant.

Easter, "Christmas", and the period around Halloween (all saints day) were all taken by Christians from older Celtic beliefs to suit themselves.

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 07:41 PM

The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby (Author)

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Review

'Every sentence is well formed and well informed, literate and learned but also friendly and entertaining, never obscure or pretentious after the manner we have come to dread from earnest literary 'intellectuals'. It is a luminously clear style that reaches out to welcome all who would share in her elevated vision of the way our culture could be and is not.' --Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion --*

Product Description

Combining historical analysis with far-reaching contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a modern America at odds with its heritage of Enlightenment reason and with 21st century knowledge and science. With mordant wit, the author offers an unsparing indictment of the ways in which dumbness and junk thought have permeated throughout American society both on the political right and the left. Much of Jacoby s diagnosis of the ills of contemporary American culture is acutely relevant in the UK, but she also presents a fascinating and persuasive account of many aspects of American society that baffle British observers. Why, for instance, uniquely among western democracies, are Darwin's theories still controversial in the United States? What is driving the current resurgence of American Christian fundamentalism? Jacoby's witty, impassioned book is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the most powerful country in the world.

File Size: 5,44 MB

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 08:01 PM

Super rare book time again. See here:

http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Science-Religion-MacMillan-Reference/dp/0028657047/ref=sr_1_1/180-3927808-5804247?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241204103&sr=1-1

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION

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This encyclopedia, intended for "a wide readership from high-school students to independent researchers and academics," deals with all aspects of the conflict and dialogue between science and religion. The list of scholars who have contributed is impressive, and the project had as a consultant and contributor Ian Barbour, physicist, theologian, and well-known author on the interplay of science and religion. The editorial point of view is that the formal consideration of the relationship between science and religion has become a new academic field of study. The troublesome potential of new technologies has brought questions into the public arena as well.

http://rapidshare.com/files/105978632/science.rar

snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 08:20 PM

Another very rare book.......

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Religion-Society-Encyclopedia-Controversy/dp/0765680645/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241205687&sr=1-1

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This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. "Science, Religion, and Society" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenges and questions in science and religion. Following this, the Historical Perspectives section grounds these major questions in the past, and demonstrates how they have developed into the six broad areas of contemporary research and discussion that follow. These sections - Creation, the Cosmos, and Origins of the Universe; Ecology, Evolution, and the Natural World; Consciousness, Mind, and the Brain; Healers and Healing; Dying and Death; and Genetics and Religion - organize the questions and research that are the foundation of the enormous interest, and controversy, in science and religion today.

Both volumes included
# 911 pages

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 08:39 PM

A VERY expensive encyclopedia.......

http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Religion-Set-Lindsay-Jones/dp/0028657330/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241206401&sr=8-4

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*Starred Review*

The Encyclopedia of Religion, first published in 1987, sought "to introduce educated, nonspecialist readers to important ideas, practices, and persons in the religious experience of humankind from the Paleolithic past to our day." It had been some 65 years since the last volume of a similar effort, the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (New York: Scribner, 1911-22), was published, prompting two reviewers to prophesy that it was "extremely unlikely another encyclopedia of religion on this scale [would] appear in English for at least another generation." Just about a generation has passed, and the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion has appeared, right on schedule.

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 08:51 PM

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For millennia priests and holy men have told countless conflicting tales about humanity's genesis and fate, while also saying anyone devoid of faith is evil, immoral, and responsible for societal ills. For those tired of these contradictions, fed up with hearing about divine mysteries when there aren't any, and offended by being told they're going to hell, atheism is a popular and logical answer. This book contains all you need to know about what to pack for your journey on the enlightening road to atheism, including explanations of the five types of atheism and the difference between an atheist and an agnostic—a term invented by T. H. Huxley, famous for his defense of Darwin—as well as how a deist differs from a theist. Learn why Christians were originally called atheists; read about Lucretius and his fellow materialists; and revel alongside atheists who happily have nothing to defend.

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 09:12 PM

The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America

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In The God Strategy, David Domke and Kevin Coe offer a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years--from the 1932 election of Franklin Roosevelt to the early stages of the 2008 presidential race. They conclude that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics.

Sectarian influences and expressions of faith have always been part of American politics, the authors observe, but a profound change occurred beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. What has developed since is a no-holds-barred religious politics that seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms, proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations of Christmas. Sometimes these signals are intended for the eyes and ears of all Americans, and other times they are distinctly targeted to specific segments of the population. It's an approach that has been remarkably successful, utilized first and most extensively by the Republican Party to capture unprecedented power and then adopted by the Democratic Party, most notably by Bill Clinton in the 1990s and by a wide range of Democrats in the 2006 elections.

"For U.S. politicians today, having faith isn't enough; it must be displayed, carefully and publicly. This is a stark transformation in recent decades," write Domke and Coe. With innovative, accessible research and analytical verve, they document how this has occurred, who has done it and why, and what it means for the American experiment in democracy.

Oxford University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0195326415 | Pages: 240 | PDF | 5.24 MB

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 09:27 PM

Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief

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In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion’s place in the minds of many writers and poets.

Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made a pilgrimage to India in search of enlightenment. Other writers, such as Roger Martin du Gard and Thomas Mann, sought temporary solace in communism or myth. And H. G. Wells, Ziolkowski argues, took refuge in utopian dreams projected in another dimension altogether.

Rooted in innovative and careful comparative reading of the work of writers from France, England, Germany, Italy, and Russia, Modes of Faith is a critical masterpiece by a distinguished literary scholar that offers an abundance of insight to anyone interested in the human compulsion to believe in forces that transcend the individual.

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 09:34 PM

Mormon America - Revised and Updated Edition: The Power and the Promise

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Who Are the Mormons?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

Has over 12.5 million members worldwide and is one of the fastest-growing and most centrally controlled U.S.-based religions

Is by far the richest religion in the United States per capita, with $25 to $30 billion in estimated assets and $5 to $6 billion more in estimated annual income

Boasts such influential members as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and presidential candidate Mitt Romney

Mormon America: The Power and The Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling, grew out of a 1997 Time magazine cover story called "Mormon's Inc." One of the reporters on that story, Richard Ostling, became so fascinated by Mormonism that he set out to write "a candid but non-polemical" overview of the Church, beginning with its founding by Joseph Smith Jr. in 1830 and continuing to the present day. The resulting book is a marvel of clarity, organization, and analysis.

For statistical reasons alone, the Mormon Church demands a reader's attention: in just 170 years, the Church has grown from six members to more than 10 million; if current rates of growth continue, membership could hit 265 million by 2080, which would make it the most important world religion to emerge since the rise of Islam. Mormon America clarifies the reasons for the religion's rapid growth: "It was from the beginning optimistic and upbeat, a reaction against the establishment New England Calvinism.... It was a religious version of the American dream: Everyman presented with unlimited potential." The book also investigates the Mormons' immense wealth (relative to size, this is "America's richest church, with an estimated $30 billion in assets and something like $6 billion in annual income, mostly from members' tithes.") It anatomizes the minutiae of Church governance (Mormonism is ruled by a self-perpetuating, all-male hierarchy, headed by a "President, Prophet, Seer, and Revelator"), details the many rules that govern the Mormon lifestyle (famously, they avoid caffeine and alcohol; the Church's mandates extend even to the proper technique for "dispos[ing] of worn-out holy underwear"), and summarizes the Mormon scriptures. Mormon America is a compulsively readable book.

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snaggletooth

05-01-2009, 09:42 PM

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence

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This dark, enthralling book not only documents the global rise of religious terrorism but seeks to understand the "odd attraction of religion and violence." Juergensmeyer bases his study on scholarly sources, media accounts and personal interviews with convicted terrorists. He exercises caution with the term "terrorist," preferring to emphasize the large religious community of supporters who make violent acts possible rather than the relatively small number who carry them out. Juergensmeyer identifies certain "cultures of violence" via case studies along the spectrum of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. Such religious communities often perceive themselves and their way of life as under attack. In Japan, for example, a new branch of "socially prophetic" Buddhists released toxic sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, shattering their own nonviolent ethic and harming thousands because they had adopted millenarian prophecies about an imminent end to the world. Juergensmeyer is a powerful, skillful writer whose deeply empathic interviewing techniques allow readers to enter the minds of some of the late 20th century's most feared religious terrorists. Yet he is also a sensitive scholar who aptly dissects religious terrorism as a sociological phenomenon. Later chapters pay special attention to issues of "performance violence," enemy formation, martyrology, satanization and "images of cosmic confrontation."

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bigcox

05-02-2009, 05:02 AM

thanks great thread!

snaggletooth

05-02-2009, 08:29 PM

Thanks for your support BigC. ;)

Why Gods Persist: Scientific Approach to Religion

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This work takes a serious look at social scientific explanations for the persistence of religion. Psychologist, Robert Hinde, offers a major study from the perspective of both the social and the biological sciences on the role of religion in human society. He explores why religions have played such a major role in the lives of individuals and in the integration of societies, and probes why it is that if most basic religious beliefs are clearly incompatible with modern scientific knowledge, the majority of people in western countries still see themselves as believers. He demonstrates that answers to these sorts of questions are the ultimate challenge to Darwinism. The text seeks to tackle a complex problem in a straightforward way which students should find understandable. Hinde provides chapter summaries, multiple sections within each chapter, and draws from examples from a wide range of religions. The text offers a holistic approach to understanding the persistence of religion, our relationship and behaviour to religion, and evolutionary theory.

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snaggletooth

05-02-2009, 08:43 PM

Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science

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James Gilbert examines the confrontation between science and religion in the 20th century, as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed within the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly 40 years of conflicting American attitudes toward science and religion. From Harvard intellectuals to Hollywood, from UFOs to the USAF, from sci-fi thrillers to the nightly news - American culture became a proving ground where the boundaries between science and religion were polemicized, propagandized, and contested. Gilbert argues that Catholics, Jews and Protestants alike were able to use the language of democracy and egalitarianism to check the growing authority of science. They did this by appealing to American tolerance of contending views and by presenting a populist counter-weight to what they portrayed as elitest claims to specialized knowledge. Eventually, asserts Gilbert, a kind of cultural paradox emerged in which two intrinsically dissimilar and mutually exclusive systems of explanation were accepted, respected and even encouraged.

Gilbert, a professor of history, eschews the fine details of historical scholarship in favor of a pleasingly broad view. His dramatis personae includes not only scores of scientists, religous leaders, theologians, and politicians, but also filmmakers, popular authors, and public intellectuals of nearly every stripe. Gilbert is chiefly concerned with these peoples' connections with organizations and institutions, for example the American Association of the Advancement of Science, the Moody Bible Institute, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Religious Research Association, the Committee on Cultural Freedom. He also discusses a similarly wide range of scientific, religious, and popular periodicals, books, and movies such as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Astounding Science Fiction, Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, and the Moody Institute's documentary (produced for the U.S. Air Force!) God of the Atom.
Gilbert's book succeeds rather well, for it provides the reader with the joy of discovering how all these come together in a surprisingly beautiful web of lives struggling with the deepest questions about our world and our place in it.

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snaggletooth

05-02-2009, 08:52 PM

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On this fascinating Journey, navigating the borders where science and philosophy meet, Avrum Stroll addresses the major dilemmas that have perplexed humanity since the dawn of reason. His persuasive narrative explores the marvels of modern research, from organ transplants to string theory, explaining why neither science, nor philosophy, nor even religions, can provide the answers to life's greatest question. World-renowned philosopher Avrum Stroll argues that there are some problems that neither scientists, theologians nor philosophers will ever be able to solve. To prove this, he tackles the key questions that have perplexed humanity for centuries, unravelling them to get to the heart of the matter. Examining the contributions from figures such as Aristotle, Einstein, Newton, and St. Augustine, the reader is taken on an enthralling journey through the realms of science, religion, ethics, and philosophy in order to explore the most fundamental questions of human existence.

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snaggletooth

05-02-2009, 09:02 PM

The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide

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Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in human behaviour, performed by evil, murderous regimes such as the Nazis and dictators like Suharto and Pinochet. John Docker argues that the roots of genocide go far deeper into human nature than most people realise. Genocide features widely in the Bible, the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and debates about the Enlightenment. These texts are studied in depth to trace the origins of violence through time and across civilisations. Developing the groundbreaking work of Raphaël Lemkin, who invented the term 'genocide', Docker guides us from the dawn of agricultural society, through classical civilisation to the present, showing that violence between groups has been integral to all periods of history. This revealing book will be of great interest to those wishing to understand the roots of genocide and why it persists in the modern age.

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snaggletooth

05-02-2009, 09:08 PM

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In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. While early Americans had nothing but contempt for Indian religions, deploring them as loathsome devil worship and snake dancing, white Americans today respect and admire Native spirituality. In this book, Jenkins charts this remarkable change, highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions from colonial times to the present.

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snaggletooth

05-03-2009, 11:26 PM

America's War on Sex

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In Alabama, it's illegal to sell vibrators, but legal to buy a gun. In South Dakota, the governor won't allow Columbia University's teen sexuality information website on library computers. In California, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Color Purple" is banned from a high school library due to sexual content. These are just a few examples of attempts to govern or control Americans' sexual knowledge and activities. At the same time, courts regularly decide child custody disputes based on the sexuality of one or both parents. Nationwide, the heated fight against homosexual marriage continues. And the academic front is not immune to attack. Members of Congress recently attempted to stop funds for all sex research in the U.S. In all 50 states, battles rage on political, legal and social fronts regarding legislation and other actions focused on sex, sexuality and sexual education. The author, an internationally known therapist, focuses attention on the power and injustice of America's 'War on Sex'. He sees this 'war' as part of a process in U.S. public discourse whereby religion and emotion are replacing science and pluralism. A coalition of political, religious and civic leaders are using the issue of sex to frighten, misinform and bully citizens, passing laws restricting sexual expression, health care, entertainment and education. Aided by a sensation-seeking mass media, this 'unholy alliance' is deliberately inflaming Americans' anxiety about out-of-control sexuality - sex crimes, teen pregnancy, 'porn addiction,' infidelity and the 'homosexual agenda.' The resulting fear has made Americans vulnerable to dramatic new sex-negative public policies. But when public policy is driven by fear and propaganda the results poison, rather than protect.

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snaggletooth

05-04-2009, 06:23 PM

Joan Konner, "The Atheist's Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts"

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"All thinking men are atheists," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes, and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving readers a chance to decide for themselves....

When I think of all the harm [the bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
-Oscar Wilde

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
-Ambrose Bierce

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
-Gertrude Stein

Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are skeptical.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-Susan Ertz

God is love, but get it in writing.
-Gypsy Rose Lee

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
-George Bernard Shaw

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snaggletooth

05-04-2009, 06:34 PM

Earth Pilgrim

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In 2008, Satish Kumar presented a 50-minute programme on the BBC as part of the Natural World series. A highly acclaimed documentary that mixed eastern philosophy with the western landscape of Dartmoor; the programme was watched by over 3.6 million people.
In this unique BBC 2 Natural World documentary Resurgence Editor Satish Kumar reflects on our connection to our natural environment. Using the traditional English landscape of Dartmoor as his natural muse he offers a very Indian perspective through the changing seasons. Through the film, he introduces the Dartmoor scenes and sights that most inspire him – gnarled oak woods, whirling starlings, rushing rivers, stags in rut, wild tracts of heather, cuckoos hungry for food, the metamorphosis of moths – and contemplates what they reveal, and the lessons they hold for humanity.
‘I see the bees buzzing, collecting a little nectar here and a little nectar there. Never too much. Never a flower has complained that a bee has taken too much nectar away. Nature in balance. But this balance is tipping. Human beings go to nature and take, take, take, until all natural resources are depleted. Honey bees never do that. If I can learn that lesson of frugality and simplicity, I will be learning the art of living.’

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snaggletooth

05-04-2009, 06:52 PM

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In 1986, journalist Bill Moyers sat down with mythologist Joseph Campbell for a series of interviews taped at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. The sessions, which aired on PBS in '88 (see Bill Moyers Remembers Joseph Campbell), introduced Campbell's transcendental wisdom to a wide audience for the first time. Joseph Campbell And The Power Of Myth became a bestseller in both book and video form. Campbell's ideas about the narrative structure of myth have influenced a generation of filmmakers and writers, and his crosscultural perspective has inspired millions of spiritual speekers (and infuriated fundamentalist Christians).

"The Power of Myth changed many peoples way of looking at the world and showed how beliefs can be, and have been, the most constructive yet destructive force in the history of humankind.
It is important for all to view this series, not just to learn about comparative religion and myth, but to see how the religious beliefs of today will become the myths of tomorrow".

Episode 1: The Hero’s Adventure (first broadcast 6/21/1988 on PBS)

About Campbell, hero types, hero deeds, Jesus Christ, the Buddha, movie heroes, Star Wars as a metaphor, an Iroquois story: the refusal of suitors, dragons, dreams and Jungian psychology, “follow your bliss,” consciousness in plants, Gaia, Chartres cathedral, spirituality vs. economics, emerging myths, “Earthrise” as a symbol

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Episode 2: The Message of the Myth (first broadcast 6/22/1988 on PBS)

Creation myths, transcending duality, pairs of opposites, God vs. Nature, sin, morality, participation in sorrow, the Gospel of Thomas, Old Time Religion, computers, religion as “software,” the story of Indra: “What a great boy am I!,” participation in society

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Episode 3: The First Storytellers (first broadcast 6/23/1988 on PBS)

Animal memories, harmonization with body and life-cycle, consciousness vs. its vehicle, killing for food, story: “The Buffalo’s Wife,” buffalo massacre, initiation ritual, rituals diminishing, crime increasing, artists, the Shaman, the center of the world.

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Episode 4: Sacrifice and Bliss (first broadcast 6/24/1988 on PBS)

Chief Seattle, the sacred Earth, agricultural renewal, human sacrifice, sacrifice of the Mass, transcendence of death, story: “The Green Knight,” societal dictates vs. following bliss, “hidden hands” guiding life’s work

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Episode 5: Love and the Goddess (first broadcast 6/25/1988 on PBS)

The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, the Goddess, the Earth-mother, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang.

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Episode 6: Masks of Eternity (first broadcast 6/26/1988 on PBS)

Identifying with the infinite, the circle as a symbol, clowns and masks, epiphanies and James Joyce, artistic arrest, the monstrous as sublime, the dance of Shiva, that which is beyond words.

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snaggletooth

05-04-2009, 07:06 PM

Life Beyond Earth - PBS (http://myvideo-zoolander***************/2009/05/life-beyond-earth-pbs.html)

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The question of whether we are alone in the universe has intrigued humanity for centuries, and journalist Timothy Ferris presents an extensive look at the quandary in this fascinating and beautifully produced program from PBS. Ferris, as an engaging and inquisitive host, begins by discussing the development of life and the theory of evolution, as what we know about life on Earth could indicate whether it's possible for life to have developed elsewhere. Showing how scientists would expect life to exist elsewhere, Ferris then devotes his attention in a section entitled "Is Anybody Listening" to explain how radio telescopes are being used in hopes of making contact with intelligent beings beyond our own solar system. Throughout this documentary Ferris finds creative ways to make fairly complicated material easily understandable, and his offbeat approach to serious science is always entertaining and often fascinating. Experts such as scientist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould appear briefly in interviews to offer their insights, but for the most part the presentation is astoundingly visual. Ferris wisely opts to show something rather than merely talk about it, and the DVD is filled with startling and beautiful special effects as well as gorgeous footage shot both on Earth and in space. This is an excellent documentary that also happens to be a pleasure to watch. --Robert J. McNamara

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snaggletooth

05-05-2009, 10:17 PM

BBC - Connections

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Volume 1:The Trigger Effect
Both the beginning and the end of the story are here. The end is our present dependence on complex technological networks illustrated by the NYC power blackouts. Life came almost to a standstill: support systems taken for granted failed. How did we become so helpless? Technology originated with the plow and agriculture. Each invention demands its own follow-up: once started, it is hard to stop. This segment ends in Kuwait, where society has leapt from ancient Egypt to the technology of today in 30 years.

Volume 2: Death in the Morning
How did a test of gold’s purity revolutionize the world 2500 years ago and lead to the atomic bomb? Standardizing precious metal in coins stimulated trade from Greece to Persia, causing the construction of a huge commercial center and library at Alexandria. This wealth of nautical knowledge aided navigators 14 centuries later. Mariners discovered that the compass’s magnetized needle did not point directly north. Investigations into the nature of magnetism led to the discovery of electricity, radar and to the atomic bomb.

Volume 3: Distant Voices
Telecommunications exist because the Normans wore stirrups at the Battle of Hastings- a simple advance that caused a revolution in the increasingly expensive science of warfare. Europe turned its attention to making money to wage wars. As mine shafts were dug deeper, they became flooded, stimulating scientists like Galileo to investigate vacuums, air pressure and other natural laws to mine deeper silver. This led to the discovery of electricity and magnetism’s relationship and to the development of radio, and deep space telecommunications that may enable contact with galactic civilizations.

Volume 4: Faith in Numbers
Each development in the organization of systems (political, economic, mechanical, electronic)influences the next, by logic, by genius, by chance, or by utterly unforeseen events. The transition from the Middle ages to the Renaissance was influenced by the rise of commercialism, a sudden change in climate, famine and the Black Death, which set the stage for the invention of the printing press.

Volume 5: The Wheel of Fortune
The power to see into the future with computers originally rested with priest-astronomers who knew the proper times to plant and harvest. The constellations influenced life spectacularly, particularly when the ailing Caliph of Baghad was cured by an astrologer using Greek lore. His ancient medical secrets were translated and spread throughout Europe, ushering in an era of scientific inquiry. The need for more precise measuring devices in navigation gave rise to the pendulum clock, the telescope, forged steel and interchangeable machine parts-the basis of modern industrial system.

Volume 6: Thunder in the Skies
A dramatically colder climate gripped Europe during the 13th century profoundly affecting the course of history for the next seven centuries. The changes in energy usage transformed architecture and forced the creation of new power sources. The coming of the Industrial Revolution, spurred on by advances in the steam engine, scarred England indelibly: but a moment in history later, gasoline-powered engines opened the way to the heavens.

Volume 7: The Long Chain
Often, materials discovered by accident alter the course of the world. In the 1600s Dutch commercial freighters controlled Atlantic trade routes. Competing British lines induced America to produce pitch to protect hulls of their royal vessels. This arrangement lasted until 1776, after which a Scottish inventor tried to produce pitch from coal tar. By the time he succeeded the navy was using copper instead. Subsequent experiments with coal tar yielded gaslight lamps, waterproofed garments, a brilliant mauve dye that established the German chemical industry and nylon, the first of the miracle plastics.

Volume 8: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
When Napoleon marched huge forces across Europe, he needed an efficient way to store provisions. A Frenchman preserved sterilized food in empty champagne bottles, an idea modified by the British, who tried tin cans. Still, canned foods sometimes spoiled, which led to experiments with refrigeration. Later, it was discovered that gases may be stored at very low temperatures in a thermos flask, a device handy for picnics, for polar explorers and for, storing large quantities of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. When lit by a spark these gases can send rockets into space.

Volume 9: Countdown
What happens when you combine a carbon arc light, a billiard ball coating, a spoked wheel and consecutive images? Motion pictures! Complex and sometimes incredible events led to Thomas Edison’s remarkable invention; the beginnings of limelight on a Irish mountain; George Eastman’s production of celluloid from the slightly explosive gun cotton; the “magic lantern” of an Austrian ballistics teacher. Then Eadweard Muybridge settled a bet in 1872 by photographs; does a horse raise all four feet when galloping? (Yes.) Today moving pictures, together with television, are enormously powerful mass media. Have we become trapped by our own technology?

Volume 10: Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
“Why did we do it this way?” Essential moments from the previous programs are reviewed to illustrate the common factors that make for change. Will they go on operating to affect our futures? And if so, can we recognize them? The second half looks at the extent to which we have become increasingly incapable of understanding how change occurs in our complex world and at why we are in such a predicament. Finally, there is a look ahead to the need for radical change in the availability and use of information in the future, if we are to remain in control of our destinies.

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Number Of Parts: 10
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snaggletooth

05-05-2009, 10:24 PM

Stress: Portrait of a Killer (2008)

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Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress—how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible.
From baboon troops on the plains of Africa, to neuroscience labs at Stanford University...., scientists are revealing just how lethal stress can be. Research reveals that the impact of stress can be found deep within us, shrinking our brains, adding fat to our bellies, even unraveling our chromosomes. Yet understanding how stress works can help us figure out ways to combat it and how to live a life free of the tyranny of this contemporary plague. In Stress: Portrait of a Killer, scientific discoveries in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not a state of mind, but something measurable and dangerous.

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snaggletooth

05-05-2009, 10:33 PM

The Black Death

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The Black Death was an unprecedented human disaster of appalling magnitude. In three dreadful years over one third of Europe's population was wiped out. Everyone believed it heralded the end of the world. This film follows the spread of the plague and its implications for the Europe of the Middle Ages. Looking at issues such as medicine, religion, superstition and society, as well as employing expert analysis from top historians, this is a look at one of the most chilling and terrible periods in all of human existence.

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snaggletooth

05-05-2009, 10:46 PM

BBC - THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION

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The Politics of Belief.

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. In this opening part, he uncovers how a debate about religion in 16th Century Germany (Martin Luther's challenge to the Pope) sparked a political revolution - from the bloody battlefields of medieval Germany to the Civil Wars of the 1640s in Britain, Protestantism unleashed a series of revolutions and wars that rippled across Europe.

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The Godly Family

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. He looks at how Protestantism replaced the Catholic veneration of celibacy with a devotion to family life - from Martin Luther as the loving husband and father to the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury with his modern idea of marriage. Plus, the contradictory legacy of Protestantism, with its sexual equality but virulent patriarchy.

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Reformation of the mind

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. In 16th century Britain, radical Protestants triggered a great act of vandalism by wiping out Catholic monasteries, churches and artwork. But their cultural revolution went much further, leading to art galleries and the creation of the novel, as well as driving on a new scientific age that spanned the discovery of gravity to the Industrial Revolution.

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No Rest For The Wicked

Four-part documentary series exploring the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. Through an examination of Calvinism, Puritanism and the Industrial Revolution, historian Tristram Hunt reveals how capitalism and the anti-global movement developed out of Protestantism and how these two great opposing legacies of Protestantism continue to battle it out.

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snaggletooth

05-07-2009, 08:50 AM

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A thoughtful and highly readable exploration of the intriguing relationship between psychology and religion, this book is an excellent introduction to an area of increasingly popular interest. In a tone both erudite and accessible, Loewenthal writes on a wide range of religions and cultures. The book covers all the main areas in this field, from the history of religious psychology, to the many and fascinating ways in which religion and religious belief impacts upon human feeling and behaviour.

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snaggletooth

05-07-2009, 09:01 AM

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Scientific facts can be so complicated that only specialists in a field fully appreciate the details. Professor Frederick Grinnell believes that the nature of everyday practice that gives rise to these facts should be understandable by everyone interested in science. Grinnell has an insider's knowledge of biomedical research based on more than thirty-five years of experience. Over much of the same period, he also has been teaching about philosophical and ethical issues in science. Now, he integrates these perspectives into an enlightening and entertaining description of Everyday Practice of Science.

Grinnell describes how real life researchers bring their own interests and passions to their work. Through the discovery process, they try to learn new things about the world. Through the credibility process, they try to convince other scientists that what they have learned is correct. Diversity of interests and backgrounds amongst researchers enhances both discovery and credibility. Achieving success depends on intuition and commitment as well as on logic and objectivity. Grinnell scratches the surface of the anonymous and somewhat boring “scientific method” and shows readers the excitement, risk and adventure underneath.

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snaggletooth

05-07-2009, 09:41 PM

The History Of The Devil

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Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan... He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the traditional evil come from? The History of the Devil goes back to the ancient Middle East, even before the Old Testament to find the roots of the Satan. The answer is in the ancient Mesopotamia. In Zoroastrianism it was believed that the all-knowing good God was Ahura Mazda, the one Uncreated Creator, and Ahriman was his antithesis, the God of chaos, the dark and evil one. Probably the bases of these teachings like heaven and hell, good and evil were transferred to the other monotheistic religions.

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snaggletooth

05-08-2009, 10:53 PM

Carl Sagan - The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (http://atheistmovies***************/2009/05/carl-sagan-dragons-of-eden-speculations.html)

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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. Amazon

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snaggletooth

05-10-2009, 09:00 AM

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE

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`The book will appeal not just to scientists and science students but also to the interested lay person. And it passes the most difficult test of any dictionary - it is well worth browsing.' New Scientist

`All entries are clear and brief, written in no-nonsense prose...A handy reference work.' TES

`Handy and readable...for scientists aged nine to ninety' Nature

Product Description
This best-selling dictionary contains over 9,000 entries on all aspects of science and provides comprehensive coverage of biology (including human biology), chemistry, physics, the earth sciences, and astronomy. Appendices cover the periodic table, geological time scale, and animal and plant classification. New features include virtual thumb tags for easy reference, expanded areas including astronomy and earth science and more features on key topics such as the Solar System and Genetically Modified Organisms. Also featured are short biographies of leading scientists and chronologies of specific subjects, including plastics, electronics and cell biology. Both concise and wide-ranging, this dictionary is an ideal handy reference work and great introduction for students and non-scientists alike.

