Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions - Speakeasy - WSJ

If you didn't already read the original interview you should do that before reading his answers to the follow-up questions. See the previous post or follow this link to the original article.

To give Wall Street Journal readers a chance to respond, we asked Gervais to answer via email some of the most frequently asked questions about his article.

A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I'm An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ

If you haven't seen Ricky Gervais's 2010 Science tour I highly recommend it. He does insult just about everybody in his audience but damn he is funny.

In this interview with the Wall Street Journal he talks about his lack of faith. It really is awesome to hear this coming from a well known actor/comedian : ..."People who believe in God don’t need proof of his existence, and they certainly don’t want evidence to the contrary. They are happy with their belief" Read More

The Impossible Voyage of Noah's Ark

This is from the 1983 Creation Evolution Journal by Robert A. Moore:

"Suppose you picked up the newspaper tomorrow morning and were startled to see headlines announcing the discovery of a large ship high on the snowy slopes of Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey. As you hurriedly scanned the article, you learned that a team from the Institute for Creation Research had unearthed the vessel and their measurements and studies had determined that it perfectly matched the description of Noah's Ark given in the book of Genesis." Read More

Alpha-carotene from veggies linked to longer life

Need another reason to eat your greens (and yellows and oranges) as part of a healthful diet in the New Year?

Observations: Alpha-carotene from veggies linked to longer life

Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld - FOXNews.com

Talky tall half of Penn & Teller debates freedom of religion

Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld - FOXNews.com

Friendly Atheist » A Visual Representation of Biblical Contradictions

Friendly Atheist » A Visual Representation of Biblical Contradictions

“Could existence really be an accident?” –QuestionBox

This is one of the most troubling questions for me: If I am right, what is to come of the people who apparently need religion to be happy? What replaces it for them? The single mother working fifty hours a week, devout grandparents nearing the end, the recovering alcoholic, the illiterate, homeless man who has nothing but the community and love found at his local church? (Read More)

Atheist Ministers Leading the Faithful

Two Active Ministers Say They No Longer Believe in God but No One Knows (Read More)

In the battle for ideas, scientists could learn from Christopher Hitchens

SCIENCE VALUES DATA and statistics and champions the virtues of evidence and experimentation. Those of us “viewing the world with a rational eye” (as the new descriptor for this column reads) also have another, underutilized tool at our disposal: rapier logic like that of Christopher Hitchens, a practiced logician trained in rhetoric. (Read More)

Realism and Religion A Physicist Examines the Basis for Belief

What should a scientist think about religion and God? Is there a relationship between belief in religion and the paranormal? Just how far should a skeptic go in challenging the belief systems of the world? Finally, what is the basis for our belief in anything? These are the fundamental questions I will address in this essay that touches on one of the most sensitive issues in skepticism — the relationship between science and religion and the extent to which the scientist should apply his belief in realism to all aspects of our knowledge of the universe. (Read More)