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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2006
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Atheists aren't that bad. This is NOT an argument for atheism... It's a defense of atheists.
This video received the award for "Excellence in Humanist Communications" from the Harvard University Humanist Chaplaincy.
James Randi said this video was "very cool!"
Michael Shermer said it was "very impressive."
Penn & Teller said, "If a god existed, this video would make him wish he were dead."
Dan Barker (author of "Losing Faith in Faith") said it was "very creative and powerful" and that it "makes a GREAT point!"
Greg Epstein (the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University) said "it's a wonderful video!"
Stephen Ulh (author of "Imagine No Superstition") said that this video was "just wonderful for the cause of atheism."
David Mills (author of "Atheist Universe") said "I am absolutely addicted to watching this fabulous video, which has almost instantly become a legend in the freethought community. Zak has created the most intellectually and emotionally powerful multimedia presentation I've ever seen endorsing the atheist position. This is a proud moment for all rational-minded people. Atheist books can have wide-reaching influence, but I strongly suspect that Zak's video will influence a much larger audience than any atheist book ever published. The first few times I watched this video, I literally had tears in my eyes by the end. The artistic talent and technical skills required to write and produce this video -- as well as its core message -- have made Zachary Kroger my newest freethought hero. I'm not surprised at the HUGE reaction Zak's video has generated."
This video (among others) was also mentioned in the November 4th New York Times article "God and Man on RUclips."
Nobelief.com said this was "the best video of 2006."
NOTE- It has been brought to my attention that Mark Twain, and Susan B. Anthony are not atheists. I looked into it, and my original sources were wrong. Sorry.
You can download the song used in this video at thegodmovie.com/cd/IsThisTheRe...
Lastly, I am pleased to see how much debate this video has sparked, and I encourage everyone that wants to, to join in. HOWEVER, spamming will not be tolerated. Nor will racist, sexist, or other mean comments. Such behavior is not conducive to good conversations, and users who do not act accordingly will be blocked. If you want to insult people, go somewhere else. 
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I miss when this was the most watched video on youtube.
RIP James Randi. This video introduced me to him and the plethora of amazing people that helped open me up to the idea of secularism and humanism.
Missing the 1st song used for this.
one of my newly favorite quotes:
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd."
"This famous atheist speaks to Obama every day, and other atheists love him for it. If this atheist said he spoke to Obama through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd."
The point is that this stone cold logic proves that Obama does not exist.
ungertron you're a moron
Sergio,how absurd god is depends on how you define God. If you define god as the absurd ignoramus in the bible, who has the sun going round the earth, then god can't possibly exist. If you define the mind of God as being analogues to the sum of natural laws directing the forces of nature to evolve all of reality, then there is a God. The consequences of your actions are also realized in accordance with these natural laws AKA the mind of God. In this way you communicate with God every day by your trial & error life experience, you decide your actions God decides your consequences in accordance with natural laws.
ungertron the christian version of god, or pretty much any religious version of god is absurd, if you dont see that then your a christian probably
sergio roberts Albert Einstein Quotes on Philosophy of Religion, Theology, God ..... 'The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.' That lame brain Einstein must be another "moron" according to you.
This was a very good video, but I can't believe there was no mention of Steven Hawking!
From what I recall Steven Hawking is agnostic
Before dying Stephen hawking admitted to believe that there was a higher being architect of our reality
Im also of Jewish descent from both side, and yet atheist! To be an atheist, means rational, healthy thinking!
Yea the *sterytypical atheist* you mean?
Atheist's please take the "Convert me to atheism challenge 2016" I want to learn and engage with you, bring your rebuttals!
Amen brother Joe!
Being an atheist is like being the only sober on in the car, and then they wont even let you drive. According to a study, religiosity is inversly proportional to IQ. I recommend reading books and watching videos from great thinkers like Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, Sagan, Hawking and Harari - all great scientists, thinkers, authors and atheists.
Most of those people u mentioned got btfo
have you have heard of “correlation does not equal causation” too?
Lol we see a white lil ahh collage girl searching for her next rooster. How does blieving in god hurt you? No sex? No drink?
Christianity is just a dead guy on a stick cult. Ever since I rejected religion life has become much more precious to me.
Stephane Guenette
This took google literally 0.27 seconds to find...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15637693
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12548540
So yes, people (scientists) DO wonder about the origin of feathers. However, instead of just throwing their hands up and saying "I give up, it must be magic" (like you), they actually try to figure it out.
