NoBeliefs.com Op/Ed Archive [Note: Due to expiration dates of some sites, the links may no longer work] Year 2010 |
Richard Dawkins Interviewed on SBS Dateline [video, 10 min.] |
| Porn: Good for us? As the use of porn increases, the rate of sex crimes goes down. |
Feynman 'Fun to Imagine': Ways of Thinking Part 1 [video, 6:23 min.], Part 2 [video, 5:02 min.] |
| New Ideas, New Fuels: Craig Venter [video, 1 hr. 2 min.] "Race is a social concept, not a scientific one." |
| Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever [video, 3:28 min.] |
| Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture [video 1 hr., 10 min.] A discussion on the widespread use of concrete in Roman times. |
| Stop Neuromarketing [video, 7:33 min.] Corporations and politicians use neuroscience to turn us into "Pavlov dogs." |
| Dark matter could meet its nemesis on Earth A modification to Newton's second law could remove the need for dark matter. |
The New Commandments by Christopher Hitchens [Includes video, 8 min.] |
| All Light Is Starlight [video, 5:39 min.] |
Islam's Armenian Genocide - Template for the Holocaust "The Armenian atrocities were the product of religious fanaticism. . ." |
| TED: Daniel Kahneman on the riddle of experience vs. memory [video, 20 min.] |
| Richard Dawkins - Proving evolution - AGC Radio National [audio, 12 min.] |
| Stone Age Engravings Found on Ostrich Shells The eggshells are a symbolic communication system from around 60,000 years ago. |
| Edward Tarte--Catholic Church--eating meat... [video, 2:27 min.] |
| Ebolaworld Bible: In the Beginning [video, 4:40 min.] |
TED: Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (video, Part 1, 29 min.] , [Part 2, 24 min.] |
| TED: Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see [video, 18 min.] |
Real Time With Bill Maher - Feb. 27, 2010 - NEW RULES [video, 7 min.] |
| Liberalism, atheism linked to higher IQs |
| 6 Insane Coincidences You Won't Think Actually Happened |
| The Bible Out of Context [video, 6 min.] |
| In Pot We Trust [video, 1 hr., 28 min.] This documentary dispels myths associated with marijuana use. |
| London Protest against Pope visit February 2010 [video, 1:21 min.] |
| Global Distribution of Military Expenditure in 2008 [graph] No wonder the U.S. is going broke. |
| A War on Science [video, 49 min.] |
Christopher Hitchens Shames Douglas Wilson [video, 8:37 min.] |
| Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being |
| Stephen Jay Gould Portrait [video, part 1], [video, part 2], [video, part 3], [video, part 4], [video, part 5], [video, Part 6] |
| COP15: Tom Friedman Rails Against Climate Change Deniers [video, 4:43 min.] |
| TED: David Cameron on The next age of government [video, 14 min.] |
Primitive Humans Conquered Sea, Find Suggests Prehistoric evidence suggests seafaring existed more than 100,000 years earlier than thought. |
| Healing Mother Earth: E.O. Wilson, [video, 1 hr., 19 min.] |
Roman Baths - Hypocaust System [video, 3:49 min.] You don't find this during the Christian Dark Ages. |
| Richard Dawkins on Growing up in the universe (filmed in 1991) [video, 58 min.] |
| Ancient Science with Richard Carrier [audio, part 1, 46 min., part 2, 80 min.] No, the medieval Christians did not invent science. |
| The War on Neuroscience, Part 1, [video, 10 min.] |
| Climate Change: Has the Earth Been Cooling? [video, 9 min.] |
| Ethan Watters: Is Mental illness Contagious? [video, 3 min.] |
| Christopher Hitchens on FTR, Feb 13, 2010 [audio, 10 min.] |
| Stephen Jay Gould on Scientific Revolutions [video, 2:25 min.] |
Colbert Report: Sarah Palin Uses a Hand-O-Prompter [video, 5 min.] |
| Anonymous Unfurls ‘Operation Titstorm’ [video, 2 min.] |
| Rachel Maddow Interviews Scientist Bill Nye On Climate Change [video, 10 min.] |
| The Indelible Stamp of Our Lowly Origin [video, 8:26 min.] |
| Noah's Ark-God, Giraffes & Genocide [video, 6:32 min.] |
One Law for All: AC Grayling [video, Part 1, 9 min., Part 2, 7 min.] |
| George Carlin: We Are Part of Nature [video, 4 min.] |
| Visit the blasphemy exhibition in Dublin [video, 3 min.] |
| TED: David Agus on a new strategy in the war on cancer [video, 24 min.] |
| Sarah Palin Reads Answers Off Her Hand [video, 1:24 min.] |
Pat Condell: The crooked judges of Amsterdam [video, 8 min.] |
| Paul Saffo Forecasts a Robot Society [video, 4 min.] |
| British Scientist Claims We're All Aliens on Earth |
| Bill Gates Backs Genetically Modified Food Research [1:36 min.] |
| The Raging Grannies Hate CBS [video, 1:16 min.] Grannies from South Florida protest Tim Tebow's pro-life Super Bowl ad. |
| James Randi and Norm Edmund [video, 10:45 min.] |
| Richard Carrier: Unintelligent Design [video, 2:49 min.] |
| Betty Bowers: Cooking with Christ [video, 5:26 min.] |
| Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? (32) [video, 9:28 min.] |
The Roman Army Knife: Or how the ingenuity of the Swiss was beaten by 1,800 years For more information, click here. |
Homeopathy & Nutritionists vs Real Science! [video, 6:25 min.] |
| Hitchens: Religion is about power [video, 5:31 min.] |
| The Great Disappointment [video, 5 min.] |
| Beauty without God [video, 2 min.] |
| TED: Anthony Atala on growing new organs [video, 18 min.] |
| Remembering Howard Zinn: An Interview [video in 5 parts] |