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snaggletooth

05-10-2009, 09:49 AM

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NatureTech (2006)
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NatureTech, a multi-award-winning series, explores “biomimetics” - the science of looking to nature for answers to modern problems.
Why are blossoms never dirty and can we also make our cars that way? Why can geckos walk on the ceiling and can we use their tricks to create better adhesives? Why is the spider’s web tougher than steel? Exciting new developments in computer technology, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to understand Nature’s designs better than ever before. Scientists are not simply trying to copy nature – they are taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.
Visually, this series is an attractive, fast-paced mix of stunning natural history shots, computer-assisted design and CGI graphics of futuristic inventions, ultra-modern, spacy architecture and high tech as well as scenes of the world’s leading designers and engineers at work, all created by the team that made “Limits of Perception”.

Part 1: Magic of Motion
Most animals, and even a few plants, move. They swim, walk, run or fly in a wide range of ways, and in this programme we look at how designers of planes, cars and robots have found inspiration in nature. But biomimetics is not just about copying nature, it’s about understanding the principles behind nature’s success and applying those in new and surprising ways. So exploring the world of cars and planes also gives us some startling new insights into nature as well. In this programme we find out why sharks can swim so fast, how flies and geckos can climb smooth glass and how vultures can help the next generation of airliners. We also meet robot cockroaches that might look like something from science fiction, but might be the fore-runners of the latest all terrain vehicles.

Part 2: The Material World
Nature invented a whole range of hi-tec materials long before we invented ceramics and plastics. And not only are they often better, but nature has also invented ingenious ways of building with them. In this programme we travel inside a giant sequoia to find out how nature has built the largest living thing ever, and how that might help us make better bullet-proof vests. In the forests of Central America, the breath-taking, iridescence of a morpho butterfly in flight is all the more amazing when slowed down over a hundred times. It has inspired one cosmetics company to invent an entirely new kind of lipstick – but more importantly, understanding its dazzling beauty might pave the way for a new revolution in information technology – photonic crystals – that would make fibre optic systems obsolete.

Part 3: Lifepower
Nature has to be efficient in the way it processes information and uses energy so when scientists began to look at nature with biomimetic eyes, it’s not surprising that they started to see entirely new visions for our future. Nature’s power stations are everywhere – in the form of leaves. They run on sunlight and their main waste product is oxygen. Now scientists have succeeded in building an artificial leaf, which could produce hydrogen – the fuel of the future – powered by nothing but sunlight. And when we park out new non-polluting cars at home or work, what will the buildings be like?
For that, scientists are looking at prairie dogs and termites. In Namibia we watch scientists laboriously fill a 3 metre high termite mound with latex, then, under the burning sun, shave away a few millimetres of the mound at a time and photograph it. The end result is the first ever complete 3D model of a termite mound, and it reveals some remarkable stories of how the termites control temperature, carbon dioxide and humidity in the nest. Understanding this, there’s no reason why we can’t build our own tower blocks on the same principles.

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snaggletooth

05-11-2009, 08:04 PM

Atheist Wallpaper :)

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To download the big version...

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=ndd5ycydfmz&thumb=4

snaggletooth

05-11-2009, 08:42 PM

Robin Le Poidevin, "Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion"

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Taylor & Francis (2004) | English | eISBN: 0203422066 | 186 pages | PDF | 1.41 MB

In Arguing for Atheism, Robin Le Poidevin addressses the question of whether theism—the view that there is a personal, transcendent creator of the universe—solves the deepest mysteries of existence. Philosophical defences of theism have often been based on the the idea that it explains things which atheistic approaches cannot: for example, why the universe exists, and how there can be objective moral values.

The main contention of Arguing for Atheism is that the reverse is true: that in fact theism fails to explain many things it claims to, while atheism can explain some of the things it supposedly leaves mysterious. It is also argued that religion need not depend on belief in God. Designed as a text for university courses in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, this book’s accessible style and numerous explanations of important philosophical concepts and positions will also make it attractive to the general reader.

http://rapidshare.com/files/156060814/ArgufAthe.rar

snaggletooth

05-12-2009, 04:42 PM

One of the things that Britain is truly "Great" for, is its rapid rejection by the masses of organised religion. The UK is one of the foremost regions of atheism/secularism in the modern world, and America can only stand in awe at how advanced Britains couldnt-care-less views on Christianity are...

The Death of Christian Britain

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Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of Western Christianity? "The Death of Christian Britain" uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularization and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. It challenges the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, and instead proposes that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s.This second edition includes a new chapter that repositions the book's argument in light of criticism and new research. It addresses the reactions to the treatment of the 'old' Christian culture of modern Britain, the sixties in religious history, gender and the mutation of Christianity and demonstrates the validity of the Death of Christian Britain in understanding contemporary religion and culture. Topical and controversial, "The Death of Christian Britain" is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.

http://rapidshare.com/files/207385768/The_Death_of_Christian_Britain.rar

snaggletooth

05-13-2009, 01:19 PM

Lewis/Petersen, "Controversial New Religions"

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Oxford University | ISBN: 0195156838 | PDF | 2005 | 496 Pages | 5.7 Mb unrar'd

“Over the last several years, the scholarly interest in New Religious Movements has grown exponentially. The general public, however, tends to hear about New Religious Movements only when there has been a tragedy, such as the burning of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco or the Heaven's Gate suicide. The press then lavishes attention on these groups, writing melodramatic stories that play up the oddness of their beliefs and behaviors. This volume offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at those groups that have generated the most controversy. The groups covered are: The Family Unification Church People's Temple Branch Davidians ISKCON (Hare Krishnas) Osho Rajneesh Soka Gakkai Aum Shunrikyo Falun Gong Aumism Scientology Theosophy Order of the Solar Temple Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness Heaven's Gate Raelians White Racist Religions Satanism Each essay provides not only an overview of the history and beliefs of each organization or movement, but also analysis that makes an original contribution to the field. This book will be an invaluable resource for all those who seek a view of New Religions that is deeper than what can be found in sensationalistic newspaper stories or on the six o'clock news.”

http://rapidshare.com/files/46116690/EB_CNR.rar

snaggletooth

05-15-2009, 04:49 AM

Encyclopedia of Taboos

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Book Description

What are the origins of table manners? What are the politics of cannibalism? Why is the left hand thought to be sinister? These apparently unrelated questions all hinge on the fundamental notion of taboo. Far from being peripheral leftovers from distant times and places, taboos are a crucial part of any society, determining how people must and must not behave. The Encyclopedia of Taboos is a mine of unusual information from around the world, including a comprehensive analysis of individual taboos from the ancient world to the present day, covering both well- and lesser-known examples. This guide to taboos examines certain aspects of their meaning, use, and importance in religion, economics, politics,and society.

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snaggletooth

05-15-2009, 05:10 PM

Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning: Molecules, Mind and Meaning

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In just a half century, humanity has made an astounding leap in its understanding of life. Now, one of the giants of biological science, Christian de Duve, discusses what we've learned in this half century, ranging from the tiniest cells to the future of our species and of life itself. With wide-ranging erudition, de Duve takes us on a dazzling tour of the biological world, beginning with the invisible workings of the cell, the area in which he won his Nobel Prize. He describes how the first cells may have arisen and suggests that they may have been like the organisms that exist today near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Contrary to many other scientists, he argues that life was bound to arise and that it probably only took millennia--maybe tens of thousands of years--to move from rough building blocks to the first organisms possessing the basic properties of life. With equal authority, De Duve examines topics such as the evolution of humans, the origins of consciousness, the development of language, the birth of science, and the origin of emotion, morality, altruism, and love. He concludes with his conjectures on the future of humanity--for instance, we may evolve, perhaps via genetic engineering, into a new species--and he shares his personal thoughts about God and immortality. In Life Evolving, one of our most eminent scientists sums up what he has learned about the nature of life and our place in the universe. An extraordinarily wise and humane volume, it will fascinate readers curious about the world around them and about the impact of science on philosophy and religion.

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snaggletooth

05-16-2009, 06:34 PM

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Product Description
From Colonial times to the present, an insightful examination of how courts have determined the extent to which religion is accommodated in American public life. Holiday carols are banned from public schools, yet no mail is delivered on Christmas Day and our coins bear the legend "In God We Trust." The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution creates a natural tension between freedom "of" religion and freedom "from" religion that is often difficult to reconcile. From the internationally renowned Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925, which pitted a public school teacher arrested for teaching evolution against the state of Tennessee, Religion on Trial chronicles key court cases that have shaped the tenuous relationship between Church and State throughout American history. This title chronicles such ground breaking cases as the 1991 decision ordering blood transfusions for children of Christian Scientists in Norwood Hospital v. Munoz and Engel V. Vitale the "school prayer case" which ignited calls for Chief Justice Earl Warren's Impeachment. No other work addresses such fiery, contemporary disputes as prayer in schools, allegiance to the flag, and the display of religious symbols on public property, and the impact their outcomes have had on American society.

http://depositfiles.com/files/y5hnjxvam

snaggletooth

05-16-2009, 06:41 PM

Expensive book time again..... (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Religion-Reconciled-Critical-Sciences/dp/9004160140/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242495503&sr=8-2 )

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Product Description
In the midst of the increasing antagonism between religion and secularity, the sacred and the profane, faith and reason - currently described in terms of "the clash of civilizations" - is religion any longer relevant or meaningful in the globalizing development of modern subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, family, society, state and history? If so, how and to what end? In the socio-historical context of the highly secular, neo-liberal/neo-conservative globalization movement, the question of the social meaning and relevancy of religion has entered directly into the contemporary discourse on the future of humanity. This book gives expression to the research of international scholars as they wrestled with these issues during the Future of Religion courses held at the Inter-university Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 2001-2005. The contributors include: Aleksandra Basa, Reimon Bachika, Alesrni, Anja Finger, Helmut Fritzsche, Denis Janz, Hans-Herbert Kogler, Werner Krieglstein, Mislav Kuko, Gottfried Kuenzlen, Aurelia Margareti, Michael R. Ott, Dunja Potonik, A. James Reimer, Kjartan Selnes, Rudolf J. Siebert, Hans K. Weitensteiner, Brian Wilson, and Katarzyna Zielinska.

http://rapidshare.com/files/204453472/The_Future_of_Religion.rar

snaggletooth

05-19-2009, 03:33 PM

Just posting this as established religions hate this kinda thing, but its just as valid (and as nuts) as Christianity, being as Muslim, or anything else out there......

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The most comprehensive study available of Neopagan religious movements in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Thor and Odin, Dievs, Diana, fairies-these old gods find new life in the Neopagan movement. In North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe people increasingly turn to ancestral religions, not as amusement or matters of passing interest, but in an effort to practice those religions as they were before the advent of Christianity. Modern Paganism in World Cultures collects the work of specialists in religion, folklore, and related fields to provide a comprehensive treatment of the movement to reestablish pre-Christian religions. Detailed accounts of the belief systems and rituals of each religion, along with analysis of the cultural, social, and political factors fueling the return to ancestral religious practice, make this a rich, singular resource. Scandinavian Asatru, Latvian Dievturi, American Wicca-long-dormant religions are taking on new life as people seek connection with their heritage and look for more satisfying approaches to the pressures of postmodernism. The Neopagan movement is a small but growing influence in Western culture. This book provides a map to these resurgent religions, and an examination of the origins of the Neopagan movement.

http://uploadbox.com/files/20cd7993d1

snaggletooth

05-19-2009, 03:43 PM

"While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within"

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The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge posed by radical Islam, or will they cave in once again to the extremists?
As an American living in Europe since 1998, Bruce Bawer has seen this problem up close. Across the continent—in Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Stockholm—he encountered large, rapidly expanding Muslim enclaves in which women were oppressed and abused, homosexuals persecuted and killed, “infidels” threatened and vilified, Jews demonized and attacked, barbaric traditions (such as honor killing and forced marriage) widely practiced, and freedom of speech and religion firmly repudiated.
The European political and media establishment turned a blind eye to all this, selling out women, Jews, gays, and democratic principles generally—even criminalizing free speech—in order to pacify the radical Islamists and preserve the illusion of multicultural harmony. The few heroic figures who dared to criticize Muslim extremists and speak up for true liberal values were systematically slandered as fascist bigots. Witnessing the disgraceful reaction of Europe’s elites to 9/11, to the terrorist attacks on Madrid, Beslan, and London, and to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bawer concluded that Europe was heading inexorably down a path to cultural suicide.
Europe's Muslim communities are powder kegs, brimming with an alienation born of the immigrants’ deep antagonism toward an infidel society that rejects them and compounded by misguided immigration policies that enforce their segregation and empower the extremists in their midst. The mounting crisis produced by these deeply perverse and irresponsible policies finally burst onto our television screens in October 2005, as Paris and other European cities erupted in flames.
WHILE EUROPE SLEPT is the story of one American’s experience in Europe before and after 9/11, and of his many arguments with Europeans about the dangers of militant Islam and America’s role in combating it. This brave and invaluable book—with its riveting combination of eye-opening reportage and blunt, incisive analysis—is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Europe and what it portends for the United States.

http://depositfiles.com/files/bvmf9vudh

snaggletooth

05-19-2009, 04:01 PM

The Vatican`s Holocaust

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Description :

This book has been criticized, condemned, banned, mutilated, destroyed and even burned as frequently as it has been quoted, recommended, reproduced and praised in many parts of the world, because of the events and revelations it describes. The ordinary individual cannot accept as yet the startling facts that only a few years back, for instance, the Catholic Church advocated forcible conversions, helped to erect concentration camps, and was responsible for the sufferings, torturing and execution of hundreds of thousands of non-Catholics. Deeds coolly perpetrated by her lay and ecclesiastic members. Furthermore, that many of such atrocities were carried out personally by some of her Catholic priests and even monks. One of the main purposes of this book is to relate where, when and by whom such atrocities were committed. It took the author almost half a decade of painstaking investigation before he accepted what seemed unbelievable.

http://rapidshare.com/files/199746607/The_Vaticans_Holocaust_book.rar

Janz

05-23-2009, 12:16 AM

Hi Soup! man

Thx for the info - much appreciated indeed.

And to reply to the page 1 question - my very belated feedback that part 6 is indeed missing.
Could you find time/energy to do "EvilGode.part6 "?
[Mega is just plain 'baaahd'] else its-a-googling time again.

Keep up the good work B-)

ps- added below - so ignore the request plse.

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! C:\EvilGode.part6.rar: The required volume is absent
! C:\EvilGode.part5.rar: CRC failed in the encrypted file The Root of All Evil - pt 1 - The God Delusion.avi (wrong password ?)
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snaggletooth

05-23-2009, 12:38 PM

Seems Ive been running the store here for some time now lol. So, although it wasnt my post originally, heres an update. I think youll have to download the whole episode concerned again though.

Snaggletooth ;)

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The Root of All Evil?
The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion.

The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK.

Episode 1 The God Delusion
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"The God Delusion" explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them. Dawkins opens the programme by describing the "would-be murderers . . . who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they're motivated by what they think is the highest ideal." Dawkins argues that "the process of non-thinking called faith" is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.

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Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/112916853/TROAE_EP1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112922748/TROAE_EP1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112929141/TROAE_EP1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112935035/TROAE_EP1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112941078/TROAE_EP1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112947526/TROAE_EP1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112954160/TROAE_EP1.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/112961027/TROAE_EP1.part8.rar
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Episode 2 The Virus of Faith
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In "The Virus of Faith", Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children. The title of this episode comes from The Selfish Gene, in which Dawkins discussed the concept of memes.

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Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/112963411/TROAE_EP2.part1.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/112987010/TROAE_EP2.part4.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/113003223/TROAE_EP2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/113895629/TROAE_EP2.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/113893053/TROAE_EP2.part8.rar

password
Code:

w*w.rapidfind.org

(replace the star)

fred_up

05-24-2009, 12:26 AM

Hi Buttfish,

Please can you upload the final part of "Root of All Evil? Part 1 The God Delusion" (EvilGode.part6.rar) - as it missing? It is also missing on another 2 blogs on the web.

There is a link to EvilGode.part6.rar in the middle of this thread, but rapidshare says it doesn't exist - oh the irony.

Ta much.

snaggletooth

05-24-2009, 12:54 AM

Eh? What?

snaggletooth

05-24-2009, 10:52 AM

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Epitome of Anti-Christianity

"The Christian concept of a god—the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit—is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world: it probably touches low-water mark in the ebbing evolution of the god-type. God degenerated into the contradiction of life."

If I believed in destiny, fate, karma, etc. I would say that Nietzsche was sent to us as a punishment. To stir and wake up from our deep slumber that deluded all humanity.

This last book of Nietzsche, offers strong arguments against Christianity (or religion) and fallacies of society.

If you never read before Nietzsche, it may be hard to read for the first time. But if you try, you'll understand what is great in him.

File Size: 164 KB

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?iyhyydznxo2

snaggletooth

05-24-2009, 10:58 AM

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13th AAI (http://www.atheistalliance.org/) convention in Crystal City, Virginia. There are familiar faces among the participants such as Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Julia Sweeney, Ayaan Hirsi Ali...

Total Size: 560 MB

Download:
[Richard Dawkins] (http://www.mediafire.com/?mmzmn5rymn2)
[Dan Dennett] (http://www.mediafire.com/?khmztfmy2to)
[Sam Harris] (http://www.mediafire.com/?umk4yotmzgn)
[Christopher Hitchens] (http://www.mediafire.com/?hm4ewqz5fgy)
[Ayaan Hirsi Ali] (http://www.mediafire.com/?guf0atzlzwm)
[Matthew Chapman] (http://www.mediafire.com/?mytyjjizymz)
[Andy Thompson] (http://rapidshare.com/files/236006998/Atheist_Alliance_International_Convention__2007__6_of_9__Andy_Thompson.mov)
[Eugine Scott] (http://www.mediafire.com/?jeianwwnijo)
[Edie Tabash] (http://www.mediafire.com/?ibe3m3dom3j)

snaggletooth

05-24-2009, 11:01 AM

Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation (Audiobook) (http://atheistmovies***************/2009/05/sam-harris-letter-to-christian-nation.html)

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In response to his award-winning bestseller "The End of Faith," Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. "Letter to A Christian Nation" is his courageous and controversial reply. Learn Out Loud

File Size: 33 MB

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/236252404/Letter.to.a.Christian.Nation-Sam.Harris.rar

snaggletooth

05-24-2009, 11:10 AM

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Some notable quotes by important atheists, agnostics and freethinkers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuknsnphEU

snaggletooth

05-24-2009, 11:12 AM

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Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many different people so similar in nature? This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas by looking through the lens of science at the common structures and functions of human thought. Amazon

File Size: 2.35 MB

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mwgktytgi2m

fred_up

05-24-2009, 11:38 PM

Eh? What?

WinRAR states that EvilGode.part6.rar is missing. The fact that all 5 parts are exactly the same size (100MB) gives a clue that there is at least another part.

If you put EvilGode.part5.rar into Google, you will see various sites that repeat the same 5 part links (and also the 3 part links for the 2nd episode).

Although I don't believe in God or his boy, it is an interesting subject.

There is a book called Jesus The Man, although a very dry read, gives the interpretation that Jesus was part of a Jewish sect based around were the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

snaggletooth

05-25-2009, 04:20 AM

Well, if he existed at all (theres conflicting evidence of that), then i'll argree he certainly was part of a sect. Id go further and say a cult, for that to me is what all religions should be labelled. As for that missing part of the root of all evil, hmm, maybe christians planted those dead links out there like they say scientists did with dinosaur bones in their 6000yr old earth? Lmao!

fred_up

05-25-2009, 12:28 PM

It is hard to prove that someone didn't exist, as the written records of that time were very poor. With most myths, they are based upon something real (with the fisherman exaggeration). If you look at the Greek Myth of the minotaur, it was based upon the sport of bull-jumping.

Atheism is as much of a belief system as any of those religions. We cannot prove god (or what ever his name is) doesn't exist, but can say that there is a very high probability that he doesn't.

As for the bible, you would have thought when they joined it up from different testaments that someone would have taken the time to proof-read it. I mean that can't even agree on what Jesus' last words were on the cross.

I read on of those The world is only 6000 years old, in which the fella tries to use discrepancies in scientific evince to get around the slight problem that the world and universe is a tad older than he suggests. As usual, he mixes a bit of science with a load of miss-direction. The thing that got me was at the beginning of his website, in which he states that unless you truly believed the literal truth of the bible you couldn't comprehend his argument - the usual 'I know better' excuse.

Back to the point:
It is not dead links, it is just other sites that have copied what buttfish posted (in page 1 of this thread) or he copied it to other sites - it is the same links and password.

snaggletooth

05-25-2009, 07:53 PM

snaggletooth

05-25-2009, 08:02 PM

Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong

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In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Combining his cutting-edge research with the latest findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, Hauser explores the startling implications of his provocative theory vis-a-vis contemporary bioethics, religion, the law, and our everyday lives.

http://rapidshare.com/files/195330569/006078072X_Moral_Minds.rar

fred_up

05-25-2009, 09:06 PM

I have to say you are not correct with stating that written records were poor 2000yrs ago. The dynasties of Egypt (for example) are very well documented as much as a thousand years before this (given that the pyramids were built 5,500yrs ago). And many other world civilizations are very detailed this far back (the Romans etc). Surely if Jesus was so important, we would be left with clear evidence of his existence. This is clearly not so (if you discount the (in the non-theist view) the fictional bible). In fact, when you look at it objectively, the whole Christian ethos is based on one book, written by people who werent even born at the alleged time of jesus, and all based on hearsay.

I didn't say that they didn't have written records, so how is there still only theories on the actual construction method to built the pyramids. There probably was a load of documentation, but has been lost to history.

Jesus may be an important figure in christianity, but to the Roman Empire he was nothing more than yet another religious troublemaker. I would suspect that he was nothing more to the Jewish leaders, so not worthy of writing about. Did the Romans of Jews write about the Baptist?

We agree about the books being made up a lot later, and was made to suit their own purpose.

snaggletooth

05-26-2009, 06:11 AM

The pyramids as i said were built 5,500yrs ago which I used just as an example to show ancient history in comparison to jesus' life which was allegedly only 2000yrs ago. I accept the reason for lack of writing on his existence may have been due to his minor role at the time, but then you have to consider something like the slaughter of the innocents allegedly ordered by Herod in order to kill jesus before he rose to some kind of power. An event as shocking as this (ie. the killing of all male children under the age of two) would have been abhorent and a cause for major historical documentation even then, but, guess what, not one shred of evidence of that exists anywhere except in the fictional bible. And Herods life is very well written indeed. ho hum....

snaggletooth

05-26-2009, 06:18 PM

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The father of modern scepticism and perhaps the most important English philosopher, Hume was lauded within his own lifetime as a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment. His 'naturalist' approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories of perception, personal identity, causation, politics, morality, and religion, many of which were extremely controversial and continue to make waves today. Harold Noonan's excellent introduction to Hume presents Hume's ideas in their original context as well as discussing their relevance to contemporary philosophical debate. Can we argue that the design of the universe points to the existence of God? What makes us persons? What can we rationally believe in? Hume's voice, lucid and witty, is still an acute critic of human nature and Western thought.

Hume's early essay Of Superstition and Religion laid the foundations for nearly all subsequent secular thinking about the history of religion. Critics of religion during Hume's time had to express themselves cautiously. Less than 15 years before Hume's birth, an 18-year-old University student named Thomas Aikenhead was tried, convicted, and hanged in Edinburgh for blasphemy for saying Christianity was nonsense. Hume followed the common practice of expressing his views obliquely, through characters in dialogues.

Hume's essays On Suicide, On the Immortality of the Soul, and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion were not published until after his death, and even then bore neither author's nor publisher's name. Hume's atheism caused him to be passed over for many positions.

http://rapidshare.com/files/193532945/Hume__one_world_.rar

password : w*w.AvaxHome.ru
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fred_up

05-26-2009, 06:19 PM

We are really only arguing if some bloke existed. He may have, he may not have; does it really matter? The lasting myth of what he was supposed to be is the real problem.

I suppose as long as the area was run quietly and the taxes were paid, the Romans wouldn't have given a flying fig what happened in Judea. Didn't Herod die about 4 to 7 years BCE?

Now the romans would have wrote about sending everyone to their family home so to make an assessment for tax collection.

BTW Thanks for the downloads.

snaggletooth

05-26-2009, 07:16 PM

It would be hard for me (well, hard on my typing hand) to explain who Richard Feynman is if youre not already aware. So I'll just paste this wiki link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman and let you look for yourself to see if it might interest you. Ive watched a few interviews with him, and his glee at learning new things (even now) is written all over his face. Some of the stuff below will be a bit heavy for most, but he takes the time to explain things in as simple as possible terms. So have a look if you get pleasure from finding things out....

http://arthur.nomadlife.org/uploaded_images/feynman-753516.jpg

Audiobooks by Richard P. Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/168326516/Feynman_-_Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168328899/Feynman_-_Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168331345/Feynman_-_Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168332013/Feynman_-_Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman.part4.rar

What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54158279/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54160008/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54161898/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54162511/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think.part4.rar

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/168334338/Feynman_-_The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168336810/Feynman_-_The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168338298/Feynman_-_The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out.part3.rar

Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54144240/Six_Easy_Pieces.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54145802/Six_Easy_Pieces.part2.rar

Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54153637/Six_Not_So_Easy_Pieces.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54154898/Six_Not_So_Easy_Pieces.part2.rar

The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54156524/The_Character_of_Physical_Law.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54156737/The_Character_of_Physical_Law.part2.rar

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Audiobooks about Feynman

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/168318144/Gleick_-_Genius.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168320607/Gleick_-_Genius.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/168322389/Gleick_-_Genius.part3.rar

Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54134602/Feynmans_Rainbow.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54141178/Feynmans_Rainbow.part2.rar

Lectures by Feynman

Los Alamos From Below
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54150386/Los_Alamos_From_Below.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54151813/Los_Alamos_From_Below.part2.rar

The Feynman Lectures in Physics, Volume 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54473079/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54476813/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54480484/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54484133/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part04.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/54495706/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54499620/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part08.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/54516519/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part12.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54518647/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_1.part13.rar

The Feynman Lectures in Physics, Volume 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54407089/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_2.part01.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/54449427/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_2.part10.rar

The Feynman Lectures in Physics, Volume 3: Quantum Mechanics
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54456089/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_3.part1.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/54469180/Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_-_Volume_3.part5.rar

Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun
Code: http://rapidshare.com/files/54132488/Feynmans_Lost_Lecture.rar

Each RAR file is approximately 100 MB. All collections are password-free and contain mp3s.

thesenutswin

05-27-2009, 09:55 PM

Thanks for all these great videos and books... keep them coming!!!

snaggletooth

05-28-2009, 12:15 AM

Thanks thesenutswin. Glad you like the posts.

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The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal

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Can a human being really spontaneously burst into flames? Just how deadly is the Bermuda Triangle? And what's the real story behind all those alien abductions? The answers to these and many other questions lie within the covers of The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal. Guaranteed to liven up any dinner party, this delightful, highly readable book offers color photographs and scientific case-by-case explanations for twenty-seven phenomena that appear to defy known science, including ghosts and poltergeists, the predictions of Nostradamus, and yogic levitation, among many others. Speaking directly to the reader, and always with respect for those who believe, Kelly gives us a bite-size, nonacademic approach to debunking hugely popular superstitions and mysteries. Did you know that you, too, can bend spoons and read minds? This book will show you how.

http://rapidshare.com/files/4951471/skeptics.guide.to.the.paranormal-1560257113.pdf

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snaggletooth

05-28-2009, 08:11 PM

God is an American
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A documentary featured at Marfa Film Festival 2009 and focusing on the famous cargo cult on Tanna island.

During WW II, the US navy used Tanna Island in the Southern Pacific to build a military base and when the islanders met the American soldiers it was a tremendous cultural shock. The islanders believed the Americans were some kind of demi-gods. And during this period, John Frum, an American pilot landed on Tanna. No one really knows who he was except the islanders, but they believe John Frum is their prophet and still wait his return.

Their entire island customs have been shaped by this belief.

"...they [cargo cults] do provide a fascinating contemporary model for the way religions spring up from almost nothing. In particular, they suggest four lessons about the origin of religions generally." as Richard Dawkins stated in The God Delusion, this documentary shows us the evolution of a religion.

This is a sad story of pride, loneliness and hopelessness.