Also, paradigms change if the theory doesn't fit the data. So far, this is not something that evolution has to worry about.
Stephane Guenette The most important difference between science and religion is, as zakiechan said, science has and *will* change its paradigm when the evidence changes. To change one's mind in religion is blasphemy or heresy. I pose the question to many believers "What would change your mind about your god?" - "Nothing" is their brainwashed reply.
Atheos Nous Good post, you say: " science has and will change its paradigm when the evidence changes." Yea that is why science is so much better than the manmade supernatural gods of the world. What is the source of all scientifically verified truth? The self-activating mathematical natural laws that are actualized by the forces of physics. So the father, the son & the holy ghost compose the silly supernatural fake non-god, the phony biblical non-god is just a metaphor for the natural laws & forces of physics that compose the real all natural God.
Stephane Guenette Find out the biggest problem. Please like the video because religious people dislike and attack the video. It shows a realistic problem of the world.
ruclips.net/video/HgZYkrwPStw/видео.html
Angel Vila With practically 100% certainty there is a measurably real God composed of the mathematic symmetries called the fundamental and emergent laws of nature that are integrated with the forces of physics. The genuine big bang creator and law of nature ruler of the universe, the true reason there is everything rather than nothing, the real actualizer of all truth & reality is the genuine Deity documented over the last 400 years by the natural sciences & reason.
Nothing supernatural has ever been documented with unambiguous evidence. Only weak anecdotal evidence supports anything supernatural, so most probably everything has a natural explanation, especially the big bang creator, evolver of humanity the Darwinian way & law of nature ruler of the universe God.
This is one of the best atheist videos I've seen to date, simply because I don't think many realize just how many of the creators and inventors are atheists...
Love this one. One of my all time favorites. Seen people brought to tears over this vid.
Fourberry Jones No, I haven't. What's it about?
I was quite fortunate in that I attended a school that focused on the sciences and taught the scientific method from the age of about 13. If I didn't get it then, my late father made very sure I understood it. Going through all his writing over the last few days, it struck me how like him my analysis was.
You poor "smart" and "intelligent" Atheists. You who are commenting and the one who made the humorous (and ironic) video could have spent about two minutes researching to learn the meaning of Psalms 14:1 and Psalms 53:1, which say, "The fool says in his heart, There is no God..." Had you spent two minutes researching you wouldn't appear to be so foolish.
Just trying to help you here, so don't throw stones at the messenger. Just get a clue before typing or opening your mouth to speak on issues you are ignorant about, especially Bible verses. The Bible says that those in unbelievers (e.g., Atheists) do not understand the meaning of God's word when they read it. You just prove the point when you make videos and comment like you're doing here.
The following is from the website Gotquestions.org -- try it out sometime.
Question: "What does the Bible mean when it says “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’”?"
Answer: Both Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1 read, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Some take these verses to mean that atheists are stupid, i.e., lacking intelligence. However, that is not the only meaning of the Hebrew word translated “fool.” In this text, the Hebrew word is nabal, which often refers to an impious person who has no perception of ethical or religious truth. The meaning of the text is not “unintelligent people do not believe in God.” Rather, the meaning of the text is “sinful people do not believe in God.” In other words, it is a wicked thing to deny God, and a denial of God is often accompanied by a wicked lifestyle. The verse goes on to list some other characteristics of the irreligious: “They are corrupt; their deeds are vile; / there is no one who does good.” Psalm 14 is a study on the universal depravity of mankind.
Many atheists are very intelligent. It is not intelligence, or a lack thereof, that leads a person to reject belief in God. It is a lack of righteousness that leads a person to reject belief in God. Many people do not object to the idea of a Creator, as long as that Creator minds His own business and leaves them alone. What people reject is the idea of a Creator who demands morality from His creation. Rather than struggle against a guilty conscience, some people reject the idea of God altogether. Psalm 14:1 calls this type of person a “fool.”
Psalm 14:1 says that denying God’s existence is commonly based on a desire to lead a wicked life. Several prominent atheists have admitted the truth of this... (read more at GotQuestions.org) -- Google GOTQUESTIONS PSALMS 14:1 MEANING
Those stories additionally illustrate the ineffectiveness of 'god' in fixing health ailments, which was the topic of the discussion, in case you'd forgotten. I'm glad to hear that you are against medical neglect. The key point, however, is that praying to god to cure an ailment is the same as doing nothing about an ailment.