| Do Your Beliefs Reflect Reality? [video: 5:45 min.] |
| TED: Bill Davenhall - Your health depends on where you live [video, 9 min.] |
| Todd Disotell: A New Tale of the Primate Split [video, 4 min.] |
2000 Interview with Steven Jay Gould, Harvard University [video, 16:31 min.] |
Agnosticism - Bill maher, George Carlin, Karen armstrong, David Attenborough [video, 2 min.] |
| Can One Be Good Without God? [video, 3:35 min.] |
| The Existence and Acceptance of Evolution [audio ~50 min.] |
| Graig Venter on Fourth Generation Fuel [video, 3 min.] |
| TED: David Blaine on How I held my breath for 17 min. [video, 20 min.] |
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Death By Black Hole [video, 1 hr., 6 min.] |
| The Bible Is True! [video, 2:35 min.] |
| Religious Right: Soulgasms and the War on Masturbation [video, 5 min.] |
| The Story of Human Rights [video, 9:49 min.] |
| The Decline of the Decline of Arabic Science by Austin Dacey |
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Debate: Does God Not Exist? [video, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4] In 2004, a four way debate occurred before an audience of mostly Muslims. Richard Carrier & Dan Barker defend atheism and Hassanain Rajabali & Michael Corey defend God. You may want to skip the first 19 min. because it's mostly Muslim prayers and singing (not exactly a fair environment, if you ask me). It takes raw courage to debate about the non-existence of God in front of a room full of conservative Muslims. The atmosphere was stacked up against the atheists but they won the debate, hands down, in my opinion, and the Muslims appeared angry, rude and disrespectful toward their opponents (no doubt the Muslims thought they had won, mostly because Rajabali and Corey's anger played to the crowd). Carrier did the best job and remained the coolest one on stage and the best technically prepared. |
| The Greatest Show on Earth: A conversation with Richard Dawkins [video, 1 hr.] |
| Ian Morison: 400 Years of the Telescope [video, 5 min.] |
| Feet hold the key to human hand evolution by Victoria Gill |
| It's Cold, so there is no Global Warming 2 [video 9 min.] |
TED: Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds [video, 18 min.] |
| God is Not Good (from "God on Trial") video, 9:44 min.] |
| The Philosophy of Organic Design [video, 41 min.] |
| Pat Condell: Thank God for Andy Choudary [video, 9 min.] |
Called by the universe: a conversation with Neil deGrsse Tyson [video, 56 min.] |
TED: Rachel Pike on the science behind a climate headline [video, 4 min.] |
| Just for magic: Best Card Trick Ever [video, 4 min.] |
| God Is Smart! [video, 4 min.] |
| The Atheist Soul [video, 1 hr. 1 min.] A talk with Robert Wright and Rebecca Goldstein |
| Three Holy Wars: The Progressive 100th Anniversary Speech with Howard Zinn [video, 39 min.] |
Sir David Attenborough: Science & Religion [video, 2:23 min.] |
| Fillini's Catholic Church Fashion Show [video, 10 min.] |
| Three quarks for Muster Murray! [video, 55 min.] A conversation with Murray Gell-mann |
| 32,000 Scientists Against Global Warming? [video, 10 min.] |
| Interview with Richard Dawkins [two videos ~11 min. each] |
| Born Again Christian Stephen Baldwin vs Atheist Richard Dawkins [video, 1:50 min.] |
| 'Atheist' Nations Are More Peaceful [video, 4 min.] |
| A.C. Grayling: Teach the Controversy [video, 2:40 min.] |
| The Edge Annual Question - 2010: How is the Internet changing the way you think? |
| The faith cake [video, 8:48 min.] |
| Richard Carrier: Science and Medieval Christianity A commentary on Christianity's role in the progress of science. |
| TED: VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization [video, 7:44 min.] |
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Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek Review by Jim Walker |
| Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics [video, 1 hr. 5 min.] |
| Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' |
| music: God Delusion - Markella Hatziano [video, 4 min.] |
Robert Sapolsky Explains the Origin of Religion [video: Part 1 , Part 2] |
| TED: James Balog on Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss [video, 19 min.] |
| The Richard Dawkins - Thunder00t discussion [4 videos, ~9:30 min. each] |
Mike Flynn's Pile of Boners by Richard Carrier Richard Carrier M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D, is a published historian and has written a scathing attack of Mike Flynn's criticism on my commentary, "The Myth of Christianity Founding Modern Science and Medicine." I didn't escape criticism either. Carrier calls my commentary "wildly erroneous," (oh well, as a non-scholar, I tried my best). But Carrier makes, essentially the same argument as I did, albeit, with more educational clout and experience. This is a must read for those who think that Christianity deserves credit for founding science. read on . . . |
| The Blurring Test: The Traits Formerly Known as Human [video, 18 min.] |
| 'Lifeless' prion proteins are 'capable of evolution' |
| Bertrand Russell on God [video, 3:25 min.] |
| MythBusters: Just the Facts [video, 1 hr. 8 min.] |
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A rebuttal to Mike Flynn's criticisms of "The Myth of Christianity Founding Science and Medicine" Release the hounds! |