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/237962920/God.is.American.2007.DVDRip.H.264.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/238074091/God.is.American.2007.DVDRip.H.264.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/238164925/God.is.American.2007.DVDRip.H.264.part4.rar

thesenutswin

05-29-2009, 05:54 AM

GENOME - MATT RIDLEY

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A brilliant and eminently readable introduction this book explains the concept of the human genome. Ridley does a remarkable job of introducing you to how genes work, what their interactions seem to be, and the relationship between heredity and free choice. He makes a compelling case that in the end our genetic code contains limits (humans can not fly on their own) and probabilities (how likely we are to get breast cancer or Alzheimer's) but there are so many specific individual choices that no two twins are identical. If identical twins with identical genetic inheritances interact with their environment and their life experiences to become two substantially different people then imagine the range of differences between all of us.

There are so many thought-provoking sections of this book that it is hard to single out any one item. Let me just note that the chapter which discusses mad cow disease and its human analogue, the laughing disease of New Guinea which was a major cause of death among the Fore Tribe. Ridley's explanation of the role prisons play in causing these diseases is lucid and yet the science behind it is daunting.

For those who care about science education Ridley's approach to the mystery of knowledge explains a great deal about why the fact and memory based modern American approach to teaching science drives children away from the field. Consider just this passage: "The theme of this chapter is mystery. A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him -- the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. The forest is more interesting than the clearing." We need a science education based on learning about the unknown rather than memorizing the known. Ridley explains these principles again and again throughout the book.

If you care about the most important scientific revolution of the last twenty years this book is a very good starting point.

http://rapidshare.com/files/118961958/kitap14.rar (1327 KB)

Do you know the password ?

snaggletooth

05-29-2009, 08:18 AM

Oops! Sorry mate. Its 14kitap233

thesenutswin

05-30-2009, 04:23 AM

Thanks a lot ! I really wanted to read this book...

snaggletooth

05-30-2009, 07:36 PM

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It is a brave writer who tackles a biography of the world famous pioneer mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton and James Gleick has acquitted himself superbly well in his new bookIsaac Newton. Accolades to Newton were piling up even during his early lifetime in the 17th century when such fame was usually confined to royalty, popes and archbishops and certainly not to ordinary mortals born in 1642 of yeomen stock in deepest rural England. According to Gleick, Newton was the first person whose attainment "lay in the realm of the mind" to have a state funeral and be buried in Westminster Abbey. A Latin inscription proclaimed his "strength of mind almost divine" with "mathematical principles peculiarly his own" and declared that "mortals rejoice that there has existed so great an ornament of the human race"--not bad for a farm boy from Lincolnshire.

Of course the critical achievements of Newton's life were in his scientific achievements and here is the real problem: how to explain them for the general reader when even academic mathematicians today find much of the detail of Newton's work hard to comprehend. This is largely because Newton did not have today's familiar technical language or standard units of measurement available to him; he really was exploring terra incognita and feeling his way. But this is exactly what Gleick manages to get over so well and there is so much more. Aside from it being an eminently accessible biography, illustrations, extensive notes, bibliography and index make this an invaluable source for anyone who wants to enter the wonderful and arcane world of Sir Isaac Newton.

http://rapidshare.com/files/232107984/Gleick_Newton.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/232120197/Gleick_Newton.part2.rar.html

snaggletooth

05-30-2009, 08:17 PM

BBC documentary - Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

(shown BBC1 - 26/05/09)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01156fa72a69970c-800wi

BBC One shows the exclusive story behind a scientific discovery that could revolutionise our understanding of human evolution.
Narrated by David Attenborough, the one-off 60-minute documentary, Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link, tells the story of an important scientific development that could tell us more about where we come from.

The fossil, known as Ida, could be an indication of one of the roots of anthropoid evolution – the point at which our primate ancestors began first developing the features that would evolve into our own.
Co-funded by the BBC and produced by award-winning filmmaker Anthony Geffen of Atlantic Productions, the documentary will offer unique access to a scientific discovery announced today at the American Museum of Natural History.

The documentary, which will be shown on Tuesday, May 26, will show the University of Oslo's two-year journey to secretly analyse and verify Ida, piecing together her forensic secrets.
Dr Jørn Hurum says: "This is the first link to all humans... This fossil is so complete. Everything's there. It's unheard of in the primate record at all. You have to get to human burial to see something that's this complete."

Today, a group of Norwegian scientists, led by Dr Jørn Hurum, announced that they have discovered a 47-million-year-old human ancestor.
Discovered in Messel Pit, Germany, Ida is 20-times older than most fossils that explain human evolution, and is 95% complete.

Ida is a transitional species showing characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans).

The documentary brings Ida's world to life, using 3-D animations and imaging technologies to recreate Ida and the world that she would have inhabited.

Jay Hunt, Controller of BBC One says: "I am delighted that this ground-breaking piece of scientific research will be showcased on BBC One.
"There can be nothing more compelling than the story of how the human race evolved."

David Attenborough, writer and narrator, says: "This little creature is going to show us our connection with all the rest of the mammals."
The programme came into development after a chance meeting between Dr Jørn Hurum, vertebrate palaeontologist, University of Oslo, and Atlantic Productions.

Anthony Geffen says: "It is incredibly rare to get the opportunity to document ground-breaking science as it happens.

"Even more exciting is to be involved with breaking the news in conjunction with the scientists and across multiple platforms with a story that connects to every person on the planet."

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snaggletooth

05-31-2009, 09:01 PM

From The Birth Of The Universe To The End Of Our World

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Join Sam Neill on an awe-inspiring virtual journey as he explores the wonders and terrors that lie beyond our world. Experience the beautiful, astonishing and often dangerous phenomena of the universe as state-of-the-art computer graphics take you from the vast clouds where stars are born to the edge of a planet-guzzling black hole.

Star Stuff
Learn how every molecule in our bodies originated in the Big Bang, and how life may have been carried to Earth by meteors hurtling through space.

Staying Alive
Over millennia, massive asteroids have pelted the Earth, the most dramatic causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Are we due for another cataclysm?

Black Holes
There may be ten million black holes in our galaxy, sucking everything they touch into their super-dense centers. Could the Earth have a fatal encounter?

Are We Alone?
Is there extraterrestrial life in our Universe? For forty years, the scientists at SETI have been recording transmission from space and searching for signs of intelligence.

New Worlds
Our solar system won’t last forever. Will future scientists transform a planet like Mars into a new Earth? Or will human beings genetically engineer their own bodies to survive in space?

Boldy Go
See the revolutionary forms of transportation that could let us hop between galaxies and use wormholes to cheat the laws of space and time.

http://rapidshare.com/files/100427476/Hyperspace_goleech.org.part01.rar
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snaggletooth

05-31-2009, 09:10 PM

Six Degrees of Separation
AVI 656x368 | XviD 1189 kbps | MP3 129 VBR | 48 min | Documentary BBC 2 | Aired : 5 May 2009 | 450 MB

Documentary unfolding the science behind the idea of six degrees of separation. Originally thought to be an urban myth, it now appears that anyone on the planet can be connected in just a few steps of association. Six degrees of separation is also at the heart of a major scientific breakthrough; that there might be a law which nature uses to organize itself and that now promises to solve some of its deepest mysteries.

BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kdtvv)

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snaggletooth

06-02-2009, 06:24 AM

MEASLY MEDICINE (HORRIBLE SCIENCE) [AUDIO BOOK]

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From Stone Age trepanning and the dodgy medicine of the Middle Ages to recent miracles and scrutiny marvels.

http://rapidshare.com/files/61744968/Horrible_Science-Measly_Medicine-audiobook.rar
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snaggletooth

06-03-2009, 11:12 PM

Jonestown Cult Suicides: The true story

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The documentary series exploring infamous historical events continues. This instalment takes viewers back to November 18th 1978, and the apparent mass suicide by over 900 members of a religious cult and the murders of a US congressman and an investigating journalist. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and testimony from survivors – including cult-leader Jim Jones’s own son Stephan – this film tells the story of what really happened on that apocalyptic day.

During the turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of Americans flocked to hear charismatic preacher Jim Jones at his Peoples Temple church. Preaching a combination of socialist ideals and Christian redemption, Jones saw himself as both a prophet and a saviour.

RS:
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najapene

06-04-2009, 04:25 PM

Quite frankly.I find it incrediable that Robert Red ..oopps nearly wrote Redford ..Robert Beckford did not think about who wrote the bible long,long before the doc was made.
Critical thinking not part of his education?

najapene

06-04-2009, 04:30 PM

forgot to thank you for a sterling and very much appreciated effort

snaggletooth

06-04-2009, 11:18 PM

Well, Beckford was a theologian (maybe he still is?). Guess you cant rock the boat too much while youre still in it lol. Thanks for the support najapene ;)

Mark Earls , "Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature"

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Can you explain explosion of social activities like text messaging with little promotion of behaviour? Or steady rise of floral roadside tributes to traffic accident victims from complete strangers? This book reveals that most of us have misunderstood mechanics of mass behaviour because we have misplaced notions of what it means to be human being.

Herd reveals that most of us in the West have completely misunderstood the mechanics of mass behaviour because we have misplaced notions of what it means to be a human being. With a host of examples from Peter Kay and urinal etiquette to Apple and Desmond Tutu, Mark Earls offers the most new radical, controversial and significant new theory of consumer behaviour in a generation.

http://w15.easy-share.com/9876231.html

snaggletooth

06-04-2009, 11:29 PM

Proving that humans arent as gifted in certain areas as the creatures we share planet Earth with. And, of course, that just because something seems out of the ordinary, does not mean it must be unexplained, or otherworldly. Life can evolve to almost anything given time it seems....

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Reveals the strange senses used by animals to gauge the world around them. Pictures and text are interwoven to bring to life these supernatural perceptions and strange views of the world. All six episodes and an extra behind-the-scenes special.

Episode 01 - Extrasensory Perception

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Episode 02 - Outer Limits

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Episode 03 - Hidden Forces

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Episode 04 - Time Warp

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Episode 05 - Paranormal

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http://rapidshare.com/files/88275434/BEE-S-TUPOA-S01E05-P-ZLE.part4.rar

Episode 06 - Close Encounters

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Extra - Supernatural Superstars

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snaggletooth

06-05-2009, 02:21 PM

Posting this by request. Its not exactly atheist is it? As we cant possibly believe in the 4 horsemen, whores of babylon, etc etc lol. But hey, maybe it will scare the Christians >:) muhahahaha!

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History Channel- God vs. Satan | 800 MB Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO | ASIN: B001QEIHYK | Run Time: 100 minutes

Armageddon. It is a universal theme that has spanned centuries and cultures, and has, as some say, become increasingly more relevant today. Surprisingly, however, a final chapter of this apocalyptic end has received little examination: the actual final battle between God and Satan, good and evil. The Bible points to a battlefield at Meggido in present day Israel, with each side taking a series of steps that will lead up to, and unfold, during this actual battle. What will this battle look like? Where do the stories come from, and how have they differed throughout history, between religions? God vs. Satan: The Final Battle will take viewers on a tour of the final days, and moments, as envisioned by believers of the three Abrahamic religions.

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thesenutswin

06-05-2009, 03:36 PM

man you are the best!

Hramovnik

06-05-2009, 03:59 PM

Damn,I just request it few hours ago and its here

Thanks a lot bro!!!

snaggletooth

06-05-2009, 11:32 PM

Damn,I just request it few hours ago and its here

Thanks a lot bro!!!

Arr, It be witchcraft I tells ye! Burn him! Burn him! :))

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Is the Bible the word of God? This classic of atheistic literature has the answer, and it's a loud and profound no! American writer Joseph Whless employs all the tools of the logician, from the self-evidence of reason to the words of the very proponents of the attitudes he strives to dismiss, to condemn Christianity as nonsense. Amazon

File Size: 1.21 MB

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snaggletooth

06-05-2009, 11:36 PM

DARWIN AND EVOLUTION (AUDIOBOOK)

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In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankind and other species are descended from common ancestors. His theory of "natural selection", also known as "survival of the fittest", explains how life evolved through natural processes. By the 1950s, most scientists accepted the theory. However, it upset many who believed that life was created by a supernatural God, a debate which is perpetuated today.

File Size: 120 MB

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snaggletooth

06-07-2009, 11:28 AM

HUMANIST NETWORK NEWS

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Giving reason for humanity. An audio magazine produced by the Institute for Humanist Studies.

These are the 10 most recent podcasts from the HNN website. For episode guides to these, and the older episodes, check here;
http://www.gigadial.net/public/find-by-podcaster-2?feed=http%3a%2f%2fihs%2elibsyn%2ecom%2frss&station%5fid=

EPISODES. RIGHT CLICK TO SAVE

Humanist Network News #38 (45.34MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/038-HNN_05_27_2009.mp3

Humanist Network News #37 (55.11MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/037-HNN_11_26_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #36 (46.25MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/036-HNN_10_29_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #35 (14.15MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/035-HNN_09_24_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #34 (30.99MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/034-HNN_08_27_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #33 (28.23MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/033_HNN-07-30-2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #32 (24.54MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/032-HNN_6_25_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #31 (27.70MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/031-HNN_05_30_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #30 (23.43MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/030-HNN_04_30_2008.mp3

Humanist Network News #29 (27.14MB; download)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ihs/029-HNN_03_26_2008.mp3

snaggletooth

06-08-2009, 06:16 AM

AUDIOBOOK

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This lively crash course in philosophy takes us on a hilarious - and at the same time, profound - tour through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts and thinkers. All with a light touch. As if being led on an intellectual adventure by a brilliant stand-up comic, the reader experiences light-hearted excursions through this weightiest of disciplines - laughing all the way. A ribald refresher course for those in-the-know or hilarious starter class, this makes Big Ideas a hoot to understand. Topics include: Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything!), analogies, fallacies, circular arguments, paradoxes Kant's antinomies, Social & Political Philosophy (Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau were probably nudists!), Philosophy of Religion (a priest and a rabbi are stranded on a desert island...), Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Ethics and Aesthetics (a dog and a cat are sitting in this tree...), Epistemology (how do you know that you know the stuff you know?), Language ("it depends what your definition of is") and more...

http://rapidshare.com/files/223581648/Plato_and_a_Platypus_-_Understanding_Philosophy_through_Jokes.rar

snaggletooth

06-08-2009, 06:36 AM

Einstein Pack

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Pack contains:

# Albert Einstein - Ether And The Theory Of Relativity
# Albert Einstein - On The Theory Of Relativity
# Albert Einstein - Physics of Illusion
# Albert Einstein - Principles Of Research
# Albert Einstein - Principles Of Theoretical Physics
# Albert Einstein - Quotes
# Albert Einstein - Relativity
# Albert Einstein - The World as I See it
# Albert Einstein - What Is The Theory Of Relativity
# Albert Einstein - 1949 - Why Socialism
# Albert Einstein - Words On Spirituality And Religion
# Albert Einstein - Special & General Theories Of Relativity

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snaggletooth

06-09-2009, 05:20 AM

BLOOD BONES AND BODY BITS (AUDIOBOOK)

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File type: mp3, VBR V2, 44100 Hz Joint Stereo

If you can stomach the sick side of science, then Horrible Science is for you!
Nick Arnold and Tony de Saulles are the award-winning author illustrator combo who bring the books to you in all their revolting glory! Remember, don't go near these books if you're squeamish, because this really is science with the squishy bits left in! Blood, Bones and Body Bits is about the human body.

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snaggletooth

06-10-2009, 04:40 PM

PAGAN CHRISTIANITY

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As the title says, coauthors Frank Viola and George Barna provide historical data to reveal what Christian practices are based on.

E-book (2.63 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?eak2zywtjmj

Audiobook (216 MB):
http://rapidshare.com/files/242280716/Pagan.Christianity-Frank.Viola.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/242286340/Pagan.Christianity-Frank.Viola.part2.rar

thedirtymind

06-11-2009, 04:40 AM

Good selection, I must say, but what makes these films 'secular'? They are anti-religious propaganda which is hardly secular.

snaggletooth

06-12-2009, 04:37 AM

snaggletooth

06-12-2009, 07:29 PM

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Synopsis:

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a debate on the world's environment and asks what it will take for people to put their own self-interest aside and come together to ensure the planet has a future. With contributions from David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall, Dr Richard Leakey and Professor Richard Dawkins

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thesenutswin

06-13-2009, 06:21 AM

Good selection, I must say, but what makes these films 'secular'? They are anti-religious propaganda which is hardly secular.

anti-religious PROPAGANDA? lol

taken from wiki:

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, often presents information primarily in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

Since when SCIENCE like Theory of EVOLUTION is considered to be LYING BY OMISSION? i`m not sure why you wrote PROPAGANDA.. if you are religious, then i invite you to watch those videos so they can make you think outside of the box, as they did for me...

if you want to call anything that is anti-religious a PROPAGANDA, we can call anything that is RELIGIOUS a PROPAGANDA as well, considering that there is so many RELIGIONS believing in different things that it is pretty obvious either all of them LIE or none but one are TRUE...

snaggletooth

06-14-2009, 07:37 AM

Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary (ISO - CD ROM)

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Product Description

Medical terminology is defined and brought to life in "Stedman's" most content-rich medical dictionary ever. You can read the definition of a term, hear it pronounced, see it illustrated, and watch it in motion. In short, this CD-ROM gives you the tools you need to understand and use medical terminology correctly in all your communications, written or verbal. For almost a century, "Stedman's" has been defining medicine for health care professionals, students, and administrators from around the world. Now with "Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary you can leverage "Stedman's" authoritative content like never before.

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary is the most reliable, must-have resource available for healthcare professionals. It contains more than 107,000 total terms, with more than 5,000 new to this edition. Furthermore, this edition has been thoroughly reviewed and updated by consultants from all the major medical and health science specialities including Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, and Rheumatology.

http://rapidshare.com/files/7773326/Stedman_Electronic_Medical_Dictionary.part1.rar — 51.20 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/7742569/Stedman_Electronic_Medical_Dictionary.part2.rar — 51.20 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/7743733/Stedman_Electronic_Medical_Dictionary.part3.rar — 10.14 MB

snaggletooth

06-16-2009, 12:19 AM

Marjoe (1972)

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Product Description
The Academy-Award®-winning MARJOE is the ferocious and extraordinary chronicle of a firebrand evangelical preacher who wholeheartedly and humorously exposes himself as a fraud. An evangelist prodigy at the age of four, the film captures an adult Marjoe as he recounts how he discovered the seductions of the 60s counterculture and dropped out of preaching, only to return later, using his swaggering bravado, to woo Pentecostal audiences out of their offerings. Directors Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan follow Marjoe as he embarks on his "farewell to the faith tour," revealing the secrets of religious hucksterism. MARJOE is both a fiery baptism in the cynical waters of faith healing and evangelical fervor and a fascinating profile of a man who went from hellfire to hellraising.

IMDb ......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068924/

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snaggletooth

06-17-2009, 10:28 AM

No GODS, NO GUILT (AUDIOBOOK)
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Stephen Frederick Uhl, Ph.D, yesterday's Catholic priest today's atheist psychologist, describes his journey through agnosticism to atheism. He guides you to come out with the ten commandments for the 21st century and suggests how to get free your prejudices and myths.

MP3 Version (382 MB):
http://rapidshare.com/files/245266057/No.Gods.No.Guilt-Stephen.Frederick.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/245262253/No.Gods.No.Guilt-Stephen.Frederick.part2.rar

M4B Version (for iPods - 189 MB):
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snaggletooth

06-17-2009, 11:00 PM

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At first glance, a book of questions that science can't answer is a pretty dull read. Questions alone aren't enough - we need answers as well. Yet Michael Hanlon makes this topic a voyage of discovery into the unknown. Once you get started, it's hard to put it down.

Each of the ten topics is a surprising and engaging excursion into a subject that you may not have thought about before, but you certainly will be thinking about once you've read the book. It starts with the exploration of whether or not animals are conscious. Next up is the whole matter of time - a strange phenomenon, once you start to think about it. Then after a section on aging and whether we can live forever comes one of the big surprises - a fascinating discussion entitled "what are we going to do with the stupid." Hanlon points out that where in past centuries we used to happily mock the disabled, or those of different race, now it's only politically correct to mock those who are at the low end of normal intelligence. That, he argues, is the reason reality TV shows are so popular. And with the job market constantly changing, with less and less "brute force" and more "brain" jobs, there is a real issue of how to give everyone the best chances - a really thought provoking section.

From there he goes on to dark matter and dark energy, life in the universe, whether we remain the same person when every cell in our body changes, and the widespread nature of obesity and fatness, which proves under his scrutiny much less straightforward than you might think.

http://www.easy-share.com/1905566106/10

snaggletooth

06-19-2009, 10:44 AM

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Product Description

• Clearly written and easily understandable by the lay reader.
• Thoroughly researched: author's points are backed by references in the writings of acknowledged scholars.
• Special features of the book: lavishly illustrated with multiple images in each illustration that show at a glance the mythic themes paralleling the bible.
This book demonstrates that the stories and themes of the Bible were part of the great mythic systems of the ancient world by u sing comparative mythology, tell tale verses in the Bible and archaeology. The abstract God of modern monotheistic Judaism, Christianity and Islam is a comparatively recent creation. In later times the myth of a messianic deliverer was combined with that of the pagan god-man who suffered a horrible, excruciating death but was physically resurrected to produce the Christ myth.
About the Author
Tim Callahan has written numerous articles on religion and mythic themes in popular belief, as well as book reviews, for Skeptic Magazine.
He has also had articles published in the Humanist. For many years he has studied the myths of the Mesopotmians, Egyptians, Canaanites and Greeks as well as those of the Celtic, Teutonic and Slavic peoples.

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snaggletooth

06-19-2009, 10:56 AM

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Book Description :

What is a stem cell? We have a basic working definition, but the way we observe a stem cell function in a dish may not represent how it functions in a living organism. Only this is clear: Stem cells are the engine room of multicelluar organisms-both plants and animals. However, controversies, breakthroughs, and frustration continue to swirl in eternal storms through this rapidly moving area of research. But what does the average person make of all this, and how can an interested scholar probe this vast sea of information?

The Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research provides a clear understanding of the basic concepts in stem cell biology and addresses the politics, ethics, and challenges currently facing the field. While stem cells are exciting alone, they are also clearly fueling the traditional areas of developmental biology and the field of regenerative medicine. These two volumes present more than 320 articles that explore major topics related to the emerging science of stem cell research and therapy.

Key Features :

· Describes the different types of stem cells that have been reported so far and, where possible, tries to explain for each age, tissue, and species what is known about the biology of the cells and their history
· Captures a strong sense of stem cell biology as it stands today and provides the reader with a reference manual to probe the mysteries of the field
· Considers various religious, legal, and political perspectives
· Includes selected reprints of major journal articles that pertain to the milestones achieved in stem cell research
· Elucidates stem cell terminology for the nonscientist.

Key Themes

· Biology
· Clinical Trials
· Countries
· Diseases
· Ethics
· History and Technology
· Industry
· Institutions
· Legal
· Organizations
· People
· Politics
· Religion
· States

With contributions from scholars and institutional experts in the stem cell and social sciences, this Encyclopedia provides a primarily nonscientific resource to understanding the complexities of stem cell research for academic and public libraries.

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snaggletooth

06-19-2009, 11:27 AM

Ahhh......... mythology, dont you love it? I guess the "best" part of the fictional book called The Bible is the ending. Wow, if we could get all that mad sh*t into a movie even I would go to see that lol :D Anyway, heres "Revelation For Dummies" (hmm.... how apt). And by no way do I condone this bunkum by posting this. Just thought you like to read something a bit nuts...

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Wiley Publishing, Inc. | ISBN: 978-0-470-04521-3 | Author: Larry R. Helyer,PhD, and Richard Wagner | English | PDF | 362 Pages | 4.25 MB

Introduction

A common cartoon theme involves a person wearing a sandwich sign or carrying a poster that proclaims, “Repent! The end is near!” What’s implied is that some sudden, violent event is just around the corner and that people need to brace themselves for whatever’s coming. And usually, the end that’s near involves something nasty, if not totally devastating. The idea of a dramatic and destructive end to the earth has been around for ages. It’s the stuff of some really great sci-fi movies, and a lot of the elements that go into these stories come right out of the Bible. In fact, terms such as repent and Antichrist and Armageddon are direct references to messages, characters, and events that make up the book of Revelation. When you examine these themes and images in the context of religion, faith, and biblical history, things get even more interesting. But the book of Revelation is no easy read. Some people, after slogging through Revelation, seem to suffer from what we call PTRRD: Post-Traumatic Revelation Reading
Disorder. Maybe you’ve had this experience. You start reading with a rush of enthusiasm, and all goes well through the first three chapters and their letters to the seven churches. Then things start to get hairy: visions from heaven, creatures with eyes covering their bodies, plagues, horses of different colors, angels everywhere. Seven seals are opened, seven trumpets are sounded, seven bowls are poured out, and things get really confusing. Throw in grapes of wrath, red dragons, giant hail, and something called the rapture, and, well, you get the idea. Lost becomes more than just the name of a television series — it’s the perfect descriptor of your mental state. Our intent is to help you avoid PTRRD. We act as your tour guides to help you navigate the amazing book of Revelation. Even if you can’t figure out every single detail, clues that open up large chunks of the text abound. We promise you’ll come away with a better understanding of what Revelation is about, as well as a ton of cool information that you can sprinkle into conversations and impress your friends!

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snaggletooth

06-19-2009, 11:41 AM

Nietzsche In 90 Minutes AUDIOBOOK

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Friedrich Nietzsche called himself "the Anti-Christ," and wrote a book by that title. He argued for atheism as follows: "I will now disprove the existence of all gods. If there were gods, how could I bear not to be a god? Consequently, there are no gods."

He scorned reason as well as faith, often deliberately contradicted himself, said that "a sneer is infinitely more noble that a syllogism" and appealed to passion, rhetoric and even deliberate hatred rather than reason.
He saw love as "the greatest danger" and morality as mankind's worst weakness. He died insane, in an asylum, of syphilis -- signing his last letters "the Crucified One."

Yet he is admired as profound and wise by many of the greatest minds of our century. How can this be?

There are three schools of thought about Nietzsche. Most popular among academics is the school of the "gentle Nietzscheans," who claim that Nietzsche was, in effect, a sheep in wolf's clothing; that his attacks should not be taken literally and that he was really an ally, not an enemy, of the Western institutions and values which he denounced.
These scholars resemble theologians who interpret sayings of Jesus like: "no one can come to the Father but through me" as meaning "all religions are equally valid," and "he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery" as meaning "let your divorces be creative and reasonable."

Second, there are the "awful, awful" Nietzscheans. They at least pay Nietzsche the compliment of taking him seriously. They are typified by the footnote in an old Catholic textbook on modern philosophy, which said only that Nietzsche existed, was an atheist and died insane -- a fate which may well await anyone who looks too long into his books.

A third school of thought sees Nietzsche as a wolf indeed and not a sheep, but as a very important thinker because he shows to modern Western civilization its own dark heart and future. It's easy to scapegoat and point fingers at "blacksheep" like Nietzsche and Hitler, but is there not a "Hitler in ourselves" (to quote Max Picard's title)? Did not Nietzsche let the cat out of the bag? The demonic cat that was hidden in the respectable bag of secular humanism? Once "God is dead," so is man, morality, love, freedom, hope, democracy, the soul and ultimately, sanity. No one shows this more vividly than Nietzsche. He may have been responsible (quite unintentionally) for many conversions.

Nietzsche's main themes can be summarized by the titles of his main books. Each is, in a different way, an attack on faith. The center of Nietzsche's philosophy is always the same: He is as centered on Christ as Augustine was, only he centered on Christ as his enemy.

http://rapidshare.com/files/213576352/Nietzsche_in_90_Minutes.rar

snaggletooth

06-19-2009, 11:50 AM

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How does a religious fundamentalist come to embrace a counter-cultural world view?
Fundamentalism can be analysed from a variety of perspectives. It is a type of belief system which enables individuals to make sense of their lives and provides them with an identity. It is a social phenomenon, in which strictly religious people act according to the norms, values, and beliefs of the group to which they belong. It is a cultural product, in the sense that different cultural settings result in different forms of fundamentalism. And it is a global phenomenon, in the obvious sense that it is to be found everywhere, and also because it is both a reaction against, and also a part of, the globalising modern world.

Religious Fundamentalism deals with all of these four levels of analysis, uniquely combining sociological and psychological perspectives, and relating them to each other. Each chapter is followed by a lengthy case study, and these range from a close textual analysis of George W. Bush’s second inaugural speech through to a treatment of Al-Qaida as a global media event.
This book provides a comprehensive social scientific perspective on a subject of immense contemporary significance, and should be of use both to university students and also to students of the contemporary world.

http://uploading.com/files/CWARVKSA/Religious.Fundamentalism.Global.Local.And.Personal.rar.html

lolkek

06-19-2009, 11:03 PM

Hello. Im looking for a movie witch falls into this category but cant find it anywhere. Im gonna post some information about it but if thats ok with you guys, if not just delete my post. Thank You.