Oh how much times have changed since this video was made
I was scrolling through my favorite's list and came upon this gem. This was my favorite video when I was 13 and was starting to use more logic 😅
you know this video is old when he gives you a myspace link
LOL great point! It's almost embarrassing to think I had MySpace.
You should have mentioned Erwin Schrödinger dude. That man is also an atheist. The working of Quantum computer is based on his famous thought experiment.
I always say, “Humanity currently worships nearly 5,000 gods, but don’t worry, only yours is right.”
One was right before others corroupted the words
@@cooldude-mi9wz : And coincidentally is the one you believe in… lol
I find it cute seeing all these theists commenting on the video trying to defend their 'god' while the atheists just laugh in the background.
Nano You make no sense!
We’ll see who has the last laugh. For your sake I hope you’re right. If atheists are right nobody has anything to lose but if Christians are right, an eternity awaits. Good “luck”!
@@gusgutierrez6721ahh yes, Pascal's wager, typical.
your idle threat of torture has absolutely no effect on atheists. try again.
Great video, Sagan in particular i could listen to all day. I've just finished reading a book called 2082 The Chronicles Of Hope and it's about an atheist humanitarian politician. 1st chapter on the website for it i think and worth checking out... features a speech on atheism that is genius
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust-we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - Albert Einstein
"Professing to be wise they become fools. “. Romans 1:22
Carl Sagan was not an atheist.
"An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid." --Carl Sagan
As attributed in "A tribute to Carl Sagan: A Sagan File" by Joel Achenbach in Skeptic Magazine, Vol 13, No. 1 (2006)
Note that Skeptic magazine is an atheist magazine with Richard Dawkins on its board.
Wrong wrong wrong...quote miner. You dont know Sagan.
This is one big appeal to authority fallacy, and not a defense at all.
Josh Gulick please read the description
Fgb Gbn please read my comment with the assumption that I have read the description.
"Anyhow, the link if you please?"
The poll was conducted in 2010, but you can google "Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion Surveys of Religion" where it's referenced.
Garrett, you have posted some of the best comments I've ever seen!
The Atheist is the most beautiful form of man kind ...
Nation under god = pure cringe? Atheist by default here.
I love it when atheists and agnostics get into debates with each other over the definition of atheism and agnosticism. Keep it up.
this video turned me into an atheist 😊
Does the Piraha tribe's exclusive language, contradict Noam Chomsky's Theory of Generative Grammar?
They always refer to a book that says Trees were created before the Sun to prove how people who don't believe this book are "fools".
It will be interesting (and sad) to see these atheists try to justify themselves at the judgement, which they don't believe in. I doubt that the Messiah will be impressed with all of their credentials. He will say to them...."Depart from me, I never knew you."
That man who won the $333 million lottery said he prayed for years and years that he'd pick the winning number, and guess what?
What? No Christopher Hitchins?
10 years. Dayum!
trey wrote "All the world power leaders have openly used the words one religion one world government."
Uh, I must have missed this, when did it happen?
2) William Boyd CBE, Lily Braun, Howard Brenton, André Breton, Brigid Brophy, Lady Levey, Alan Brownjohn, Charles Bukowski, John Burroughs, Lawrence Bush, Mary Butts, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Henry Cadbury, John W. Campbell, Albert Camus, Giosuè Carducci, Angela Carter, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Edward Clodd, Anton Chekhov, Claud Cockburn, G. D. H. Cole, Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE, Cyril Connolly, Joseph Conrad, Edmund Cooper, William Cooper, Jim Crace, Theodore Dalrymple, Akshay Kumar Datta,...
5) ... Keri Hulme, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Henrik Ibsen, Howard Jacobson, Susan Jacoby, Clive James, Robin Jenkins, Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Jordan, S. T. Joshi, Ismail Kadare, Franz Kafka, K. Shivaram Karanth, James Kelman, Douglas Kennedy, Ludovic Kennedy, Marian Keyes, Danilo Kiš, Paul Krassner, Pär Lagerkvist, Philip Larkin CH, CBE, FRSL, Marghanita Laski, Stieg Larsson, Rutka Laskier, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, Giacomo Leopardi, Primo Levi, Michael Lewis,...
Did I say that? I accept that I don't know. I accept that you don't know. I accept that nobody knows.
