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Hannah Arendt-quote Krul, Jeffrey Sep 14, 2008

For the record: the quoted text of Hannah Arendt can be found at
http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/core/hss3/h_arendt.html

I should say: read the article, and judge for yourself if the fragment is misquoted or not.

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A standing invitation ChrisV.AHS@gmail.com Sep 14, 2008

I am the president of the Atheist-Humanist Society of Connecticut and Rhode Island. We are a small group and we are relatively new. We are based in Norwich, CT. (Norwich is about halfway between Yale and Harvard and is near the University of Connecticut, Trinity, Wesleyan, Connecticut College Brown, the University of Rhode Island and the Coast Guard Academy.
Please accept our standing invitation to meet with us and speak to us anytime you are in New England. We are a small group but we are close to a larger group in the Hartford area. (This is the group that set up an atheist display on the town of Vernon, CT, green last christmas.) I am pretty sure we could have a pretty interesting (and friendly) audience. And we will show you some New England hospitality.
Our web site is www.atheisthumanist.com.
We would be honored and thrilled to have you anytime you can make it.
Yours,
Vic Marquis

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are we descended from "apes"? Scharle, Tom Aug 03, 2008

Some people who fully accept evolutionary biology insist that humans did not descend from any modern species of ape, but that apes and humans share
a common ancestry. For example, they would say that Australopithecines were not "apes". Perhaps the survey could be worded to avoid this possibility.

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Flagella article / Skeptic Magazine Francis , Joseph Aug 25, 2008

I never understood why ID proponents like to show nature as a machine. I realize their thinking is that a machine has a maker, and therefor a Creator exists.

But God is magical.

God wouldn't use principles of engineering to make things work, he'd just fill living things with peanut butter and simply will them to work.

Signs of engineering are signs of evolution.

Joseph Francis
Los Angeles

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Geocentrism in 2008? Firth, Robert Aug 18, 2008

Most commentators have addressed the evolution questions in this survey. My eye was caught by a different statement:

"Geocentrism is the required belief of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement"

Are they serious? Leaving aside the problem that astronomy has nothing to do with religion, and hasn't since we stopped worshipping the planets as gods, are the leaders of this movement not aware that this crazy dogma has been tried before?

On 24 February 1616, to be precise, by the Qualifiers of the Holy Inquisition. The result was a "dis-aster" from which the perpetrators have never fully recovered. Why would anyone walk that road again?

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