Christopher Hitchens VS Douglas Wilson: Collision

The film follows renowned author and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens and Pastor Douglas Wilson as they debate the topic: "Is Christianity Good For The World?".

http://collisionmovie.com/ - preview videos inside

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGPceR-pIs&feature=player_embedded)

OwnRules

06-20-2009, 01:52 AM

Most excellent thread, sir. If people took the time to fight their own ignorance mayhap they'd start questioning all the bunk they've been fed since birth. Then again that may be asking for too much.

Meanwhile, thank you for providing the resources.

Best,

~OwnRules

:::wonders how many of the faithers have self-combusted by just opening this thread:::

>:)

snaggletooth

06-20-2009, 03:26 PM

Thanks for your support Ownrules. Good to hear when people get something out of my posts.

When i first got involved in this thread i kinda thought we would eventually run out of subject matter and it would fall quietly to the bottom of the pile and fade away. It wasnt until i started scouring the far corners of the web however, that i realised just how much documentation there is concerning science and logical reason. If we could only make those who rely on faith to explain the world around them see the true picture, and how much more amazing the real story of life on earth is, compared to mans fictional god myths, then all of us on this planet could work together for a better future for all. Religion divides humanity. Simple as that. But scientists are finally standing up and speaking out against those trying to keep us all in the dark ages. Right now, theres never been a stronger voice against cancerous religious garbage. Science has become a juggernaut crashing through the barriers of mystical bullsh*t and creed. About time too i say. So onward now, into the 21st century we go (pardon me having to use christian dates here) and hopefully by the end of it, man will no longer need sky fairies to explain his existence.

Ps. I'll try my best to find that discussion you requested Lolkek. Stay tuned.

snaggletooth

06-21-2009, 11:50 AM

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The Great Book of Questions and Answers
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Ever wondered whether ostriches really bury their heads in the sand, or what gas giants are? This lively reference book for children, and the whole family, asks and answers these questions, and hundreds more besides. It provides the information that children love in an accessible and entertaining way. Topics include: the Universe, Planet Earth, the Human Body, World History, and Science and Technology.

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06-21-2009, 11:52 AM

100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time

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06-21-2009, 12:00 PM

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Author: Barrie W. Jones
Release: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Format: Paperback 470 pages
ISBN: 0470018313 (0-470-01831-3)
ISBN 13: 9780470018316 (978-0-470-01831-6)
List Price: $75.00

Description:

Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject for scienceSCIENCE BOOK BOARD BOOK REVIEW “One of the best books on the solar system I have seen. The general accuracy and quality of the content is excellent.” students, and examines the discovery, investigation and modelling of these bodies. Following a thematic approach, chapters cover interiors, surfaces and the atmospheres of major bodies, including the Earth. The book starts with an overview of the Solar System and its origin, and then takes a look at small bodies, such as asteroids, comets and meteorites. Carefully balancing breadth of coverage with depth, Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition: Offers a comprehensive introduction, assuming little prior knowledge Includes full coverage of each planet, as well as the moon, Europa and Titan. The Second Edition includes new material on exoplanetary systems, and a general update throughout. Presents latest results from the Mars Rover and Cassini-Huygens missions Includes a colour plate section Contains ‘stop and think’ questions embedded in the text to aid understanding, along with questions at the end of major sections. Answers are provided at the end of the book. Provides summaries at the end of each chapter, and a glossary at the end of the book Praise for the First Edition: "(...) essential reading for all undergraduate students (...) and for those at a more advanced level approaching the subject for the first time." THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION

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snaggletooth

06-21-2009, 12:09 PM

Expensive book alert time...... :D:D=)=)
Save yourself £548.25..... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Encyclopedia-Forensic-Sciences-Three-Set/dp/0122272153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245582206&sr=8-1

Encyclopedia of forensic sciences, three-volume set

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"The editors of this monumental undertaking have commissioned more than 200 articles to thoroughly describe topics relating to forensic science. Practically every specialty associated with forensic science is considered, including the chemical and biological examination of physical evidence, medico-legal topics, photography, crime scene analysis, ethics, and quality assurance. That the contributors are specialists from 22 countries dramatically demonstrates the international standardization that permeates the forensic sciences. The editors have taken care that the contributions are consistent in style and reading level, and that duplication of subjects is minimal. For most topics, a single article suffices, but some forensic subjects are sufficiently detailed to require several articles; for example, anthropology is covered by 13 articles spanning nearly 100 pages. Each article is cross-referenced to other articles closely related in subject matter . . . it will be essential for professionals, attorneys, and students who need accurate, detailed accounts of forensic topics. General readers, attorneys, laboratories, legal firms, and all library collections.

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06-21-2009, 12:13 PM

The Living Cosmos - Our Search for Life in the Universe

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Astrobiology–the study of life in space–is one of today’s fastest growing and most popular fields of science. In this compelling, accessible, and elegantly reasoned new book, award-winning scholar and researcher Chris Impey explores the foundations of this rapidly developing discipline, where it’s going, and what it’s likely to find.

The journey begins with the earliest steps of science, gaining traction through the revelations of the Renaissance, including Copernicus’s revolutionary declaration that the Earth was not the center of the universe but simply a planet circling the sun. But if Earth is not the only planet, it is so far the only living one that we know of. In fascinating detail, The Living Cosmos reveals the incredible proliferation and variety of life on Earth, paying special tribute to some of its hardiest life forms, extremophiles, a dizzying array of microscopic organisms compared, in Impey’s wise and humorous prose, to superheroes that can survive extreme heat and cold, live deep within rocks, or thrive in pure acid.

From there, Impey launches into space, where astrobiologists investigate the potential for life beyond our own world. Is it to be found on Mars, the “death planet” that has foiled most planetary missions, and which was wet and temperate billions of years ago? Or on Venus, Earth’s “evil twin,” where it rains sulfuric acid and whose heat could melt lead? (“Whoever named it after the goddess of love had a sorry history of relationships.”) The answer may lie in a moon within our Solar System, or it may be found in one of the hundreds of extra-solar planets that have already been located. The Living Cosmos sees beyond these explorations, and imagines space vehicles that eschew fuel for solar- or even nuclear-powered rockets, all sent by countries motivated by the millions to be made in space tourism.

But The Living Cosmos is more than just a riveting work about experiment and discovery. It is also an affecting portrait of the individuals who have devoted their lives to astrobiology. Illustrated throughout, The Living Cosmos is a revelatory book about a science that is changing our view of the universe, a mesmerizing guide to what life actually means and where it may–or may not–exist, and a stunning work that explains our past as it predicts our future.

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06-21-2009, 12:21 PM

Magic Universe - A Grand Tour of Modern Science

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"The ideal compendium for non-scientists of any age."--Sunday Times
"A marvelous read...it can be enjoyed like a high-quality magazine."--Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement
"He is really exceptional in his energy, his range of comprehension, and his quality as a writer.... Nigel Calder remains supreme in his range and depth...he goes to immense trouble to get things right, and also takes pains with the clarity and elegance of his writing."--Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal

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As a prolific author, BBC commentator, and magazine editor, Nigel Calder has spent a lifetime spotting and explaining the big discoveries in all branches of science. In Magic Universe, he draws on his vast experience to offer readers a lively, far-reaching look at modern science in all its glory, shedding light on the latest ideas in physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, and many other fields.
What is truly magical about Magic Universe is Calder's incredible breadth. Migrating birds, light sensors in the human eye, black holes, antimatter, buckyballs and nanotubes--with exhilarating sweep, Calder can range from the strings of a piano to the superstrings of modern physics, from Pythagoras's theory of musical pitch to the most recent ideas about atoms and gravity and a ten-dimensional universe--all in one essay. The great virtue of this wide-ranging style--besides its liveliness and versatility--is that it allows Calder to illuminate how the modern sciences intermingle and cross-fertilize one another. Indeed, whether discussing astronauts or handedness or dinosaurs, Calder manages to tease out hidden connections between disparate fields of study. What is most wondrous about the "magic universe" is that one can begin with stellar dust and finish with life itself.
Drawing on interviews with more than 200 researchers, from graduate students to Nobel prize-winners, Magic Universe takes us on a high-spirited tour through the halls of science, one that will enthrall everyone interested in science, whether a young researcher in a high-tech lab or an amateur buff sitting in the comfort of an armchair.

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snaggletooth

06-21-2009, 12:35 PM

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Science of Everything

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Why are most plants green?

Why doesnt stomach acid dissolve the stomach itself? Why are there more tornados in the Midwest than on the coast? This volume answers these questions and over 200 more, shedding light on the science behind them. As informative as it is entertaining, it addresses every major branch of science, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, astronomy, and cosmology. It highlights some of the big ideas that helped shape science as we know it, and discusses the future of science with regards to nanotechnology, genetic modification, molecular medicine, and string theory.

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06-22-2009, 03:38 AM

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"If a tree falls on a a scientist in a forest with no one else around does it mean he won't make a sound? Not if that scientist is the indomitable Bob Park, the skeptic's skeptic, the Ralph Nader of nonsense, the man who rose from the (nearly) dead to pen this uncompromising critique of superstition and the beliefs that follow once you abandon science and reason. Read this book. Now." Michael Shermer

Science is the only way of knowing—everything else is just superstition. Among other questions, Park revisits experiments regarding the healing power of intercessory prayer (prayer for the healing of others), citing several studies that he claims are meaningless because it is impossible to measure prayer. Further, he says, only science, not prayer, con protect us from so-called acts of God, like a tsunami. Park argues against the existence of the soul by debunking a tale of reincarnation and even interprets the Bible to his own purposes. Publishers Weekly

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06-22-2009, 03:42 AM

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Mark Twain's collected essays and short stories in Letters From the Earth wasnt published until 1965 due to them being blasphemy for some.

The book consists of two parts: first section gathers Mark Twain's plays on Biblical themes dealing with God and Christianity, and second section contains his unpublished manuscripts.

"He [man] thinks he is the Creator's pet. He believes the Creator is proud of him; he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes, and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to Him, and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea? Fills his prayers with crude and bald and florid flatteries of Him, and thinks He sits and purrs over these extravagancies and enjoys them. He prays for help, and favor, and protection, every day; and does it with hopefulness and confidence, too, although no prayer of his has ever been answered. The daily affront, the daily defeat, do not discourage him, he goes on praying just the same. There is something almost fine about this perseverance. I must put one more strain upon you: he thinks he is going to heaven!"

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06-22-2009, 03:46 AM

Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest-Growing Faith - Robert Spencer

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To proclamations that Islam is a religion of peace, Spencer responds (in chapters entitled with questions such as "Is Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy?" and "Is Islam Tolerant of Non-Muslims?") with evidence, historical and recent, of harsh treatment of women, other religionists, and social minorities in Islamic societies. Besides the facts Spencer presents, his citations of the Qur'an; the hadiths, or sayings and deeds of Muhammad; and Islamic authorities across the liberal-to-fundamentalist spectrum verify attitudes and practices that secular Westerners and present-day Jews and Christians don't think of as peaceable, just, or decent. For instance, slavery and polygamy may be waning in Islamic societies, but they aren't disapproved of or banned because the Qur'an and hadiths endorse them. Islam hasn't adapted to change nearly as much as Judaism and Christianity have, and that accounts for its savage relations with the West. Spencer doesn't see either Islam moderating or the West regarding Islam realistically any time soon. Barring "some wondrous intervention from the Merciful One," he concludes, the immediate future "will be difficult." Alarmingly cogent. Ray Olson

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06-22-2009, 03:50 AM

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West

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Paris, Spain, Russia, Kenya, Thailand, Turkey... All world is suffering from religious hatred. This documentary, propaganda or not, reveals the true face of the radical Islam using footage from Arab Television, Memri TV and shows how religion can be used as a dangerous weapon on the masses.

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06-22-2009, 03:56 AM

CNN PRESENTS - GODS WARRIORS

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CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour travels to six countries on four continents to examine the intersection between religion and politics and the effects of Christianity, Islam and Judaism on politics, culture and public life.

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06-22-2009, 07:53 PM

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Identifying herself as a "cultural conservationist" (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a "crisis of memory and knowledge," in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all "just folks." The Internet, for all its promise, is too often "a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought." Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can’t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, "Americans seem to know less and less." The New Yorker

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06-22-2009, 07:58 PM

AUDIOBOOK

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In Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Nicholas%20Wade&tag=athemovi-20&index=books&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325), science writer for the New York Times, traces our ancestral population’s unlikely prehistoric passage out of Africa through the Gate of Grief, eastward into Sunda and Sahul for some, northward into modern day Turkey and Iran for others. Mastery of language, pair mating, and a swiftly swelling intellect were among the crucial innovations that allowed humans to embark on this epic voyage, to overcome their aggressive hunter-gatherer past, and embrace a settled, cooperative, and civilized future.

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06-22-2009, 08:17 PM

Just some back issues of Scientific American for the whole year of 2008

Scientific American January 2008
English | 101 pages | PDF | 8.63 Mb

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Scientific American March 2008
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Scientific American - February 2008
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Scientific American April 2008
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Scientific American May 2008
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Scientific American June 2008
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Scientific American - August 2008
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Scientific American September 2008
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Scientific American. The Secret Life of Stars
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Scientific American October 2008
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Scientific American November 2008
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Scientific American December 2008
Scientific American, Inc | 2008 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 18,5 MB

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snaggletooth

06-22-2009, 08:24 PM

:)

And some more special editions etc....

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snaggletooth

06-22-2009, 08:34 PM

Horizon - Noah´s Flood (1996)

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“It all began in 1971 as a game of speculation - a bit of light relief from the rigours of tectonic and oceanographic investigation in the Mediterranean basin.”
American oceanographer Bill Ryan was on the scientific team which showed that the Mediterranean had been a vast desert basin until, 5 million years ago, the world’s oceans rose and burst through the Straits of Gibraltar to create the Mediterranean Sea.

Walter Pitman was helping to found the new science of plate tectonics. Ryan and Pitman’s British associate John Dewey (now Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford) put up an ingenious idea - could a similar cataclysmic flooding of a massive basin account for the Biblical Flood - a catastrophe of such enormity that it would remain in human memory down the ages? If so, where might it have taken place?

Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman may have a romantic streak in their natures, but there’s nothing eccentric about their ideas. They are, says Professor Dewey, “Two of the finest American earth scientists working in the field”. They have gathered a hoard of evidence to demonstrate that the Black Sea had fallen 120 metres below the level of the worlds oceans as a result of a sudden freezing of Northern Europe and Asia which dramatically reduced the flow of the great rivers which fed it.
The Black Sea became a vast fresh-water lake. The Earth warmed, the oceans rose again and smashed through the Bosphorus Straits with the force of a hundred Niagara Falls, filling the Black Sea basin to its present level with the salt water of the oceans.
The implications are enormous. Who lived by the Black Sea before the deluge? What may it tell us about the spread of Neolithic farming, culture and technology into Europe and beyond? Did this extraordinary event become the stuff of ancient storytelling, so that Noah and his Ark became a symbol for real people who were driven from their lands by a real flood?

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snaggletooth

06-22-2009, 09:05 PM

I might be veering away from the subject matter a little here, but I found this huge collection of medical books and thought Id post it. A lot of these would be very expensive to buy, and Im sure someone will find a few of them useful as a reference library or for educational study.

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LISTINGS FOR THESE BOOKS: http://tinypaste.com/b8428

DOWNLOAD LINKS
(total collection size is 6GB. But most links are around the 100mb mark)

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snaggletooth

06-23-2009, 03:34 PM

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Product Description

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .

•How do people in wheelchairs have sex?

•Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?

•Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?

•Why does asparagus make my pee smell?

•Why do old people grow hair on their ears?

•Is the old adage “beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .” really true?

. . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.

Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.

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snaggletooth

06-24-2009, 06:58 AM

The most expensive set of books ever?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/McGraw-Hill-Encyclopedia-Science-Technology-1-20/dp/0079136656/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245822609&sr=8-7

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology

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For more than 40 years, the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology has been the first source readers around the world have turned to when starting research on any major scientific topic. With more than 7,000 articles written by leaders in their fields - including 30 Nobel Prize winners - the Encyclopedia is famed for the scope and quality of its content. Students, professionals researching areas outside their own specialties, “lifelong learners” - any reader with only modest background in the sciences - will benefit from the ease of access to information, the clarity of the text, and the 12,000 specially prepared illustrations. The new Ninth Edition carries on this tradition. Thoroughly updated, its 20 volumes contain 15,000+ pages and 7,100 articles, many new, rewritten, or revised. Using the 500 page analytical index, the topical index, or the Study Guides, readers will find the information they want on all the hottest areas of science and engineering: astronomy and space science; computational chemistry; environmental science; forensic science; information technology and communications; intelligent manufacturing; molecular biology and biotechnology; neuroscience; theoretical and applied physics, to name just a few. 61,000 cross references and 21,000 bibliography entries enable the reader to see the connections in the more than 90 disciplines covered and to continue their studies in greater depth.With the breathtaking pace at which science and technology are advancing, no science reference collection can afford to be without this latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

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najapene

06-25-2009, 04:29 PM

thanks for uploading.
I must say I did not learn anything that that had not already been published by Ken Humphries in his book "Jesus never existed".
The writings of two of the participants[Englishmen?] in the video have been rubbished by the author of www.bede.org.uk.

snaggletooth

06-26-2009, 04:44 AM

I clicked your link to see what this Bedes Library was, and as you have just stated to me, I learned nothing new either. It always makes me laugh how Christians try their best to adapt their fictional "faith" to fit factual science (as with Mr Bedes blog here). Surely you either accept your Christian doctrine as a whole or not at all? What is this business where you nit pick bits and pieces so all that is left is the stuff which (kinda) makes some sort of rational sense? Hilarious! Is that what your "God" allows you to do? We all know that the universe wasnt created in 7 days (or whatever). We all know all the living species on the planet didnt fit on a big wooden boat for a year. We all know that a virgin didnt get pregnant by a ghost. We all know the Earth isnt less than 10,000 years old etc. But, even though your bible says all these things are so, people like those writing the bede blog choose to throw the nonsense away, saying its just symbolic or something. Making them look even bigger idiots than they were before lol. Yeah, well, whatever. Keep it up. We're all still laughing at you. Even more so now. Eventually, maybe youll all throw enough of it away that there wont be any left. Suits me! :)):D:)):D:)):D

snaggletooth

06-26-2009, 04:50 AM

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God

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"If someone could prove God's luminous existence to me right now it would have no effect whatsoever upon my behavior. I cannot believe that God watches me at all times that he's interested in my health, my desires, my mistakes. I cannot believe, and in any case I do not accept that he could punish me for all eternity. What am I to him? Nothing. A shadow of mud. My passage on this earth is so brief that I leave no traces. I am a poor mortal. I am of no consequence in either space or time. God has no interest in us. And if he exists, it's as if he didn't."

A documentary on surreal film maker Luis Buñuel and his political and religious allegory, The Milky Way (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QXDFRQ?tag=athemovi-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B000QXDFRQ&adid=0TFYHZ28YJE63SGTN2M8&) (La voie lactée).

Buñuel loves to target religion in his movies, he satirizes and exaggerates it with subtle images, such as in The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004Z1FM?tag=athemovi-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B00004Z1FM&adid=1QQJY2EW4D1HC4TS2ADD&) (Le charmediscretde la bourgeoisie).

The Milky Way is a good example to that kind of critical language.

However we should ask this question: Is Buñuel really an atheist?

Maybe. Maybe not in terms of usual atheism. He obsessively appreciates the mysteries within Christianity, for example adores the image of Virgin Mary, but he denies the existence of God, and portrays Jesus as an ordinary man whose miraculous powers were suspicious.

He is a modern heretic, and totally against dogma.

I also may upload The Milky Way in near future.

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snaggletooth

06-26-2009, 04:57 AM

How Your Child Learns Best

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213 pages |Dec 21, 2007 |ISBN:1402213468 | PDF | 5,6 Mb

How Your Child Learns Best is a groundbreaking guide for parents that combines the latest brain research with the best classroom practices to reveal scientifically savvy ways to improve your child's success in school.

Written by Judy Willis, MD, MEd, a board-certified neurologist who is also a full-time classroom teacher, How Your Child Learns Best shows you not only how to help your child learn schoolwork, but also how to capitalize on the way your child's brain learns best in order to enrich education wherever you are, from the grocery store to the car - a necessity in today's "teach to the test" world.

By using everyday household items and enjoyable activities, parents of children ages three to twelve can apply targeted strategies (based on age and learning strength) in key academic areas, including:

* Reading comprehension
* Math word problems
* Test preparation
* Fractions and decimals
* Oral reading
* Reports and projects
* Science and history
* Reading motivation
* Vocabulary

Download Links (5,6 Mb)

Rapidshare (http://rapidshare.com/files/245888760/How_Your_Child_Learns_Best_ww.softarchive.net.rar)

snaggletooth

06-26-2009, 07:26 PM

AUDIOBOOK

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James Burke| MP3 + PDF | 3 hours | English | 145 + 68 MB | 32 kbp/s | Audio Renaissance; (Sep 15, 1990)

The book's primary focus is on the effect of advances in science and technology on western philosophy. The title comes from the philosophical idea that the universe essentially only exists as you perceive it through what you know; therefore, if you change your perception of the universe with new knowledge, you have essentially changed the universe itself.

Chapters:

1. The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
2. In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict - Faith & Reason
3. Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
4. Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
5. Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
6. Making Waves: The New Physics - Newton Revised
7. Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality

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snaggletooth

06-28-2009, 11:09 AM

Im not sure why, but at this point I posted a documentary about the concentration camp "Jasenovac" and the Catholic churches involvement in the massacre of Serbs etc. For some reason it has been removed. Maybe it was the footage (although black and white and over 60yrs old) which was too extreme, but obviously there is a limit here as to what one can post in relation to the brutality of religion in our "civilised" world.

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I will not try to post it again as it is not my wish to anger the Admin of this board. If you wish to investigate it yourself however, just type Jasenovac+Catholic into Google.

cokokur

06-28-2009, 11:32 AM

Hier is a copy of the message I got from the forum.....

Jasenovac - The cruelest death camp (1983)

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For over sixty years the darkest secret about Holocaust has been kept from the world. It considers the most vicious and most loyal followers of Nazi Germany, who have turned their devotion to Final Solution into a series of concentration camps, whose monstrous cruelty and savagery remain unparalleled in human history. Only four days after the commencement of the Nazi Germany military campaign against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the terrorist group that was trained for years by Adolf Hitler and condoned by Catholic Church to destabilize the young monarchy, seized the power and proclaimed the new fascist state. The Fuhrer generously rewarded his proxies with huge territory, while Catholic Chrch hurried to assist the murderers in
enacting their monstrous agenda and crime to come. The murderers were known as Ustashe, or Ustashas and clero-fascist state known as "Indepentent State of Croatia".

Only in largest death camp, an estimated six to seven hundred thousand Serbs, Jews and Gypsies have perished in the Ustashe death rampage, imposing the same racial purification laws of Third Reich. Headed by Archbishop Stepinac, the entire Catholic clergy advocated the Ustashe genocide, and many took part in mass executions.

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stirpc

06-29-2009, 03:36 AM

dont spoil this thread by getting involved into a topic of ex-yugoslavian politics. jasenovac is extremly politicized and there is hardly any truly scientific reasearch about this topic. it really doesnt belong in this topic because it wasnt run by the church (it was run b the ustashe and the ss) neither was itadvocated thru stepinac. the few priests in the camp were excommunicated during the war. it was a truly horrible place, and i dont want to defend the role of christian churches during WW II but there is no connection to atheism in this case. i enjoy this thread because of its focus on rationality and reason, dont get (unknowingly) on the slippery slope of politics and irrationality.

snaggletooth

06-29-2009, 01:41 PM

A fair point, and one taken. I really only wanted to post it due to the stated church involvement. And Im far from any kind of expert on the case. In fact, after watching the programme, there actually was very little in it relating to the church anyway. So, I agree fully with what you said and will stick to what we do best here from now on. ;)

snaggletooth

06-29-2009, 01:47 PM

The Teaching Company - Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It

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Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality. (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world. Welcome to the science wars—a long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge that began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has re-emerged in today’s conflict between science and religion over issues such as evolution.
Professor Steven L. Goldman, whose Teaching Company course on Science in the 20th Century was praised by customers as “a scholarly achievement of the highest order” and “excellent in every way,” leads you on a quest for the nature of scientific reasoning in this intellectually pathbreaking lecture series, Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It.
Those who have taken Professor Goldman’s previous course, which is an intensive survey of the revolution in scientific knowledge from 1900 to 2000, may have wondered: if what counts as scientific knowledge can transform so dramatically within only 100 years, what exactly is scientific knowledge? Science Wars addresses this surprisingly difficult question.
Five Centuries of the Science Wars
In 24 half-hour lectures, Science Wars explores the history of competing conceptions of scientific knowledge and their implications for science and society from the onset of the Scientific Revolution in the 1600s to the present. It may seem that the accelerating pace of discoveries, inventions, and unexpected insights into nature during this period guarantees the secure foundations of scientific inquiry, but that is far from true. Consider these cases:
* The scientific method: In the 1600s the English philosopher Francis Bacon defined the scientific method in its classic form: the use of inductive reasoning to draw conclusions from an exhaustive body of facts. But “no scientist has ever been a strict Baconian,” says Professor Goldman. “If you followed that, you would get nowhere.”
* A “heated” debate: Around 1800 the dispute over the nature of heat was resolved in favor of the theory that heat is motion and not a substance given off during burning. But then the French mathematical physicist Joseph Fourier wrote a set of equations that accurately described how heat behaves regardless of what it “really” is, which, Fourier contended, was not a scientific question at all.
* Paradigm shifts: The publication in 1962 of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions precipitated a radical change in attitudes toward scientific knowledge, prompted by Kuhn’s insight that science is not an entirely rational enterprise, and that its well-established theories (or paradigms) are overturned in a revolutionary, nonlogical process.
* Postmodern putdown: The postmodern attack on science as a privileged mode of inquiry made some headway in the late 20th century. But the credibility of the movement wilted in 1996, when a postmodern journal unwittingly published a spoof by physicist Alan Sokal, purporting to prove that physical theory was socially constructed. Sokal then exposed his piece as a parody.
* In the penultimate lecture of the course, Professor Goldman considers intelligent design—the argument that evolution can’t account for the immense complexity of life and that a master designer must be at work. He approaches this topical debate by asking: What are the minimum criteria that define a hypothesis as scientific, and does intelligent design qualify? Having already covered five centuries of the science wars in the previous lectures, you will analyze this controversy with a set of tools that allows you to see the issues in a sharp, new light.
What Is Reality?
“Fasten your seatbelts,” says Professor Goldman at the outset of Lecture 21—an advisory that applies equally to the whole course, which covers an astonishing array of ideas and thinkers. Throughout, Professor Goldman never loses his narrative thread, which begins 2,400 years ago with Plato’s allegorical battle between “the gods” and “the earth giants”—between those for whom knowledge is universal, necessary, and certain; and those for whom it cannot be so and is based wholly on experience.
The problem of what constitutes scientific knowledge can be illustrated with one of the most famous and widely accepted scientific theories of all time, Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliostatic (stationary sun) theory of the solar system, which has undergone continual change since it was first proposed in 1543:
* Copernicus called for the planets to move in uniform circular motion around the sun, slightly displaced from the center.
* Using observations by Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler revised the Copernican model, discarding the ancient dogma of circular motion, which did not fit the data. Instead, he guessed that the planets in fact move in elliptical orbits.
* In his influential work endorsing the Copernican theory, Galileo ignored Kepler’s corrections and opted for circular motion. Notoriously, the Catholic Church condemned Galileo for heresy. But the church was actually correct that he had no basis for claiming the heliocentric theory was true, rather than simply an interpretation of experience.
* Galileo’s picture of space was superseded by Newton’s and later by Einstein’s, which also will doubtless be revised.
* Even something as basic as the elliptical motion of the planets is a vast oversimplification. There are no closed curves in space, since the solar system is moving around the center of the galaxy; the galaxy is moving within the local cluster; and the local cluster is also moving.
Although we still call the conventional picture of the solar system Copernican astronomy, there is effectively no resemblance between astronomy today and Copernicus’s 1543 theory of the heavens. The same is also true of other theories, such as the atomic theory of matter. All scientific theories are in a state of ceaseless revision, which raises the question of what reality “really” is.
As the contemporary philosopher of science Mary Hesse has pointed out, the lesson of the history of science seems to be that the theories we currently hold to be true are as likely to be overturned as the theories they replaced!
Sharpen Your Understanding of What Science Is
The uncertainty about the status of scientific knowledge and about the objectivity of the scientific enterprise led to a broad assault on science in the late 20th century by sociologists, philosophers, and historians, many connected with the postmodern movement. The lectures covering this attack and the ensuing counterattack by scientists are some of the most thrilling in the course and involve a number of figures whom Professor Goldman knows personally.
Of one of the firebrands in this conflict, the late Viennese philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, Professor Goldman says, “I myself took a seminar with Feyerabend when he was teaching at Berkeley in the early 1960s. … Feyerabend was not really off the wall, although he was often depicted that way. … He too recognized, as everyone must, that after all, science does work and science is knowledge of a sort. It’s just not the absolute knowledge that scientists and philosophers have historically claimed that it is.”
By the time you reach the end of this course, you will understand exactly what science is, and you will be enlightened about a fascinating problem that perhaps you didn’t even know existed. “There have been a raft of popular books about what scientists know,” says Professor Goldman, “but to the best of my knowledge, there is not a single one of these popular books that focuses centrally on the question of how scientists know what they know.”

