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	<title>Daylight Atheism &#187; The Loft</title>
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	<description>NIGHTTIME IS FOR DREAMING. DAYLIGHT IS FOR ACTION.</description>
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		<title>The Contributions of Freethinkers: Gene Roddenberry</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/08/the-contributions-of-freethinkers-x.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/08/the-contributions-of-freethinkers-x.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a wedding present to ourselves, my wife and I bought the DVDs of the original Star Trek, and these past few months, we've been working our way through them. For myself, it was a test: I hadn't seen most of these episodes since my childhood, and I was curious to see if they held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reengineering Human Nature: Dogmatism</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/reengineering-human-nature-dogmatism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/reengineering-human-nature-dogmatism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: Human beings are stubborn creatures, set in our ways, resistant to changing our minds once we've made a decision. Religious groups publish creeds which they believe must be taken on faith and should be maintained against all contrary evidence - and they consider the ability to do that a virtue, rather than a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Bechdel Test for Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/the-bechdel-test-for-religion.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/the-bechdel-test-for-religion.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're an informed observer of media, you may have heard of the so-called Bechdel test, popularized by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, that's used to judge the female-friendliness of movies and other media. For a movie to pass this test, it has to have:
(1) two or more female characters;
(2) who talk to each other;
(3) about something [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>The God of the Reptile Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/the-god-of-the-reptile-brain.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/the-god-of-the-reptile-brain.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Loft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind and Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Morality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evolution is a blind tinkerer, lacking the foresight of human engineers. Rarely, if ever, does it discard established designs and start over fresh, even when that would be more efficient. Instead, it builds on and around past adaptations, using the old as a foundation for the new. This is true throughout the biosphere, and it's [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reengineering Human Nature: Pride</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/reengineering-human-nature-pride.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/reengineering-human-nature-pride.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: According to Christianity and other monotheistic religions, pride is the deadliest sin. Taking excessive pleasure in yourself and your own talents and accomplishments is the surest way to end up condemned. I personally don't agree with the extreme view that pride is the worst possible character flaw - when properly harnessed, it's an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reengineering Human Nature: Selfishness</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/reengineering-human-nature-selfishness.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/reengineering-human-nature-selfishness.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: Nearly all the world's religions teach that we should be generous to the poor and needy, and warn that greed and selfishness are destructive sins. "For the love of money is the root of all evil" (1 Timothy 6:10).
But this principle is rarely honored, even by the religious leaders who supposedly believe it. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Abundance of Amusing Apocalypticism</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/an-abundance-of-amusing-apocalypticism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/07/an-abundance-of-amusing-apocalypticism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's the warm weather here in New York that's bringing out the crazies, but these past two weeks, I've encountered more than the usual number of street preachers handing out loony religious literature. Because I know you wicked, godless atheists need to hear the word of the Lord, I thought I'd [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reengineering Human Nature: Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/06/reengineering-human-nature-violence.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/06/reengineering-human-nature-violence.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: Many religions, including Christianity, teach that unjustified anger and violence are sins that risk the offender's eternal soul. The Ten Commandments order people not to murder - usually a crime committed in the throes of anger - while Jesus says that even a momentary outburst of anger can lead to damnation: "But I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reengineering Human Nature: Lust</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/06/reengineering-human-nature-lust.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/06/reengineering-human-nature-lust.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: According to the commandments of the major religions, God expects humans to have only a single lifelong romantic partner and to remain sexually faithful to them: "Thou shalt not commit adultery" (Exodus 20:14). 
Yet, as any given week of tabloid headlines will tell you, humans aren't naturally wired for monogamy. Even after we're [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reengineering Human Nature</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/06/reengineering-human-nature.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/06/reengineering-human-nature.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would."
&#8212;Galatians 5:17


"In order to cure most of the ills of human life, I require not that man should have the wings of the eagle, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Magister Ludi Magisteria</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/05/magister-ludi-magisteria.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/05/magister-ludi-magisteria.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Braasch
In loving memory of my baby brother, Jacob Michael Braasch (1/28/86 – 02/02/10) 
Masters of the shell game have been swindling and duping the overconfident and the ignorant for millennia. The game operator places a "pea" beneath one of three "shells". The operator then shuffles the shells in front of the player before [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Contributions of Freethinkers: Richard Leakey</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/04/the-contributions-of-freethinkers-ix.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/04/the-contributions-of-freethinkers-ix.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=2081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Atheists have a great number of famous names to our credit. We can justly claim renowned composers, scientists, musicians, civil rights leaders - and conservationists, as we'll see in today's post on the contributions of freethinkers.
Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi in 1944, son of the famous archaeologist Louis Leakey. The elder Leakey was a [...]]]></description>
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