Archive for August, 2007
A Review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Part IV
Listen to the MP3 August 31, 2007, Wausau, Wi — I ended part III of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” by pointing out that atheism, like all world views, involves a component of faith. It is not the completely reason and evidence based system that it claims to be. This time I want to […]
Read More..>>Stages of a Political Movement Part I
It is common to hear complaints about how partisan politics have become and question what has happened to the political system. One problem with understanding current events is the differing time spans over which events occur. Events that have short time spans can normally be analyzed and understood, particularly if they occur frequently, so that […]
Read More..>>Zeitgeist – The Response
Listen to the MP3 August 24, 2007, Wausau, Wi — This week I thought I would address some of the responses to Zeitgeist, The Movie and my review. Perhaps the one of the most absurd attempts to defend the movie was the claim that you cannot invalidate the claims in Zeitgeist, without first validating the claims made […]
Read More..>>Iraq War – Should we Leave? Part VII
Last time I argued that leaving before the job is done, is not really anti-war, or a push for peace, but really an argument for a more difficult and costly Gulf War III at sometime in the future. Thus, while we are bringing democracy to Iraq, it is not primarily for the Iraqi that we […]
Read More..>>A Review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Part III
Listen to the MP3 August 3, 2007, Wausau, Wi — In part II of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I pointed out that atheists, like the educated elites, have constructed a world view based on assumptions that leads them to their conclusions. One can clearly see this in Dawkins description of the atheist’s view. […]
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