I was raised Greek Orthodox, my godfather is a priest, I went to Catholic school. I married a good Catholic girl 20 years ago and I loved Jesus and raised my children to have faith in Christ as their Savior and I taught Sunday School to high school kids. I Never doubted God existed.
Faith became a problem for me when I looked into the 'faith' Muslims had in Allah. Though not a Muslim I recognized something identical in Islam - 'Faith' from a book.
Seeing it through their eyes, I was infidel.
Einstein refered to Tesla as the smartest man on the planet.
That doesn't show he believed in the religion of intelligent design.
abuse used to overwhelm me....but now, now that I have confessed my brokeness to God, I know peace more than ever. Now, that's not to say it's all happy and dandy. No. I dont talk to my dad anymore. My whole family has basically shunned me for standing up to him and saying, "No, this is not the way to live...there is a better way in Jesus." But I can say I now live life to the fullest. I dont have to hide my brokeness. I can be healed everyday. THat's been my story and I believe God can do the
Nobel winner for 2012 in Physics David Wineland is an atheist.
Everyone who has ever experienced a conversation with another human being knows intuitively and feels a sense of what someone is saying without necessarily paying complete attention to the words being used. The kind of presence someone brings to others, notably in their eyes, face, and body posture all speak volumes before any words are used. Watching this video years ago, I would have went off on a tirade trying to defend concepts rather than listen deeply to what others are trying to say. I sense certain words and labels in this video represent various things to everyone here, and perhaps even if we all had a joint consensus on what words like "God" or "atheist" even meant for each person, we would still be left with the possibility of another experience, namely, try watching this video, whoever you call yourself as a scrap book of human experience. Look at each face and try to ask yourself some simple questions, like: What kind of family did this person have? Did this person really feel a sense of consistency and achievement in their life? What kind of experiences led this person to work so hard to achieve the insights of science and technology as they did? What did this person think and feel as they neared death?
Thinking questions that challenge us all to feel and consider deeper aspects of ourselves and others will help a more respectful and dare I say FUN dialogue.
Cheers.
Everything ethereal. Why matter itself is not absolute but reacts differently at the atomic level when under human observation.
thank you for playing. you are too easy. i just pull the string a bit and you dance for me.
Yet you didnt pull it
Ah, didn't catch the troll at first. Well done.
Einstein believed in intelligent design: "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion."
"Superstition is dying. Does that worry you?"
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Why should it? I'm not superstitious.
Atheist poets - Emily Dickenson, Philip Larkin, Charles Bukowsky, Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelly,
Scientists - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Nobel), Georges Charpak (Nobel), Francis Crick (Nobel), Richard Feynman, Alan Guth, Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Leakey, Leon M. Lederman (Nobel), Desmond Morris, Alfred Nobel, Linus Pauling...
This list could go on for pages...
"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God." Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
8) ..., Kate Pullinger, Philip Pullman CBE, Thomas Pynchon, Craig Raine, Ayn Rand, Derek Raymond, Stan Rice, Joseph Ritson, Michael Rosen, Alex Rosenberg, José Saramago, Dan Savage, Bernard Schweizer, Maurice Sendak, George Bernard Shaw, Michael Shermer, Claude Simon, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Joan Smith, Warren Allen Smith, Wole Soyinka, Olaf Stapledon, David Ramsay Steele, George Warrington Steevens, Bruce Sterling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andre Suares, Italo Svevo,...
Atheist artists- Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp,
Authors - Sir Kingsley Amis, Howard Breton, Albert Camus (Nobel winner), Anton Chekhov, Ken Follet, Jules Verne, Arthur Miller, Camille Paglia, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf,
Zach, or anyone: what is the title of the music that's currently playing on this video? Not the original one "Is This the Real Thing" by DJ madson.
This was made in 2006 before the steroid scandal began.
3) ... Rhys Davies, Frank Dalby Davison, Richard Dawkins, Alain de Botton, Daniel Dennett, Isaac Deutscher, Thomas M. Disch, Carlo Dossi, Roddy Doyle, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Carol Ann Duffy, Turan Dursun, Terry Eagleton, Greg Egan, Dave Eggers, Barbara Ehrenreich, George Eliot, Harlan Ellison, F.M. Esfandiary, Dylan Evans, Gavin Ewart, Michel Faber, Oriana Fallaci, Vardis Fisher, Tom Flynn, Ken Follett, E. M. Forster OM, John Fowles, Maureen Freely, James Frey, Stephen Fry...
