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RE: The Atheism Symbol
December 6, 2013 at 6:13 am
WOW.... There's an atheism symbol?!
Why don't you guys send these memos around!???
Somehow, I thought it would involve cats...
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RE: The Atheism Symbol
December 6, 2013 at 10:31 am
Don't forget the roasted babies.
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RE: The Atheism Symbol
December 6, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Leave the skin on and slather with real butter. That way you get the best crackling.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The Atheism Symbol
December 6, 2013 at 4:54 pm
(December 5, 2013 at 8:13 pm)The_Thinking_Theist Wrote: I, personally, dislike the atheism symbol which includes an electron cloud around an "A".
I'm ambivalent about it, myself. The nice thing about being an atheist is that I don't have to have a symbol or icon or motto or anything like that. It's like belonging to a group that prides itself on not belonging to a group. Which fulfills my quota of cognitive dissonance for the day.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould