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		<title>Comment on A long explanation of a damned fine joke. by Ferinannnd</title>
		<link>http://armchairdissident.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/a-long-explanation-of-a-damned-fine-joke/#comment-256</link>
		<dc:creator>Ferinannnd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Огромное СПАСИБО! Этот блог - супер!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Огромное СПАСИБО! Этот блог &#8211; супер!!!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Matt Nisbett farts again. by Different ways of understanding? &#171; Open Parachute</title>
		<link>http://armchairdissident.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/matt-nisbett-farts-again/#comment-229</link>
		<dc:creator>Different ways of understanding? &#171; Open Parachute</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Dawkins acted unethically? Just Nisbet Being Nisbet The &#8220;Ethics&#8221; of Framing Science Matt Nisbett farts again. Framing and ethics (part 3). Framing and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Dawkins acted unethically? Just Nisbet Being Nisbet The &#8220;Ethics&#8221; of Framing Science Matt Nisbett farts again. Framing and ethics (part 3). Framing and [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;The Atheist Insult&#8221; by Twelvefootsnowman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Twelvefootsnowman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If advertising/marketing is THAT bad, then I&#039;d love to hear James&#039; opinion on the &#039;spread the word&#039; God Squad that come knocking on my front door every few weeks to try to &#039;save my soul&#039; and sell me Bibles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If advertising/marketing is THAT bad, then I&#8217;d love to hear James&#8217; opinion on the &#8217;spread the word&#8217; God Squad that come knocking on my front door every few weeks to try to &#8217;save my soul&#8217; and sell me Bibles.</p>
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		<title>Comment on WTF? by Michael</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t this the same organization that turned a blind-eye to the plight of the jews and in terms of official heirarchy encouraged the genocide? Also didn&#039;t they facilitate the mass exodus of Nazi&#039;s to South America in general, Argentina in particular? Lastly but not least, they have YET to excommunicate Hitler.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t this the same organization that turned a blind-eye to the plight of the jews and in terms of official heirarchy encouraged the genocide? Also didn&#8217;t they facilitate the mass exodus of Nazi&#8217;s to South America in general, Argentina in particular? Lastly but not least, they have YET to excommunicate Hitler.</p>
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		<title>Comment on He said&#8230;What? by Armchair Dissident</title>
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		<dc:creator>Armchair Dissident</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of my biggest &quot;Huh?&quot; moments was not resolved until long after I left school: If light is a wave, by what means does it propagate?  We were told how a wave in water propagates, and how sound propagates through air as a compression wave, but we were then told that light is a wave, but it doesn&#039;t propagate through anything.  So how can you describe it as a wave? It wasn&#039;t until I developed an interest in astronomy and then particle physics later on that I realised the answer was, &quot;It&#039;s one hell of a lot more complicated than that!&quot;.  I love science!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my biggest &#8220;Huh?&#8221; moments was not resolved until long after I left school: If light is a wave, by what means does it propagate?  We were told how a wave in water propagates, and how sound propagates through air as a compression wave, but we were then told that light is a wave, but it doesn&#8217;t propagate through anything.  So how can you describe it as a wave? It wasn&#8217;t until I developed an interest in astronomy and then particle physics later on that I realised the answer was, &#8220;It&#8217;s one hell of a lot more complicated than that!&#8221;.  I love science!</p>
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		<title>Comment on He said&#8230;What? by Richard</title>
		<link>http://armchairdissident.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/he-saidwhat/#comment-215</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d have thought that the Hindu creation model would have more chance of survival than the Christian one. Maybe it does in India. It posits a very old world, but also posits a form of cyclic time. It doesn&#039;t so obviously contradict observation. 

That both the Hindu model and the Christian model exist with the same &quot;evidence&quot;, that of their respective scriptures, must be evidence by counter-example that scripture is not a valid source of evidence. If all scripture is valid then they can&#039;t both be right. 

Each seems internally consistent to its followers and each produces that feeling of rightness/joy/epiphany. Each also has its share of good things, loving others, helping others, being a generally decent person that is sometimes used to defend scripture. &quot;If Jesus/Krishna was right about that then he must be right about the rest&quot;.

Anyone looking a Hinduism and saying &quot;can&#039;t be right - flying monkey armies&quot; should note that &quot;virgin birth and resurrection&quot; is also very counter-intuitive. Both sides can argue that this is just allegory and not important, something more likely from the Hindu side I think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d have thought that the Hindu creation model would have more chance of survival than the Christian one. Maybe it does in India. It posits a very old world, but also posits a form of cyclic time. It doesn&#8217;t so obviously contradict observation. </p>
<p>That both the Hindu model and the Christian model exist with the same &#8220;evidence&#8221;, that of their respective scriptures, must be evidence by counter-example that scripture is not a valid source of evidence. If all scripture is valid then they can&#8217;t both be right. </p>
<p>Each seems internally consistent to its followers and each produces that feeling of rightness/joy/epiphany. Each also has its share of good things, loving others, helping others, being a generally decent person that is sometimes used to defend scripture. &#8220;If Jesus/Krishna was right about that then he must be right about the rest&#8221;.</p>
<p>Anyone looking a Hinduism and saying &#8220;can&#8217;t be right &#8211; flying monkey armies&#8221; should note that &#8220;virgin birth and resurrection&#8221; is also very counter-intuitive. Both sides can argue that this is just allegory and not important, something more likely from the Hindu side I think.</p>
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		<title>Comment on He said&#8230;What? by Richard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Huh? moment for me in secondary school was Newton&#039;s Third Law. I wondered how anything could move at all if there was always an equal and opposite force. Since then I&#039;ve used that law so much in engineering calculation I take it for granted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Huh? moment for me in secondary school was Newton&#8217;s Third Law. I wondered how anything could move at all if there was always an equal and opposite force. Since then I&#8217;ve used that law so much in engineering calculation I take it for granted.</p>
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		<title>Comment on He said&#8230;What? by Mimi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mimi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read a story along these lines somewhere and was a bit confused. Thank you for clearing it up. I was wondering how things could have been so suddenly turned around. Now how are we to correct so many news sources?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read a story along these lines somewhere and was a bit confused. Thank you for clearing it up. I was wondering how things could have been so suddenly turned around. Now how are we to correct so many news sources?</p>
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		<title>Comment on One story, seven reports by Elyse</title>
		<link>http://armchairdissident.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/one-story-seven-reports/#comment-202</link>
		<dc:creator>Elyse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good points.  I wish the media would be more professional too.  It&#039;s as if these people had never seen the inside of a university.  Well, they know who their audience is I guess - the masses, so what does it matter?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good points.  I wish the media would be more professional too.  It&#8217;s as if these people had never seen the inside of a university.  Well, they know who their audience is I guess &#8211; the masses, so what does it matter?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Legalised bigotry by Peter</title>
		<link>http://armchairdissident.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/legalised-bigotry/#comment-201</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said.</description>
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