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The other half of the universe Carl Sagan’s widow and longtime collaborator Ann Druyan gives the world another book by the late eminent scientist — this time on religion Conventional religion is taking a beating in the book world right now, with Richard Dawkins' “The God Delusion” and Sam Harris' “Letter to a Christian Nation” and “The End of Faith” making the bestseller lists. These books have boiled to the top of the current global political stew of radical extremism, suicide bombings, violent religious fundamentalism, the popularity of intelligent design and the denial of evolution and global warming. The intensity...

Big Bang - Big Scam, Or Sometimes Evolutionists Need To Be Smacked Upside The Head With A Board From Noah's Ark \In the Great Debate that has the Public Fool System fighting any challenge to the Theory Of Evolution, we must remember that many jobs - especially in Universities - would be at risk for the profs and their underlings - who must defend the THEORY, or find a more honest occupation elsewhere. An Intelligent Designer (why not just say God?) advocate on the college campus is scoffed at as a latter day Ptolemy, who believed that the earth was...

Richard Robinson attempts the impossible, trying to hopeful about pessimism and despair. After concluding that God and the immortal soul are nonexistent, Robinson claims man can still create meaning by pursuing truth and beauty and virtue, most importantly courage and brotherly love. In an Atheist's Values He writes: "The human situation is this. Each one of us dies. He ceases to pulse or breathe or move or think. He decays and loses his identity. His mind or soul or spirit ends with the ending of his body, because it is entirely dependent on his body. The human species too will...

Apparently Carl Sagan was a closeted homophobe: "Dear Mr. Derbyshire -- If you were not aware, Carl Sagan -- Yes, the happy, life-affirming, turtle-necked, warm-glow Carl Sagan -- was also mildly & tolerantly homophobic. "Two biographies on Sagan came out in 1999 and both (though one more than the other) were pained and hurt by some of the comments that would come out of Sagan's mouth. My favorite was that Sagan wasn't convinced that homosexuality was genetic, though if forced to accept that conclusion, he wanted it understood that homosexuality was a genetic deformity. Another was when Sagan discovered that...

<p>My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.</p>