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snaggletooth

06-29-2009, 10:48 PM

CULTS: Dangerous Devotion

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Is it brain-washing or like-mindedness? What attracts followers to cults and what holds them? This special feature-length documentary infiltrates the hidden world of these secretive groups.

--Interviews with cult survivors, investigators, parents of cult members and faithful adherents.
--Original and archival footage is coupled with dramatic reenactments of secret rites.
--The Vatican, the FBI, and the NIH all have departments dedicated to cults.

Sarin gas in Tokyo's subway, cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in Guyana, the World Trade Center attacks: these and similar evils are the legacy of cults. What forces could foster such unthinkable acts and drive formerly right-thinking humans to carry them out? Discover the truth in this intriguing feature-length documentary from THE HISTORY CHANNEL.
Journey behind closed doors into a secret world where faith and devotion lead to desperation and despair. From the bizarre prophecies of Charles Manson to the desperate paranoia of Jim Jones, cult leaders draw followers into worlds of power, paranoia, and death. Why do people join? Why do they stay? And how can we stop them? Through interviews with world-renowned scholars and the survivors of cultic tragedy, DANGEROUS DEVOTION unmasks the mystery of cults.
Meet survivors of modern-day cults and true believers who still number among the faithful. Hear from mothers and fathers who have lost a child to a cult and observe FBI agents working to identify exploitative groups that endanger individuals or even the entire nation. And delve through history to examine how cults have seized hearts and minds throughout time.
CULTS: DANGEROUS DEVOTION is a truly eye-opening examination of a world that few of us will ever see, but that potentially affects us all.

Just some of the charismatic leaders and cults examined in DANGEROUS DEVOTION are:
--Charles Manson
--Jim Jones and Jonestown
--Warren Jeffs and the Yearning for Zion Ranch
--Shoko Asahara and Aum Shinrikyo
--David Koresh and the Branch Davidians
--The Nizari, the drug-fueled assassins from the time of the Crusades

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snaggletooth

06-29-2009, 10:59 PM

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Having trouble deciphering your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the basics of genetic engineering. Gonick’s drawings range from a moderately detailed look at ribosomes in action to loony pictures of dancing scientists, talking peas, and opinionated fruit flies. Matthew Meselson, co-discoverer of the “one gene-one protein” principle, says, “it puts textbooks to shame”–and he’s right. –Mary Ellen Curtin

About the Author

Larry Gonick is the creator of the bestselling Cartoon Guide series, comprised of nine books that have sold more than half a million copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages. Currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine, he has also been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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snaggletooth

07-01-2009, 10:20 AM

The Teaching Company - Biology and Human Behaviour

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When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control? This intriguing question is the scientific province of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave—from the people we fall in love with, to the intensity of our spiritual lives, to the degree of our aggressive impulses. In short, it is the study of how our brains make us the individuals that we are. Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition, is an interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.

Intense, Dynamic, and Entertaining

This course is a newly recorded and much-expanded update of Professor Robert Sapolsky’s original Teaching Company course introduced in 1998, which was lauded as “extremely stimulating” by The American Biology Teacher.
A prominent neurobiologist, zoologist, and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, Professor Sapolsky is a spellbinding lecturer who is also very entertaining. In a feature story in The New York Times, he was compared to a cross between renowned primatologist Jane Goodall and a borscht belt comedian. An article in the alumni magazine at Stanford University, where he teaches, called him “a man who exudes adrenaline and has a reservoir of intensity deep enough to spin the turbines at Hoover Dam.”

What You Will Learn

The course opens with an introductory lecture and then proceeds to Modules I and II, which start at the level of how a single neuron works. You build upward to examine how millions of neurons in a particular region of the brain operate. The focus is on the regions of the brain most pertinent to emotion and behavior.

Modules III, IV, and V explore how the brain and behavior are regulated. First, you cover how the brain regulates hormones and how hormones influence brain function and behavior. Next you examine how both the brain and behavior evolved, covering contemporary thinking about how natural selection has sculpted and optimized behavior and how that optimization is mediated by brain function. Then you focus on a bridge between evolution and the brain, investigating what genes at the molecular level have to do with brain function and how those genes have evolved.

Module VI examines ethology, which is the study of the behavior of animals in their natural habitats. The focus in these lectures is on how hormones, evolution, genes, and behavior are extremely sensitive to environment.
Finally, Module VII explores how the various approaches—neurobiology, neuroendocrinology, evolution, genetics, and ethology—help explain an actual set of behaviors, with a particular focus on aggression. The final lecture summarizes what is known about the biology of human behavior and probes the societal implications of having such knowledge.

Insight into Yourself and Others

As you work through this thought-provoking and engaging material, you will learn much about your own behavior, not to mention that of others. One particularly intriguing region of the brain relating to behavior is the frontal cortex, which plays a central role in decision-making, gratification postponement, and other important functions. The frontal cortex is the part of the brain that “makes you do the harder thing,” whether it is concentrating on an unwelcome task, keeping anger under control, or telling a white lie about a spouse’s new haircut. Consider these cases:
* What happens when there is essentially no frontal cortex?: Railroad worker Phineas Gage suffered a massive frontal cortical lesion in a serious accident in the 1840s. Overnight, he changed from a sober, conscientious worker to a profane, aggressive, socially inappropriate man who could never regularly work again. The loss of his frontal cortex meant he lost his emotional regulation; he had no means to do the “harder thing.”
* What happens when the frontal cortex is “offline”?: During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the frontal cortex goes offline, which explains why dreams are often wild and unrepressed—why dreams are dreamlike. People don’t dream about balancing a checkbook. They dream about dancing in musicals or floating in the air.
* What happens when the frontal cortex is immature?: One of the great myths is that the brain is completely wired up and matured at a very early stage. However, the frontal cortex is not fully functional until an individual is about a quarter-century old—a fact that explains a lot of fraternity behavior, notes Professor Sapolsky. With this in mind, it’s worth asking if a 16-year-old violent criminal is not, by definition, organically impaired in frontal cortical function.

Myths that Die Hard

The myth of the fully wired, mature young brain is one of the often-heard pieces of misinformation that this course corrects. Other areas where Professor Sapolsky revises widely held beliefs include:
* “For the good of the species”: The old notion of group selection has been proven wildly incorrect. This is the idea that animals behave “for the good of the species” and that behaviors are driven by ways to increase the likelihood of the species surviving and multiplying. Evolution is not about animals behaving for the good of the species but, rather, behaving to optimize the number of copies of their own genes to pass on to the next generation.
* The inevitability of social structures: Professor Sapolsky’s own fieldwork in Africa has shown that an archetypal male-dominated, aggressive society of baboons can change radically to a tradition of low aggression within a single generation. “If these guys are freed from the central casting roles for them in the anthropology textbooks, we as a species have no excuse to say we have inevitable social structures,” he says.

Cause for Concern and Hope

At the end of the course, Professor Sapolsky explores the implications of our emerging understanding of the origins of individual differences. How much do these insights threaten our own sense of self and individuality? Where do we draw the line between the essence of the person and the biological abnormalities? What counts as being ill? Who is biologically impaired, and who is just different? As more and more subtle abnormalities of neurobiology are understood, how much should we worry about the temptation to label people as “abnormal”? And what happens when we each have a few of these labels?
These and other questions should concern us all. But while Professor Sapolsky sees alarming trends, he also sees cause for hope. We needn’t worry that we are on the verge of unmasking the secret behind everything we do, he says, since we can never explain everything; every answer opens up a dozen new questions. Furthermore, to explain something is not to destroy the capacity to be moved by it. “In the end,” says Professor Sapolsky, “the purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

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snaggletooth

07-01-2009, 10:25 AM

SUPERSENSE

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HarperOne | 2009 | ISBN: 0061452645, 0061452653, 0061867969, 0061867977, 0061867942 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB

A handful of recent books disparaging religion by atheists such as Richard Dawkins have largely put the blame on culture for humanity’s widespread unscientific beliefs. Yet what if the greatest influence on our supernatural convictions is the built-in wiring of our brains? Hood is an internationally renowned neuroscientist who has developed a revolutionary new theory to explain why, in the face of dubious evidence, humans so readily put their faith in supernatural forces. Dubbed supersense, Hood’s theory traces religious inclinations to how the brain processes information: a hardwired tool kit for making sense of the world that begins in childhood. In 10 engaging and informative chapters with titles like “Could You Wear a Killer’s Cardigan?” and “Would You Let Your Wife Sleep with Robert Redford?” Hood lays out the evidence for the mind’s penchant for seeing patterns in disconnected events and cultivating sacred values that bind humans together. Hood’s treatise provides a much-needed counterbalance to hard-core skeptics by arguing that supersense, while not exactly grounded in rationality, ultimately gives our lives meaning. --Carl Hays
Review
"...a fun and illuminating book." (Newsweek )

"Hood's treatise provides a much-needed counterbalance to hardcore skeptics by arguing that supersense, while not exactly grounded in rationality, ultimately gives our lives meaning." (Booklist )

In recent years, there has been a lot written about religion, superstition, and faith, but there has never been a book like this. . . SuperSense is a joy to read--beautifully written, deeply clever and funny, replete with brilliant insights and observations. (Paul BloomProfessor, Department of Psychology, Yale University Author of "Descartes' Baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human" )

[A] fascinating, timely and important book. . . . Hood's presentation of the science behind our supersense is crystal clear and utterly engaging. (New Scientist )

Supersense is a terrifically fun read. But it is much more: though we may forever believe in ghosts, goblins and the beneficent deities, with a dose of skeptical scientific realism, a la Hood, there is hope that sanity will prevail. (Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor, author of Moral Minds )

An intriguing look at a feature of the human mind that is subtle in its operation but profound in its consequences. (Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought )

If we understood our own irrationality, and why so many people believe in ghosts, spirits, and invisible powers, then we might be able to improve the way we think. With quirkily fun examples and fascinating experiments Bruce Hood explains why we can't always escape our Supersense. (Dr. Susan Blackmore, author of Conversations on Consciousness )

Reading SuperSense is like having lunch with your favorite professor--the conversation spans religion, biology, psychology, philosophy, and early childhood development. One thing is for sure, you'll never see the world in the same way again. (Ori Brafman, New York Times bestselling author of Sway )

A compelling account of how beliefs in the supernatural world spring from the natural way our minds make sense of our experiences. (Daniel M. Wegner, Harvard Professor of Psychology, author of The Illusion of Conscious Will )

Read this beautifully written book, and you will lose some childhood innocence about how the world works. But, it will leave you wiser about yourself, and what it is to be human. (Guy Claxton, author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less )

Magical thinking is a defining feature of the human mind - the source of all that is sublime and absurd about our species. In this timely exploration of the psychology of irrational belief Bruce Hood pulls off the rare feat of being both authoritative and wonderfully entertaining. Brilliant. (Paul Broks, author of Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology )

Dr. Hood, a world-class scholar in the field of cognitive science, explains the many weird and wonderful ways that we humans naturally view the world as ruled by supernatural phenomena. Bruce Hood's SuperSense is sensational. (Susan A. GelmanSusan A. GelmanSusan A. Gelman, author of The Essential Child )

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07-01-2009, 05:46 PM

Awesome thread. Thanks for all of the effort gone into posting all of this material.

I am currently downloading some of it that I did not already have, which will definitely be 'making the rounds' as I love sharing this type of information.

Here's something that you may enjoy from author of; The Bible Fraud; The Secret In The Bible; The Crucifixion Of Truth; The Twin Deception; The Papl Billions ...

Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 14, Number 4 (June - July 2007)
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Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
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by Tony Bushby © March 2007
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The Forged Origins of The New Testament

In the fourth century, the Roman Emperor Constantine united all religious factions under one composite deity, and ordered the compilation of new and old writings into a uniform collection that became the New Testament.

What the Church doesn't want you to know
It has often been emphasised that Christianity is unlike any other religion, for it stands or falls by certain events which are alleged to have occurred during a short period of time some 20 centuries ago. Those stories are presented in the New Testament, and as new evidence is revealed it will become clear that they do not represent historical realities. The Church agrees, saying:
"Our documentary sources of knowledge about the origins of Christianity and its earliest development are chiefly the New Testament Scriptures, the authenticity of which we must, to a great extent, take for granted."
(Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. iii, p. 712)

The Church makes extraordinary admissions about its New Testament. For example, when discussing the origin of those writings, "the most distinguished body of academic opinion ever assembled" (Catholic Encyclopedias, Preface) admits that the Gospels "do not go back to the first century of the Christian era" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, p. 137, pp. 655-6). This statement conflicts with priesthood assertions that the earliest Gospels were progressively written during the decades following the death of the Gospel Jesus Christ. In a remarkable aside, the Church further admits that "the earliest of the extant manuscripts [of the New Testament], it is true, do not date back beyond the middle of the fourth century AD" (Catholic Encyclopedia, op. cit., pp. 656-7). That is some 350 years after the time the Church claims that a Jesus Christ walked the sands of Palestine, and here the true story of Christian origins slips into one of the biggest black holes in history. There is, however, a reason why there were no New Testaments until the fourth century: they were not written until then, and here we find evidence of the greatest misrepresentation of all time.

It was British-born Flavius Constantinus (Constantine, originally Custennyn or Custennin) (272-337) who authorised the compilation of the writings now called the New Testament. After the death of his father in 306, Constantine became King of Britain, Gaul and Spain, and then, after a series of victorious battles, Emperor of the Roman Empire. Christian historians give little or no hint of the turmoil of the times and suspend Constantine in the air, free of all human events happening around him. In truth, one of Constantine's main problems was the uncontrollable disorder amongst presbyters and their belief in numerous gods.

The majority of modern-day Christian writers suppress the truth about the development of their religion and conceal Constantine's efforts to curb the disreputable character of the presbyters who are now called "Church Fathers" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xiv, pp. 370-1). They were "maddened", he said (Life of Constantine, attributed to Eusebius Pamphilius of Caesarea, c. 335, vol. iii, p. 171; The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF, attributed to St Ambrose, Rev. Prof. Roberts, DD, and Principal James Donaldson, LLD, editors, 1891, vol. iv, p. 467). The "peculiar type of oratory" expounded by them was a challenge to a settled religious order (The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, Oskar Seyffert, Gramercy, New York, 1995, pp. 544-5). Ancient records reveal the true nature of the presbyters, and the low regard in which they were held has been subtly suppressed by modern Church historians. In reality, they were:
"...the most rustic fellows, teaching strange paradoxes. They openly declared that none but the ignorant was fit to hear their discourses ... they never appeared in the circles of the wiser and better sort, but always took care to intrude themselves among the ignorant and uncultured, rambling around to play tricks at fairs and markets ... they lard their lean books with the fat of old fables ... and still the less do they understand ... and they write nonsense on vellum ... and still be doing, never done."
(Contra Celsum ["Against Celsus"], Origen of Alexandria, c. 251, Bk I, p. lxvii, Bk III, p. xliv, passim)

Clusters of presbyters had developed "many gods and many lords" (1 Cor. 8: 5) and numerous religious sects existed, each with differing doctrines (Gal. 1: 6). Presbyterial groups clashed over attributes of their various gods and "altar was set against altar" in competing for an audience (Optatus of Milevis, 1:15, 19, early fourth century). From Constantine's point of view, there were several factions that needed satisfying, and he set out to develop an all-embracing religion during a period of irreverent confusion. In an age of crass ignorance, with nine-tenths of the peoples of Europe illiterate, stabilising religious splinter groups was only one of Constantine's problems. The smooth generalisation, which so many historians are content to repeat, that Constantine "embraced the Christian religion" and subsequently granted "official toleration", is "contrary to historical fact" and should be erased from our literature forever (Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci ed., vol. iii, p. 299, passim). Simply put, there was no Christian religion at Constantine's time, and the Church acknowledges that the tale of his "conversion" and "baptism" are "entirely legendary" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xiv, pp. 370-1).

Constantine "never acquired a solid theological knowledge" and "depended heavily on his advisers in religious questions" (Catholic Encyclopedia, New Edition, vol. xii, p. 576, passim). According to Eusebeius (260-339), Constantine noted that among the presbyterian factions "strife had grown so serious, vigorous action was necessary to establish a more religious state", but he could not bring about a settlement between rival god factions (Life of Constantine, op. cit., pp. 26-8.). His advisers warned him that the presbyters' religions were "destitute of foundation" and needed official stabilisation (ibid.).

Constantine saw in this confused system of fragmented dogmas the opportunity to create a new and combined State religion, neutral in concept, and to protect it by law. When he conquered the East in 324 he sent his Spanish religious adviser, Osius of Córdoba, to Alexandria with letters to several bishops exhorting them to make peace among themselves. The mission failed and Constantine, probably at the suggestion of Osius, then issued a decree commanding all presbyters and their subordinates "be mounted on asses, mules and horses belonging to the public, and travel to the city of Nicaea" in the Roman province of Bithynia in Asia Minor. They were instructed to bring with them the testimonies they orated to the rabble, "bound in leather" for protection during the long journey, and surrender them to Constantine upon arrival in Nicaea (The Catholic Dictionary, Addis and Arnold, 1917, "Council of Nicaea" entry). Their writings totalled "in all, two thousand two hundred and thirty-one scrolls and legendary tales of gods and saviours, together with a record of the doctrines orated by them" (Life of Constantine, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 73; N&PNF, op. cit., vol. i, p. 518.).

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07-01-2009, 05:48 PM

The First Council of Nicaea and the "missing records"
Thus, the first ecclesiastical gathering in history was summoned and is today known as the Council of Nicaea. It was a bizarre event that provided many details of early clerical thinking and presents a clear picture of the intellectual climate prevailing at the time. It was at this gathering that Christianity was born, and the ramifications of decisions made at the time are difficult to calculate. About four years prior to chairing the Council, Constantine had been initiated into the religious order of Sol Invictus, one of the two thriving cults that regarded the Sun as the one and only Supreme God (the other was Mithraism). Because of his Sun worship, he instructed Eusebius to convene the first of three sittings on the summer solstice, 21 June 325 (Catholic Encyclopedia, New Edition, vol. i, p. 792), and it was "held in a hall in Osius's palace" (Ecclesiastical History, Bishop Louis Dupin, Paris, 1686, vol. i, p. 598). In an account of the proceedings of the conclave of presbyters gathered at Nicaea, Sabinius, Bishop of Hereclea, who was in attendance, said, "Excepting Constantine himself and Eusebius Pamphilius, they were a set of illiterate, simple creatures who understood nothing" (Secrets of the Christian Fathers, Bishop J. W. Sergerus, 1685, 1897 reprint).

This is another luminous confession of the ignorance and uncritical credulity of early churchmen. Dr Richard Watson (1737-1816), a disillusioned Christian historian and one-time Bishop of Llandaff in Wales (1782), referred to them as "a set of gibbering idiots" (An Apology for Christianity, 1776, 1796 reprint; also, Theological Tracts, Dr Richard Watson, "On Councils" entry, vol. 2, London, 1786, revised reprint 1791). From his extensive research into Church councils, Dr Watson concluded that "the clergy at the Council of Nicaea were all under the power of the devil, and the convention was composed of the lowest rabble and patronised the vilest abominations" (An Apology for Christianity, op. cit.). It was that infantile body of men who were responsible for the commencement of a new religion and the theological creation of Jesus Christ.

The Church admits that vital elements of the proceedings at Nicaea are "strangely absent from the canons" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. iii, p. 160). We shall see shortly what happened to them. However, according to records that endured, Eusebius "occupied the first seat on the right of the emperor and delivered the inaugural address on the emperor's behalf" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. v, pp. 619-620). There were no British presbyters at the council but many Greek delegates. "Seventy Eastern bishops" represented Asiatic factions, and small numbers came from other areas (Ecclesiastical History, ibid.). Caecilian of Carthage travelled from Africa, Paphnutius of Thebes from Egypt, Nicasius of Die (Dijon) from Gaul, and Donnus of Stridon made the journey from Pannonia.

It was at that puerile assembly, and with so many cults represented, that a total of 318 "bishops, priests, deacons, subdeacons, acolytes and exorcists" gathered to debate and decide upon a unified belief system that encompassed only one god (An Apology for Christianity, op. cit.). By this time, a huge assortment of "wild texts" (Catholic Encyclopedia, New Edition, "Gospel and Gospels") circulated amongst presbyters and they supported a great variety of Eastern and Western gods and goddesses: Jove, Jupiter, Salenus, Baal, Thor, Gade, Apollo, Juno, Aries, Taurus, Minerva, Rhets, Mithra, Theo, Fragapatti, Atys, Durga, Indra, Neptune, Vulcan, Kriste, Agni, Croesus, Pelides, Huit, Hermes, Thulis, Thammus, Eguptus, Iao, Aph, Saturn, Gitchens, Minos, Maximo, Hecla and Phernes (God's Book of Eskra, anon., ch. xlviii, paragraph 36).

Up until the First Council of Nicaea, the Roman aristocracy primarily worshipped two Greek gods-Apollo and Zeus-but the great bulk of common people idolised either Julius Caesar or Mithras (the Romanised version of the Persian deity Mithra). Caesar was deified by the Roman Senate after his death (15 March 44 BC) and subsequently venerated as "the Divine Julius". The word "Saviour" was affixed to his name, its literal meaning being "one who sows the seed", i.e., he was a phallic god. Julius Caesar was hailed as "God made manifest and universal Saviour of human life", and his successor Augustus was called the "ancestral God and Saviour of the whole human race" (Man and his Gods, Homer Smith, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1952). Emperor Nero (54-68.), whose original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (37-68.), was immortalised on his coins as the "Saviour of mankind" (ibid.). The Divine Julius as Roman Saviour and "Father of the Empire" was considered "God" among the Roman rabble for more than 300 years. He was the deity in some Western presbyters' texts, but was not recognised in Eastern or Oriental writings.

Constantine's intention at Nicaea was to create an entirely new god for his empire who would unite all religious factions under one deity. Presbyters were asked to debate and decide who their new god would be. Delegates argued among themselves, expressing personal motives for inclusion of particular writings that promoted the finer traits of their own special deity. Throughout the meeting, howling factions were immersed in heated debates, and the names of 53 gods were tabled for discussion. "As yet, no God had been selected by the council, and so they balloted in order to determine that matter... For one year and five months the balloting lasted..." (God's Book of Eskra, Prof. S. L. MacGuire's translation, Salisbury, 1922, chapter xlviii, paragraphs 36, 41).

At the end of that time, Constantine returned to the gathering to discover that the presbyters had not agreed on a new deity but had balloted down to a shortlist of five prospects: Caesar, Krishna, Mithra, Horus and Zeus (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. 325). Constantine was the ruling spirit at Nicaea and he ultimately decided upon a new god for them. To involve British factions, he ruled that the name of the great Druid god, Hesus, be joined with the Eastern Saviour-god, Krishna (Krishna is Sanskrit for Christ), and thus Hesus Krishna would be the official name of the new Roman god. A vote was taken and it was with a majority show of hands (161 votes to 157) that both divinities became one God. Following longstanding heathen custom, Constantine used the official gathering and the Roman apotheosis decree to legally deify two deities as one, and did so by democratic consent. A new god was proclaimed and "officially" ratified by Constantine (Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618). That purely political act of deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna among the Roman gods as one individual composite. That abstraction lent Earthly existence to amalgamated doctrines for the Empire's new religion; and because there was no letter "J" in alphabets until around the ninth century, the name subsequently evolved into "Jesus Christ".

How the Gospels were created
Constantine then instructed Eusebius to organise the compilation of a uniform collection of new writings developed from primary aspects of the religious texts submitted at the council. His instructions were:
"Search ye these books, and whatever is good in them, that retain; but whatsoever is evil, that cast away. What is good in one book, unite ye with that which is good in another book. And whatsoever is thus brought together shall be called The Book of Books. And it shall be the doctrine of my people, which I will recommend unto all nations, that there shall be no more war for religions' sake."
(God's Book of Eskra, op. cit., chapter xlviii, paragraph 31)

"Make them to astonish" said Constantine, and "the books were written accordingly" (Life of Constantine, vol. iv, pp. 36-39). Eusebius amalgamated the "legendary tales of all the religious doctrines of the world together as one", using the standard god-myths from the presbyters' manuscripts as his exemplars. Merging the supernatural "god" stories of Mithra and Krishna with British Culdean beliefs effectively joined the orations of Eastern and Western presbyters together "to form a new universal belief" (ibid.). Constantine believed that the amalgamated collection of myths would unite variant and opposing religious factions under one representative story. Eusebius then arranged for scribes to produce "fifty sumptuous copies ... to be written on parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient portable form, by professional scribes thoroughly accomplished in their art" (ibid.). "These orders," said Eusebius, "were followed by the immediate execution of the work itself ... we sent him [Constantine] magnificently and elaborately bound volumes of three-fold and four-fold forms" (Life of Constantine, vol. iv, p. 36). They were the "New Testimonies", and this is the first mention (c. 331) of the New Testament in the historical record.

With his instructions fulfilled, Constantine then decreed that the New Testimonies would thereafter be called the "word of the Roman Saviour God" (Life of Constantine, vol. iii, p. 29) and official to all presbyters sermonising in the Roman Empire. He then ordered earlier presbyterial manuscripts and the records of the council "burnt" and declared that "any man found concealing writings should be stricken off from his shoulders" (beheaded) (ibid.). As the record shows, presbyterial writings previous to the Council of Nicaea no longer exist, except for some fragments that have survived.

Some council records also survived, and they provide alarming ramifications for the Church.Some old documents say that the First Council of Nicaea ended in mid-November 326, while others say the struggle to establish a god was so fierce that it extended "for four years and seven months" from its beginning in June 325 (Secrets of the Christian Fathers, op. cit.). Regardless of when it ended, the savagery and violence it encompassed were concealed under the glossy title "Great and Holy Synod", assigned to the assembly by the Church in the 18th century. Earlier Churchmen, however, expressed a different opinion.

The Second Council of Nicaea in 786-87 denounced the First Council of Nicaea as "a synod of fools and madmen" and sought to annul "decisions passed by men with troubled brains" (History of the Christian Church, H. H. Milman, DD, 1871). If one chooses to read the records of the Second Nicaean Council and notes references to "affrighted bishops" and the "soldiery" needed to "quell proceedings", the "fools and madmen" declaration is surely an example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Constantine died in 337 and his outgrowth of many now-called pagan beliefs into a new religious system brought many converts. Later Church writers made him "the great champion of Christianity" which he gave "legal status as the religion of the Roman Empire" (Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, Matthew Bunson, Facts on File, New York, 1994, p. 86). Historical records reveal this to be incorrect, for it was "self-interest" that led him to create Christianity (A Smaller Classical Dictionary, J. M. Dent, London, 1910, p. 161). Yet it wasn't called "Christianity" until the 15th century (How The Great Pan Died, Professor Edmond S. Bordeaux [Vatican archivist], Mille Meditations, USA, MCMLXVIII, pp. 45-7).

Over the ensuing centuries, Constantine's New Testimonies were expanded upon, "interpolations" were added and other writings included (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, pp. 135-137; also, Pecci ed., vol. ii, pp. 121-122). For example, in 397 John "golden-mouthed" Chrysostom restructured the writings of Apollonius of Tyana, a first-century wandering sage, and made them part of the New Testimonies (Secrets of the Christian Fathers, op. cit.). The Latinised name for Apollonius is Paulus (A Latin-English Dictionary, J. T. White and J. E. Riddle, Ginn & Heath, Boston, 1880), and the Church today calls those writings the Epistles of Paul. Apollonius's personal attendant, Damis, an Assyrian scribe, is Demis in the New Testament (2 Tim. 4:10).

The Church hierarchy knows the truth about the origin of its Epistles, for Cardinal Bembo (d. 1547), secretary to Pope Leo X (d. 1521), advised his associate, Cardinal Sadoleto, to disregard them, saying "put away these trifles, for such absurdities do not become a man of dignity; they were introduced on the scene later by a sly voice from heaven" (Cardinal Bembo: His Letters and Comments on Pope Leo X, A. L. Collins, London, 1842 reprint).

The Church admits that the Epistles of Paul are forgeries, saying, "Even the genuine Epistles were greatly interpolated to lend weight to the personal views of their authors" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vii, p. 645). Likewise, St Jerome (d. 420) declared that the Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the New Testament, was also "falsely written" ("The Letters of Jerome", Library of the Fathers, Oxford Movement, 1833-45, vol. v, p. 445).