Mostly because prominent Astronomy Profesors like Christopher D. Impey, who studied under Einstein and now works for NASA often stated that Einstein beleved in the same god as Newton. Would you like the link?
Why cant we all get along accusing someone of their religion and calling them wrong is stupid its like accusing your best friend of liking a different icecream flavor then you do and saying hes wrong that the flavor he likes isnt good
If you like strawberry icecream and I don't like strawberry icecream, neither of us is wrong. That's just a matter of person taste.
If you tell me that you're eating strawberry icecream and I tell you that you're eating chocolate icecream, then at the very least, one of us is wrong.
The healing of the soul is like the healing of the body: The crucial first step is to identify the location of the illness, whether it is caused by the crassness, grossness and corruption of his physical body or by a failing in his soul-powers,intellectual powers, emotional powers, laziness; the person being inclined to undersirable traits like arrogance or falsehood and the like. Or, the source of the malady may be habit - inadequate rearing or unwholesome environment having brought on bad habits. (lying (Including lying to himself)stealing, envying other, hating others in your heart or brain, jealousy, ego, being egotistical, thinking only of yourself as the main need to fulfill, being lazy in helping others, good deeds.)etc
Without ascertaining the specific site of the illness and the cause of infection, it is impossible to embark on a cure. One can only prescribe an orderly proper conduct in all matters, what to do and what to avoid. To "do good" in terms of observing mitzvot, designating times for TORAH-study and acquiring good character traits - and also to "turn away from evil." MOST urgent of all, however, is that the patient make himself aware of two things: a) to know that he is ill, and desire most fervently to be cured of his malady; b) to know that he can be cured, with hope and absolute trust that, with G‑d's help, he will indeed be cured of his sickness.
Refraining from deriving pleasure - in the fullest sense - from this world, is only a fine preparation for improving one's own weaker traits in his worship of serving G-D. Improving one's own weaker traits to serve G-D itself is transforming the physical into a vehicle for G‑dliness.
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Thanks for the respectful rousing debate good people. My hats off to you who didn't resort to petty insults and disrespectful language. I will now leave you in peace.
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Jesus isn't given enough credit for what he accomplished during his short life. Here was a man who showed up out of nowhere & began teaching. Turns out he was not only a great story-teller, but a great intellect. Besides Aramaic & Hebrew, he knew Greek & Latin. Many of his stories were in the form of parables & others based on personal experience. He spoke in words that people could understand & relate to. His message was so compelling that today, Christianity is the world's #1 religion.
4) ..., Frederick James Furnivall, Alex Garland, Constance Garnett, Nicci Gerrard, Rebecca Goldstein, Nadine Gordimer, Antonio Gramsci, Robert Graves, Graham Greene OM, CH, Germaine Greer, David Grossman, Jan Guillou, Mark Haddon, Daniel Handler, Lorraine Hansberry, Sam Harris, Harry Harrison, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Robert A. Heinlein, Zoë Heller, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Dorothy Hewett, Archie Hind, Christopher Hitchens, R. J. Hollingdale, Michel Houellebecq, A. E. Housman...
Bill Gates? My friend is a Christian. Our last country came to be a pilgrim to the Virgin Mary Church in Turkey.
If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and worthy of societies admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?
Jim Henson died of a strep infection. So what's your question?
"God helps those that help themselves" - Ben Franklin
So the shroud of Turin( What is though to be used during Jesus' burial ) was tested using carbon dating, and the test confirmed that the shroud wasn't what they used to wrap Jesus in considering that it was from somewhere between the 13th and 14th century.
Do you think that the Shroud of Turin is reliable evidence?
Also, Do you think Carbon( or any type of dating method ) is reliable?
The Big Bang Model and the expanding universe was the theory of Georges Lamaitre who was a Catholic priest/physicist.
In that case, you're at odds with the intellectually-dishonest atheists who say they don't believe in the supernatural.
I like this one: “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
Why did he allow us to discover science, so that we can argue with god's word and not believing in god. SO THAT HE CAN BURN US IN HELL?
what kind of computer are you using?
Everything has a Scientific explanation. The things that we cannot explain, doesn't mean that they are not science... 1500 years ago people were wondering if the world is flat...
He did pretty well for a drop out and a patent clerk.
you forgot Anthony flew
My granddaughter is only six. She can form her own opinions when she's older.
yeah contend or bend break or shake?
what is the title of instrument?
Einstein, Hubble, Newton, Tesla, all believed in that Magical Jew.
