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Monthly Archives: August 2009
“If this doesn’t give religion a bad name, nothing will”: An Example of a New Atheist’s Gross Misuse of Logic
“If this doesn’t give religion a bad name, nothing will.” This reference to the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as 9/11, was made at atheist biologist Jerry Coyne’s blog last week. The sentence is an example of the kinds of … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, God, jerry coyne, philosophy, religion, rhetoric, Richard Dawkins, speech communication
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In Case You Missed It: The Washington Post on France’s Opening Up of Its Previously Classified UFO Files
The Washington Post, in 2007, reported on the opening of France’s previously classified UFO files. Here’s the link to the article. The article focused on two key incidents revealed in the documents—one of children witnessing a UFO and one of an Air France encounter. … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, France, french ufos, reason, science, skepticism, space, UFO sightings, UFOs, Washington Post
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Walter Cronkite Anchors a UFO Segment for CBS News, Oct. 17, 1973
Here’s how CBS News reported some UFO sightings 36 years ago, on Oct. 17, 1973. One of those who claimed at the time to witness a UFO was the governor of Ohio, and he described the UFO that he saw as amber in color. The … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, hallucination, history, perception, Phoenix lights, psychology, UFO sightings, UFOs, walter cronkite
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on UFOs
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Tagged bill richardson, concealment, extraterrestrials, freedom of information act, roswell, space, ufo, UFOs
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The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident: The Testimony of Sgt. James Penniston and Col. Charles Halt (USAF)
The Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting occured just after Christmas in England in 1980, and is often called “Britain’s Roswell.” James Penniston and Charles Halt gave their testimonies about their experiences of the UFO in November 2007 before a National Press … Continue reading
“One upsets the other”: Aldous Huxley on the Rational Brain’s Tension with the Irrational Brain
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, aldous huxley, atheism, atheist, brain, brave new world, mind, philosophy, psychology, religion
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The Rhetorical Atheist Falcon and Yeats’s “passionate intensity”: Directness of Speech and the Problem of Nuance and Qualification in Debating Religion
I like directness in speech. But if this is the case, why, at this very blog, do I so often critique the rhetorical directness of New Atheists like Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers, and Richard Dawkins? Isn’t this a gross contradiction? I don’t think … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, aldous huxley, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christianity, jerry coyne, PZ Myers, religion, Richard Dawkins
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Iranian Air Force General and Pilot, Parviv Jafari, Offers His UFO Testimony
He told his story at a National Press Club Conference in November of 2007:
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Tagged aliens, critical thinking, eye witness testimony, parviv jafari, philosophy, psychology, reason, UFO sightings, ufology, UFOs
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Dreaming about UFOs
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Tagged aquarium, Freud, jellyfish, Jung, Long Beach Aquarium, ocean, psychology, UFOs, unconscious, water
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Dan Aykroyd Believes in UFOs
He’s no Einstein (contra the young videographer who did this interview), but actor Dan Aykroyd speaks articulately about his UFO views. Here’s part 1 of 8 interview segments from YouTube (and accompanied by some spooky UFO footage and synthesizer music):
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Tagged actors, aliens, astronomy, dan aykroyd, extraterrestrials, life, pop culture, science, space, UFOs
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The Number One Photographic Case in UFO History?
The segment below comes from a History Channel documentary titled Where are All the UFOs? (2005). The documentary itself is excellent—really a “must see” for anyone interested in critically examining UFOs as a phenomenon. The thesis of the documentary is that UFOs are … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, extraterrestrials, photography, psychology, religion, saturn, science, skeptic, ufo, UFO sightings
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President Bill Clinton on UFOs
What I find interesting in the above clip is the fact that President Clinton says he tried to find out about what the U.S. government bureaucracy knows, in detail, about UFOs, and he wasn’t able to. Isn’t that a weird … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, Bill Clinton, CIA, government, hillary clinton, President Clinton, roswell, space, UFO sightings, UFOs
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Okay, I’m Starting to See UFOs EVERYWHERE!
After a long life of near-total inattention and skeptical dismissal of UFOs, and my recent decision, on the prompting of my UFO enthusiastic retired father, to give the matter a more attentive and sympathetic look, I now find fricken’ UFOs everywhere! I can’t get … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Amelie, death, jellyfish, life, Long Beach Aquarium, stanley kubrick, ufo, UFOs
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Two Roswell Witnesses: Major Jesse Marcel in a 1984 Interview and Lt. Jack Trowbridge in a More Recent Interview
Both Jesse Marcel and Jack Trowbridge sound credible to me. They don’t seem mentally disturbed, and they come across as truthful elderly men recounting their memories of an “out of the ordinary” occurrence from their military service days. They don’t seem to … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, jesse marcel, Michael Shermer, reason, skeptic, skepticism, ufology, UFOs, witnesses
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Blogging UFOs: A Sad, Sad UFO Story
Below is a bit of testimony concerning the experience of Miriam Titus, an executive secretary at the military base hospital to which the injured, as well as dead, aliens at the Roswell UFO crash site were allegedly brought immediately after … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, aliens, atheist, court, eye witness testimony, judgment, Michael Shermer, reason, skeptic, skepticism, UFOs
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