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07-01-2009, 05:50 PM

The shock discovery of an ancient Bible
The New Testament subsequently evolved into a fulsome piece of priesthood propaganda, and the Church claimed it recorded the intervention of a divine Jesus Christ into Earthly affairs. However, a spectacular discovery in a remote Egyptian monastery revealed to the world the extent of later falsifications of the Christian texts, themselves only an "assemblage of legendary tales" (Encyclopédie, Diderot, 1759). On 4 February 1859, 346 leaves of an ancient codex were discovered in the furnace room at St Catherine's monastery at Mt Sinai, and its contents sent shockwaves through the Christian world. Along with other old codices, it was scheduled to be burned in the kilns to provide winter warmth for the inhabitants of the monastery. Written in Greek on donkey skins, it carried both the Old and New Testaments, and later in time archaeologists dated its composition to around the year 380. It was discovered by Dr Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874), a brilliant and pious German biblical scholar, and he called it the Sinaiticus, the Sinai Bible. Tischendorf was a professor of theology who devoted his entire life to the study of New Testament origins, and his desire to read all the ancient Christian texts led him on the long, camel-mounted journey to St Catherine's Monastery.

During his lifetime, Tischendorf had access to other ancient Bibles unavailable to the public, such as the Alexandrian (or Alexandrinus) Bible, believed to be the second oldest Bible in the world. It was so named because in 1627 it was taken from Alexandria to Britain and gifted to King Charles I (1600-49). Today it is displayed alongside the world's oldest known Bible, the Sinaiticus, in the British Library in London. During his research, Tischendorf had access to the Vaticanus, the Vatican Bible, believed to be the third oldest in the world and dated to the mid-sixth century (The Various Versions of the Bible, Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, 1874, available in the British Library). It was locked away in the Vatican's inner library. Tischendorf asked if he could extract handwritten notes, but his request was declined. However, when his guard took refreshment breaks, Tischendorf wrote comparative narratives on the palm of his hand and sometimes on his fingernails ("Are Our Gospels Genuine or Not?", Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, lecture, 1869, available in the British Library).

Today, there are several other Bibles written in various languages during the fifth and sixth centuries, examples being the Syriacus, the Cantabrigiensis (Bezae), the Sarravianus and the Marchalianus.

A shudder of apprehension echoed through Christendom in the last quarter of the 19th century when English-language versions of the Sinai Bible were published. Recorded within these pages is information that disputes Christianity's claim of historicity. Christians were provided with irrefutable evidence of wilful falsifications in all modern New Testaments. So different was the Sinai Bible's New Testament from versions then being published that the Church angrily tried to annul the dramatic new evidence that challenged its very existence. In a series of articles published in the London Quarterly Review in 1883, John W. Burgon, Dean of Chichester, used every rhetorical device at his disposal to attack the Sinaiticus' earlier and opposing story of Jesus Christ, saying that "...without a particle of hesitation, the Sinaiticus is scandalously corrupt ... exhibiting the most shamefully mutilated texts which are anywhere to be met with; they have become, by whatever process, the depositories of the largest amount of fabricated readings, ancient blunders and intentional perversions of the truth which are discoverable in any known copies of the word of God". Dean Burgon's concerns mirror opposing aspects of Gospel stories then current, having by now evolved to a new stage through centuries of tampering with the fabric of an already unhistorical document.

The revelations of ultraviolet light testing
In 1933, the British Museum in London purchased the Sinai Bible from the Soviet government for £100,000, of which £65,000 was gifted by public subscription. Prior to the acquisition, this Bible was displayed in the Imperial Library in St Petersburg, Russia, and "few scholars had set eyes on it" (The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 11 January 1938, p. 3). When it went on display in 1933 as "the oldest Bible in the world" (ibid.), it became the centre of a pilgrimage unequalled in the history of the British Museum.

Before I summarise its conflictions, it should be noted that this old codex is by no means a reliable guide to New Testament study as it contains superabundant errors and serious re-editing. These anomalies were exposed as a result of the months of ultraviolet-light tests carried out at the British Museum in the mid-1930s. The findings revealed replacements of numerous passages by at least nine different editors. Photographs taken during testing revealed that ink pigments had been retained deep in the pores of the skin. The original words were readable under ultraviolet light. Anybody wishing to read the results of the tests should refer to the book written by the researchers who did the analysis: the Keepers of the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum (Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus, H. J. M. Milne and T. C. Skeat, British Museum, London, 1938).

Forgery in the Gospels
When the New Testament in the Sinai Bible is compared with a modern-day New Testament, a staggering 14,800 editorial alterations can be identified. These amendments can be recognised by a simple comparative exercise that anybody can and should do. Serious study of Christian origins must emanate from the Sinai Bible's version of the New Testament, not modern editions.

Of importance is the fact that the Sinaiticus carries three Gospels since rejected: the Shepherd of Hermas (written by two resurrected ghosts, Charinus and Lenthius), the Missive of Barnabas and the Odes of Solomon. Space excludes elaboration on these bizarre writings and also discussion on dilemmas associated with translation variations.

Modern Bibles are five removes in translation from early editions, and disputes rage between translators over variant interpretations of more than 5,000 ancient words. However, it is what is not written in that old Bible that embarrasses the Church, and this article discusses only a few of those omissions. One glaring example is subtly revealed in the Encyclopaedia Biblica (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899, vol. iii, p. 3344), where the Church divulges its knowledge about exclusions in old Bibles, saying: "The remark has long ago and often been made that, like Paul, even the earliest Gospels knew nothing of the miraculous birth of our Saviour". That is because there never was a virgin birth.

It is apparent that when Eusebius assembled scribes to write the New Testimonies, he first produced a single document that provided an exemplar or master version. Today it is called the Gospel of Mark, and the Church admits that it was "the first Gospel written" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, p. 657), even though it appears second in the New Testament today. The scribes of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were dependent upon the Mark writing as the source and framework for the compilation of their works. The Gospel of John is independent of those writings, and the late-15th-century theory that it was written later to support the earlier writings is the truth (The Crucifixion of Truth, Tony Bushby, Joshua Books, 2004, pp. 33-40).

Thus, the Gospel of Mark in the Sinai Bible carries the "first" story of Jesus Christ in history, one completely different to what is in modern Bibles. It starts with Jesus "at about the age of thirty" (Mark 1:9), and doesn't know of Mary, a virgin birth or mass murders of baby boys by Herod. Words describing Jesus Christ as "the son of God" do not appear in the opening narrative as they do in today's editions (Mark 1:1), and the modern-day family tree tracing a "messianic bloodline" back to King David is non-existent in all ancient Bibles, as are the now-called "messianic prophecies" (51 in total). The Sinai Bible carries a conflicting version of events surrounding the "raising of Lazarus", and reveals an extraordinary omission that later became the central doctrine of the Christian faith: the resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ and his ascension into Heaven. No supernatural appearance of a resurrected Jesus Christ is recorded in any ancient Gospels of Mark, but a description of over 500 words now appears in modern Bibles (Mark 16:9-20).

Despite a multitude of long-drawn-out self-justifications by Church apologists, there is no unanimity of Christian opinion regarding the non-existence of "resurrection" appearances in ancient Gospel accounts of the story. Not only are those narratives missing in the Sinai Bible, but they are absent in the Alexandrian Bible, the Vatican Bible, the Bezae Bible and an ancient Latin manuscript of Mark, code-named "K" by analysts. They are also lacking in the oldest Armenian version of the New Testament, in sixth-century manuscripts of the Ethiopic version and ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Bibles. However, some 12th-century Gospels have the now-known resurrection verses written within asterisksÑmarks used by scribes to indicate spurious passages in a literary document.

The Church claims that "the resurrection is the fundamental argument for our Christian belief" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xii, p. 792), yet no supernatural appearance of a resurrected Jesus Christ is recorded in any of the earliest Gospels of Mark available. A resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ is the sine qua non ("without which, nothing") of Christianity (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xii, p. 792), confirmed by words attributed to Paul: "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain" (1 Cor. 5:17). The resurrection verses in today's Gospels of Mark are universally acknowledged as forgeries and the Church agrees, saying "the conclusion of Mark is admittedly not genuine ... almost the entire section is a later compilation" (Encyclopaedia Biblica, vol. ii, p. 1880, vol. iii, pp. 1767, 1781; also, Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. iii, under the heading "The Evidence of its Spuriousness"; Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. iii, pp. 274-9 under heading "Canons"). Undaunted, however, the Church accepted the forgery into its dogma and made it the basis of Christianity.

The trend of fictitious resurrection narratives continues. The final chapter of the Gospel of John (21) is a sixth-century forgery, one entirely devoted to describing Jesus' resurrection to his disciples. The Church admits: "The sole conclusion that can be deduced from this is that the 21st chapter was afterwards added and is therefore to be regarded as an appendix to the Gospel" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. viii, pp. 441-442; New Catholic Encyclopedia (NCE), "Gospel of John", p. 1080; also NCE, vol. xii, p. 407).

"The Great Insertion" and "The Great Omission"
Modern-day versions of the Gospel of Luke have a staggering 10,000 more words than the same Gospel in the Sinai Bible. Six of those words say of Jesus "and was carried up into heaven", but this narrative does not appear in any of the oldest Gospels of Luke available today ("Three Early Doctrinal Modifications of the Text of the Gospels", F. C. Conybeare, The Hibbert Journal, London, vol. 1, no. 1, Oct 1902, pp. 96-113). Ancient versions do not verify modern-day accounts of an ascension of Jesus Christ, and this falsification clearly indicates an intention to deceive.

Today, the Gospel of Luke is the longest of the canonical Gospels because it now includes "The Great Insertion", an extraordinary 15th-century addition totalling around 8,500 words (Luke 9:51-18:14). The insertion of these forgeries into that Gospel bewilders modern Christian analysts, and of them the Church said: "The character of these passages makes it dangerous to draw inferences" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci ed., vol. ii, p. 407).

Just as remarkable, the oldest Gospels of Luke omit all verses from 6: 45 to 8:26, known in priesthood circles as "The Great Omission", a total of 1,547 words. In today's versions, that hole has been "plugged up" with passages plagiarised from other Gospels. Dr Tischendorf found that three paragraphs in newer versions of the Gospel of Luke's version of the Last Supper appeared in the 15th century, but the Church still passes its Gospels off as the unadulterated "word of God" ("Are Our Gospels Genuine or Not?", op. cit.)

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07-01-2009, 05:50 PM

The "Expurgatory Index"
As was the case with the New Testament, so also were damaging writings of early "Church Fathers" modified in centuries of copying, and many of their records were intentionally rewritten or suppressed.

Adopting the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-63), the Church subsequently extended the process of erasure and ordered the preparation of a special list of specific information to be expunged from early Christian writings (Delineation of Roman Catholicism, Rev. Charles Elliott, DD, G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, New York, 1842, p. 89; also, The Vatican Censors, Professor Peter Elmsley, Oxford, p. 327, pub. date n/a).

In 1562, the Vatican established a special censoring office called Index Expurgatorius. Its purpose was to prohibit publication of "erroneous passages of the early Church Fathers" that carried statements opposing modern-day doctrine.

When Vatican archivists came across "genuine copies of the Fathers, they corrected them according to the Expurgatory Index" (Index Expurgatorius Vaticanus, R. Gibbings, ed., Dublin, 1837; The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Joseph Mendham, J. Duncan, London, 1830, 2nd ed., 1840; The Vatican Censors, op. cit., p. 328). This Church record provides researchers with "grave doubts about the value of all patristic writings released to the public" (The Propaganda Press of Rome, Sir James W. L. Claxton, Whitehaven Books, London, 1942, p. 182).

Important for our story is the fact that the Encyclopaedia Biblica reveals that around 1,200 years of Christian history are unknown: "Unfortunately, only few of the records [of the Church] prior to the year 1198 have been released". It was not by chance that, in that same year (1198), Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) suppressed all records of earlier Church history by establishing the Secret Archives (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xv, p. 287). Some seven-and-a-half centuries later, and after spending some years in those Archives, Professor Edmond S. Bordeaux wrote How The Great Pan Died. In a chapter titled "The Whole of Church History is Nothing but a Retroactive Fabrication", he said this (in part):
"The Church ante-dated all her late works, some newly made, some revised and some counterfeited, which contained the final expression of her history ... her technique was to make it appear that much later works written by Church writers were composed a long time earlier, so that they might become evidence of the first, second or third centuries."
(How The Great Pan Died, op. cit., p. 46)

Supporting Professor Bordeaux's findings is the fact that, in 1587, Pope Sixtus V (1585-90) established an official Vatican publishing division and said in his own words, "Church history will be now be established ... we shall seek to print our own account"Encyclopédie, Diderot, 1759). Vatican records also reveal that Sixtus V spent 18 months of his life as pope personally writing a new Bible and then introduced into Catholicism a "New Learning" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. v, p. 442, vol. xv, p. 376). The evidence that the Church wrote its own history is found in Diderot's Encyclopédie, and it reveals the reason why Pope Clement XIII (1758-69) ordered all volumes to be destroyed immediately after publication in 1759.

Gospel authors exposed as imposters
There is something else involved in this scenario and it is recorded in the Catholic Encyclopedia. An appreciation of the clerical mindset arises when the Church itself admits that it does not know who wrote its Gospels and Epistles, confessing that all 27 New Testament writings began life anonymously:
"It thus appears that the present titles of the Gospels are not traceable to the evangelists themselves ... they [the New Testament collection] are supplied with titles which, however ancient, do not go back to the respective authors of those writings." (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, pp. 655-6)

The Church maintains that "the titles of our Gospels were not intended to indicate authorship", adding that "the headings ... were affixed to them" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. i, p. 117, vol. vi, pp. 655, 656). Therefore they are not Gospels written "according to Matthew, Mark, Luke or John", as publicly stated. The full force of this confession reveals that there are no genuine apostolic Gospels, and that the Church's shadowy writings today embody the very ground and pillar of Christian foundations and faith. The consequences are fatal to the pretence of Divine origin of the entire New Testament and expose Christian texts as having no special authority. For centuries, fabricated Gospels bore Church certification of authenticity now confessed to be false, and this provides evidence that Christian writings are wholly fallacious.

After years of dedicated New Testament research, Dr Tischendorf expressed dismay at the differences between the oldest and newest Gospels, and had trouble understanding...
"...how scribes could allow themselves to bring in here and there changes which were not simply verbal ones, but such as materially affected the very meaning and, what is worse still, did not shrink from cutting out a passage or inserting one."
(Alterations to the Sinai Bible, Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, 1863, available in the British Library, London)

After years of validating the fabricated nature of the New Testament, a disillusioned Dr Tischendorf confessed that modern-day editions have "been altered in many places" and are "not to be accepted as true" (When Were Our Gospels Written?, Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, 1865, British Library, London).

Just what is Christianity?
The important question then to ask is this: if the New Testament is not historical, what is it?

Dr Tischendorf provided part of the answer when he said in his 15,000 pages of critical notes on the Sinai Bible that "it seems that the personage of Jesus Christ was made narrator for many religions". This explains how narratives from the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, appear verbatim in the Gospels today (e.g., Matt. 1:25, 2:11, 8:1-4, 9:1-8, 9:18-26), and why passages from the Phenomena of the Greek statesman Aratus of Sicyon (271-213 BC) are in the New Testament.

Extracts from the Hymn to Zeus, written by Greek philosopher Cleanthes (c. 331-232 BC), are also found in the Gospels, as are 207 words from the Thais of Menander (c. 343-291), one of the "seven wise men" of Greece. Quotes from the semi-legendary Greek poet Epimenides (7th or 6th century BC) are applied to the lips of Jesus Christ, and seven passages from the curious Ode of Jupiter (c. 150 BC; author unknown) are reprinted in the New Testament.

Tischendorf's conclusion also supports Professor Bordeaux's Vatican findings that reveal the allegory of Jesus Christ derived from the fable of Mithra, the divine son of God (Ahura Mazda) and messiah of the first kings of the Persian Empire around 400 BC. His birth in a grotto was attended by magi who followed a star from the East. They brought "gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh" (as in Matt. 2:11) and the newborn baby was adored by shepherds. He came into the world wearing the Mithraic cap, which popes imitated in various designs until well into the 15th century.

Mithra, one of a trinity, stood on a rock, the emblem of the foundation of his religion, and was anointed with honey. After a last supper with Helios and 11 other companions, Mithra was crucified on a cross, bound in linen, placed in a rock tomb and rose on the third day or around 25 March (the full moon at the spring equinox, a time now called Easter after the Babylonian goddess Ishtar). The fiery destruction of the universe was a major doctrine of Mithraism-a time in which Mithra promised to return in person to Earth and save deserving souls. Devotees of Mithra partook in a sacred communion banquet of bread and wine, a ceremony that paralleled the Christian Eucharist and preceded it by more than four centuries.

Christianity is an adaptation of Mithraism welded with the Druidic principles of the Culdees, some Egyptian elements (the pre-Christian Book of Revelation was originally called The Mysteries of Osiris and Isis), Greek philosophy and various aspects of Hinduism.

Why there are no records of Jesus Christ
It is not possible to find in any legitimate religious or historical writings compiled between the beginning of the first century and well into the fourth century any reference to Jesus Christ and the spectacular events that the Church says accompanied his life. This confirmation comes from Frederic Farrar (1831-1903) of Trinity College, Cambridge:
"It is amazing that history has not embalmed for us even one certain or definite saying or circumstance in the life of the Saviour of mankind ... there is no statement in all history that says anyone saw Jesus or talked with him. Nothing in history is more astonishing than the silence of contemporary writers about events relayed in the four Gospels."
(The Life of Christ, Frederic W. Farrar, Cassell, London, 1874)

This situation arises from a conflict between history and New Testament narratives. Dr Tischendorf made this comment:
"We must frankly admit that we have no source of information with respect to the life of Jesus Christ other than ecclesiastic writings assembled during the fourth century."
(Codex Sinaiticus, Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, British Library, London)

There is an explanation for those hundreds of years of silence: the construct of Christianity did not begin until after the first quarter of the fourth century, and that is why Pope Leo X (d. 1521) called Christ a "fable" (Cardinal Bembo: His Letters..., op. cit.).

About the Author:
Tony Bushby, an Australian, became a businessman and entrepreneur early in his adult life. He established a magazine-publishing business and spent 20 years researching, writing and publishing his own magazines, primarily for the Australian and New Zealand markets.
With strong spiritual beliefs and an interest in metaphysical subjects, Tony has developed long relationships with many associations and societies throughout the world that have assisted his research by making their archives available. He is the author of The Bible Fraud (2001; reviewed in NEXUS 8/06 with extracts in NEXUS 9/01—03), The Secret in the Bible (2003; reviewed in 11/02, with extract, "Ancient Cities under the Sands of Giza", in 11/03) and The Crucifixion of Truth (2005; reviewed in 12/02) and The Twin Deception (2007; reviewed 14/03). Copies of these books are available from the NEXUS website and the Joshua Books website http://www.joshuabooks.com.
As Tony Bushby vigorously protects his privacy, any correspondence should be sent to him care of NEXUS Magazine, PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560, Australia, fax +61 (0) 7 5442 9381.

I AM ALL I AM

07-01-2009, 05:52 PM

Also check out these ones ...

The Criminal History Of The Papcy

PART I
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=8&Itemid=71

PART II
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=9&Itemid=71

PART III
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=10&Itemid=71

snaggletooth

07-01-2009, 10:58 PM

A lot of reading there! LOL. But safe to say, that its not too hard to find a mass of contradicting evidence surrounding the mythical bible. My favourite one, which Ive quoted here before, is the total lack of historical evidence of the "slaughter of the innocents". Something as shocking as that would most certainly be documented elsewhere. Alas, not a note of it anywhere though.

But, as not to get too serious, I'll let the late, great, Bill Hicks speak for us at this point....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R370YkYhV0w

snaggletooth

07-01-2009, 11:19 PM

Moving on.....

Heres a film on Mark Twain. Great American author of Huck Fin and Tom Sawyer etc. Most accept he was an outspoken atheist of his time. Below are a few of his quotes:

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"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."

"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."

"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."

"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad." Mark Twain in Eruption

"Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast" Reflections on Religion, 1906

"[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology." Mark Twain and the Bible

"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Letters from the Earth

"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."

"[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." Autobiography of Mark Twain by Samuel Clemens

4-CD Set | DVDRip | AVI 720 x 544 (45:34) DX50 | Audio: 48000 Hz, 152 Kbps | 3h:57min | Language: English
Genre: Documentary | IMDB: 8.2/10 | Studio: PBS Paramount | 721+720+721+720+108 Mb (2,92 Gb total)

“To be sure, I am a student of literature and a fan of Mark Twain, but I had no idea, none whatsoever, of what a rich and inspiring life he lived. He was a comic genius as well as a man devastated by continual heartbreak. I have always known PBS to do a wonderful job with their specials, and I have admired Ken Burns since the day I first discovered his work on the women's movement i.e. the Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton story (highly recommended as well!)... but in their retelling of Mark Twain's life, these two forces have outdone themselves. From now on I will always think of Samuel Clemens as an intrinsic part of what we call Americana. Forget baseball and apple pie, Twain and his writings are (or should be) the true American pastime. I have watched many biographies of American authors but none come close to this, NONE. My favorite author of all time is F. Scott Fitzgerald and not one of his many audio visual biographies can touch the completeness and depth that has been carefully devoted here to Twain. In the 3+ hours of this presentation I laughed outloud, and was moved to tears, outraged, entertained, and educated by this telling of Twain's life. There is no way it could be better or more complete and I defy any lover of Twain, or literature in general, to feel differently. Go to your local library and borrow it first, once you see it, you will insist upon owning it... truly.” – Customer Review on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Film-Directed-Burns/dp/B000BITUI4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1207049513&sr=1-1)

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saileunglau

07-02-2009, 05:53 PM

Hi snag!

Do you have other audiobooks by Bart D Ehrman? :P

Thanks for posting your collection!

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (Audiobook) (http://atheistmovies***************/2009/04/jesus-interrupted-revealing-hidden.html)

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Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman’s New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—and it’s not what most people think. Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed. Amazon

File Size: 481 MB

snaggletooth

07-03-2009, 12:24 AM

Yeah, heres two more saileunglau, though I may have posted these before. In my view, he gives a little too much importance to the bible though. Sorry, these are only ebooks.

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In the first centuries after Christ, there was no "official" New Testament. Instead, early Christians read and fervently followed a wide variety of Scriptures—many more than we have today.

Relying on these writings, Christians held beliefs that today would be considered bizarre. Some believed that there were two, 12, or as many as 30 gods. Some thought that a malicious deity, rather than the true God, created the world. Some maintained that Christ's death and resurrection had nothing to do with salvation while others insisted that Christ never really died at all.

What did these "other" Scriptures say? Do they exist today? How could such outlandish ideas ever be considered Christian? If such beliefs were once common, why do they no longer exist? These are just a few of the many provocative questions that arise from Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication.

http://rapidshare.com/files/220515461/Lost_Christianities__by_B_D_Ehrman.pdf

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When world-class Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact the had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. From the back cover

File Size: 32 MB

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/223005689/Misquoting.Jesus-The.Story.Behind.Who.Changed.the.Bible.and.Why-Bart.D.Ehrman.pdf

snaggletooth

07-03-2009, 12:28 AM

Flock of Dodos (2006)
The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus

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INFO:
Randy Olson, Documentary, USA, English, 84 min.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_of_Dodos

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800334/

The highly anticipated, comic and controversial feature documentary, "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus," is the first feature film to take an even-handed look at the intelligent design vs. evolution clash that appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek in 2005. Filmmaker, scientist, surfer and evolutionary biologist Dr. Randy Olson explores the controversy over the teaching of evolution and the recently developed alternative, intelligent design. Olson, a native of Kansas, visits his home state and the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, which attempted to introduce intelligent design in science classes. Olson draws on basic aspects of evolution as metaphors, including the extinct dodo, which he suggests symbolizes what happens to those unable to change with their environment.

Featured are seven top advocates for intelligent design, including Dr. Michael Behe, author of "Darwin's Black Box," fourteen evolution Ph.D.'s, a poker game among eight evolutionists, a rabbit eating its own poop, and a flock of animated dodos playing poker, dancing, and helping the audience answer the question, "who really is the 'flock of dodos?'"

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU8V5oTIwKM

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snaggletooth

07-03-2009, 12:34 AM

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Brian Dunning, the author of Skeptoid, makes a general introduction to critical thinking and teaches how to identify pseudo-scientific claims.

This film has a free distribution licence to spread the voice of reason.

File Size/String : 1.43 GiB
Duration/String : 41mn 9s

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snaggletooth

07-03-2009, 12:56 AM

Another few Bart Erhman bits. Again, I have to state, I have my reservations about the importance, and amount of time he gives to the bible. Dawkins counts him as worthwhile. Me? Id much rather give the bible the amount of attention its due.

The Colbert Report
With Bart Ehrman
Air-Date: April 9, 2009

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Not sure what this is. Havent downloaded it yet myself.....

The Historical Jesus ~ (Coursebook Included) [AUDIO BOOK]
Bart D. Ehrman

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The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings

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Author: Bart D. Ehrman
ISBN: 0195084810
Pages: 460
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press

This lucid introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Rather than shying away from the critical problems presented by these books, Ehrman addresses the historical and literary challenges they pose and shows why scholars continue to argue over such significant issues as how the books of the New Testament came into being, who produced them, what they mean, how they relate to contemporary Christian and non-Christian literature, and how they came to be collected into a canon of Scripture. Distinctive to this study is its emphasis on the historical, literary, and religious milieu of the Greco-Roman world, including early Judaism. As part of its historical orientation, this text also discusses works by other Christian writers who were roughly contemporary with the New Testament, such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Apocalypse of Peter, and the letters of Ignatius. Instead of simply setting forth scholarly views without explanations, Ehrman includes the evidence that scholars have found persuasive for their views, engaging students and demonstrating why scholars have taken the positions they have. Ideal for undergraduate and seminary classes in the New Testament, biblical studies, and Christian origins, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings is an accessible, clearly written introduction that encourages students to consider the historical issues surrounding these writings.

http://rapidshare.com/files/90045121/The_New_Testament_-_Historical.rar

stirpc

07-03-2009, 01:27 AM

saileunglau

07-03-2009, 01:53 AM

Yeah, heres two more saileunglau, though I may have posted these before. In my view, he gives a little too much importance to the bible though. Sorry, these are only ebooks.
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Thanks, anyway! :P

snaggletooth

07-03-2009, 10:39 AM

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i can highly recommend this great book. i wasnt able to find a pdf version, maybe some of you can.
gerd lüdemann was one of the leading protestant theologists in germany, he was the head of the most prominent german theological faculty of goettingen. his field of research used to be early christianism and early christian scripts. in 1998 he published a chapter from this book called "a letter to jesus" where he publicly denounced his christian beliefs, argueing that he totally lost his faith after 20 yrs of translating and researching ancient christian texts.
his criticism of christianity, christian values and christian belief is more compalling (to me) than all the books written by hitchens or dawkins, because this is a guy who used to be a strong believer, who wanted to believe but in the end couldnt ignore his conscience and scientific research. the road from being a christian to become a sceptic/agnostic is greatly depicted in this book.

Thanks for bringing my attention to this one. I tried to find a PDF of it but couldnt either. Many (maybe the majority) of atheists are born into a family of believers - myself included. I guess those of a more inquistive (intelligent?) mind start questioning the validity of it all however, eventually arriving at a place of non-belief. If you look at it the other way around, if most believers hadnt been born into a faith based family, then there would be a hell of a lot less of them around! Some people just dont question anything or try to make their own mind up about about the world. Listening to your parents isnt always the best option. Read a goddamn book or two! 8-)

snaggletooth

07-03-2009, 10:41 AM

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Cambridge University Press (2008) | English | ISBN 0511354746 | 255 pages | PDF | 1.57 MB

C. S. Lewis is one of the most beloved Christian apologists of the twentieth century; David Hume and Bertrand Russell are among Christianity’s most important critics. This book puts these three intellectual giants in conversation with one another to shed light on some of life’s most difficult yet important questions.
It examines their views on a variety of topics, including the existence of God, suffering, morality, reason, joy, miracles, and faith. Along with irreconcilable differences and points of tension, some surprising areas of agreement emerge. Today, amidst the often shrill and vapid exchanges between “new atheists” and twenty-first-century believers, curious readers will find penetrating insights in the reasoned dialogue of these three great thinkers.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 12:21 PM

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The Question of God, a four-hour series on PBS, explores in accessible and dramatic style issues that preoccupy all thinking people today: What is happiness? How do we find meaning and purpose in our lives? How do we reconcile conflicting claims of love and sexuality? How do we cope with the problem of suffering and the inevitability of death? Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi, author of The Question of God, the series illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud, a life-long critic of religious belief, and C.S. Lewis, a celebrated Oxford don, literary critic, and perhaps this century's most influential and popular proponent of faith based on reason.

