Rantings of a New Yorker

Last month, Deepak Chopra was on Bill O’Reilly’s show and came off as quite the jerk. He’s now made a public apology to Richard Dawkins. Who knows what prompted the apology, but it’s good that Deepak Chopra has apologized. My suspicion is that Chopra saw the actual airing of the show and realized that it [...]

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Chopra and O’Reilly are idiots. Apparently, it’s okay to attack people when they aren’t in the room to defend themselves. Be careful. This gibberish is rage-inducing. “He thinks you, me, and the rest of the believers are idiots.” Yes, Bill, we do. You are. Our justice system is not based off the ten commandments. It’s [...]

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Sorry folks. Atheism isn’t a fad or a craze or a trend. It’s been around since the beginning of time. The only difference now is that people who are atheists are speaking up due to the many venues available to do so because we now know that there is support out there for us. We [...]

From BBC2 Newsnight, 13 September 2011.

“Should doctors be Darwinian?” Professor Richard Dawkins visited Science World 2011 and presented some challenging new ideas about medicine and evolution to a packed out audience. Famous for his popular science books The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion; Dawkins changed track in this lecture and discussed the need for doctors and medical researchers to [...]

This is simply to point out that one does not need a deity in order to have something to celebrate or to feel any kind of meaning. This kind of thinking is not necessarily unique to atheists. Regardless, Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Sam Harris give us something we can ALL celebrate.