The Grammarist also, despite admitting in his definition that an atheist can simply be someone who lacks belief in a god, later implies that an atheist is someone who actively claims there is definitely no god. So he's a little confused even within his own post.
Einstein clearly stated what HE believes in. He did not disrespect any religion. That was his thoughts. You have yours as well.
Many of my favorite artists, muscians and poets. Of course, I'd already seen them, but I love seeing everyone googling like crazy to come up with their lists and trying to unscramble those word puzzles. Now that I've reviewed your material, check out "List of Christian thinkers in science." The list is so long, it puts yours to shame.
The difference between Jesus and a picture of Jesus? The picture only requires one nail to hang it.
Religious people are trained not to think. They are repeatedly told to just accept a premise without questioning. They are told to believe because others believe or because their parents believe or because they will be punished. The result of this is that every religious argument ends at the premise. If you don't accept the premise then there is no argument. Try starting with this premise: If everything was designed, then how can you tell the difference between something designed and something that was not designed?
7) ... Andrew Motion FRSL, Clare Mulley, Dame Iris Murdoch, Douglas Murray, Pablo Neruda, Aziz Nesin, Larry Niven, Michael Nugent, Joyce Carol Oates, Redmond O'Hanlon, John Oswald, Frances Partridge, Camille Paglia, Robert L. Park, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Raj Patel, Cesare Pavese, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Calel Perechodnik, Fernando Pessoa, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Neal Pollack, Terry Pratchett, Marcel Proust...
I found reference to Mr. Lueba at "Scientists and Belief." The Lueba study took place in 1914 and said the scientists were equally divided, 42%-42%. The 2006 Pew study said 51% of scientists believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of scientists say they believe in God, while 18% believe in a universal spirit or higher power. So now what?
2) ...That your specific exception was Maurice Sendak is laughable, since he is one of the most well-regarded authors of children's literature ever, and has won a Caldecott Medal, a Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration, a National Book Award, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a National Medal of Arts, an Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature, and an elementary school was named after him.
9) ... Vladimir Tendryakov, Tiffany Thayer, James Thomson, Miguel Torga, Sue Townsend, Freda Utley, Giovanni Verga, Frances Vernon, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Vowell, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Marina Warner CBE, FBA, Ibn Warraq, H.G. Wells, Edmund White, Sean Williams, Simon Winchester OBE, Tom Wolfe, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Gao Xingjian, David Yallop... that was just authors. You want another list of visual and performance artists?
I contacted Gallup to request information on the poll. If/when they respond, I'll let you know.
I'm just a lost european Guy from the land where almost everyone is athiest and people think your weird if your christian...
The proof is the impossibility of the contrary. The challenge for atheist is to prove atheistic reasoning is valid without using a viciously circular argument.
Depression, drug use, lack of parental acception, etc. But there's more. Gallup reported something more accurate than estimates and opinion polls: "The 2000 U.S. Census Bureau found that homosexual couples constitute less than 1% of American households."
Both videos, the RUclips and the Vimeo, have extremely crappy music on them.
The 'Net offers many varying definitions of agnostic and atheist. Atheists say they're the same, other atheists say they're not; agnostics say they're not atheists or they're not sure. Don't argue with me, take it up with them.
If one day my granddaughter should announce that she was a lesbian, I'd accept it and love her just the same.
I don't know a single scientist who would disagree with the statement that the world is exceedingly ingenious, the manifestation of something truly extraordinary. How could this extraordinary fine tuning of the universe be anything less than unmistakable evidence of a divine creator.
No, I can't. Why did you choose Einstein for your icon? He wasn't an atheist.
For a prophecy to be a valid phenomenon:
1) The event must demonstrably have occurred.
2) The prophecy must demonstrably have been made before the event occurred.
3) The event cannot be something that was likely to have happened anyway.
4) The prophecy must be specific enough that it could only apply to the one event.
5) The prophecy cannot potentially have been self-fulfilling.
Do any of the "fulfilled prophecies" in the bible meet these simple criteria?
That is so funny - as I read your comment, I'm watching an episode of Highlander where he sacrifices himself to save someone else, gets shot in the head, and gets up perfectly fine a few minutes later. Do you think Jesus also used the catch-phrase, "There can be only one"?
If atheists were as happy with their non-belief as they'd have us believe, they'd have no need to obsess over religion. But they do, and their protestations indicate they're not content at all.