"It may be that Freud and Lewis represent conflicting parts of ourselves," Dr. Nicholi notes. "Part of us yearns for a relationship with the source of all joy, hope and happiness, as described by Lewis, and yet, there is another part that raises its fist in defiance and says with Freud, 'I will not surrender.' Whatever part we choose to express will determine our purpose, our identity, and our whole philosophy of life."

Through dramatic storytelling and compelling visual re-creations, as well as interviews with biographers and historians, and lively discussion, Freud and Lewis are brought together in a great debate. "The series presents a unique dialogue between Freud, the atheist, and Lewis, the believer," says Catherine Tatge, director of The Question of God. "Through it we come to understand two very different ideas of human existence, and where each of us, as individuals, falls as believers and unbelievers."

The important moments and emotional turning points in the lives of Freud and Lewis — which gave rise to such starkly different ideas — fuel an intelligent and moving contemporary examination of the ultimate question of human existence: Does God really exist?

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:03 PM

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Blackwell Publishing | 2nd edition | English | ISBN 0631232591 | 287 pages | PDF | 3.96 MB

The issue of whether or not there is a God is one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions. It is a debate that spreads far across the range of philosophical questions about the status of science, the nature of mind, the character of good and evil, the epistemology of experience and testimony, and so on. In this book two philosophers, each committed to unambiguous versions of belief and disbelief, debate the central issues of atheism and theism. Smart opens the debate by arguing that theism is philosophically untenable and seeks to explain metaphysical truth in the light of total science. Haldane continues the discussion by affirming that the existence of the world, and the possibility of our coming to have knowledge of it, depend upon the existence of a creating, sustaining, personal God. This is followed by replies, where each philosopher has the chance to respond and to defend his position. This second edition contains new essays by each philosopher, responding to criticisms and building on their previous work.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:24 PM

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0195127447 | PDF | 14.6 MB

Are religious fringe movements a recent phenomeon in American history? Are widespread fears of mass suicides, sexual abuse, and brainwashing in cults justified? Do marginalized religious groups play any positive role in American spiritual life? Do the panics over such groups follow any discernible pattern?
Phillip Jenkins gives fascinating–and surprising–answers to these and many other questions in Mystics and Messiahs, the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history.
Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are traceable to the mid-nineteenth century when Mormons, Freemasons, and even Catholics were vehemently denounced for supposed ritualistic violence, fraud, and sexual depravity. As Charles Ferguson observed in 1928, “America has always been the sanctuary of amazing cults.” But America has also been the home of an often hysterical anti-cult backlash. Jenkins provides an insightful new analysis of why cults arouse such fear and hatred both in the secular world and in mainstream churches, many of which–Baptists, Quakers, Pentecostals, and Methodists–were themselves originally regarded as cults. Most importantly, Jenkins argues that an accurate historical perspective is urgently needed if we are to avoid the kind of catastrophic confrontation that occurred in Waco or the ruinous prosecution of imagined Satanic cults in the 1980s.
While not ignoring genuine instances of aberrant behavior, Mystics and Messiahs goes beyond the vast edifice of myth, distortion, and hype to reveal the true characteristics of religious fringe movements and why they inspire such fierce antagonism.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:31 PM

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Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution
Riverhead Trade | November 5, 2002 | English | ISBN:1573229555 | 446 pages | PDF | 3.4 MB

In this intimate portrait of the great naturalist as devoted family man, Keynes describes how Charles Darwin’s “life and his science were all of a piece.” The great-great-grandson of the scientist, Keynes uses published documents as well as family papers and artifacts to show how Darwin’s thinking on evolution was influenced by his deep attachment to his wife and children. In particular, his anguish over his 10-year-old daughter Annie’s death sharpened his conviction that the operation of natural laws had nothing to do with divine intervention or morality. Keynes, also a descendant of economist John Maynard Keynes, shows that much of Darwin’s intellectual struggle in writing On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man arose from his efforts to understand the role of suffering and death in the natural order of the world. Early in his career, Darwin saw the indifference of natural law as an answer to the era’s religious doubts about how a benevolent god could permit human misery; cruelty and pain, he argued, should not be seen as moral issues, but as inevitable outcomes of nature. After Annie’s death, however, Darwin’s views darkened, and in a private letter he railed against the “clumsy, wasteful, bl***ering low and horridly cruel works of nature!” Though Keynes doesn’t break new ground about Darwin’s life and work, he produces a moving tribute to a thinker who, despite intimate acquaintance with the pain inflicted by the “war of nature,” could still marvel that, from this ruthless struggle, “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” Photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)Forecast: General readers attracted by the book’s warm, sentimental cover won’t be disappointed by Keynes’s equally accessible prose.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:34 PM

God the Devil and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory

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God the Devil and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195322371 | edition 2007 | PDF | 186 pages | 2,3 mb

University professor Shanks is an impassioned defender of evolution. He is animated by the progress he believes evolution’s critics are making in injecting creationism into American society, particularly into schools.
His opponents’ recent books, rarely reviewed in the press, provide Shanks’ sounding board here, especially titles by Phillip E. Johnson, Michael Behe, and William Dembski

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:38 PM

Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies

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Charles Darwin “Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies”
Oxford University Press | 2009-02-02 | ISBN: 0199208638 | 496 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB

On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), and The Descent of Man (1871), along with the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by generous selections of responses from Darwin’s nineteenth-century readers from across the world.
More than anything, they give a keen sense of the controversial nature of Darwin’s ideas, and his position within Victorian debates about man’s place in nature.
The wide-ranging Introduction by James A. Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, explores the global impact and origins of Darwin’s work and the reasons for its unparalleled significance today. To increase its usefulness for readers coming to Darwin for the first time, the selection also includes a map of the Beagle voyage, a detailed chronology of Darwin’s life, and a biographical appendix identifying every individual mentioned in the text.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:41 PM

The Life And Letters Of Charles Darwin, Including An Autobiographical Chapter; Vol II

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The Life And Letters Of Charles Darwin, Including An Autobiographical Chapter; Vol II
Publisher: Brunton Press | ISBN: 1443712337 | edition 2008 | PDF | 368 pages | 2,2 mb

The Life And Letters Of Charles Darwin, Including An Autobiographical Chapter; Vol II. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:46 PM

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‘The topic is hot; the editors are superb; the cast of contributors is star-studded.’ Ronald Numbers, The University of Wisconsin, Madison

‘The editors have done a fine job in amassing the leaders of various fields, all of whom are very well known - theologians, scientists, mathematicians and philosophers.’ Ronald Trigg, University of Warwick

‘The two editors have put together an excellent team to discuss a hot topic … I would expect this to become a standard work of reference on the issue of ‘intelligent design’.’ John Brooke, University of Oxford

‘No other collection offers a comprehensive, balanced, accessible overview like this.’ SirReadaLot.org

‘The book is highly recommended.’ Philosophy in Review

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William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide here a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins - a controversial dialectic since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Invariably, the source of controversy has been ‘design’. Is the appearance of design in organisms (as exhibited in their functional complexity) the result of purely natural forces acting without prevision or teleology? Or, does the appearance of design signify genuine prevision and teleology, and, if so, is that design empirically detectable and thus open to scientific inquiry? Four main positions have emerged in response to these questions: Darwinism, self-organisation, theistic evolution, and intelligent design. The contributors to this volume define their respective positions in an accessible style, inviting readers to draw their own conclusions. Two introductory essays furnish a historical overview of the debate.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:51 PM

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

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Richard Dawkins “The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-06-15 | ISBN: 0199216800 | 448 pages | PDF | 2,2 Mb

Boasting almost one hundred pieces, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists–the best such collection in print–packed with scintillating essays on everything from “the discovery of Lucy” to “the terror and vastness of the
universe.”
Edited by best-selling author and renowned scientist Richard Dawkins, this sterling collection brings together exhilarating pieces by a who’s who of scientists and science writers, including Stephen Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, Albert Einstein, Julian Huxley, and many dozens more.
Readers will find excerpts from bestsellers such as Douglas R. Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach, Francis Crick’s Life Itself, Loren Eiseley’s The Immense Journey, Daniel Dennett’s Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us. There are classic essays ranging from J.B.S. Haldane’s
“On Being the Right Size” and Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons” to Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” and Albert Einstein’s famed New York Times article on “Relativity.” And readers will also discover lesser-known but engaging pieces such as Lewis Thomas’s “Seven
Wonders of Science,” J. Robert Oppenheimer on “War and Physicists,” and Freeman Dyson’s memoir of studying under Hans Bethe.
A must-read volume for all science buffs, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a rich and vibrant anthology that captures the poetry and excitement of scientific thought and discovery.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:53 PM

Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence

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Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence By David C. Geary
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) 2004 | 459 Pages | ISBN: 1591471818 | PDF | 24 MB

Darwin considered an understanding of the evolution of the human mind and brain to be of major importance to the evolutionary sciences. This groundbreaking book sets out a comprehensive, integrated theory of why and how the human mind has developed to function as it does. Geary proposes that human motivational, affective, behavioral, and cognitive systems have evolved to process social and ecological information (e.g., facial expressions) that covaried with survival or reproductive options during human evolution. Further, he argues that the ultimate focus of all of these systems is to support our attempts to gain access to and control of resources - more specifically, the social (e.g., mates), biological (e.g., food), and physical (e.g., territory) resources that supported successful survival and reproduction over time.
In this view, Darwin’s conceptualization of natural selection as a “struggle for existence” becomes, for us, a struggle with other human beings for control of the available resources. This struggle provides a means of integrating modular brain and cognitive systems such as language with those brain and cognitive systems that support general intelligence. To support his arguments, Geary draws on an impressive array of recent findings in cognitive science and neuroscience as well as primatology, anthropology, and sociology. The book also explores a number of issues that are of interest in modern society, including how general intelligence relates to academic achievement, occupational status, and income. Readers will find this book a thought-provoking read and an impetus for new theories of mind.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:56 PM

The Darwinian Paradigm http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/tandfbooks/2000184D/2000184Dcoverw01c.jpg

Routledge | 1989 | ISBN 0415003008, 9780415003001 | 299 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” is now 130 years old, yet it continues to provoke impassioned debate. Michael Ruse, a champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, here presents a collection of essays - many previously unpublished - which look at Darwin from both historical and contemporary perspectives, covering philosophical and theological, as well as scientific, issues, The discussion ranges over many of today’s most exciting controversies about biology and its full implications, including the nature of the central Darwinian mechanism of natural selection, the status of species, the challenge of punctuated equilibra theory, human sociobiology, feminism, extra-terrestrials, and morality. Some of Ruse’s claims are highly controversial and represent a significant move forward in the debate.
Review
Ruse argues many issues in this book, always with clarity and humour. I would not borrow Darwinian Paradigm from the library. This is a book to own - New Scientist

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 01:59 PM

Evolution through Genetic Exchange

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Evolution through Genetic Exchange
Oxford University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0198570066 | Pages: 272 | PDF | 2.06 MB

Even before the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification - with divergent branches spreading further and further from the trunk. In the only illustration of Darwin’s treatise, branches large and small never reconnect. However, it is now evident that this view does not adequately encompass the richness of evolutionary pattern and process. Instead, the evolution of species from microbes to mammals builds like a web that crosses and re-crosses through genetic exchange, even as it grows outward from a point of origin. Some of the avenues for genetic exchange, for example introgression through sexual recombination versus lateral gene transfer mediated by transposable elements, are based on definably different molecular mechanisms. However, even such widely different genetic processes may result in similar effects on adaptations (either new or transferred), genome evolution, population genetics, and the evolutionary/ecological trajectory of organisms. For example, the evolution of novel adaptations (resulting from lateral gene transfer) leading to the flea-borne, deadly, causative agent of plague from a rarely-fatal, orally-transmitted, bacterial species is quite similar to the adaptations accrued from natural hybridization between annual sunflower species resulting in the formation of several new species. Thus, more and more data indicate that evolution has resulted in lineages consisting of mosaics of genes derived from different ancestors. It is therefore becoming increasingly clear that the tree is an inadequate metaphor of evolutionary change. In this book, Arnold promotes the ‘web-of-life’ metaphor as a more appropriate representation of evolutionary change in all lifeforms. This research level text is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate level students taking related courses in departments of genetics, ecology and evolution. It will also be of relevance and use to professional evolutionary biologists and systematists seeking a comprehensive and authoritative overview of this rapidly expanding field.

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 02:05 PM

The Theory of Evolution: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works

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The Theory of Evolution: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works (Repost)
Wiley | 2004 | ISBN: 0471214841 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 2.17 MB

Everything mammals ever wanted to know about the theory of evolution-but were afraid to ask
This important new book by award-winning science writer Cynthia Mills clearly explains one of the most crucial, and most misunderstood, concepts of modern science-the theory of evolution. After examining Darwin, his precursors, and how the theory of evolution developed, Mills answers key questions, including: How successful is the theory at explaining the natural world, and what does it fail to explain?
What are some of the competing ideas and theories about the origin of the species? How will the theory of evolution likely hold up over time, as our understanding of genetics grows?

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snaggletooth

07-04-2009, 02:07 PM

The Voyage of the Beagle

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The Voyage of the Beagle
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University | ISBN: 1579124925 | edition 2001 | PDF | 557 pages | 2,4 mb

This richly readable book is the product of Charles Darwin’s amazing journey aboard the Beagle where he made observations that led to his revolutionary theory of natural selection.
Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history’s most influential thinkers.

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snaggletooth

07-05-2009, 08:10 PM

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6683/1s32d53.jpg Suppose there is no God. This supposition implies that human life is meaningless, that there are no moral obligations and hence people can do whatever they want, and that the notions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and good and evil have no place in the universe. Erik J. Wielenberg believes this view to be utterly erroneous and, in this thought-provoking book, he explains the reasons why. He argues that, even if God does not exist, human life can still have meaning, humans do have moral obligations, and human virtue is still possible. Wielenberg offers readers a cognent explanation of the ethical implications of naturalism--a view that denies the existence of the supernatural in human life. In his view virtue exists in a godless universe but it is significantly different from virtue in a Christian universe, and he develops naturalistic accounts of humility, charity, and hope. The overarching theme of Virtue and Value in a Godless Universe is what ethics might look like without God. Erik Wielenberg takes readers on an extraordinary tour of some of the central landmarks of this under-explored territory. Amazon http://rapidshare.com/files/250836856/Value.and.Virtue.in.a.Godless.Universe-Erik.Wielenberg.pdf

snaggletooth

07-05-2009, 08:16 PM

PENN AND TELLER, BULLSHIT - ASTROLOGY http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2073/bullshits7e2astrologyav.jpg Question: What's one of the most stupid and popular things at the same time? Answer: Yes, its astrology! Astrology was a tool for people in ancient times to understand and explain the universe, but today it is a big industry that is insulting our human intelligence. In this new episode, the Bullshit! team are entering the world of astrologers and joining a class to test how horoscope results can be general. Broadcast on July 2, 2009. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/251603543/Bullshit.S7E2.Astrology.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/251611445/Bullshit.S7E2.Astrology.part2.rar

snaggletooth

07-05-2009, 08:29 PM

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3093/godx.jpg A parody from That Mitchell and Webb Look show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfqht0LEOWQ

Uncle Spellbinder

07-05-2009, 08:39 PM

Downloading 'The Man From Earth" now. Saw it a couple years ago at an indie theater in Atlanta. GREAT film. Makes you think.

Appreciate the fine uploads here. Bookmarked and will come back often.

THANKS!

snaggletooth

07-06-2009, 07:15 PM

All of the below are Audiobooks. Great to listen to at work, on the bus, or in your car etc when you havent got the time and/or patience to read a book.

(Some of these may be reposts)

Ian Stewart - Nature's Numbers

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"It appears to us that the universe is structured in a deeply mathematical way. Falling bodies fall with predictable accelerations. Eclipses can be accurately forecast centuries in advance. Nuclear power plants generate electricity according to well-known formulas. But those examples are the tip of the iceberg. In Nature's Numbers, Ian Stewart presents many more, each charming in its own way...Stewart admirably captures compelling and accessible mathematical ideas along with the pleasures of thinking of them. He writes with clarity and percision. Those who enjoy this sort of thing will love this book."

--Los Angeles Times

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Placebo - BBC Radio Medical Documentary

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Our beliefs and expectations about treatments can have a dramatic effect on our health ・the so-called Placebo effect・ Doctor and writer Ben Goldacre presents a two part series.

Two programmes of approximately 30 minutes each.

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Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

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Greene (physics and mathematics, Columbia U.) strips away the mathematics and speaks in metaphors, analogies, stories, and illustrations to explain to general readers with little or no formal training in the sciences some of the complex concepts scientists are now grappling with.

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Bruce Lipton - The Wisdom Of Your Cells

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In the tradition of Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Hawking, a new voice has emerged with the unique gift of translating cutting edge science into clear, accessible language—Dr. Bruce Lipton. With The Wisdom of Your Cells, this internationally recognized authority on cellular biology takes listeners on an in-depth exploration into the microscopic world, where new discoveries and research are revolutionizing the way we understand life, evolution, and consciousness. On this full-length audio course, Dr. Lipton shares his lucid and startling insights about the building blocks of life, and how each one of our cells has far greater innate intelligence than we once believed.

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Stephen Hawking - The Universe In A Nutshell

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String theory, the nature of Time, etc. What more could one want?

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snaggletooth

07-08-2009, 05:47 AM

Discovery - Alien Neighbors (http://atheistmovies***************/2009/07/discovery-alien-neighbors.html)

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If we are not alone, who or what else is out there? Is anybody listening? Is physical travel from one star system to another possible?

Our technology is not sufficient to detect any intelligent life from beyond hundred-millions light years. There are over 125 billion galaxies and we may never catch any sign.

If there is life, how will it develop? Will the mechanics of evolution be similar to those on the Earth?

Astronomers and scientists like Richard Dawkins explain their arguments on extraterrestrials.

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snaggletooth

07-08-2009, 04:56 PM

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This is the world we live in (well, the one a lot of Americans live in). Unf**kinbelievable. And you thought the Dark Ages were over. 8-)

snaggletooth

07-08-2009, 05:00 PM

A few comedy bits from Yootoob....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfZA9aEHhO8

snaggletooth

07-08-2009, 05:10 PM

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Product Description

A comprehensive yet accessible resource on this time period, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Revised Edition is a valuable and unique tool for students and the general public. Still the only one-volume encyclopedia on this intensively studied subject, the revised edition has been substantially expanded and thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship. In particular, the volume now covers a greater geographical area and a more diverse group of historical figures. Building on the foundation of the successful previous edition, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Revised Edition addresses a core subject of the school curriculum. With broad cultural and geographical coverage, this valuable and authoritative reference features articles on general topics such as science, education, art and architecture, aesthetics, and music; personalities; countries; notable works; and concepts. For the revised edition, many of the core entries have been expanded, and all articles have been revised and updated based on current research. New material includes approximately 125 new entries, new illustrations, further reading lists with all major articles, a new preface, and a revised chronology, bibliography, and index.

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The intellectual and philosophical developments of that age (and their impact in moral, social, and political reform) aspired toward more freedom for common people based on self-governance, natural rights, natural law, central emphasis on liberty, individual rights, reason, and the principles of deism. These principles were a revolutionary departure from theocracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, and the divine right of kings. The Enlightenment marks a principled departure from the Middle Ages of religious authority, guild-based economic systems, and censorship of ideas toward an era of rational discourse and personal judgment, republicanism, liberalism, naturalism, scientific method, and modernity.

“Enlightenment was a desire for human affairs to be guided by rationality rather than by faith, superstition, or revelation; a belief in the power of human reason to change society and liberate the individual from the restraints of custom or arbitrary authority; all backed up by a world view increasingly validated by science rather than by religion or tradition.”

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snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 04:04 AM

Bertrand Russell - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein [Abridged] [Audiobook] (http://audiobookscorner***************/2009/06/bertrand-russell-abc-of-relativity.html)

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Bertrand Russell - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein [Abridged] [Audiobook]
Orion | 2000 | ISBN: 0752839756 | Pages: 152 | PDF + MP3 | 35.13 MB

Ask a dozen people to name a genius and the odds are that 'Einstein' will spring to their lips. Ask them the meaning of 'relativity' and few of them will be able to tell you what it is. The basic principles of relativity have not changed since Bertrand Russell first published his lucid guide for the general reader. The ABC of Relativity is Bertrand Russell's most brilliant work of scientific popularisation. With marvellous lucidity he steers the reader who has no knowledge of maths or physics through the subtleties of Einstein's thinking. In easy, assimilable steps, he explains the theories of special and general relativity and describes their practical application to, amongst much else, discoveries about gravitation and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. 'An ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity.' - Nature

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snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 04:07 AM

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
(http://audiobookscorner***************/2009/06/friedrich-nietzsche-beyond-good-and.html)

(AUDIOBOOK) (http://audiobookscorner***************/2009/06/friedrich-nietzsche-beyond-good-and.html)

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche’s controversial work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the nineteenth century and one of the most controversial works of ideology ever written. Attacking the notion of mor[/code]ality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts. Nietzsche tried to formulate what he called ‘the philosophy of the future’. Alex Jennings reads this new translation by Ian Johnston.

http://rapidshare.com/files/238863176/Nietz.BGAE.rar

snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 04:10 AM

Bertrand Russell - Essays on Science & Atheism (http://audiobookscorner***************/2009/05/bertrand-russell-essays-on-science.html)

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Bertrand Russell, the english philosopher, logician and mathematician & Nobel Literature prize-winner wrote extensively and lucidly on his own atheism, science and the meaninglessness of religion.
"Why I am not a Christian" is one of the definitive works of the clarity of the atheist movement and to this day remains one of the most logical defences of atheism, and clear attacks on religion.

Archive includes;
What I Believe
Why I Am Not A Christian
A Free Man's Worship
Religion And Science

Links;
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http://rapidshare.com/files/218258347/Bertrand_Russell.part2.rar

snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 04:13 AM

Sam Harris - The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (AudioBook) (http://audiobookscorner***************/2009/04/sam-harris-end-of-faith-religion-terror.html)

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Harris calls for the end of religious faith in the modern world. Not only does such faith lack a rational base, he argues, but even the urge for religious toleration allows a too-easy acceptance of the motives of religious fundamentalists. Religious faith, according to Harris, requires its adherents to cling irrationally to mythic stories of ideal paradisiacal worlds (heaven and hell) that provide alternatives to their own everyday worlds. Moreover, innumerable acts of violence, he argues, can be attributed to a religious faith that clings uncritically to one set of dogmas or another. Very simply, religion is a form of terrorism for Harris. Predictably, he argues that a rational and scientific view—one that relies on the power of empirical evidence to support knowledge and understanding—should replace religious faith. We no longer need gods to make laws for us when we can sensibly make them for ourselves. Publishers Weekly

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snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 04:19 AM

Audiobook Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (http://audiobookscorner***************/2008/09/audiobookphilosophy-very-short.html)

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Author: Edward Craig
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2005-11-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9626343443
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789626343449

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of studying philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is studied.

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snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 10:51 AM

MOBIREADER

Ive posted a lot of Ebooks here up until now, and Im sure like me, you probably dont always want to read them from a PC screen. So, in case any of you werent aware of the freeware app Mobipocket reader, then check it out below. ;)

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Basically, it transfers ebooks (pdf etc) to your mobile/cell phone and allows you to read them on the go. (Very handy I think). I havent had many problems with it, but you will require a pretty recent phone for it to work. Most smartphones, symbian, and windows phones are fine along with nokia, sony ericsson series 60 etc. I use it on my N95 and its great. With Ebooks being so small and so many of them around the net, you can have 100s on your phone if you wish (depending on your memory capability). Just download the app to your PC and install. Then plug in your phone via its USB and off you go.

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LINK:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/ProductDetailsReader.asP

snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 12:58 PM

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For over 350 years, Spain's political and religious leaders carried on an Inquisition that terrified thousands by ruthlessly interrogating, torturing, or killing them. This documentary explores how the broad interpretation of the word "heresy" allowed these violent rulers to destroy so many lives. Viewers are introduced to some of the major figures behind this gross reign of terror and some of their most vulgar punishments.

CODE
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snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 07:48 PM

Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America-and Found Unexpected Peace - William Lobdell (http://atheistmovies***************/2009/07/losing-my-religion-how-i-lost-my-faith.html)

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Lobdell’s spiritual life had been a roller-coaster ride. During his late twenties, his marriage fell apart, he drank too much, and he cheated on his new—and pregnant—girlfriend. He was running away from responsibility as fast as he could. So when a friend told him he needed God—he suspended church attendance when a teenager—he listened. Slowly, things turned around. He secured a new job, marriage to his second wife went well, everything seemed to be falling into place. Attributing his newfound success to faith, he became a born-again Christian and, later, seriously considered converting to Catholicism. He became a full-time religion reporter for the Los Angeles Times, a job that exposed him to other faiths and to stories of abuse in mainstream religion circles, especially the sexual abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. Before long, he was wracked with doubt and stopped attending church altogether. “My long honeymoon with Christianity had ended.” Finally, he reached a turning point at which he concluded that there is no God. Lobdell’s spiritual journey fascinates, not least on account of the irony of his trajectory from agnosticism to belief to atheism while covering religion. It’s a story that may raise eyebrows among believers and nonbelievers alike. June Sawyers

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snaggletooth

07-09-2009, 07:50 PM

Michael Shermer vs. Dinesh D'Souza (http://atheistmovies***************/2009/07/michael-shermer-vs-dinesh-dsouza.html)

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Michael Shermer and Dinesh D'Souze come together once again to challenge on atheism and religion. Is religion a force for good or evil? Did Christianity give us our moral values? Is science a faith?

Who will win the debate? Reason or demagogy?

Took place in Nashville, on March 2008

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snaggletooth

07-10-2009, 03:30 PM

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Suppose you had never heard of Christianity, and that next Sunday morning a stranger standing in a pulpit told you about a book whose authors could not be authenticated and whose contents, written hundreds of years ago, included blood-curling legends of slaughter and intrigue and fables about unnatural happenings such as virgin births, devils that inhabit human bodies and talk, people rising from the dead and ascending live into the clouds, and suns that stand still. Suppose he then asked you to believe that an uneducated man described in that book was a god who could get you into an eternal fantasy-place called Heaven, when you die. Would you, as an intelligent rational person, even bother to read such nonsense, let alone pattern your entire life upon it.....

http://rapidshare.com/files/221224481/Skeptics_Guide_to_Bible.rar

snaggletooth

07-10-2009, 03:45 PM

Michael Shermer - Why People Believe Weird Things Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Audiobook)

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Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known"

File Size: 65 MB
Language: English

Download: Audiobook
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Download the e-book:
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snaggletooth

07-10-2009, 03:52 PM

Beyond Belief: Science, Reason, Religion & Survival (2006)

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This special 19 hour audio of The Science Network conference brings the amazing names such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Steven Weinberg, Melvin J. Konner, Scott Atran, Owen Flanagan, Francisco Ayala together.

Just 40 years after a famous TIME magazine cover asked "Is God Dead?" the answer appears to be a resounding "No!" According to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, "God is Winning". Religions are increasingly a geopolitical force to be reckoned with. Fundamentalist movements - some violent in the extreme - are growing. Science and religion are at odds in the classrooms and courtrooms. And a return to religious values is widely touted as an antidote to the alleged decline in public morality. After two centuries, could this be twilight for the Enlightenment project and the beginning of a new age of unreason? Will faith and dogma trump rational inquiry, or will it be possible to reconcile religious and scientific worldviews? Can evolutionary biology, anthropology and neuroscience help us to better understand how we construct beliefs, and experience empathy, fear and awe? Can science help us create a new rational narrative as poetic and powerful as those that have traditionally sustained societies? Can we treat religion as a natural phenomenon? Can we be good without God? And if not God, then what?

This is a critical moment in the human situation, and The Science Network in association with the Crick-Jacobs Center brought together an extraordinary group of scientists and philosophers to explore answers to these questions. The conversation took place at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA from November 5-7, 2006.

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snaggletooth

07-10-2009, 04:01 PM

A little bit of humorous philosophy...... :D

South Park And Philosophy (http://megauploadbooks***************/2009/05/south-park-and-philosophy-ed-robert-arp.html)

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From Publishers Weekly

With a firm belief in the power of satire, and a number of complicated questions-including the morals of laughing at a ten-year-old's racist, sexually active hand-puppet-author and philosophy professor Arp presents an accessible collection of 22 essays on Comedy Central's controversial, long-running cartoon series South Park. Drawing on the usual suspects-Plato, Aristotle, Freud and Sartre among them-the contributors gleefully argue that the fiercely juvenile and politically incorrect show speaks to some of the most important issues of our-or any-time. In the first entry, William W. Young III draws comparisons between moralizing condemnation of South Park and the charges "leveled against Western philosophy since its beginnings" in a section titled "Oh my God! They Killed Socrates! You Bastards!" Other essays take on the "ethics of amusement" in the face of a Virgin Mary statue bleeding from a wholly inappropriate place, the existential crisis suggested by the Kenny's recurrent death and what a school mascot election between "a Giant ~censored~ and a Turd Sandwich" says about America's two-party political system. Though the laundry list of philosophical issues-gender and sexuality, personal identity, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, the ethics of belief-feels familiar, and some of the writers' attempts at lowbrow humor can be embarrassingly off-mark, it's a serious but inviting roundup that high-minded South Park fans, as well as pop-philosophy devotees, will find worthwhile.

