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HalfMooner
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 Posted - 06/15/2012 : 20:16:26
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/16/2012 : 03:34:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Kevin Trudeau. |
Kevin Tru No. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular
Norway
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/16/2012 : 08:17:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
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Correct, OffC, congrats! Joseph D'Abruzzo (born January 28, 1936), better known as Alphonso Alan Alda ". . . is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science."
Perhaps still best known for his lead role as a big-hearted cynic in the M*A*S*H TV series from 1972 to 1983, Alda also starred with Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, and Anjelica Huston in the comedy movies, Manhattan Murder Mystery. Per Wiki:| Alda also has an avid interest in cosmology, and participated in BBC coverage of the opening of the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN, Geneva, in September 2008. |
Here's Alda's Bio at Scientific American Frontiers.
Alda is an agnostic/atheist. Per Wiki:In Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alda describes how as a teen he was raised as a Roman Catholic and eventually he realized he had begun thinking like an agnostic or atheist:
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back. Not that I lost the urge to pray. Occasionally, even after I stopped believing, I might send off a quick memo to the Master of the Universe, usually on a matter needing urgent attention, like Oh, God, don’t let us crash. These were automatic expulsions of words, brief SOS messages from the base of my brain. They were similar to the short prayers that were admired by the church in my Catholic boyhood, which they called “ejaculations.” I always liked the idea that you could shorten your time in purgatory with each ejaculation; what boy wouldn’t find that a comforting idea? But my effort to keep the plane in the air by talking to God didn’t mean I suddenly was overcome with belief, only that I was scared. Whether I’d wake up in heaven someday or not, whatever meaning I found would have to occur first on this end of eternity.
Speaking further on agnosticism, Alda goes on to say:
I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
Alda made these comments in an interview for the 2008 question section of the Edge Foundation website. |
By the way, I plan to review contest rankings at every tenth "Face." The first update will be on completion of Face # 110. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 06/17/2012 : 02:42:44 [Permalink]
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He was a guest on the Colbert Report not long ago.
Something about a challenge to scientists to explain the nature of fire to children. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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