heres a wee synopsis but anyway its certainly a great read thus far

anyone dug it???

anyone plan to dig it???

Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implications—the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates —through spiritons!—and where it resides. Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite.

Heard of it on a couple of occasions, but I haven't read it. I'll probably read it at some point though

I've heard great things about this book.

It's on my list,right after "Captive Hearts Captive Minds" by Madeleine Landeau Tobias.
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I dare someone to mail it to Prince.

He's like blind man with a bazooka. Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World has a much more dignified and eloquent manner of saying we're all robotic parasitic nothingness.

Ellie said:

He might have read it already.

Number23 said:

WHERE. THE. FUCK. HAVE. YOU. BEEN??!!!!???!!!!

I've only read the first few chapters and skimmed the rest.

I want to read it more some time soon--it was just so compelling and painted such a disturbing picture of not just religion but human pychology in general, that I can only stomach reading it when I'm 'in the zone'
It's quite well written and equally damning.

Imago said:

Funny you should mention it, a few days ago, i asked 9s if he had read it, and he said "hell, no, he's a douchebag,"

jami0mckay said:

WHERE. THE. FUCK. HAVE. YOU. BEEN??!!

Imago said:

Watching Dallas season 6. Bobby and JR are fighting for control of Ewing Oil after Jock left them to fight it out in his will. It's like The Godfather with big hats. Bobby's hair is beautiful.

LleeLlee said:

That's sooooo David.

Imago said:

well I've just been reading the M&M forum

http://prince.org/msg/7/276475

jami0mckay said:

This is where it's at: http://prince.org/msg/100/275713

That thread proves that the Universe is just one big accident.

Imago said:

fuck me, I think I've just died and gone to thread heaven.

Imago said:

I saw that

jonylawson said:

does it address extraterrestrial intelligence?

XxAxX said:

This does. www.exopolitics.org .

Also worth a raised quizzical eyebrow.

http://www.marsanomalyres...idence.htm

And I thought I was a nerd.....


I'll have to check this book out. I'm reading THE MOTHER TONGUE right now, as well as OUT and I'm still trying to get through HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL (I think I've been reading that for 2 years now).

i looked at it in the book store, isnt there a part 2 now?

Number23 said:

This is all so two years ago. I blame The Da Vinci Code.

Number23 said:

so very true. when i was reading "the god delusion" i couldn't help but keep
thinking "subjective subjective subjective. subjective with an axe to grind"

"the demon haunted world" is so much better and more refined.

My brother's been bugging the crap out of me with this! He acts like I believe the earth was created 6000 years ago the way he's been lecturing me.

The most annoying part is he's preaching to the choir, so to speak.