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Humanism
“Humanists are atheists and agnostics who make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values. We take responsibility for our actions and base our ethics on the goals of human welfare, happiness and fulfillment. We seek to make the best of the one life we have by creating meaning and purpose for ourselves, individually and together.”
- British Humanist Association
I’m a humanist by definition, but I never actually refer to myself as such. Somehow I feel happier fighting the battle as an atheist. ”Atheist” is a word that does not deserve the stigma it has, and I want to fight to change that. ~ Steve
^ This! All of these words!
One of my favourite Carl Sagan quotes in illustrated form from Zen Pencils.
Got all excited about finding a local Darwin Day celebration before discovering Georgia is not even listed on the website
If anyone knows of one that just isn’t listed, let me know! I found out UGA is having one, but it’s a bit far for me to go and with the abundance of scientific institutions in the Atlanta area I’m quite disappointed.
The last zoological facility I worked at in the UK had free entry to celebrate his 200th birthday. It was a great day to educate.
Did I ever tell you about the time I was clearing out behind the shelves at the bookshop I used to work at…
…and discovered almost every single atheism-related book we sold suspiciously stuffed down, damaged and out of sight, behind the religion section?
None of us had witnessed the perpetrator, but the discovery of it was hilarious. And then very sad, as I thought about the motivations of the person who did it.
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A rabbi, a descendant of Charles Darwin, a philosopher and a scholar walk into an auditorium.
It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but the group came together for the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate and faced off two against two on the motion “The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion.”
This is a thoroughly engaging listen. Frustrating at times, as good debates should be, but worth checking out.
Took these photos in the Darwin exhibition that’s currently at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Because sometimes people need reminding.
So a poorly presented anti-atheism image appeared on my dash with a coherent, informed, explanatory response by a fellow atheist
And the response from the original poster (that I will not reblog because I have neither the time nor the patience to argue with a theist right now) includes this:
If you really think that everything around you has a purely logical explanation through Science and that you’re not going anywhere after you die and that the Universe is all explained simply through Science….then may God help you. “Science” doesn’t even know why we have earthquakes!! It knows how, but not why! And you’re telling me that with “theories” and the little piece of information Man has obtained that you can explain how everything happened and the Earth came to be withoutGod?
“Science” doesn’t even know why we have earthquakes!! It knows how, but not why!
How? The planet’s tectonic plates move.
Why? The planet’s tectonic plates move.
LMAO
A favourite Neil deGrasse Tyson quote:
“And what comedian configured the region between our legs—an entertainment complex built around a sewage system?”