Review

"Twenty-two philosophers can’t be wrong. Here to confirm suspicions that a relevant subtext exists beneath the potty-mouthed facade of Comedy Central’s “South Park” (now in its 10th season) is this indispensable collection of thought-provoking essays." Boston Herald, January 5, 2007.

“Move over, Kant. South Park and Philosophy embodies a new categorical imperative: Read this collection, laugh, and think.”
Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of Reason magazine

“Give Cartman some hemlock to drink so he can join Socrates for a meeting of the minds! Troubled by such philosophical conundrums as free will and determinism or the existence of God? Worry no more. Here you will find the way, the truth, and the light. Or not. Either way, if this book can’t interest this generation in philosophy, then we’re all screwed.”
Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the author of Why Darwin Matters

http://rapidshare.com/files/221833947/South_park_and_Philosophy.pdf

snaggletooth

07-10-2009, 04:09 PM

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing “Hoax” (http://books4share.net/?p=2238)

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Book Description

(Advance praise for Philip Plaits Bad Astronomy)

“Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and space you never knew you suffered from.” —Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editor of The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia

“Thank the cosmos for the bundle of star stuff named Philip Plait, who is the worlds leading consumer advocate for quality science in space and on Earth. This important contribution to science will rest firmly on my reference library shelf, ready for easy access the next time an astrologer calls.” —Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Borderlands of Science

“Philip Plait has given us a readable, erudite, informative, useful, and entertaining book. Bad Astronomy is Good Science. Very good science…” —James “The Amazing” Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation, and author of An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

“Bad Astronomy is a fun read. Plait is wonderfully witty and educational as he debunks the myths, legends, and ‘conspiracies that abound in our society. ‘The Truth Is Out There’-and it’s in this book. I loved it!” —Mike Mullane, Space Shuttle astronaut and author of Do Your Ears Pop in Space?

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the buttfish

07-10-2009, 10:51 PM

Definitions of secular on the Web:

* of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

* worldly: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

* profane: not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

Secularism is generally the assertion that governmental practices or institutions should exist separately from religion or religious beliefs. Alternatively, it is a principle of promoting secular ideas or values in either public or private settings over religious ways of thought.

Definitions of secular humanism on the Web:

* humanism: the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through science and reason; rejects religion and the supernatural
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* Secular humanism is a humanist philosophy that upholds reason, ethics and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as the basis of moral reflection and decision-making. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

* A form of religion that believes in humanistic values. Placing man before God. The thought that man is practically a god.

* An outlook or a philosophy that advocates human rather than religious values.

I guess from that you can see why secular can mean "anti-religious propaganda" as you call it. Personally, if Id had my way, I would have called the thread Fun with Anti-myth, Anti-theism and Uncle Science (or something). :D

Thanks snaggletooth I was unsure what to say to that when I first read it.

To the fans of this thread yeah I'm still alive. To all the people who think I'm the antichrist: sorry to disappoint you. But don't worry I'll be dead someday and you can laugh at me from your high horse then. It seems like even though this thread has progressed a lot since I started it, mostly thanks to snaggletooth, but it seems even at this point people want me to fix the Richard Dawkins' Root of all Evil? Pt 1. Unfortunately my computer keeps crashing because its a piece of shit and I don't know how to maintain it properly. Ever time this happens I lose all my files. We're talking gigs upon gigs up gigs of movies, tv shows, mp3s, and porn. But I've been bit by the uploading bug so I'll redownload Root of All Evil? and upload it soon. In the meantime please enoy the June 13th episode of the non prophets podcast. I suppose its simpler for you just to go to:
http://www.nonprophetsradio.com/audio/right click and save link as. Or you can download the podcast via itunes by entering the non prophets. Its a good episode one of the topics is Ray Comfort's new book that tries to challenge atheist philosphers. Also criticism of unapologetic christian retailers like Hobby Lobby and Wataburger.

http://rapidshare.com/files/254342897/The_Non-Prophets_8.10.rarPASSsoup!

Who else is subscribed for the Atheist Community of Austin's podcasts? Also what do y'all think of adding a secular discussion thread? I'm not going to start it because I don't really have much to say in the matter but it would be nice.

the buttfish

07-10-2009, 11:04 PM

Also I was wondering since this topic has gotten so large that someone with enough time and patience on their hands would like to make a catalog of all working links and what page they are on so I could post in on page one so everybody could find what they are looking for.

snaggletooth

07-11-2009, 04:32 AM

I dont imagine the Mods would tolerate the thread turning into a discussion forum Buttfish. There are loads of boards out there today dedicated to Atheist/Secular/Humanist issues however. As for podcasts, Ive tried quite a few (including The Atheist experience), but my favourite has to be the Point of Enquiry one. Theres a different Scientist, Author, Philosopher (?) each episode, and they take one subject and go over it in fine detail. The interviewer (DJ Grothe) really knows his stuff, and you dont get a load of meaningless chit chat padding out the show. Get it here: http://www.pointofinquiry.org/

snaggletooth

07-11-2009, 12:15 PM

In A Nutshell: Darwin (audiobook)

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Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks | 2009-02-03 | ISBN: 9626349441 | mp3 (112-160 kbps) | 34,06 MB

Naxos AudioBooks launches a new 1 CD introductory series "In a Nutshell" with "Darwin", marking the 200th anniversary of the English naturalist. Peter Whitfield explains how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle - and his initial reluctance to publish his findings.

101 _ Charles Darwin, philosopher of man and nature.mp3
102 _ The Beagle, a small ship of 250 tons.mp3
103 _ He also continued to work on other phenomena.mp3
104 _ Over the five years following his return.mp3
105 _ Further support for this view.mp3
106 _ Second, he could not accept that all changes.mp3
107 _ As Darwin drew all these insights.mp3
108 _ We know that he had told his wife Emma.mp3
109 _ It has been argued that Wallace.mp3
110 _ He finds a grandeur in this view.mp3
111 _ If this were true of the scientists.mp3
112 _ Darwin himself of course took little or no part.mp3
113 _ By the 1870s Darwinism.mp3
114 _ These were major advances.mp3
115 _ Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey.mp3

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snaggletooth

07-11-2009, 12:31 PM

The Atheism Tapes – Jonathan Miller in Conversation (Complete) (http://www.mytvblog.org/?p=4245)

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The Atheism Tapes – Jonathan Miller in Conversation (Complete)
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In 2007 the BBC aired the highly-acclaimed series by Jonathan Miller called A Brief History of Disbelief. It presented the first television show ever that explored the idea that a god does not exist. Although the original series comprised of four programs, Miller said that he felt embarrassed to find a large proportion of it that ended on the cutting room floor because the series would last 24 hours otherwise. But as it happened, the BBC agreed with Miller that the conversations were too interesting to be junked. So began the idea of The Atheism Tapes as a sequel, if you will, from the original series. The two disk set comprises of six interviews with five famous atheists, and one theologian, all conducted by Jonathan Miller, a British neurologist turned theatre director.

The Atheism Tapes – Jonathan Miller in Conversation (2004)

‘The Atheism Tapes’ is a series of one-on-one dialogs between Jonathan Miller and six acknowledged thinkers on the topic of belief and atheism. It follows ‘Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief’ which met with such critical acclaim and popularity that the BBC broke what was essentially an unspoken rule: Miller was allowed to create a second series from discussions cut from the first and air it within the same season. Each segment is dedicated to one discussion and is edited to a 30 minute duration.
In this ground-breaking series, neurologist turned playwright and atheist Jonathan Miller interviewed six of today’s leading men of letters and science. New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, Philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, playwright Arthur Miller, theologian Denys Turner and physicist Steven Weinberg discuss their personal intellectual journeys and offer illuminating analyses of nontheism from a wide range of perspectives.

Part 1: Colin McGinn

English philosopher McGinn speaks about the various reasons for not believing in God, and some of the reasons for. He gives a thorough treatment of the ontological argument. In addition, McGinn draws an important distinction between atheism (lack of belief in a deity) and antitheism (active opposition to theism); he identifies himself as both an atheist and an antitheist. Finally, he speculates about a post-theistic society.

Part 2: Steven Weinberg

American physicist Weinberg talks about the effectiveness of the Design Argument, both in the past and today. He also discusses the reasons that people become religious, including the varying influences of physical and biological arguments against religion. Miller connects this to a higher likelihood of biologists being non-believers than physicists, which Weinberg finds surprising.
Weinberg goes on to distinguish between harm done in the name of religion from that done by religion and states that both of these are very real and very dangerous. He goes on to discuss the difference between religious belief in America and Europe, and about how he doesn’t like the “character” of the monotheistic God. He ends by saying that science is very definitely corrosive to religious belief, and that he considers this a good thing.

Part 3: Daniel Dennett

American philosopher Dennett explains why he called one of his books Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and why many of Darwin’s contemporaries, in particular, considered Darwin’s theory of evolution to be dangerous. He goes on to deal with the question of consciousness (i.e., is the consciousness/soul distinct from the body), talking about Darwin’s rejection of the soul and the possible origins and psychological purposes of a belief in an immaterial soul.
Next, he talks about his Christian upbringing and how he became an atheist. He goes on to ask why it is thought rude to criticise religious belief, and suggests that it is due to the influential status of the religions in question. He finishes by wondering whether we could live effectively in a post-theistic world.
Next, he talks about his Christian upbringing and how he became an atheist. He goes on to ask why it is thought rude to criticise religious belief, and suggests that it is due to the influential status of the religions in question. He finishes by wondering whether we could live effectively in a post-theistic world.

Part 4: Arthur Miller

As a tribute to the recently deceased playwright Arthur Miller, another chance to see the discussion between Jonathan Miller and Arthur Miller about disbelief and their experiences of anti-Semitism, recorded in 2004.

Part 5: Richard Dawkins

Biologist Richard Dawkins talks to Jonathan Miller about his implacable opposition to all religion.

Part 6: Denys Turner

Christian theologian Denys Turner defends the case for God as the answer to the most important questions.

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07-11-2009, 02:10 PM

snaggletooth

07-11-2009, 05:57 PM

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The Anti-Christ is a work originally published in 1895 and written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This is a book which is seen as an assault by Nietzsche on the institution of Christianity and focuses on the "slave morality" and the apathy of Western Christianity. Believing that Christianity is a poison, the author uses a systematic and detailed attack upon the popular interpretation of Christ's words by St. Paul and his followers. This edition also features an introduction written by H. L. Mencken. The Anti-Christ is highly recommended for those who are interested in the religious beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche and also those who enjoy his writings.

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snaggletooth

07-11-2009, 06:06 PM

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Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.

Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out.

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snaggletooth

07-11-2009, 06:08 PM

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A Short History of Nearly Everything (ISBN 0-7679-0817-1) is a general science book by Bill Bryson, which explains some areas of science in ordinary language. It was the bestselling popular science book of 2005 in the UK, selling over 300,000 copies.

A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. In it, he explores time from the Big Bang to the discovery of quantum mechanics, via evolution and geology.

Bryson tells the story of science through the stories of the people who made the discoveries, such as Edwin Hubble, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.

Bryson describes graphically how big the universe is, and how small atoms and subatomic particles are. Furthermore, he reports on the likeliness of the Earth being struck by a meteor, how unlikely it is that humans will spot a meteor before it impacts the Earth, and the extensive damage that such an event would cause. He also explores the history of biology, botany, and zoology, and traces life from its first appearance all the way to today's modern humans, placing much emphasis on the development of the modern Homo sapiens. All along the book, humorous stories about the scientists behind the discovery and their half-crazy behaviour is given. Throughout the book, there are many reports on the way humans change the Earth's climate and destroy other species, as well how the Earth was and is a very destructive planet itself, briefly touching about earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and mass extinctions. His tendency to look for big explosions and awe-inspiring devastation takes him to the most destructive disasters in the history of the world, from Krakatoa to Yellowstone National Park.

Bryson ends the book by noting how many extinctions humans are responsible for, and how lucky mankind is to be living on planet Earth today.

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snaggletooth

07-12-2009, 09:55 AM

101 Things Every Kid Should Know about Science (audiobook)
by Samantha Beres

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Narrator: Kristin Allison
Beres presents 101 facts about science on topics such as the human body,
botany, chemistry, physics, evolution, zoology, and technology. Includes
brief biographies, fun facts, and hands on experiments, some which need
adult supervision. For grades 4-7.

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snaggletooth

07-12-2009, 10:00 AM

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, by Stephen Hawkins

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Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

The physicist presents autobiographical sketches, a transcript of a
“Desert Island Discs” broadcast on which he was the guest castaway,
and scientific articles that range from his philosophy of science to his
dream of finding a complete theory of the universe. The essays reflect
changes in the author’s long battle with motorneuron disease and insights
into science and space. A 1993 Bestseller

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snaggletooth

07-12-2009, 10:06 AM

Steven Pinker – How The Mind Works (audiobook)

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Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man’s annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that Darwin plus canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves–but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W. C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology, and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot as Number One on bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker’s startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose.

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snaggletooth

07-12-2009, 10:17 AM

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The science genius who took on the underworld (audiobook)

There was a lot more to Isaac Newton than just being hit on the head with an apple. Did you know he used to shove pointed sticks into his eyeballs to see what happened? At school he scrunched the bully's face into a church wall, later on he fell out with almost everybody he met, some of his experiments bordered on witchcraft and he personally signed many criminal's death warrants...and there's lots more all in this book. Amongst all the other gruesome facts, there's newpaper reports on the plague, the great fire of London and the executions of the time, plus a simple step by step guide to Newton's greatest discoveries including Calculus, Gravity and Colours. This book (illustrated with loads of superb pictures and cartoon strips by the excellent Philip Reeve ) provides a gory, fascinating and fact-packed read for anyone aged 9 to 99.

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snaggletooth

07-12-2009, 10:21 AM

13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

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Science starts to get interesting when things dont make sense. Michael Brooks reveals thirteen anomalies that defy the scientific theory of today and forecast tomorrows breakthroughs.

Product Details
* Audio CD: 8 Hours 58 minutes
* Unabridged Library edition (August 1, 2008)

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snaggletooth

07-13-2009, 07:01 PM

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Based on the best-selling book by Karen Armstrong (posted below), A History of God descends into the ancient roots of Abrahamic religions and analyses today's three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity
and Islam.

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This searching, profound comparative history of the three major monotheistic faiths fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate. Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious affairs and former Roman Catholic nun, argues that Judaism, Christianity and Islam each developed the idea of a personal God, which has helped believers to mature as full human beings. Yet Armstrong also acknowledges that the idea of a personal God can be dangerous, encouraging us to judge, condemn and marginalize others. Recognizing this, each of the three monotheisms, in their different ways, developed a mystical tradition grounded in a realization that our human idea of God is merely a symbol of an ineffable reality. To Armstrong, modern, aggressively righteous fundamentalists of all three faiths represent "a retreat from God." She views as inevitable a move away from the idea of a personal God who behaves like a larger version of ourselves, and welcomes the grouping of believers toward a notion of God that "works for us in the empirical age." Publishers Weekly

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snaggletooth

07-13-2009, 07:07 PM

Jesus Was Not The Messiah
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According to the interpretations of Christian apologists on messianic prophecies, the crucifixion and virgin birth was false.

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07-15-2009, 10:04 AM

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Not sure if this is all the episodes of this great science series (must be close though). If you havent heard of it, click the IMDB link for a bit of detail. Safe to say, this is a very easy way to understand science and the world around you. For kids and adults alike. ;)

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snaggletooth

07-15-2009, 10:21 AM

Popular Science, August 2009 (US) (http://dibooks***************/2009/07/popular-science-august-2009-us.html)

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True PDF | 93 Pages | English | 13.2 Mb

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snaggletooth

07-15-2009, 10:25 AM

Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy (http://dibooks***************/2009/06/encyclopedia-of-space-and-astronomy.html)

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Incorporating and expanding on entries from such earlier works as his Facts On File Space and Astronomy Handbook (2002), Angelo presents a wide-angled survey that not only encompasses the nature, study, and exploration of outer space, but also delves into a huge array of related topics, from the Tomahawk missile and Columbia accident to climate change and quarks. Alphabetically arranged into more than 3000 articles that run from single sentences to several double-columned pages, this resource is both comprehensive and easy to use, and nearly every entry closes with several cross-references. The volume is enhanced by a detailed index and 15 thought pieces on such topics as the physical hazards of space travel, the possible consequences of interstellar contact, and the demonstrated uses of satellites in peace and war. Though neither the occasional, murky black-and-white photographs nor the appendixes, which are chock-full of useful and unusual information, are picked up in the index, and some entries are less than enlightening (Enthalpy, for instance, includes no actual definition of the term), this will be a valuable addition to any smaller collection serving serious students, whether they’re researching Galileo or the Galilean satellites, such recent trans-Plutonian discoveries as Sedna and Quaoar, or, for that matter, Walt Disney’s influence on the space race.–John Peters, New York Public Library

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snaggletooth

07-15-2009, 10:28 AM

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins - Charles M. Wynn & Arthur W. Wiggins

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"Here we have, in their book, a clearer look at the misconceptions and outright deceptions that plague us. Lots of sunlight, and a dash of disinfectant!" James Randi, aka The Amazing Randi

File Size: 3.15 MB

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snaggletooth

07-15-2009, 10:22 PM

Einstein - The Human Side

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Here’s the story of one of the world’s greatest scientists. His parents thought he was rather slow in childhood, but perhaps he was merely keeping his thoughts to himself. Born in Germany in 1879, he published his famous theory of special relativity in 1905, which revolutionized science. Later as a refugee from Nazi persecution, he fled to America and spent many satisfying years at Princeton University. Older boys and girls will find hours of reading pleasure in the very accessible biographies in the My Name Is ... series. The narratives are substantial, averaging roughly 7,500 words each, as they recount their subjects’ accomplishments in the context of their times and historical backgrounds. Each book’s narrative is supplemented with handsome full-color illustrations, including some of full-page size. Titles in this series make ideal additions both to school and home libraries, and can serve as supplementary reading for classroom discussion and essay projects. A two-page time line at the back of each book summarizes the subject’s life, as well as important cultural and historical events that occurred during his lifetime.
I was often asked how I came up with my theories, where I got the ideas, and how I managed to simplify the most complicated things. The answer is simple. I have always said that you have to try things ninety-nine times in order to succeed on the hundredth attempt.

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snaggletooth

07-15-2009, 10:27 PM

John Houghton, "Global Warming: The Complete Briefing"
Cambridge University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0521709164, 0521882567 | 456 pages | PDF | 25,7 MB

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John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full color and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change. Written for students across a wide range of disciplines, its simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science and impacts of climate change and highlights the need for action on global warming. Is there evidence for climate changing due to human activities? How do we account for recent extremes of weather and climate? Can global electricity provision and transport ever be carbon free? Written by a leading figure at the forefront of action to confront humanity's most serious environmental problem, this undergraduate textbook comprehensively explores these and other issues, allowing students to think through the problem, assess the data and draw conclusions on the action that should be taken, by governments, by industry and by each and every one of us.

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snaggletooth

07-15-2009, 10:33 PM

BBC - THE PLANETS - COMPLETE SERIES (1999)

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Language: English
8 x 50 mins | 656x384 | PAL (23.976fps) | Divx | MP3 - 192 Kbps | 8 x 744 MB
Genre: Documentary

While watching The Planets, be prepared to fight your way past all kinds of computer animation which makes Walking with Dinosaurs seem like the last word in realism. It seems that no solar or planetary event which ever happened (or which may or may not have happened) is worthy of mention here without recourse to lovingly detailed shots of implausible-looking collisions and explosions. These come complete with sound effects, despite the fact that there is no sound in the vacuum of space, and are enhanced by a range of colours, some of which are visible only to bees. Somehow Patrick Moore’s The Sky at Night manages to convey just as much excitement with little more than a couple of diagrams and the presenter’s hyperactive enthusiasm. Fortunately, this two-DVD set is redeemed by both its subject matter and its sheer scope, offering all eight 50-minute episodes of the 1999 documentary series covering the history of the solar system and humanity’s age-old desire to learn its secrets. Detailed indexing and scene access makes this a convenient reference source too, so amateur astronomers everywhere can finally bin those off-air VHS copies.

Contains all eight episodes from the series:- ‘Different Worlds’, ‘Moon’, ‘Terra Firma’, ‘Giants’, ‘Star’, ‘Atmosphere’, ‘Destiny’ and ‘Life’.

Episode 1 – Different Worlds

Travel back in time and space to witness the awesome forces that gave birth to the Sun and the far-flung family of planets that orbit it. From the rocky, superheated surface of Mercury, to the storm-wracked atmosphere of gigantic Jupiter and the distant mysteries of Pluto, this is a richly detailed introduction to the creation, composition and alien landscapes of The Planets

Episode 2 – Terra Firma

Relive the thrill of first glimpses of otherworldly terrain as you join the early quest to discover the true nature of our planetary neighbours. Pierce the toxic clouds of Venus to map ancient lava flows the size of continents. Visit a Martian volcano taller than Mount Everest and head even further out into the planetary system in search of clues to the “living” geological forces at work in the most unlikely cosmic corners.

Episode 3 – Giants

They are the heavyweights of the planetary line up. There are unimaginable vast orbs of seething gas and brilliant could bands that contain virtually no landscapes. Now, take a closer look at these planetary behemoths.

Episode 4 – Moon

While a number of planets are accompanied by moons of all sizes and compositions, only the Earth boasts such a comparatively huge “companion world.” What forces could have resulted in this planetary odd couple? Join the search for the answer to one of the solar system’s most baffling mysteries, from Cold Warrior scientists racing to be first on the moon, to current theories and remarkable computer-generated visions of the moon’s explosive creation.

Episode 5 – Star

To primitive peoples, the Sun was synonymous with God – the ultimate source of life-giving warmth and light. Now, step aboard with the Skylab space station to probe the turbulent heart of our local power source. Plunge into the centre of the Sun to witness the reactions driving its primordial atomic pulse. And observe the spectacle of massive solar flares capable of engulfing entire planets – including our own.

Episode 6 – Atmosphere

Atmospheres make weather. This can result in alien weather reports that seem as if they’re right our of a science program: torrential sulphuric rain and metallic snow on Venus, global dust storms raging across Mars and centuries-long, Earth-sized cyclones circling Jupiter. It’s an eye-opening exploration of other worldly weather that reveals the surprising variety and force of atmospheric activity throughout the solar system.

Episode 7 – Life

From the startling Copernican revelation that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe, humanity has wondered if life is unique to our world. But how likely is it that the Earth is the only reservoir of life in the vastness of space? Come along for the ride as early planetary researches learn that conditions on our neighbouring planets may be too hostile to support life and discover how recent findings hint there may be alien life “hiding out” in places we’ve overlooked.

Episode 8 – Destiny

What is the long-term fate of the planets in our solar system? Voyage to a future billions of years in the distance. Explore the Sun’s expansion as it engulfs its planetary progeny in the final, fiery act of its billion-year long dilemma.

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snaggletooth

07-18-2009, 11:56 AM

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Yes, the fundies have had it their own way for long enough, so, grab these printable tracts below, and place them in all the usual fundamental christian places ie. the bus, the train, hotel rooms, erm.... and church seats. :D

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If you want to educate folks a bit more however, these two are much more detailed.....

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and this ones in full colour.

http://www.atheisteye.com/AtheistTract.pdf

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And finally, some very funny wallpaper....

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snaggletooth

07-18-2009, 02:14 PM

A great Darwinist....

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These one-off specials represent some of Sir David Attenborough’s most personal quests and passionate enthusiasm. Attenborough in Paradise represents a childhood dream come true as he visits the forests of New Guinea to record the spectacular displays of the birds of paradise. A piece of amber given to him 60 years ago by a young refugee girl sparked a lifelong interest explored in The Amber Machine while The Lost Gods of Easter Islands finds him tracing the history of a strange human figurine he bought at auction.
Also included is a special programme on the incredible ‘artist’ birds in Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction an investigation into the music of the wild in The Song of the Earth an expedition to find a lost tribe in the mountains of central New Guinea in A Blank on the Map and Life on Air a fascinating celebration of Sir David Attenborough’s 50 years with the BBC.

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snaggletooth

07-18-2009, 02:34 PM

Philip's Atlas of the Universe
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Philip's Atlas of the Universe
Universe eBook | PDF | 316 pages | 52.5 MB

British astronomy popularizer Moore has added yet another volume to his amazingly prolific output, this time a new edition of a reference work first published in 1970 and last completely revised in 1988. At that time, Moore wrote that a full revision would be necessary "before 2000," and the time has now arrived.

With such developments as great new telescopes, Mars landings, the space shuttle, Voyager 2 flybys, and missions to Halley's Comet, so much has happened in astronomy in the last decade that this new edition (published last year in Britain as Philip's Atlas of the Universe) is as welcome as it is timely. Like its predecessors, the new edition follows the pattern of a general historical overview, followed by individual sections on the solar system, the sun, the stars, the structure of the universe and our galaxy's place in it, and over 20 useful star maps, all incorporating the newest scientific data.
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snaggletooth

07-18-2009, 02:39 PM

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anticopyright

07-19-2009, 12:40 AM

Root of All Evil? (2006)

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INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil%3F
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0774118/
http://www.csfd.cz/film/222955-root-of-all-evil/(en) Richard Dawkins' highly critical documentary attacks the pulsing heart of all mainstream religion- faith; with special focus on Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Contains repeated references to sectorial schools as child abuse and faith as the stepping stone to terrorist activity.

(cz) Oxfordský profesor Richard Dawkins jednoduchými dôkazmi vysvetľuje, prečo je náboženstvo koreňom všetkého zla na Zemi. Zaoberá sa otázkami existencie Boha, jeho vysvetlenie podľa Biblie ako krotovládcu a rasistu, rozoberie niektoré obzvlášť hrozné časti z Biblie. Bolo krásne ukázané, ako či kresťania, alebo iné náboženstvá, vôbec neprímajú inú pravdu a útočia na režisérsky štáb slovne (Moslimovia), alebo ich jednoducho vyženú (kresťania). Pritom odmietajú také základné poznania ako evolúciu a vznik sveta, až nenormálne extrémistickým spôsobom. Film tiež zobrazuje moslimskú výchovu, kde im od začiatku hustia náboženstvo, alebo zločiny spáchané podľa toho, že to tak bolo v biblii napísané. Pritom sa všetko snaží pán Dawkins vysvetliť logicky, ale pri niektorých náboženských fanatikoch veľa šťastia mať nebude. Perfektný dokument.

Trailer:
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snaggletooth

07-20-2009, 01:25 PM

BBC – The Human Face (Complete) (http://www.mytvblog.org/?p=4336)

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BBC – The Human Face (Complete)
XviD | MP3 | 2.73GB

The Human Face is a 4 part BBC series that examines the science behind facial beauty, expression, and fame in an entertaining fashion. John Cleese, actor, comedian, visiting professor, and best-selling author on psychology, sets out on an odyssey to discover the mysteries of identity, perception, creativity and sexuality hidden behind the mask of life itself. This four-part series combines art, technology and deeply moving human interest stories to uncover the secrets of the human face.
Everyone has one, but what do we know about them? From the legend of Cleopatra’s beauty to Einstein’s genius, the face is the source of sexual attraction and icon of fame.This series is the definitive guide to the story of the human face.

Part One: Here’s Looking at You

The series opens with an epic journey to uncover the secrets of the human face. In a world of six billion other faces, your face is unique. It reveals your personality, your genetic and cultural identity and it can be read like a book. Family resemblances, facial recognition and the purpose of the face and its features are all part of a story that begins in the oceans five hundred million years ago. We conclude with the multi-racial face of the future and the pioneering work of surgeons in Kentucky who are preparing for the world’s first facial transplant.

Part Two: Fame and Infamy

Famous faces are everywhere. They stare out at us from billboards, magazines, and movie screens, beaming out messages.These faces sell sex, politics, glamour and power. Diana, Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe, their faces are sometimes more familiar to us than those of our nearest and dearest. Fame and infamy tells the story of the face as icon, from Egyptian mummies to Hollywood stars.

Part Three: Survival of the Prettiest

What is beauty? Is it just a matter of personal taste? Apparently not; we discover that the same things attract lovers all round the world. A pretty face is a fertile face and ugliness suggests poor health. Big eyes, smooth skin and symmetrical features will win you fans everywhere. They’re also the ticket to a better job, more money, and better sex!

Part Four: Secrets and Lies

Every face contains a million secrets. And whether we like it or not, the face reveals our feelings and what’s really going on deep down inside. Secrets and Lies is about how the face communicates without saying a word; it’s about expressions, disguise and the mysterious art of face-reading

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