I guess Uncommon Descent falls into the Truthiness Webring.
acrylic.
In search of the cure for humanity poisoned by religion, or stupidity [often both.]
“ […] intelligent design (ID) offers a promising scientific alternative to materialistic theories of biological and cosmological evolution — an alternative that is finding increasing theoretical and empirical support.
Uncommon Descent - The Intelligent Design Weblog of William Dembski, Denyse O’Leary and Friends
Crank Calling for Jesus [Wired]
A “family values” media watchdog group called the Dove Foundation hopes to clean up Hollywood by making vaguely sinister computerized phone calls to millions of people all around the country.
In recent months Dove has muscled its way to the very top of the whocalled.us annoyance call list with nearly 900 complaints from coast to coast. It turns out the non-profit is conducting a nationwide “survey” targeted determinedly at mothers and grandmothers, which it aims to present to those godless heathens running the entertainment industry.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/crank_calling_f.html
(fun stuff) Beryl SVN 070127 ( blur, group, leaf, window preview, ring ) (via BastionPL) [Where Windows Vista gets some inspiration… maybe.]
How would the Bible evaluate against "WriteMark?"
Structure
The purpose of the document is clear. The key messages are obvious and clearly stated. Logical flow supports reader understanding.
Umm. No.
Content
The document contains accurate, relevant content and graphics are used appropriately.
No one lived 120 years or more—unless you consider a “year” to be a month. Translation error? 600 “months” is 50 years. Also, its odd that there were no pictures or diagrams or maps or anything conveyed with the Bible—considering that the first “art” were cave paintings about 40,000 years ago. Oh yeah, 40,000 years. What’s this 6,000? Where did that come from?
Language
- The language used is appropriate in style and tone for its intended audience.
- Precise, familiar, everyday words are used in straightforward sentences.
- Sentences are mostly active and positive.
- Sentences have an average length of 20 words.
- Paragraphs are reasonably short.
- Words like ‘we’ and ‘you’ are used in place of ‘the company’ or ‘the customer’.
I LOLed.
Acrylic. ∈ Atheist Blogroll
A feeling of isolation hounds many atheists—after all, we live in a society that irrationally believes in un-revisable books used to dictate a “way of life” that was written centuries before more modern thought.
I know that I’ll be hitting up on these blogs to find insight into how we all manage to not “be up against the wall when the revolution comes.”
[Lets hope for a bloodless revolution in our favor.]
“Does Religion Make you a Better Person?” — from the view of divorce, teen pregnancy and crime statistics.
Atheists Must Look at History
Think about how Christianity survived—pagan religions before it sought to stamp it out because it was a threat. Atheism has to consider the same techniques that other religions used—because everyone seems to be susceptible to “religious” influence—and apply them to its own survival.
Its not enough to say “well, we’re right” because people don’t want to hear it. They want to feel good, they want “faith” and “belief.” Atheism has to be recast to fill the “gap” that religion takes advantage of.
Perhaps its time to consider that “indoctrination” of children is still useful, but change the package: critical thinking, scientific thought, and universal intellectual standards have to be recast into something not taought at the collegiate level, but in preschool!