The Atheist Experience™: Today on the show: Framing Atheism

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Today on the show: Framing Atheism

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Links about today's topic:

Explanation of Framing at Wikipedia
Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney: Thanks for the Facts. Now Sell Them.
No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film (I'm sure this story is well known already, but it's good background)
Nisbet: Why the PZ Myers Affair is Really, Really Bad for Science
PZ Myers calls Nisbet "Clueless"
A really dumbass YouTube video, sent in by a viewer, which tries to slam atheism, but in fact winds up being a slam on the whole notion of using reason to decide things. (Didn't mention this on the show, but the relevance here is in drawing the battle lines as "sane people vs. nuts")
Nisbet's articles also remind me of a column written by Kathleen Parker in October 2001, about what a nice thing it would be, in the wake of 9/11, if atheists would all shut up and let God back into the public discourse.

How do all these things fit together? Listen to episode #546 and find out!

3 comments:

Kel Dowhower3/30/2008 8:38 PM
nisbet makes me sick.
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Buffy3/31/2008 12:21 AM
Yeah, yeah. Much like gays, the RRRW wants atheists to STFU and get back under the bus where we belong so they can resume running everything.

I don't think so.
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Kyle S3/31/2008 8:08 PM
Kazim calling the YouTube video 'dumbass' is an insult to all of the dumbasses in the world.

I've never seen anything so fucking retarded in my life - a blatant 'guilt by association' tactic.
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