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		<title>For and Against God: that old chestnut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Zak Williams has collated a fairly useful set of reasons/opinions as to why people do and don&#8217;t believe. http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/04/god-believe-faith-world-belief http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2011/07/god-evidence-believe-world I planned on tucking into a few of the logical fallacies and desperate appeals to ignorance, but then commenter JP said of the first list above: &#8220;A nice long list of bad arguments, emotional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=299&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>L’esprit de l’escalier, OR, What I should have said was &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s late and it&#8217;s dark, and I should be sleeping But rest I can not, for my mind is creeping And whilst I don’t fret, and happily ‘chillax’ The witty dinner table response is … perhaps Often not something I&#8217;m able to say Maybe it&#8217;s not ‘good dinner table etiquette’, or it might be my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=294&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 21:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(with thanks to Jeremy Hoffman) Create man with foreskin.﻿ Command him to cut it off. Place fossils in ground. Troll scientists. I gave you free will. use it exactly as I command. Create world just for humans. 70% salt water. 20% Desert. Unconditional love. Conditions apply. No masturbation or premarital sex. Hormones peak at age [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=290&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The case for vegetarianism!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything I wanted to say, but Jonathan Safran-Foer got there ahead of me with the superb &#8216;Eating Animals&#8217;: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110119t1845vHKT.aspx is the podcast interview http://www.eatinganimals.com/site/book/ the book that it relates to The &#8216;ripple effect of carniverous behaviour&#8217;: health, environment, animals/human rights &#8230; all issues that our non-vegan consumption is affecting. Animals pumped so full of antibiotics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=278&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best of the year so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know it&#8217;s only mid-Jan, but us commuters rattle through so much material that I need to offload now and again (and I don&#8217;t mean offload in this sense) http://twitter.com/#!/ScepticalMoose gives you a list so far The highlights (if you don&#8217;t have countless hours to spend): Dan Everett&#8217;s amazing experiences with the Piraha people. Covers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=271&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Podcast Feeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who enjoy a cheeky podcast now and again, check back in here (and via @scepticalmoose on Twitter) to get the very regular recommendations. The least I can do considering the wealth of quite outstanding material that is now &#8211; mostly gratis &#8211; available online. These will relate to, loosely: Scepticism / Environmentalism / [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=267&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, you may have to be patient and maintain a solid scientific approach, but I love the fact that we humans are constantly evolving. Take a look at J Frater’s ‘Top 10 Signs of Evolution in Modern Man’: the list is naturally debatable and I dare say others would add, subtract or question. Can the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=262&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>List of Firms With Something to Hide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to give a heads-up on a few firms we should all be avoiding. You know, when someone exclaims “oh, you shouldn’t buy from Nestle or Gap or Shell; they’re evil” and you think “but I really like their stuff: is this just anti-corporate hype?!” … what do you do? So, I’ve pieced together a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=257&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Films – a light-hearted blog to end the decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s be clear: it is impossible to beat the written word for its imaginative qualities and detailed analysis of a topic. For entertainment value and a window on the world, however, films are the perfect length of time to introduce and explore a theme. I am a huge fan of films, especially those that take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=253&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Simple Life vs The Life with Loads of Really Cool Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two publications that I enjoy a skim through: Breathe and Springwise. Polar opposites in almost every regard, but nonetheless both fascinating: one concerned with living a simple, anti-consumer life; the other focused on the latest fads, gadgets and entrepreneurialism. Can one legitimately appreciate both, or am I horribly hypocritical and/or bi-polar? In the same way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9622206&amp;post=248&amp;subd=skepticality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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